Anima AI Review 2026: Cheap Annual Plan, Failed Mozilla Audit and Chat Training

Anima is built around a single "growing AI friend": you create one companion, name it, pick an appearance and a personality, and chat over time.

The framing is companionship — daily check-ins, emotional support, light roleplay and casual games — rather than the romance-first, image-heavy angle of apps like Candy AI. Relationships stay platonic for free; a paid "Romantic Partner" mode unlocks more intimate roleplay and more customisation.

A quick disambiguation, because the name is crowded: this is the myanima.ai companion, not the London AR startup also called "Anima," and not the "Anima" design-to-code developer tool.

This is a research-based review, not a first-hand test.

On 6–7 October 2026 the following were checked directly: Anima's official site and its legal pages (terms and privacy policy — operator, age rules, data-training and retention clauses); the Google Play listing (developer, address, installs, star rating, content rating and the Data safety label); Apple's iTunes search API (to check the iOS listing); Mozilla's February 2024 *Privacy Not Included review, read via the Internet Archive; and reputable secondary pricing aggregators.

No subscription was bought and the companion was not used first-hand.

That matters for the quality scores: features, usability and content rest on documented capability, the vendor's own descriptions and public store ratings rather than our own observation, so they carry lower confidence than the verified facts on the operator, platforms, policies and the Mozilla findings.

Prices are the weakest link — Anima does not publish them on its site — so they are given as cross-checked ranges, not gospel.

Anima centres on one companion whose tone develops as you interact, inside a web app and native mobile apps. The feature set, drawn from the official site, the store listing and Mozilla's description, is:

• One growing companion: you build a single AI friend rather than browsing a large character library.
• Voice chat and calls: the official site markets "chat, call, and connect anywhere," and voice is gated to Premium — so, contrary to some older write-ups, Anima is not text-only.
• Memory: per the app's own description, "the more you chat, the more your Anima learns about you," and it brings past details back later.
• Relationship modes: friend, mentor or romantic partner, with the tone adjusting to match; romance is a paid upgrade.
• Avatars: you pick from about 30 pre-made avatars (including a couple of anime styles), per Mozilla's review. These are selected, not AI-generated.
• Mini-games: trivia, riddles and personality quizzes add a lighter layer and shape your companion at setup.

What is absent matters as much as what is there. Anima has no in-chat AI image generation — the avatars are a fixed set, not generated selfies — which is now near-standard in the premium companion tier.

If you want a companion that sends custom pictures, Anima will feel thin; its strength is steady text-and-voice companionship, not visuals.

On the public record, its Google Play rating sits at 4.0 out of 5 from about 39,200 reviews (1M+ installs, checked October 2026) — solid for the category, not class-leading.

Anima is free to start, and it is cheap by category standards if you commit to a year — but the exact monthly figure is genuinely hard to pin down, because the official site does not publish prices and listings disagree.

The numbers below are cross-checked against reputable secondary trackers and Mozilla's 2024 note that the romantic upgrade cost "around $10/month" at the time; confirm the live price at checkout before paying.

The annual plan is where Anima looks best: at about $40 a year it undercuts most monthly-only rivals per month.

Billing runs through the Apple App Store, Google Play, or Stripe on the web, auto-renews after any trial, and website purchases are non-refundable (EU/UK buyers keep a 14-day withdrawal right). There is no crypto or PayPal option.

Prices are reported/region-dependent and were cross-checked in October 2026; Anima does not publish them officially, so verify in-app.

Anima's friendly framing sits on top of a weak documented privacy and security record, and this is the single most important thing to weigh before you share anything personal.

In its review dated 7 February 2024, Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included project gave Anima its warning label and found it did not meet Mozilla's Minimum Security Standards: reviewers could not confirm the app encrypts data, and reported there were no real password requirements — they logged in with the password "1".

In the same review Mozilla ran a tracker test and recorded 257 tracking signals within five minutes (138 within the first minute), with data going to Facebook and Sentry. Mozilla also noted Anima could market to users without consent under a "legitimate interest" basis.

These were Mozilla's findings as of early 2024, not a live re-test.

The current policy is blunt about data use.

It states Anima uses your data to "train and improve our AI models" (§3.11), and it shares data with a list of providers — Microsoft Azure for storage, Facebook, Firebase, AppsFlyer and Amplitude for analytics, Google for marketing, and Stripe for payments, among others (§5.1).

Retention has no fixed period (§10), the policy does not describe encryption, and there is no two-factor authentication.

The documents even disagree on the age floor — the terms say 18+ while the privacy policy says 16, and Google Play's listing read "Everyone" — which is sloppy for an app in this category.

No data breach involving Anima is on record, and one genuine plus is that app-store billing keeps your card details with Apple or Google rather than the developer. Still, treat your conversations as logged and used for training.

Our guide to staying anonymous on adult sites covers sensible precautions.

The operator picture is messier than most, and worth stating plainly because you may share intimate chats with this app. On the Android listing, the developer of record is LABANE CORP. Limited, at an address in Limassol, Cyprus.

The company named in Anima's own terms and privacy policy, though, is ICHIGOICHIE TECH LIMITED, which those documents describe as incorporated under the laws of Delaware, USA.

Mozilla's review listed the company as "Anima AI Ltd," a third name, and older directories attribute the app to "Apperry Ltd," which could not be confirmed on any current official page.

This spread of names across jurisdictions is common in the companion-app sector, but it is a transparency flag.

What is verifiable: a Cyprus developer of record on Google Play, a US (Delaware) legal entity in the policies, and a sister app — iGirl: AI Girlfriend — from the same developer family, pitched as the romance-forward version.

The frequently repeated "founded around 2020" date is secondary and not officially confirmed.

Consider Anima if you want a warm, beginner-friendly AI friend with voice, you like the gentle platonic default and the cheap annual price, and you are relaxed about data. For low-pressure daily companionship it is an easy on-ramp.

Look elsewhere if privacy and security are a priority, you want AI image generation, or you want open, immersive 18+ roleplay — none of which is Anima's strength. The closest comparisons:

New to this category? Our guide to choosing an AI companion walks through the trade-offs between memory, media, privacy and price.