SpicyChat alternatives: who can read your chats, and where they're kept

The Morse teamPublished November 10, 2026Facts checked November 10, 20269 min read

The best SpicyChat alternatives for privacy, as of November 2026, are Morse, NovelAI, and Kindroid, and the reason to look is in SpicyChat's own terms: "Users or operators of the Service may read all messages You send to the Service," and its moderators can see characters you set to private. Of the three, Morse is the one built for character chat where the history stays encrypted on your device instead of on a company's servers.

We read SpicyChat's terms (updated July 23, 2026), privacy policy, refund and complaint policies, and its help docs on November 10, 2026, then each alternative's own pages the same day. SpicyChat's legal pages render in the browser, so we read their text from the script the site itself serves. SpicyChat earns credit in a few places. It names its company and three office addresses, its terms forbid staff and contractors from "unauthorized access to users' personal information and chats," and when it raised prices on September 8, 2026, it kept existing subscribers on their old price for as long as they stay subscribed.

SpicyChat alternatives compared, November 10, 2026

Every SpicyChat and competitor cell comes from that company's own page, read November 10, 2026.

Does SpicyChat read your chats?

Its terms reserve the right to. Under "Electronic Communications Not Private," SpicyChat's terms say it "does not provide facilities for sending or receiving confidential electronic communications," that you should treat every message "as open communications readily accessible to the public," and that "Users or operators of the Service may read all messages You send to the Service regardless of whether they are intended recipients" (SpicyChat). A separate clause adds: "We may access, review, edit, and delete Your content at any time and for any reason, especially to improve our services."

Private characters aren't private from staff. SpicyChat's guide to character visibility says a private character is "only visible to you," then adds that hidden characters "can still be seen by our moderators" (SpicyChat). Its FAQ says moderators may also switch a public character to private if they decide you didn't create it (SpicyChat).

The limit SpicyChat sets on itself is internal policy. Its terms say employees and contractors sign "a data protection agreement" and that an internal policy "prohibits unauthorized access" to chats (SpicyChat). The terms don't say who counts as authorized.

What does SpicyChat's privacy policy cover?

Less than its terms. The privacy policy SpicyChat serves at spicychat.ai/privacy is dated May 4, 2023. It lists email address, name, and usage data as what it collects, and it never mentions chats or messages. It still names the company as "SpicyChat.AI, Corporate Address," with the address never filled in. Everything about chats lives in the terms, updated July 23, 2026. Here is where each answer sits:

Sources: privacy policy and terms, both read November 10, 2026.

Our AI companion app privacy roundup puts SpicyChat's license clause next to 13 other apps.

Who owns SpicyChat?

NextDay AI Incorporated, based in Montreal. The terms say SpicyChat is "owned and operated by NextDay AI Incorporated," with subsidiaries NextDay AI USA Inc in Delaware and NextDay AI EU Ltd in Limassol, Cyprus (SpicyChat). Quebec law governs, and most disputes go to binding arbitration under the ADR Institute of Canada's rules, with no class actions. On legal requests, the terms say SpicyChat doesn't disclose chats "without an official request from the authorities."

SpicyChat has a sister service. Its mobile apps page calls PixelChat "Our SFW platform," on Google Play, and says a subscription bought there "will automatically apply to SpicyChat as well" (SpicyChat).

How does SpicyChat's age verification work?

A third-party partner checks you with a video selfie, with an ID check as the fallback, before you can see NSFW content in certain places. SpicyChat lists France, the UK, Italy, Australia, and 26 US states, and it decides by "your current connection location (IP address)" (SpicyChat). It says it never sees "images, documents, or personal details used during verification," that the partner returns a yes or no, and that the partner deletes the data "according to their privacy standards," with no period given. Verification is tied to your account, so it usually happens once. SpicyChat's community guidelines require every user, and every character, to be 18 or older (SpicyChat).

How much does SpicyChat cost?

As of November 10, 2026, SpicyChat has a free tier and three paid ones, after a price rise on September 8, 2026 (SpicyChat):

• Get A Taste: $5.95 a month, up from $5.00. Removes ads and keeps a 4,096-token context.
• True Supporter: $19.95 a month, up from $14.95. Raises context to 8,192 tokens and opens more models.
• I'm All In: $29.95 a month, up from $24.95. Up to 32,768 tokens of context, depending on the model, plus priority in the generation queue (SpicyChat).

SpicyChat's pricing FAQ says euro prices match the dollar prices, which puts I'm All In at €29.95 a month. Free users get up to 4,096 tokens, which SpicyChat estimates holds "around 20 recent messages" (SpicyChat).

Can you delete your SpicyChat chats?

You can delete your account, and SpicyChat says that's permanent. Open your Profile, scroll to Advanced, and choose Delete Account (SpicyChat). The terms let you request deletion of your "personal data and chat history," subject to legal obligations, and they also reserve SpicyChat's right "to delete the Generations and Chat content without notice" (SpicyChat). Copy any story you'd hate to lose before either happens.

1. Morse: character chat with the history encrypted on your device

SpicyChat's operators can read your messages and its moderators can open your private characters because every chat sits on NextDay AI's servers. Morse is built so your chats don't sit on ours. On Morse, a roleplay or companion chat lives in your own browser, encrypted, along with every character you build and every persona you play. Our servers hold no messages and log none of their content (privacy policy).

• Who can read them. Nobody at Morse can browse your history or your private characters, because they aren't on our servers. It locks when you sign out, and unlocking it takes two keys: one that never leaves your device and one our server gives you at sign-in.
• What happens to what you write. Morse won't train AI on what you type or sell your data, and there are no ads, advertising trackers, or third-party analytics.
• Legal requests. Because we don't store chats, we usually have very little to give authorities.
• Deleting. Clearing your browser or deleting your account removes your chats for good. We can't bring them back either, so keep a copy of any story that matters.
• Price. Free costs $0 with no card and has no cap on character messages, with the model picked for you. Pro is $19 a month, or $17 billed yearly, a little under SpicyChat's True Supporter, and runs character chats on any included model.

For conversations in Chat, you pick a privacy mode per chat:

• Private, for chats no host should keep. The default mode runs open-weight models like DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM, and Morse has zero data retention agreements with its inference, search, and other providers, so they keep nothing.
• E2EE, for anything no one else should read. On Pro, your browser checks a secure enclave's hardware attestation before it seals each message for that enclave alone, and our servers relay text they can't read. E2EE runs open-weight models only, with no web search or image generation, and it rests on the enclave hardware and attestation working as designed; we explain the checks in end-to-end encrypted AI chat.
• Anonymous, for GPT, Claude, or Gemini without your name on it. Our proxy strips your account, email, and IP address, so the provider answers without knowing it's you. It may keep the message for a limited time to check for abuse, under its own policy.

Whatever you choose, your history is stored only in your browser, encrypted, and Morse doesn't train AI on any of it. Morse is for adults only, and on paid plans you can pick unfiltered models. When a message in a character chat reads like suicidal thinking, Morse shows crisis lines, a check that runs on your device.

2. NovelAI

NovelAI is a story writer more than a character app, and its privacy policy is unusually direct. Effective September 10, 2026, it says "your stories are end-to-end encrypted and we cannot read them," encrypted in your browser "with a key derived from your password," and that "We do not store your prompts" (NovelAI). The same policy says the part you send for generation "is processed in readable form to produce the output." Plans run from the free Paper trial to Opus at $25 a month, which remembers up to 28,672 tokens (NovelAI). We compare it in more depth in NovelAI alternatives.

3. Kindroid

Kindroid suits people who want one companion. Its policy, effective November 7, 2026, says chats are "encrypted at rest and in transit," that "Kindroid is not end-to-end encrypted," and that "Our customer support staff cannot browse your chats," while authorized staff may review excerpts its safety systems flag (Kindroid). It "will not sell or share your Personal Data," and keeps chats until you delete the AI or your account. New accounts get 50 preview messages before a subscription (Kindroid). Our Kindroid safety review covers the rest.

Choose SpicyChat or Morse

• Choose SpicyChat if you want public characters made by other users, a free tier, and paid extras like text-to-speech and conversation images, and you accept that its operators may read your messages and its moderators can open private characters.
• Choose Morse if you want character chat where the history is encrypted on your device instead of a company's servers, unlimited character messages on the Free plan, and no training, selling, or ads.

How we compared them

We read SpicyChat's terms, privacy policy, refund policy, and complaint policy from the script spicychat.ai serves, and its help docs at docs.spicychat.ai, on November 10, 2026, along with NovelAI's and Kindroid's policies and plan pages. We didn't open accounts or run chats on any of these services for this page. For a site with a proxy setup instead, see our Janitor AI alternatives.

Try a chat from the Morse home page without an account, or start free with unlimited character messages and no card.

Morse publishes this comparison. We've tried to keep it fair; if something's wrong or out of date, email hello@trymorse.ai.

SpicyChat is a trademark of NextDay AI Incorporated. Morse is not affiliated with or endorsed by NextDay AI Incorporated.