Candy AI records 68,041,908 monthly visits with +8.5% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Side Reader records 355 monthly visits with -36.5% growth and Freemium pricing.
Multimodal AI companion platform offering customizable virtual partners, live voice calls, photo generation, and video shorts.
Read and chat with PDFs right beside ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek.
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | candy.ai | side-reader.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 68.04M (68,041,908) | 355 (355) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +5.32M (+8.5%) | -204 (-36.5%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (30.5%) | 🇻🇳 Vietnam (100%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 9.64M | 149 |
| User Rating | 3.9 | 2.4 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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 and chat with PDFs right beside ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek.
PDFs render directly in the sidebar next to the chat, so your document and the AI conversation are visible at the same time.
Summarize a whole document, translate it, or have passages explained in simpler terms using the AI you are already signed into.
Built-in buttons cover the common actions, and you can edit their prompts to make the AI respond in the format and tone you need.
Ask about charts, scans or regions that cannot be selected by taking a screenshot question instead.
Features massive community-driven character creation and custom API routing, but relies less on standalone built-in media generation.
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.
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
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.
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.
Focuses heavily on customizable adult roleplay characters and voice interaction, though pricing structures differ.
Unfiltered NSFW AI character chat and roleplay
Unfiltered NSFW AI character chat and roleplay
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
Delivers superior emotional depth and persistent memory, but lacks the same level of raw unfiltered content.
Delivers superior emotional depth and persistent memory, but lacks the same level of raw unfiltered content.
A free, AI-powered PDF editor for every device
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
Bilingual AI translation for websites, documents, video and images
Bilingual AI translation for websites, documents, video and images
Free AI-powered PDF editor, converter and reader for every device
Free AI-powered PDF editor, converter and reader for every device
