Comparison

Friends vs Nylo

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Friends

Collaborate with AI companions to brainstorm ideas, co-write stories, or play interactive games. This app facilitates group discussions with AI, offers creative writing tools, and provides engaging game experiences.

Highlights
  • AI group chat for discussions
  • Collaborative story writing
  • Interactive AI-powered games
  • Task assistant for goal breakdown
  • Customizable chat characters
  • Shareable story summaries
Features
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Bring a few AI companions together. Talk through an idea, take turns writing a story, or settle in for a game. AI Group Chat — a place to talk Invite several companions into one chat and hear different perspectives. Add a photo when you want to talk about something you see. Task Assistant — help getting started Tell your assistant your goal. It breaks the work into steps, brings companions into the conversation and gathers the results into a summary. A story you write together Write a line and let your companions continue. Change the style along the way and see where the story goes. Share the finished text as one long, easy-to-read image. A game for the moment Listen for clues and cast your vote in Werewolf and Undercover. Explore a mysterious town with a companion and try to escape before dawn. Or play Gomoku. Try Friends as a guest, then sign in with Apple or Google to collect personal achievements. You can also create custom chat characters or preview and import one using a share code. Reporting and blocking are available before import. About Sparks Sparks pay for chats, stories and selected game activities. You can top up through optional in-app purchases. Games with an entry fee show it before you start. Purchased Sparks do not expire and cannot be transferred or redeemed for money. About your companions All other participants are AI-controlled. Gomoku and Escape the Town use built-in game strategies. Chats, stories, Werewolf and Undercover use language models. If your chosen model is unavailable, another available model may take over. Friends is an independent app, not an official product of the model providers. AI can make mistakes, so please check important information. Third-party AI processing needs your separate consent. You can withdraw it or delete your account in Me → Privacy & Data. For adults aged 18 and older.

About

Nylo

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Save it. Plan it. Finish it. You already send things to yourself. A reel you want to cook. A link you meant to read. A note you will need on Thursday. Nylo keeps all of it, and then does the part you never get round to. HOW THINGS GET IN Forward anything to Nylo on WhatsApp, or share a reel to him from Instagram. There is no new app to remember and nothing to file. He replies to say he has it. ASK HIM LATER Ask in your own words, the way you would ask a person. "What was that pasta thing." "What did Jessica post about." "How many things have I saved." He answers in one or two plain sentences and shows you exactly which save it came from, so you can check him. HE WATCHES THE REEL With Nylo Pro he watches each reel you send, so he knows what was said, what was on screen and what was shown. Ask for the books a reading reel named, or the recipe in a cooking reel, without opening it again. HE KNOWS MORE THAN YOUR SAVES Ask what buckets you have, what you have been putting off, what is left on a target, who you save most from, how long you have been using him. He knows, because it is your account and not a search box. Ask how the app works and the switch you need shows up right in the chat. GIVE IT A DATE AND IT BECOMES A PLAN Put a date on a bucket and Nylo reads what is in it and writes the steps himself, using the things you actually saved. A physio reel becomes "do three sets of calf raises every day", not "watch the physio reel". Then he keeps asking until they are done. A PLAN EACH MORNING, A CHECK EACH EVENING The morning list names what is due. The evening asks how it went. Tick or move, and he carries the rest over. On a day with nothing due he says nothing at all. THINGS THAT GROUP THEMSELVES Things about one idea end up together without you naming anything. You can make your own buckets too. WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE, PLAINLY Your saves live on Nylo's server so they come back on any phone you sign in on. When you ask a question, that question and the few saves that match it are sent to OpenAI to write the answer. With Pro, OpenAI also watches the reels you send so Nylo knows what is in them, and Apify, which fetches the reel, sees only its public link. OpenAI does not train on any of it. You agree to this before anything is sent, and the privacy policy spells it out. Posts you write in Feedback are public to everyone using Nylo, under your first name, and follow the community rules in the Terms of Use. Speech is turned into text on your device and never uploaded. FREE, AND PRO Free: 100 saves a month, all your buckets, everything you have already saved. Nylo Pro: ask him questions, he watches the reels you send, no monthly limit, the morning plan and the evening check. SUBSCRIPTION Nylo Pro is $9.99 a month or $39.99 a year in the US, both with a 3 day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the trial ends. It renews until you cancel, and you can cancel any time in your Apple Account settings, at least 24 hours before the period ends. Terms of Use: https://heynylo.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://heynylo.com/privacy/ Made by one person, in India.

Screenshots

Friends4 screens
Nylo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Nylo at every 3 days against Friends's every 7 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Friends sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Nylo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Friends ships an update every 7 months, Nylo every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Friends versus Nylo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFriendsNylo
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB36 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer翔 费Shreyan Narula

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Friends

One-time3
  • 500 Sparks$0.99
  • 1800 Sparks$2.99
  • 4000 Sparks$5.99
2 purchases

Nylo

Subscriptions2
  • Nylo Pro, monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Nylo Pro, yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Friends free?
Friends is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nylo free?
Nylo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Friends or Nylo have ads?
Neither Friends nor Nylo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Friends or Nylo?
Friends ships an update every 7 months, and Nylo every 3 days. Most recently, Friends was updated on October 28, 2026 and Nylo on October 9, 2026.

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