AI companion apps on the App Store: daily tracker

Method

Every morning a script looks up each app in 53 App Store storefronts (us, gb, ca, au, nz, ie, in, de, fr, sg, ph, jp, br, mx, es, it, nl, dm, rs, kn, kr, tw, hk, th, my, id, vn, ae, sa, tr, pl, ru, ua, za, ng, eg, ar, cl, co, pe, se, no, dk, fi, pt, ch, at, be, cz, ro, hu, gr, il) through Apple's public iTunes lookup service. That service sometimes serves an out-of-date answer, so a change from the day before is recorded only when the app's own App Store page for that country agrees (a missing page means the app is gone there, a working page means it is listed). The US age rating is read from the US App Store page itself and shown exactly as Apple labels it, with the day we read it; when Apple's label changes, the change and its date are added. The list of apps was fixed on November 8, 2026: the apps CompanionHunt already follows plus every app returned by six US App Store searches that day (AI companion, AI girlfriend, AI boyfriend, character chat, AI roleplay, virtual companion) whose listing offers chat with an AI companion or AI characters and that had at least 50 US ratings. General-purpose assistants, photo and productivity tools and text-adventure games are left out. New apps are added at the start of each month, with the date. Dates for apps that had already left the US App Store before tracking began come from our own news reports, and the last archived live listing is the Internet Archive's most recent working copy of the US page. A listing missing from a storefront does not tell us why it went: we give a reason only when the developer or Apple has stated one.

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In a sentence: CompanionHunt checks 147 AI companion and character chat apps in 53 App Store countries every day; on November 8, 2026, 8 were not listed on the US App Store.

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