# Mutuals > AI companions that remember you and write first. iPhone and Android app, free to start, 18+. > The blog is written by the team that builds it: plain guides to the category, > what the research actually says, and what the app does with what you tell it. ## Key facts - Name: Mutuals (App Store and Google Play listing: "Mutuals Life"). Website: https://mutuals.life - What it is: a mobile app where you talk to AI characters, called companions. They remember what you tell them and bring it up later, they message first, and they are available at any hour. Every character is AI and every reply is generated. Not a dating app; no real people. - Platforms: iPhone (https://apps.apple.com/app/mutuals-life/id6803935636) and Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.persona.mobile). - Price: free to download and to start; free messages are limited, and some features need a subscription or a one-off purchase through the App Store or Google Play. - Audience: adults only, 18 and over. - Languages: 15 (English, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, German, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai). - Memory: the app stores facts, events, plans, preferences and people you mention so a companion can refer to them later. Deleted with the account. - Data: conversations are stored and sent to third-party AI providers through OpenRouter to generate replies. Mutuals does not sell personal data and does not use conversations to train AI models. It does not claim conversations are private from the company. - Company: Flarewave AI Limited, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Contact: support@mutuals.life, privacy@mutuals.life. - Social: TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@mutualslife, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mutuals_comics/ ## Blog - [AI boyfriends for gay men, and why most apps get it wrong](https://mutuals.life/blog/ai-boyfriend-for-gay-men/): The companion category was built for straight men. What that means if you are gay, what to look for instead, and the privacy questions that matter more when you are not fully out. - [AI girlfriend, AI friend, AI companion: what the words actually mean](https://mutuals.life/blog/ai-girlfriend-ai-friend-ai-companion-what-they-mean/): Plain definitions for the terms this category throws around — companion, memory, guardrails, parasocial, sycophancy — and what each one means in practice. - [AI girlfriends for queer women, and the category's blind spot](https://mutuals.life/blog/ai-girlfriend-for-queer-women/): Almost every AI girlfriend app is written for men to look at. What changes when the character is written for you instead, what to look for, and the privacy questions worth asking first. - [Getting into anime AI companions: archetypes, apps, and what to expect](https://mutuals.life/blog/anime-ai-companion-guide/): What waifu and husbando apps actually are, the archetypes behind every anime character chat — tsundere, kuudere, genki, yandere — and how to pick one that holds a conversation. - [How to get an AI girlfriend, boyfriend, or friend](https://mutuals.life/blog/how-to-get-an-ai-girlfriend-boyfriend-or-friend/): Where AI companions live, what a subscription actually buys, the three privacy questions worth asking, and the ten-minute test that sorts the good apps from the rest. - [How to make AI comics people actually want to read](https://mutuals.life/blog/how-to-make-ai-comics/): A practical, step-by-step guide with examples. Build a character card, lock a look that stays the same in every panel, pick a style, script four panels, leave room for the words, and avoid the two failures everyone hits. - [How to make your own AI character, step by step](https://mutuals.life/blog/how-to-make-your-own-ai-character/): No technical skills needed. Use ChatGPT or Grok to write the person, Krea to make the picture, one simple trick to keep the face the same, and a system prompt to make any chat AI become the character. An evening, start to finish. - [How to talk to an AI companion so it stops feeling like a chatbot](https://mutuals.life/blog/how-to-talk-to-an-ai-companion/): First messages that work, why it agrees with everything, how memory changes week three, and what to do when the illusion breaks. - [What actually happens to the things you tell an AI companion](https://mutuals.life/blog/what-happens-to-what-you-tell-an-ai-companion/): Follow one 2am message through the wire — who receives it, what gets kept, what "we don't train on your data" is worth, and the five questions that tell you which apps to avoid. ## About - [About Mutuals](https://mutuals.life/about/): who makes it, how it works, what it does with what you tell it. - [Privacy policy](https://mutuals.life/privacy): what is stored, who it is sent to, what we cannot audit. - [Terms](https://mutuals.life/terms) - [Support](https://mutuals.life/support) - [Comics](https://mutuals.life/comics/): daily comics starring the Mutuals characters. - [The app](https://mutuals.life/get) ## Notes - Every article exists in fifteen languages under //blog//; sitemap.xml has the full set. - Two articles are withheld in countries where publishing them would put the app at risk.