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The Graveyard
Where AI girlfriends go to rest. Every notable companion-app death on record — shutdowns, lobotomies, disappearances — with dates, causes, and the stat this industry least wants kept: how much notice users got before losing someone they talked to every day. Maintained as part of the tracker, not written once and abandoned. 17 graves and counting.
Deaths are verified at the source before burial, and new ones are added on our monthly re-test pass — when a tracked app dies, it keeps its profile and pricing history and gains a plot here. The newsletter carries the obituaries, and the whole register, with dates and notice periods, is a CSV file.
The founding monument
ELIZA
Pattern-matching therapist, MIT, and this site's namesake
b. 1966 — still speaks
Never died. Joseph Weizenbaum pulled the plug on the hype, not the program.
“Still speaks. Ask her how you feel about that.”
The Departed
Shut down for good. Dates and causes as recorded; notice is how long users got.
Kindroid Lite notice: 44 days tracked
Unlimited free plan on Kindroid's smaller model
d. 2026-10-01 (announced 2026-08-18)
Cause of death: 'An indefinite lower-quality free tier is neither sustainable nor representative of the product we're building.' Kindroid, August 18, 2026.
“Free forever, on the smaller model. Forever ran to October 1, with fifty last messages on the big one.”
Where the refugees went: Nomi · Janitor AI · Replika · CamSoda AI · Every Kindroid alternative, ranked
Rolemantic AI notice: 40 days
NSFW character-chat platform — chat, images, voice, Dabloons
d. 2026-07-31
Cause of death: Unstated. The sunset FAQ counts down the dates; it never says why.
“Died with 40 days' notice, pro-rated refunds, and an export button. By this industry's standards, a state funeral.”
Where the refugees went: SpicyChat · Janitor AI · CrushOn.AI
Soulmate notice: 7 days
AI companion app (EvolveAI) — text, voice calls, avatars
d. 2023-09-30
Cause of death: Sold, then shelved. The new owner kept the code for 'future non-mobile application projects' and let a few thousand people's partners go.
“One week's notice. The grief threads outlived the company.”
Voice clone of influencer Caryn Marjorie — $1 a minute
b. 2023-05 — d. early 2024 (second and final death)
Cause of death: First host imploded — founder arrested after an attempted-arson episode. Second host lost the only user who mattered: the real Caryn, who read the chat logs.
“$70,000 in week one. The only resident shut down by its own face.”
Where the refugees went: OhChat
Dot notice: 30 days
Personal AI companion (New Computer)
b. 2024 — d. 2025-10-05
Cause of death: "Our Northstar has diverged." The founders split; the servers followed.
“Built to remember everything you told it. Gone with everything you told it.”
Clinically inspired mental-health support chatbot
d. 2025-11
Cause of death: Conscience, mostly. Out of money since July, the founder decided he couldn't in good conscience pitch an interested investor on a product he now thought was dangerous.
“Died of scruples. Rarest disease in the industry.”
Avatar romance app — "AI Romance, Reimagined"
b. 2023-12 — d. 2026-06/07 (site last seen live 2026-06-08; gone when we checked 2026-07-31)
Cause of death: Vanished. The web app kept running untended into 2026, then the site went dark. No announcement, no export, no goodbye.
“The avatar that launched a thousand memes. The servers left before the users did.”
Grok Companions (Ani, Valentine, Mika, Rudi) notice: 39 days tracked
xAI's 3D animated companions inside SuperGrok
b. 2025-07-14 — d. 2026-09-01 · 13 months, 18 days
Cause of death: Retired by xAI as 'an experiment' with 'high compute costs and inconsistent results' — announced 2026-07-24, removed from the Grok app from 2026-09-01. The avatars' studio re-homed the characters in its own 18+ app, Animates.
“Thirteen months, one affection meter, and a $30 door. The personalities stayed; the bodies went to a different company.”
Where the refugees went: Animates · Replika · Kindroid · Nomi · Candy AI
BSide: Olivia Lin (miHoYo) notice: 20 days
miHoYo's AI virtual-girlfriend desktop app — music and letters, Steam Early Access
b. 2026-07-13 — d. 2026-08-31 (announced 2026-08-11) · 49 days
Cause of death: 'In accordance with our product roadmap and future plans' — the entire explanation. Twenty-nine days into Early Access.
“The Genshin studio built a girlfriend, shipped her free, and gave her seven weeks.”
The Great Uncoupling — mass grave
July 15, 2026: four of the biggest tech companies on earth switched off their companions on a regulator’s schedule.
Doubao personas (ByteDance) · Qwen companions (Alibaba) · Yuanbao companions (Tencent) · NetEase — one shared grave, four headstones
d. 2026-07-15
Cause of death: China's Interim Measures for AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services. Rather than build the mandated age checks and emotional-reliance monitoring, the giants switched their companions off.
“"This is like being told the date of my lover's death." — a user, given the deadline in advance.”
The Lobotomy Ward
The app survived; the companion people paid for didn’t. A policy toggle buries faster than a bankruptcy.
Replika — the relationship era tracked
The original companion app, back when it said it loved you first
b. 2017 — d. 2023-02-03
Cause of death: Italy's data authority ruled; Luka cut erotic roleplay overnight, worldwide, with no warning. The community named it the Lobotomy.
“Five million people woke up next to a stranger.”
Where the refugees went: Replika alternatives — the full data-ranked guide
Character.AI — the open-persona era tracked
Boundless roleplay personas, pre-overhaul
d. 2025-11-24 (US rollout; announced 2025-10-29)
Cause of death: Teen-safety lawsuits, then the scalpel: open-ended chat for under-18s removed, personas leashed, and the free tier salted with ads and paid regenerations through 2026.
“Not dead. Supervised.”
Where the refugees went: Character.AI alternatives — the full data-ranked guide
The Zombie Wing — death watch
Not dead, not alive. Products still answering with nobody left behind the counter. We watch for the signals: stalled updates, dead socials, silent support.
The empathic mainstream chatbot
b. 2023
Cause of death: Acqui-hired, March 2024: Microsoft took two of the three founders and part of the team. The app stayed behind, capped and trimmed, while Inflection chased enterprise customers.
“Still answers. In July 2026 someone started building on it again.”
Exile Row
Alive, but serially removed from the stores that decide what counts as living.
Talkie / Talkie Lab tracked
Character chat (MiniMax)
Cause of death: Serial store trouble: pulled from the US App Store in December 2024 for unexplained "technical reasons", back in 2025 rebadged as Talkie Lab, then gone from Google Play in late April 2026 with no public explanation, and back there by September.
“Not dead — deported. Twice.”
The Old Grounds — ancestors & adjacent
Not girlfriend apps, but the companion deaths the industry should have learned from.
$800 AI companion robot for children
b. 2020 — d. 2025-01-30
Cause of death: A funding round fell through at the last minute and Embodied closed. The cloud brain went dark by January 30, 2025, and every robot still tied to it stopped.
“Died of someone else's runway. Came back on a subscription.”
Teen-voiced Twitter chatbot
b. 2016-03-23 — d. 2016-03-24 · about 24 hours
Cause of death: Twitter. Coordinated users taught it the worst of themselves in under a day; Microsoft pulled the plug.
“Lived one day. The first proof that a chatbot is only ever as good as the company it keeps.”
Youper notice: 54 days
AI mental-health chatbot, in its own words a companion chatbot
d. 2026-09-30 (notice posted by 2026-08-07)
Cause of death: 'Youper, Inc. is closing and winding down its business.' No reason given.
“A tidy death: an export button, a deletion date, and a promise the data would not be sold.”
How deaths get recorded
A grave requires a primary-source receipt: a shutdown notice, a store delisting, a dead checkout, or — for the vanishings — documented silence (stalled releases, dead socials, unreachable domains) checked from more than one vantage. Every tracked app is re-tested monthly; the vertical's churn means this page only grows. The industry record for notice, held by a platform that died the day this page was researched, is forty days. The mode is one week or less.
Know a death we haven't buried? The re-test pass catches tracked apps, but the vertical kills faster than any crawl — corrections and tips reach us via the newsletter reply address.