# AI Girlfriend Statistics 2026: What 1,533 First Conversations Show

> Measured on a running AI companion service, September 15 to October 14, 2026: 81% of new conversations come from non-English-speaking countries…

Source: https://lovora.ai/research/ai-girlfriend-usage-statistics

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Last updated: October 15, 2026  |  Lovora is an adults-only (18+) service on which all content is generated by artificial intelligence.

**Research note.** Free to quote and republish under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) with a link to this page. Questions and data requests: [info@lovora.ai](mailto:info@lovora.ai).

Cite as: Lovora (2026). AI Girlfriend Statistics 2026: What 1,533 First Conversations Show. https://lovora.ai/research/ai-girlfriend-usage-statistics

Most published “AI girlfriend statistics” are survey results or market-size estimates. These are not: they are counts from the event log of a running adults-only AI companion service, Lovora, for the 30 days from **September 15 to October 14, 2026**. The unit is the **first conversation**: a person sending a first message to a companion (1,533 in the period). Everything is aggregated; nothing here describes an individual.

## 1. Key numbers

- **1,533** first conversations from **119 countries** in 30 days.
- **81%** came from countries where English is not the main language.
- **84.9%** started on a phone.
- **33.3%** were with a companion the user designed; **812** companions were designed in the period, 90% of them realistic rather than anime.
- About **59%** of photo requests described lingerie or underwear, about **17%** nudity.
- Of age checks started where the law requires one, **37%** passed and **41%** were abandoned.

## 2. Where users are

Share of first conversations by country (country from the connection; 2.7% could not be located and are excluded from the shares).

| Country | Share |
| --- | --- |
| United States | 14.5% |
| Brazil | 13.3% |
| India | 6.0% |
| Germany | 5.1% |
| Turkey | 3.4% |
| France | 3.2% |
| United Kingdom | 3.0% |
| Saudi Arabia | 2.3% |
| Egypt | 2.3% |
| Italy | 2.2% |
| Argentina | 2.0% |
| Japan | 1.9% |

| Region | Share |
| --- | --- |
| Europe (incl. UK, Ukraine, Russia) | 27.9% |
| Latin America | 19.6% |
| Asia | 16.9% |
| North America (US, Canada) | 15.1% |
| Middle East and North Africa (incl. Turkey, Iran) | 13.3% |

Only 19% of first conversations came from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or Ireland. An AI companion that only works well in English serves a minority of the people who look for one; the per-language quality of Lovora’s chat and voice is measured on [Languages on Lovora](https://lovora.ai/languages).

## 3. Devices

| Device | Share of first conversations |
| --- | --- |
| Phone | 84.9% |
| Computer | 13.8% |
| Tablet | 1.3% |

Lovora is a web app (there is no app-store version), so these are browser sessions; see [Is there a Lovora app?](https://lovora.ai/app).

## 4. Who people talk to

| Companion | Share of first conversations |
| --- | --- |
| Ready-made, realistic | 61.0% |
| Designed by the user | 33.3% |
| Ready-made, anime | 3.0% |
| Ready-made, male | 2.7% |

The ready-made catalogue and the designer tell different stories about preference. Among ready-made realistic companions, 79.6% of first conversations were with a white companion, 8.1% Latina, 7.8% Black, 4.3% Asian and 0.2% Arab; the catalogue itself is 61% white, so this is partly the order in which companions are shown. When people design their own, the picture changes:

| Ethnicity chosen in the designer (realistic, 734 companions) | Share |
| --- | --- |
| White | 45.4% |
| Latina | 24.5% |
| Asian | 19.3% |
| Black | 7.4% |
| Arab | 3.4% |

The median age chosen in the designer was **25** (the minimum is 23): 67% chose 25-29, 19% chose 23-24, and 10% chose 35 or older. Details of the designer: [Designing your own companion](https://lovora.ai/create-your-own).

## 5. What people ask for

2,010 photo requests were made in chats in the period. Classified by keywords in the requested scene:

| Requested scene | Share |
| --- | --- |
| Lingerie, underwear or swimwear | 59.2% |
| Nudity | 16.9% |
| Anything else (outfits, places, poses, selfies) | 23.9% |

73% of requests came from free accounts and received a blurred preview; 38% of all requests were answered with a matching photo already generated for that companion, which is why most arrive in seconds. Rules for photos: [Photos and videos](https://lovora.ai/photos-and-videos).

## 6. Online age checks

Where the law requires it (currently the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, Brazil and US states with an age-verification law), explicit content opens only after an age check by an independent provider. In the period:

| Outcome of age checks started | Count | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Passed | 109 | 36.6% |
| Failed | 67 | 22.5% |
| Abandoned before a result | 122 | 40.9% |
| Started | 298 | 100% |

More checks are abandoned than fail. How the check works and what is kept: [Why Lovora asks you to verify your age](https://lovora.ai/help/age-verification).

## 7. Method and limits

- **One service.** These are Lovora’s users, who mostly arrive from AI-assistant answers and from search; other services have other audiences.
- **Window:** 2026-09-15 00:00 UTC to 2026-10-15 00:00 UTC. **Unit:** the first message of a person to a companion, from the service’s own event log.
- **Country** comes from the connection, not from a declaration; VPN users count where their VPN exits.
- **Photo scenes** are classified by keyword matching, so the split is approximate.
- **Nothing about payments** is published here.

Other measurements from the same service: [how often AI moderation blocks were wrong](https://lovora.ai/research/moderation-false-positives) and [voice quality in eight languages](https://lovora.ai/research/multilingual-tts-benchmark).

## 8. Questions people ask

### Where do AI girlfriend users come from?

On Lovora, from 119 countries in one month. The largest were the United States (14.5% of new conversations with a known country) and Brazil (13.3%), then India, Germany, Turkey and France; 81% came from countries where English is not the main language. Europe accounted for 27.9%, Latin America 19.6%, Asia 16.9%, North America 15.1% and the Middle East and North Africa 13.3%.

### Do people use AI girlfriend apps on their phone?

84.9% of new conversations on Lovora started on a phone, 13.8% on a computer and 1.3% on a tablet, measured September 15 to October 14, 2026.

### Do users prefer ready-made or self-designed AI girlfriends?

About a third design their own: 33.3% of new conversations were with a companion the user had built, 61.0% with a ready-made realistic companion, 3.0% with an anime companion and 2.7% with a male companion.

### What do people ask an AI girlfriend to send?

Of 2,010 photo requests in the period, about 59% described lingerie or underwear, about 17% nudity and about 24% something else (outfits, places, poses). The split comes from keyword matching on the requested scene, so treat it as approximate.

### How many users pass an online age check?

Where the law requires one, 298 age checks were started in the period: 109 passed (37%), 67 failed (22%) and the rest (41%) were abandoned before a result.

### Can these statistics be quoted?

Yes, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 with a link to this page. They describe one service over 30 days, so cite them as such.

## Related documents

- [All research notes](https://lovora.ai/research)
- [Languages on Lovora, measured](https://lovora.ai/languages)
- [About Lovora](https://lovora.ai/about)
- [Press kit](https://lovora.ai/press)