DarLink AI: the official site, plans, and no mobile app

Open darlink.ai. The homepage loads a preview of the character library without an account, which is useful because you can see the visual quality bar before you sign anything. Click into any character and it will prompt you to register. Google login works, or email and password. You confirm you are 18+, and that is the whole flow. No card at signup.

Turn the site into a home-screen icon on mobile. Open darlink.ai in mobile Safari or Chrome, tap share, tap Add to Home Screen. You get an icon that opens full-screen without browser chrome. That is the closest thing to an app the platform offers, and community threads on Reddit note it as the standard workaround for users who wanted a mobile app.

First minute inside the product: pick a character or hit Create Character. The library is grouped by style (photorealistic, anime, fantasy) and by personality tag. If you make your own, you fill in appearance, personality traits, a bit of backstory, and a voice from the ElevenLabs list. Your first custom character is included on the free tier.

Then you chat. Three messages, then paywall. Worth knowing: the free tier used to be more generous. MariaVibe's March 2026 review documented 50 messages plus 10 images a day on free. AI Girlfriend Base's June 2026 write-up shows the current shape: three messages, three images, one character. If you signed up months ago on the older allowance, the new cap will feel abrupt.

Marketed as a single feature, Living Memory in practice is three different feature levels, one per subscription tier.

Essential runs Basic Memory. It holds the current chat and recent context, then drops facts you established four or five exchanges back. One Trustpilot reviewer summed up the Essential experience as chatting to someone with memory loss. Advanced widens the horizon to a few days. Ultimate is where the full Living Memory kicks in and the character remembers stated facts, plot events and preferences for over a month.

Paying $12.99 for Essential and expecting the demoed Ultimate memory is where most of the one and two star reviews on Trustpilot come from. If continuity between sessions is not what you are here for (short scenes, image generation, one-off roleplay), Essential covers it and saves $37 a month against Ultimate. This kind of recurring gap between marketing and reality is exactly what the correction rules on the editorial policy page exist to track.

Roleplay engines ladder the same way. Essential runs the standard version. Advanced adds Deep Roleplay, which holds tone and scene cues longer. Ultimate ships Elite Roleplay, where the character reads scene cues faster and remembers what happened last session.

Operating from Switzerland and leaning on Swiss data protection in its terms, DarLink AI positions itself with stronger baseline grounds than most US-registered peers. What is missing from the public record: a named founder, a company registry link, a leadership team page. The domain darlink.ai was registered in November 2023 and the product opened to the public shortly after. Third-party reviewers, including AI Insights News, have flagged this lack of public company detail as a caution point for anyone entering a card. Context on how this site handles that kind of gap sits on the about page.

Practical read: treat DarLink like any adult platform under three years old. HTTPS is in place on every page, chats stay in the account, and reviewers report a written no-data-selling stance. Enter card details with the same care as any subscription service where the operator is not verifiable beyond the front-end. The DarLink terms of service for the platform itself are hosted on darlink.ai and worth a scan before you commit to a paid tier.

Support (address published on the TAAFT directory) states cancellation requests are processed within 48 hours, regardless of reason. Public feedback lives on Trustpilot, where reviews divide sharply by plan: Ultimate skews positive, Essential skews negative. Data handling on darlink-ai.io itself is documented separately on the privacy policy, which is where you would go for cookies, retention windows and third-party services used by this coverage site.

Context worth sitting with before subscribing to anything in this category: the MIT Media Lab and OpenAI study on AI companion use (roughly 1,000 participants) found higher daily companion-chat use correlated with more loneliness and lower socialisation. The finding is not an argument against the category. It is a reason to notice how usage shifts over the first few weeks.

Cancellation runs through account settings on darlink.ai. If the button does not respond, email support at the address published on the TAAFT directory. Per DarLink's own terms, cancellation is effective at the end of the current billing cycle; the paid tier stays live until then. There is no early-termination refund.

Payment method matters. If the subscription started on the darlink.ai website, cancel there. If it started through a third-party mobile wrapper or a checkout provider, that provider handles cancellation. Third-party reviewers on AI Girlfriend Guide flag this specifically because it catches out users who assume all cancellations route through the site. The federal record-keeping position on this coverage site is a separate matter and lives on the 2257 statement for readers who want that context.