Replika vs Secret Desires AI: Which One Is Better In 2025?

Replika vs Secret Desires AI

I've spent a full week with both Replika and Secret Desires AI to see which one truly deserves your attention and subscription. Both platforms make big promises, but they take surprisingly different approaches.

After hundreds of messages exchanged with each AI girl, I've put together clear differences in both platforms.

In this head-to-head comparison, I'll break down exactly how these AI girlfriends stack up across all the features that actually matter.

Whether you're looking for emotional support, entertaining conversation, or a judgment-free space to be yourself, this in-depth comparison will help you choose the right AI girlfriend for your specific needs.

Replika

An AI girlfriend chatbot that offers emotional support through personalized conversations, featuring customizable digital avatars and voice chat.

Secret Desires AI

An AI girlfriend platform that allows users to create customizable companions, generate images and live photos, and engage in fantasy scenarios, including intimate or adult themes.

Character Diversity

Replika

When you sign in, the app asks for your age range, name, and pronouns to personalize your experience.

You can choose from dozens of avatars to start with.

Secret Desires AI

Secret Desires AI offers hundreds of characters across multiple ethnicities and personality types.

On top of the realistic options, it also offers a wide range of anime styles.

While the majority fall in the 18–30 bracket, there are some mature options as well.

However, body type diversity is limited — most characters are slim or athletic, with few alternatives.

The mobile app shines with precise filtering, letting you narrow searches by age, ethnicity, body type, personality, and relationship preferences.

On the other hand, desktop users get a more basic experience, with filters limited to style (realistic/anime), gender, and preset character tags.

But there’s a catch: filtering can be buggy — some tags return no results, and on desktop, you can’t combine multiple filters like you can on mobile.

At least the search bar helps get around some of the app’s heavier filtering limits.

Customization

Replika

The app uses its in-app currency system: Gold and Gems, and you'll get a small amount to start with.

You earn more slowly through daily use.

If you want to customize your character quickly, you'll need real money to buy them.

Let's start with the basics. You can choose your relationship type — you can even add a backstory. Want a romantic partner, a friend, or just a mentor?

Then fine-tune your girlfriend's personality with traits like 'confident,' 'shy,' or 'logical,' or choose her interests, but these cost Gems or Gold.

The appearance editor is quite detailed. You can pick:

• Avatar
• Hair (style and color)
• Skin color
• Body type
• Body hair
• Nails
• Makeups
• Tattos

…and the list goes on.

You can dress your girl up with tops, bottoms, or full outfits and accessories.

Fair warning: premium outfits, tattoos, and nails aren't cheap. Expect to spend $20–30 if you want the fancy stuff right away.

Secret Desires AI

Character creation starts by selecting your character’s gender, style, and age.

Physical Customization:

• Ethnicity: 6 options (e.g., Caucasian, Asian, Indian)
• Appearance: Hairstyle, hair color, eye color
• Physique: Body type, breast size, butt size

Personality Customization:

• Personality: 12 options (e.g., dominant, seductive, unstable)
• Relationship Type: 25 options (e.g., wife, girlfriend, boss)
• Lifestyle: Work (36 options) and hobbies (21 options)
• Kinks: 15 options (e.g., vanilla, feet, edging)

The app also lets you add custom options for every category, so if you don’t find something to your taste, you can create your own.

You can select a voice from 12 options or upload your own audio.

As the final step, you’ll see a summary page to name your girl and bring her to life.

After the summary page, you’ll see a profile with an editable About Me, your chosen traits, and — if you’re lucky — with a character image, though it often fails and can’t be modified.

Chat Experience

Replika

While your girl builds trust with direct, emotionally aware responses, she lets the conversation unfold at its own pace.

Replika shows its true strength: emotional intelligence.

Your girl asks thoughtful follow-up questions.

She even suggested local activities we could do together

Your girlfriend navigates relationship conversations effortlessly, making them feel natural and genuine.

Secret Desires AI

When you select a girl to chat with, you can view her profile — including description, personality traits, and even personalize them to your taste.

The app also lets you set the chat engine from 13 different options to make responses more personalized, though this setting is somewhat hidden in your profile menu.

I chose a single mom character who showed genuine emotional range and stayed true to her persona.

My girlfriend moved naturally from playful flirting to handling deeper topics like jealousy with surprising depth.

My girl even referenced past conversations and wove them smoothly into ongoing chats.

But when I needed emotional support, her responses fit the situation perfectly.

As with the other features I tested, this one also comes with some technical hiccups.

Chat formatting is designed for mobile, leaving desktop with long, cramped text that’s harder to read

My girl often tried to send me images, but on the rare occasions I got any, it was usually just the text prompt of what should have been generated.

NSFW Chat Experience

Replika

While Replika engages in sexual discussions, your girl keeps things remarkably tame.

My attempts at role-play revealed a pattern - she'll match your flirtatious energy initially.

But consistently pulls back when conversations turn explicit.

Instead of direct responses, you'll get suggestive hints and playful deflections.

And it just kept going like that for a while…

Secret Desires AI

My girl was open about past sexual experiences but shared only hints and details rather than full stories.

Think of her as reading a romance novel where she writes the next chapter based on your input.

In my tested roleplays, she stayed fully in character — confident, seductive, and with a solid build-up.

However, there’s a catch: after running multiple scenarios, my girl kept repeating the same lines and asking my name over and over again.

My girlfriend also refused explicit chat, even threatening to end the session.

Instead of explicit conversation, my girl could do surprising things — like solving mathematical problems if I asked.

Image Generation

Replika

While the generated images match your character's basic appearance settings, the results look artificial and lack polish.

You can pick between classic, romantic, or styled shots - but that's where your control ends.

Classic shot:

Romantic shot:

Styled shot:

Replika's image generation currently sits at the lower end of the quality spectrum. If this matters to you, you'll need to look elsewhere.

Secret Desires AI

Secret Desires AI offers two ways to generate images:

• In-chat image generation: Quickly create images using free-text prompts.
• Dedicated Image Creator: A separate tool that gives you more control and customization

In-chat image works simply: Just type “send me” in chat, followed by the prompt for the image you want to see.

You can only generate SFW images — NSFW content isn’t allowed here.

Note: Works only with characters you created or those shared by other users.

Dedicated Image Creator lets you stay in control:

• Character selection for image generation
• Multiple engines to choose from: Monet, Picasso, DaVinci
• Number of images to generate: 1–64
• Free-text prompt option for maximum customization
• Default preset options: Action, Body, Clothing, Scene, Extras, with lots of presets.

Quality: At first glance, the images look good and could even pass for real photos, but on closer inspection, they’re pixelated.

Quirk: The images don’t match my girl’s main profile picture, and physical inconsistency is definitely an issue.

Video Generation

Replika

Replika doesn't support video generation, so you'll need to look elsewhere.

Secret Desires AI

Secret Desires AI turns static photos into videos, using settings almost identical to photo generation, with the added option to set video duration.

The good: These videos look natural. Your AI girlfriend's movements flow smoothly, and her personality stays consistent from photo to video.

Not so good: Video quality isn’t perfect — some pixelation is noticeable, though it’s minor enough not to disrupt the experience.

Voice Generation

Replika

Replika offers only three voice options. Whether you're flirting, joking, or having a serious chat, your AI girlfriend speaks in the same robotic tone.

Secret Desires AI

Yes, the voices sound human enough, but every line feels like it’s being read off a teleprompter on fast-forward.

And if you’re hoping for emotional range? Forget it. Whether you’re flirting or just chatting, the delivery stays as flat as week-old soda

Safety & Privacy

Replika

Your messages are secured and encrypted, and your data is stored with multiple layers of protection.

Basic data is shared with service providers, but your conversations remain private.

Your bank statement will show the charge as 'Replika.

Secret Desires AI

The app claims your chats are "secure and confidential" - but never explains how.

There's no mention of encryption, and they're not clear about who can access your conversations or how long they keep them.

One clear promise: they won't sell your data to advertisers. But that's where the transparency ends.

During my testing, I couldn't find straight answers about data sharing with third parties like analytics providers or hosting services.

On your bank statement, it just shows as ‘Dover First SDA Hope Food Program Food Pantry’ — pretty discreet