Features massive community-driven character creation and custom API routing, but relies less on standalone built-in media generation.
Candy AI records 68,041,908 monthly visits with +8.5% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. CastReader records 55,999 monthly visits with +9.8% growth and Freemium pricing.

Read aloud webpages, PDFs, Kindle books and AI answers with synced highlighting
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | candy.ai | castreader.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 68.04M (68,041,908) | 56K (55,999) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
| +5.32M (+8.5%) |
| +4.98K (+9.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (30.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (56%) |
|---|
| Direct Visits / mo | 9.64M | 19.7K |
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| User Rating | 3.9 | 4.4 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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Multimodal AI companion platform offering customizable virtual partners, live voice calls, photo generation, and video shorts.
Lets users construct bespoke realistic or anime AI girlfriends and boyfriends by customizing ethnicity, facial features, hairstyle, body type, voice pitch, personality archetype, and personal hobbies.
Renders consistent character selfies, custom outfits, backgrounds, and animated short reaction videos directly inside the chat thread using monthly or top-up tokens.
Supports expressive spoken audio replies and interactive voice calling with selectable vocal personalities ranging from soft and calming to bold and playful.
Includes a built-in streaming hub of episodic AI short dramas and digital twin series, offering the first two episodes of standard series free and unlocking later or spicy episodes with Premium tokens.

Read aloud webpages, PDFs, Kindle books and AI answers with synced highlighting
Natural AI voices narrate webpages, PDFs, ebooks and documents while each spoken word is highlighted and the page auto-scrolls, so you never lose your place.
Instead of only reading a hard passage, CastReader summarises and unpacks its meaning in the language you know best, with an animated pen marking the key lines in the original text.
Works across Kindle, WeRead, Google Play Books, O'Reilly and other book platforms, news and newsletter sites, Google Docs, Notion, Gmail, plus ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Kimi answers.
Preview real samples of dozens of voices across many languages, and create private cloned voices that Pro members can apply to their own PDF, EPUB, Word and TXT files.
Features massive community-driven character creation and custom API routing, but relies less on standalone built-in media generation.

Offers broader multi-model switching and larger community character variety, but with different photo generation limits.
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One connected AI studio for adult character chat, images, stories and video
Provides completely unfiltered anime and fantasy character chats, but features a different UI layout.
Focuses heavily on customizable adult roleplay characters and voice interaction, though pricing structures differ.

Unfiltered NSFW AI character chat and roleplay
Text to speech and voice AI across every device

Delivers superior emotional depth and persistent memory, but lacks the same level of raw unfiltered content.
Free AI text to speech with 200+ voices in 70+ languages
Create an AI girlfriend, then chat, generate images, and bring her to life in video

Features remarkably lifelike independent companions with rich memory, but emphasizes emotional realism over quick image generation.
Combines text, voice, and generated visual media similarly, but utilizes a distinct credit and subscription model.
Features massive community-driven character creation and custom API routing, but relies less on standalone built-in media generation.
Offers broader multi-model switching and larger community character variety, but with different photo generation limits.
One connected AI studio for adult character chat, images, stories and video
Provides completely unfiltered anime and fantasy character chats, but features a different UI layout.
Focuses heavily on customizable adult roleplay characters and voice interaction, though pricing structures differ.
Unfiltered NSFW AI character chat and roleplay
Text to speech and voice AI across every device
Delivers superior emotional depth and persistent memory, but lacks the same level of raw unfiltered content.
Free AI text to speech with 200+ voices in 70+ languages
Create an AI girlfriend, then chat, generate images, and bring her to life in video
Features remarkably lifelike independent companions with rich memory, but emphasizes emotional realism over quick image generation.
Combines text, voice, and generated visual media similarly, but utilizes a distinct credit and subscription model.