If you want to write your own adult character and scenes with an uncensored AI, in text, with the chats kept on your device, the CrushOn AI alternative we make is Hemmingway Unlocked. It has open weights and an API that works in SillyTavern too. If you want what CrushOn is, a catalogue of characters made by other people, another adult character site will suit you better, and if you want one partner with a face and a voice, a companion app.
We make Hemmingway Unlocked, so it comes first. What we say about the others comes from their own sites.
What we can say about CrushOn AI
Not much. CrushOn AI is a character chat site for adults, the same general kind as Janitor AI and SpicyChat. Its site turns automated readers away, so we could not read its feature, rules or privacy pages for this piece, and we will not repeat what other websites say about it. Nothing on this page is a claim about its models, its rules or what it keeps. For those, read its own pages.
What follows is about the alternatives, each described from its own site.
Why people look elsewhere
- A different kind of tool. You want to write a scene from your own idea, not pick from a list.
- One partner, not a catalogue. You want a single character who remembers last week.
- Privacy. You want romantic and adult chats kept on your own device.
- Running it yourself. Your own model on your own computer.
Four things to check on any adult character site
The examples come from the sites' own pages.
- The written rules. Every site bans some things, and the lists differ. SpicyChat's guidelines, for instance, rule out non-consensual acts even in fiction, and extreme violence mixed with sexual content. Janitor AI tags characters as Limited or Limitless and bans some content whatever the tag.
- What the phone app allows. App stores have their own rules. Janitor AI's help pages say adult content is off in its app until you switch it on from the website. SpicyChat's docs say it has no native iPhone app, and that its Android app comes from its own site.
- Where chats are kept. On the company's servers, in your browser, or on your own computer. If the privacy page does not say, assume the first.
- Whose model it is. Some sites run their own, some let you connect another. It changes both the writing and who sees your messages.
The options side by side
| Tool | What it is | Good for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hemmingway Unlocked | Our adults-only chat and writing app | A character you write yourself, with chats on your device | No character library. Text only |
| Janitor AI | A character site for adults, with its own model or one you connect | A large library, and a choice of model | Adult content is off in its app by default |
| SpicyChat | A character site for adults | A large library, group chats, images and voices on paid plans | Its banned list is specific, so read it first |
| Nomi | A companion app built around memory | One ongoing partner or friend | One relationship, not a catalogue |
| SillyTavern | A front end you install, with character cards | Keeping your characters as files you own | It has no model of its own |
| Running an open model yourself | SillyTavern with KoboldCpp, Ollama or LM Studio | Nothing leaves your computer | Strong hardware and set-up time |
Where Hemmingway Unlocked fits
Hemmingway Unlocked is the adults-only side of Hemmingway: the same app with an uncensored model. Here is how it answers the same four checks.
- The rules. It asks first whether you are 18 or over, then shows them. It writes sex between adults, explicit and in full, and dark, violent stories, and it does not lecture. It never writes anything sexual involving anyone under 18, a real person, animals, family, including step-family, or anyone who does not want it. It never helps with hurting a real person, harassment, weapons, making drugs or self-harm. The list is in our terms.
- The app. It runs in the browser, at wise.hemmingway.io.
- Where chats are kept. In your browser, on your device. They are never saved to your account or our servers, and never trained on. Each message passes through our servers to be answered and is not kept. Chats do not sync, and clearing the browser's data deletes them.
- Whose model. Ours: an adapter on our open-weights model Hemmingway-1. Its weights are public on Hugging Face under CC BY-NC 4.0, so you can run it yourself if you have the GPUs for a 27B model. Members also get an API that works in SillyTavern.
It is free to try, with no card, then a membership from $9 a month.
Open Hemmingway UnlockedTry Hemmingway
You write the character in your first message, or let the AI roleplay generator write an opening. For example:
"You play Matteo, 36, a violin maker: kind, stubborn, slow to say what he feels. I play Dana, 34, who has come to collect a repaired violin and keeps finding reasons to stay. Slow burn. Write only Matteo, under 120 words a reply, and let me decide how far each scene goes."
Where it does not fit: there is no ready-made character library, and it makes no images, avatars or voices. If those are what you came for, a character site or a companion app will suit you better.
Other character sites
Janitor AI. Its help pages describe a front end for chatting with characters, making them and switching between models, for over-18s only. Janitor AI alternatives has more.
SpicyChat. Its docs describe a library of characters made by its users, public or private, with group chats and a lorebook. Every user must be 18 or over and every character an adult. SpicyChat alternatives goes through it.
If you simply want a second place to look, these two are the same kind of site.
A companion app
Nomi calls itself an AI companion with memory. Its site says you can build a friendship, a relationship or a mentor, that a Nomi remembers your preferences and the small details, and that it is unfiltered and uncensored. Pick it if you want one character who knows you, not a catalogue. AI girlfriend and boyfriend chat covers that kind of app.
Your own front end
SillyTavern's docs describe a locally installed interface with character cards, World Info for lore and group chats. It needs a model from somewhere else: a program on your own computer, such as KoboldCpp, or a cloud API. The draw is ownership. A character card is a file on your disk. No site can remove it or change it.
With a model on your own machine as well, nothing leaves your computer. That needs a strong graphics card. Open models for roleplay has the set-up.
How to choose
- You want to write the character and keep the chats on your device. Hemmingway Unlocked.
- You want a catalogue of characters. Janitor AI or SpicyChat.
- You want one partner who remembers you. A companion app such as Nomi.
- You want to own your characters as files. SillyTavern, with Unlocked's API or another model behind it.
- Nothing may leave your computer. A model you run yourself.
Common questions
What is the best alternative to CrushOn AI?
For writing your own character in a plain chat app, with chats kept on your device, Hemmingway Unlocked, which we make. For the same kind of site as CrushOn, Janitor AI and SpicyChat are character sites for adults. For one ongoing partner, a companion app: Kindroid alternatives and Nomi alternatives cover those.
Is there a CrushOn AI alternative with no filter?
Every service keeps some rules, and the honest ones print them. Hemmingway Unlocked is uncensored for explicit scenes between adults and for dark fiction, and has a short list of things it never writes. A model on your own computer is the only route with nobody else's rules.
Is there a free alternative to CrushOn AI?
Running an open model yourself costs nothing if you already own a strong enough computer. SpicyChat's docs say its core features are open to everyone without paying, and Janitor AI's help pages say it keeps a free tier. Hemmingway Unlocked is free to try, with no card, and paid after the trial.
Can I take my CrushOn AI characters to another app?
We could not read its pages, so we do not know what it lets you export. You can always carry a character as plain text: the name, the age, how they speak, what they want and what they would never do. Paste that as the first message in the new app.