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Updated Sep 2026 30-day tested Independent review

SoulFun App Review 2026: Coins, Pricing and Who It Suits

SoulFun app review 2026: the real $19.99 Premium price, what 1,000 coins buy, the promo-only free tier, and the cancellation catch to know first.

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SoulFun App Review 2026: Coins, Pricing and Who It Suits

Quick answer: The SoulFun app is a character-gallery companion platform with a single Premium subscription at $19.99 a month, which the company’s own subscription terms confirm. That price buys 1,000 coins a month, and coins are what everything else runs on: 1 coin per text message, 10 coins per minute of voice call, 20 coins per minute of video call. There is no standing free tier, only a time-boxed 30 Days of Free Text Chats promotion, and cancellation is by identity-checked request form with no refund on fees already charged. It is a reasonable pick if you mainly want generated visuals. It is an expensive pick if you want hours of live voice.

Affiny at a glance (verified September 2026): Free to start: 300 coins, no credit card. Daily Gift: 10–70 coins/day, then 70/day. Referrals: 300 coins each. Founder offer: up to 70% off Companion (limited time; see affiny.ai/pricing). Free tier: Crush chat 1 coin/message, voice 30 coins/min, Spark or Flame scene images 15 coins, voice notes 1 coin, 1 custom companion, standard memory recall. Subscribe for unlimited Crush & Devotion chat, free voice notes, Tease & Desire video, God Mode, full personality & voice customization, sharper memory recall, and coin pack top-ups — Companion from $14.99/mo (was $24.99) or $9.99/mo billed annually; Intimate from $24.99/mo (was $49.99) or $19.99/mo annually. Subscribers: 1,000–3,000 coins/mo plus first-month bonus, voice 20 coins/min, scene images 10 coins, up to 5–10 custom companions. God Mode: subscriber scene directive up to 5,000 characters (Companion Panel). Video (subscribers): Tease 5/10 coins/sec (5 or 8 sec, silent); Desire 30/50 coins/sec (2–15 sec, optional audio). Portrait: 30 coins initial, first regen free, then 15. Memories hub: view free; add/edit/delete for subscribers. Catalog: 3400+ curated public companions, 84 browse tags. Creation: 49 templates, 44 personality presets, 97 turn-on presets (pick up to 4), realistic + anime with 16 species types.

What the SoulFun App Actually Is

SoulFun is gallery-first. Open the homepage and the characters arrive before the pitch does, which tells you what the platform thinks its product is: browsing and picking, not configuring. The site advertises more than ten AI soulmates and tags its character cards so you can filter by mood, appearance and scenario.

The product then stacks four things on top of chat. You can ask a character for photos. You can run a voice call. You can run a video call. And you can generate video from an image through a dedicated generator. The subscription terms list these as the Premium benefits, which makes the tier structure unusually easy to read: there is essentially one paid plan, and the free experience is a promotion.

That shape matters for anyone comparing platforms. SoulFun is not selling depth of conversation or a memory system. It is selling a character catalogue plus generation features, with one flat subscription on top. If your reason for looking at it was a specific character type, the catalogue will decide it. If your reason was cheaper live conversation, the coin math below is where the decision actually gets made.

The Verified Numbers: What SoulFun Costs

Everything in this section comes from the platform’s own subscription terms, which is the document that governs what you are charged. Third-party review sites quote monthly figures that disagree with each other, and one tracker lists an annual price that the first-party document does not mention. The first-party numbers are the ones that will appear on your card.

ItemSoulFun Premium (verified September 2026)
Subscription$19.99 per month, billed monthly
RenewalAutomatic at the end of each billing cycle
Coins included1,000 per month
Text message1 coin
Voice call10 coins per minute
Video call20 coins per minute
Character creationPremium only
Photo requestsPremium only
CancellationRequest form, identity check, no refund on prior charges

Two details deserve attention. First, the 1,000 coins arrive monthly and the terms describe them as a monthly allowance, not a bank that grows. Second, nothing in the terms suggests a permanent free tier. What the homepage advertises is an event: 30 Days of Free Text Chats, where joining during the promotion unlocks unlimited messaging. Promotions end. If your plan depends on free access continuing, that is the risk to price in.

What 1,000 Coins Really Buys You

Coin systems are only honest when you convert them into the thing you actually want, so here is the arithmetic at the published rates.

  • Text: 1 coin per message, so the monthly allowance is roughly 1,000 messages.
  • Voice calls: 10 coins per minute, so the same allowance is about 100 minutes, or roughly three minutes a day.
  • Video calls: 20 coins per minute, so the allowance is about 50 minutes, under two minutes a day.

Read those three lines together and the pricing story becomes clear. The text allowance is generous. The live features are metered hard enough that a regular habit will outrun the included coins, which puts you in the top-up economy on top of a $19.99 subscription. That is the same structural criticism users level at every token-based companion platform, and it is worth knowing before you commit rather than after.

If voice is the reason you are shopping, weigh the meter directly against alternatives. The guide to memory across text and voice explains why a call does not start cold, and sets out the three ways platforms store what a character knows about you.

Character Discovery and Creation

SoulFun’s discovery layer is the strongest part of the product. Tagged character cards, a browse-by-interest homepage and a short list of soulmates rather than an endless wall of unvetted uploads. Ten-plus characters is a curated catalogue, not a user-generated ocean, and curation has real value: the average quality floor is higher when someone picks what goes in the window.

Creation is behind the subscription. Custom characters are listed as a Premium benefit, so free users browse what exists and paid users build. That is a normal split, and it is cheaper to read than most: no separate creator tier, no purchase required per slot.

The trade-off is scale. A small curated gallery cannot cover every archetype a specific user is hunting for. If you arrived looking for one particular thing, an anime species, a personality archetype, or a niche dynamic, a catalogue of ten-plus cards is a coin flip. Platforms that publish their archetype taxonomy, including personality presets, turn-on presets and species types, are easier to shop. You can see the difference in how Affiny structures discovery across 84 browse tags before you ever sign up.

Image and Video Generation

This is where SoulFun puts most of its marketing weight, and the generator is genuinely the most distinctive thing about it. The video lane starts from an image and produces a clip, which is the standard image-to-video approach. The gallery carries a warning in plain language that videos expire after 30 days and asks users to save their work promptly.

Take that warning seriously. A generated asset that disappears after a month is a creative output with an expiry date, and if you are paying a subscription partly for video, retention belongs in your value calculation. It is also worth separating two things that get conflated in marketing: generating a clip you watch and keep, and generating imagery inside a conversation that stays part of the relationship. The second shape is usually what companion users actually want, and it is how in-chat scene images work on Affiny, where free users get 15 coins per scene image and subscribers get 10, with subscriber video limited to the Tease and Desire modes.

If generated visuals are your main reason for being here, this is the section to test during the promotion window. Generate a few clips, download them, and check whether the download survives the way you expect.

Voice, Video Calls and the Meter

SoulFun treats live conversation as a premium metered feature rather than a headline. Voice calls at 10 coins a minute and video calls at 20 coins a minute are the two fastest ways to spend the monthly allowance, and they are the two features most likely to drive topping up.

The absence of a documented voice experience beyond the meter is the gap. There is no published note on latency, interruption handling, or whether a call updates the same memory your text chat built. That matters because a voice call that does not feed the relationship back into text is a separate product experience rather than a deeper one.

Affiny takes the opposite approach on pricing structure: voice runs 30 coins a minute on the free tier and 20 for subscribers, voice notes are 1 coin, and subscribers get voice notes free, with the same memory layer covering text and voice. Different platform, different bet on which feature is the reason you stay.

The Cancellation Catch

Subscriptions are judged at the exit as much as the entrance, and SoulFun’s exit is the weakest part of the product.

Cancellation is not self-serve. The subscription terms instruct you to log in and submit a request through a feedback form, and they note that additional information may be required to verify your identity. Fees already charged are not refunded, and access continues to the end of the billing cycle. Auto-renewal is the default and is described as continuing under the same terms unless you choose to cancel.

That combination, auto-renew plus a request form plus no prorated refunds, is exactly the pattern that produces angry cancellation threads. It is not unusual in this category, and it is not a hidden fee. It is simply a process you should know about on day one, because the moment you want out is not the moment you want to start filling in a form.

Who SoulFun Suits, and Who Should Skip It

SoulFun is a reasonable fit if you want a small curated character gallery, you care most about generated images and short clips, and the voice and video meters match how little you intend to use them.

Skip SoulFun if live conversation is the point. At 10 and 20 coins per minute, a daily voice habit will not fit inside 1,000 coins, and the subscription then becomes an entry fee to spending more. Skip it too if you need published retention and memory rules, or if a request-form cancellation is a dealbreaker.

Consider an alternative if you want transparent pricing with a real free start. Our Affiny vs JuicyChat cost comparison puts the two coin economies side by side, including how hard video and images push the monthly spend, and the companion app roundup ranks the wider field on the same two axes, voice and memory.

Affiny starts with 300 free coins and no credit card, runs chat at 1 coin per message, includes in-chat scene images on the free tier, keeps cross-session memory across text and voice, and publishes its prices instead of hiding them behind an app screen. If the SoulFun math above is what pushed you to look elsewhere, you can start free and check the coin economy yourself.

The Bottom Line

The SoulFun app is a well-packaged character gallery with a generation layer attached, priced at $19.99 a month with 1,000 coins to spend across text, voice, video and images. The text side is good value inside that allowance. The live side is not, and the entrance is far friendlier than the exit.

The practical decision rule: if you want a curated cast and generated visuals, try it during the free-text promotion and decide before it ends. If you want a companion you talk with daily and remember across months, spend your money on a platform whose coin economy and memory policy you can read before you pay.

FAQ

What is the SoulFun app?

SoulFun is an AI companion app built around a gallery of characters it calls soulmates. You browse tagged cards, chat, request photos, and on the paid tier create your own characters. It also runs voice calls, video calls and an image-to-video generator. The premium experience sits behind one subscription priced at $19.99 per month.

How much does SoulFun cost in 2026?

SoulFun Premium is $19.99 per month, billed monthly and auto-renewing, verified from the platform’s own subscription terms. Premium includes 1,000 coins a month, custom characters and photo requests. Text costs 1 coin per message, voice calls 10 coins per minute and video calls 20 coins per minute. Independent trackers quote slightly different figures, so check the live page.

Is SoulFun free?

Not permanently. SoulFun runs a time-boxed promotion it describes as 30 Days of Free Text Chats, where joining during the event unlocks unlimited messaging. That is an event rather than a standing free tier, and the subscription terms describe Premium as the product. Treat free access as a trial that ends with the promotion.

How many messages do 1,000 SoulFun coins buy?

About 1,000 text messages at 1 coin each. The same allowance buys roughly 100 minutes of voice call at 10 coins per minute, or about 50 minutes of video call at 20 coins per minute. Text stretches; live voice and video do not.

Is SoulFun easy to cancel?

Cancellation is by request only. The subscription terms say you cancel automatic renewal by submitting a request through a feedback form, with identity verification possible, and that cancelling does not refund fees already charged. Access continues to the end of the current billing cycle. There is no self-serve cancel button described.

Does SoulFun remember you between sessions?

SoulFun advertises characters that evolve with extended memory as you engage with them, but it publishes no memory policy, memory hub or retention window. Treat it as a feature claim rather than a documented benefit and test continuity over a week before subscribing.

Does SoulFun generate video?

Yes. SoulFun runs a separate video gallery and an image-to-video generator that starts from an image. The gallery warns that videos expire after 30 days and asks users to save their work, so retention belongs in your value calculation. Video runs on the same coin wallet as chat and calls.

What is the best SoulFun alternative?

It depends on what you wanted. If the coin math was the problem, Affiny publishes its full coin economy and starts with 300 free coins and no credit card. If generated images were the draw, Affiny includes in-chat scene images at 15 coins on free and 10 for subscribers. If voice was the draw, Affiny runs real-time voice at 30 coins a minute on free and 20 for subscribers, with free voice notes on paid plans.

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