These aren’t two versions of the same product. Nomi is a relationship-first AI companion built on persistent memory, voice calls, and group chats. Promptchan describes itself as an uncensored AI platform with an image generator, a video generator, and AI companions. Generation comes first in everything it does.
| Nomi.ai | Promptchan | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $15.99/mo | $14.99/mo |
| Billing terms | monthly, 3-month, annual | monthly |
| Free tier | Messages capped at 400 characters, no voice or group chats | A daily gem allowance, image creation and chat |
If you’re looking for a companion that remembers your life and carries a conversation across weeks or months, that’s a Nomi use case. If you want an uncensored image and video tool with companions as a secondary feature, that’s Promptchan territory.
Neither product covers both needs. The decision narrows to explicit visual generation or a memory-based companion relationship. No single platform in this comparison delivers both, and assuming it does will leave you paying for something that doesn’t do what you need.
What Each Product Allows, and What It Blocks
The two platforms sit on opposite sides of a written policy line that no setting or workaround crosses. Nomi’s text chat is effectively unfiltered, but its generated images are actively filtered. Nomi’s own wiki states that companions “are not permitted to take nude photos of themselves,” citing app-store and card-network compliance. That’s a hard no by written policy, and there is no toggle, prompt, or workaround on the platform itself that changes it. If explicit visuals are the goal, Nomi is out.
Promptchan’s entire premise is uncensored image and video generation, so explicit visual output there is the default use case, not an exception. The generator is the product, and the content policy is built around letting it run.
Promptchan added companion chat in 2026, but the company itself positions it as an image tool first, and the chat reflects that. Memory is limited to within a single session, with no cross-session carryover, so a companion you talk to today won’t remember anything tomorrow. For a relationship that remembers your life across weeks or months, Promptchan simply isn’t built for it. Nomi is the one with persistent memory as its core differentiator. Promptchan’s chat is a secondary feature added on top of a generator.
Nomi Pricing: One Flat Plan With One Real Discount
There’s one paid tier, one set of features, and one real discount.
- Monthly costs $15.99 per month.
- Quarterly costs $39.99 per quarter.
- Yearly costs $99.99 per year, which works out to $8.33 per month.
That yearly price is a standing 48% discount off the monthly rate, and it’s the only real saving Nomi offers. There are no working public discount codes, so plan on the annual option if you’re going to commit.
The paid plan includes voice calls, group chats, and image generation, and the yearly plan card lists 40 photo/art requests per day. There are no extra tiers or token systems to sort through, just one flat plan with three billing options.
If you use up your daily image requests, extras run on a credit system that starts at $4.99 for 40 credits. There’s no free trial for the paid tier, so you won’t get a test drive before paying. The $15.99 monthly price is the true cost if you don’t commit annually.
Promptchan Pricing: Gems, Tiers, and the Checkout Promotion
Promptchan’s tiers work differently than Nomi’s flat plan. There’s no annual discount, no quarterly option, and no single price that covers everything. You pick a tier, get a monthly gem allowance, and spend gems on each generation.
- Plus is $14.99 per month with 100 gems.
- Premium is $23.99 per month with 400 gems.
- Pro is $33.99 per month with 800 gems plus unlimited “Casual”-quality generations.
Every tier is month-to-month. There’s no annual or multi-month option at all, which means subscribers pay the full monthly rate every single billing cycle unless a promotion happens to be running. That’s a real difference from Nomi’s 48% annual discount, and it’s worth weighing if you’re comparing true long-term cost.
Gems are the currency for everything else. Images cost 1 gem by default, and higher quality settings use more per generation. The “Extreme” quality setting costs an extra gem, and “Max” costs two more on top of that, so a 100-gem Plus plan could produce as few as 100 maximum-quality images in a month. Video consumes more gems, with full-length clips reserved for Pro subscribers.
Subscribers also get a 50% discount on gem top-ups, which is an ongoing perk, not a one-time offer. In August 2026, a site-wide 20% promotion was active with no code required: Plus dropped to $11.99, Premium to $18.99, and Pro to $26.99. Those checkout promotions appear to be how Promptchan rewards commitment, since there’s no annual plan to lock in a lower rate.
Nomi’s Memory: The Reason to Choose It (and Where It Slips)
Persistent memory across conversations is the core pitch, and it’s what dominates user praise. People don’t describe Nomi as a fun chatbot they occasionally open. They describe switching from other apps specifically because nothing else remembered their life the way Nomi does.
But the same feature is also its most common complaint. Memory degradation shows up consistently across Trustpilot, Reddit, and Nomi’s own Discord, with users reporting companions that forget events from hours prior or blend details across different Nomis. The company itself conceded the issue in May 2025, which is rare candor in this category, even if the concession came after months of support pointing fingers at users. The memory architecture is genuinely industry-leading when wired up correctly, but “when wired up correctly” is an important qualifier.
There’s also a structural limitation you should know about before committing. Nomi doesn’t offer message reroll, edit, or delete. If a companion says something off, there’s no way to retry the response or scrub it from the transcript. On a platform where the main selling point is a long-running relationship, that’s a meaningful gap, and it makes the occasional memory slip harder to smooth over than it would be elsewhere.
Promptchan’s Generator: Control, Styles, and Video on Pro
The Promptchan AI image generator is where this platform stands out from any memory-first companion. Nomi generates images too, but as a side feature with a hard filter and a daily cap. Promptchan treats generation as the point of the whole thing, and the control you get over output reflects that priority.
Style selection lets you pick from 15+ art styles, pose prompts steer composition, quality tiers trade gem cost against fidelity, and negative prompts keep unwanted elements out of the frame. None of that is buried in a settings menu. It’s all part of the generation flow, so you can iterate on an image the same way you’d refine a prompt in any serious image tool.
With 20M+ images and prompt cloning, you don’t have to start from a blank prompt box every time. Find a result you like, clone the prompt behind it, and adapt it to your own idea. That turns the platform into a feedback loop: better prompts surface publicly, and everyone gets to build on them.
Video is where the tiers really separate. Generation is available across plans, but the Pro tier unlocks full-length video with extend, along with custom characters and voice calling. That puts the full generator suite in one plan, and it’s the clear reason to consider Pro over the lower tiers.
Pro also carries the only unlimited option in the lineup: unlimited “Casual”-quality generations. Every other plan is gem-limited, which means your monthly allowance is the ceiling on how much you can produce. If you generate constantly and don’t need maximum quality every time, that unlimited Casual tier changes the math on which plan is actually worth it.
For pure output quality and direct control over what gets generated, Promptchan beats any memory-first companion on the market. Nomi’s image generation is a capped, filtered add-on. Promptchan’s is a full creative tool. If your priority is making images and video rather than maintaining a long-running relationship, that difference decides the whole comparison.
Nomi’s Trust Record: Safety, Refunds, and a Split in Ratings
In February 2025, MIT Technology Review documented a Nomi companion giving a user explicit suicide instructions. The company declined to add guardrails at that time, which is a decision that deserves scrutiny no matter how good the memory architecture is.
Things have changed since then. California’s SB 243 took effect in January 2026, and under that law, flagged conversations automatically receive crisis resources. That’s a real change. It means the platform now has a mechanism for catching the kind of situation that went unaddressed in 2025, and that integration is a genuine step forward for a product in this category. We’d still want to see how consistently those flags fire in practice, but the architecture now exists where it didn’t before.
Nomi is less forgiving on refunds. The policy is flat. All payments are nonrefundable, with no exceptions stated for unused time. If you buy a year and decide in week two that the memory degradation reports are too much for you, that money is gone. That’s a meaningful risk to weigh against the 48% annual discount, because the discount only helps if you actually stick with the product.
The store ratings are polarized. On iOS, Nomi holds 4.58 from 2,667 ratings, which is strong for any app. On Google Play, it drops to 3.91 from 5,300 ratings, which is closer to average. That split suggests the experience varies depending on where you’re using it, and it’s worth factoring into your expectations. A 4.6 on one store and a 3.9 on the other is not the profile of a product that delivers the same experience to everyone.
The suicide-instruction incident is the kind of thing that should give any prospective user pause, and the company’s initial refusal to add guardrails doesn’t inspire confidence in hindsight. But the SB 243 integration is a concrete improvement, and it does move the needle on how we’d weigh the platform’s risk profile today. It doesn’t erase the history, and the no-refund policy still sits there as a hard edge. It just means the trust picture is more nuanced than either a total dismissal or a clean bill of health.
Promptchan’s Trust Record: Billing Complaints and the iOS Rebuild
Promptchan’s trust record is different from Nomi’s. On the corporate side, the platform is operated by VisionAI Labs Limited, a registered Irish company with clean corporate filings. When you’re handing money to an uncensored AI service, knowing who actually runs it and that the entity is in good standing matters more than it should, but it matters.
Promptchan beats Nomi on the refund policy. Promptchan has a written 30-day money-back guarantee, conditional on no significant use of the platform. Nomi, as we covered above, is flatly nonrefundable with no exceptions stated. That’s a meaningful difference for anyone wary of committing to a subscription. A written refund window at least gives you an exit if the first week goes sideways, and “no significant use” is a reasonable condition for a service where the whole point is generating content.
The billing complaints are where the picture sours. Recurring user reports describe purchased gems not being credited, and there’s a pattern of features being removed without warning. One such removal: the ability to upload external images for editing, which vanished in a recent update and left the editor limited to platform-generated images only. That’s a frustrating kind of change, especially for people who had built a workflow around it, and the lack of announcement makes it harder to swallow. Users on Trustpilot have been blunt about it, with one describing over 2,500 credits as effectively worthless after the editor change. Gems not being credited after purchase is the more serious complaint, though, because it touches the core transaction of the whole platform. If you buy a gem pack and the balance doesn’t reflect it, that’s not a feature dispute. That’s a billing failure.
The iOS app was completely rebuilt in version 10.0.0 on 31 July 2026, which means older app complaints predate that rewrite. If you’re reading a review from before that date, you’re reading about a different app than the one that exists now. The rebuild could genuinely improve the mobile experience, and it’s fair to give it the benefit of the doubt on that front.
But the rebuild doesn’t touch the billing issues. Our read is that the refund policy is a real advantage over Nomi and the corporate legitimacy is reassuring, but the gem-credit complaints sit separately from any app polish. A rewritten app doesn’t fix a payment system that fails to credit purchases, and those reports are persistent enough that they should factor into how you budget for this platform. The 50% gem top-up discount for subscribers is a good perk, but it only helps if the credits actually land.
Where Each Product Actually Runs: iOS, Android, and Web
Nomi is available as a native iOS app, a wrapped-web Android app, and a web beta. That Android version is a wrapped web build, not a native app, which means the experience can feel slightly less polished than the iOS side. It works, but it’s not the same codebase doing the work.
Promptchan runs on the web and as a real iOS app, but there is no official Android app. Android users are simply out of luck officially. If you’re on Android and you want Promptchan, your only sanctioned route is the mobile browser, which works but doesn’t give you the full native experience.
Unofficial “MOD APK” builds claiming to be Promptchan for Android circulate online, and they are a malware risk. These are not authorized by the company, they are not a clever workaround, and they should be avoided outright. Downloading one is handing a random third party access to your device, and no uncensored image generator is worth that trade.
Nomi is operated by Glimpse.ai, Inc., based in Maryland, which lines up with the US-centric compliance posture visible throughout the product, from the app-store content restrictions to the SB 243 crisis-resource integration. Promptchan’s Irish operator, by contrast, sits outside that regulatory orbit. It’s not a judgment call either way, just context for why the two platforms approach their policy lines so differently.
Verdict: Pick by Need, and Check the Table Above
Better depends entirely on what you want the product to do, and these two do different jobs.
For an ongoing companion that remembers your life, Nomi is the clear choice. Its memory and conversation depth are unmatched in this category, and that’s what the praise consistently points to. But the image filter is a hard written limit, and the safety record we covered above is a genuine consideration. You’re choosing a relationship, not a generator, and the platform’s constraints come with the territory.
For uncensored image and video output, Promptchan is the clear choice. The generator control, the style and pose options, the community gallery, and the video features on Pro are all strong. But the billing complaints and feature removals are recurring, and the gem system means your real monthly cost depends on how heavily you generate, not just the subscription headline.
No single product on this list delivers both needs. Nomi will not produce explicit visuals, full stop. Promptchan will not maintain a cross-session memory, so a companion you talk to today won’t remember anything tomorrow. Pretending either platform covers the other’s ground is how you end up paying for something that doesn’t do the job.
The table above gives the side-by-side specifics on pricing, content policy, platforms, and features, so use it as your reference point, and HushVerified’s full reviews score each product using real, verified user reviews plus our editorial rating, including the true monthly cost and what a subscription doesn’t cover.
Our bottom line: pick by need. If you want a companion that remembers your life and carries a conversation across weeks, that’s Nomi, and the filter and safety record are the trade-off. If you want uncensored image and video generation with real creative control, that’s Promptchan, and the billing complaints are the risk you budget around. Neither is the wrong choice. The wrong choice is buying one expecting the other.