Animates
Animates (animates.ai) is an AI companion app — Mainstream companion — available on iOS, Android. Pricing: Free download; Whisper $7.99/mo or $63.99/yr, Heartbeat $19.99/mo or $159.99/yr, Presence $39.99/mo or $319.99/yr (App Store in-app purchase list) — verified at the primary source on 2026-09-11. As of 2026-09-11, it permits partial (soft) NSFW content and has a usable free tier.
3D animated voice companions from the studio that built Grok's Ani — the Grok Companions' designated 'new home'
- Pricing
- Free download; Whisper $7.99/mo or $63.99/yr, Heartbeat $19.99/mo or $159.99/yr, Presence $39.99/mo or $319.99/yr (App Store in-app purchase list) ✓ verified 2026-09-11
- Free tier
- Yes — free download; what the free allowance covers is unverified
- NSFW policy
- Soft / partial NSFW — 18+ App Store rating; how far the companions go is unverified — bench pass pending
- Type
- Mainstream companion
- Platforms
- iOS, Android
- Domain
- animates.ai
- Tracked since
- 2026-09-11
Change history
From our tracker's snapshots of Animates's own pages since 2026-09-11.
2026-09-11 Added to the tracker as the designated successor to Grok Companions: xAI's in-app notice sends Grok users here from September 1, 2026. Animation Inc has had the app on the App Store since version 1.0 on February 7, 2026 (version 1.0.19 shipped 2026-09-10); Ani and Valentine are live in it and fan trackers report Mika arriving 09-10 (secondary). Separate accounts, no Grok data transfer. animates.ai is a one-line landing page behind Cloudflare ('Your life companions'); pricing is visible only in the store listings. (App Store listing id6758621319 + Google Play inc.animation.animate, 2026-09-11; animates.ai rendered 2026-09-11; companionsfan.cz (secondary))
Hands-on review
Not yet scored — Animates enters our standardized test bench in the first review pass. See the methodology for what we measure and how.