VenusX Review (2026): Roleplay That Remembers You

How we tested. VenusX gave us a reviewer account on a Premium plan with 1,000 Stardust, its in-app currency. On 23 October 2026 we spent about 45 minutes with it. We chatted with one creator-made character for thirteen messages, came back after a reload and two fresh logins to check her memory, asked a second character the same question, and switched once to the paid text model. We generated two images in chat, turned one into a short video, and made one image in the character builder. We also read the pricing page, the Stardust top-up screen, the settings, the terms and the privacy policy, and we tried the guest chat logged out. We didn’t buy anything, didn’t switch on the explicit “Spicy” mode, didn’t test voice (there isn’t any), didn’t cancel or delete the account, and didn’t check what a normal free account gets after sign-up. Every screenshot below is from our own account.

VenusX is run by Celestial Labs Inc of New York, according to its support page, and its terms say they’re “governed by Delaware law”. The domain was registered in May 2026, so this is a young service. It describes itself as “an AI app for interactive fiction, romance, and roleplay, for adults 18 and older”, and it runs in a web browser on phone or desktop, with no app to install. The characters, which VenusX calls Venusians, are made by creators who are credited on each profile with an @handle. We counted about 120 public character pages, sorted by women and men and by style, with category pages for anime, realistic, fantasy and dark romance. Subscribers also get a small animated pet in the corner of the screen, and you can tip creators in Stardust.

Try it before you sign up

You can chat with a character before making an account. A counter in the header started at 5 and went down with each message. After the fifth, the next send opened a sign-up box offering “50 free Stardust for text, images & video”. The about page is upfront that this isn’t a full free plan: “Free access has limits; it isn’t an unlimited free plan.” We didn’t create a free account, so we can’t say how far those 50 Stardust go.

How the chat holds up

We chatted with Bianca Reyes, a 28-year-old character by a creator called @K. Her setting is a half-empty suburb after some kind of collapse, where she tends a greenhouse and an abandoned apiary. VenusX has two content modes, Flirty (“SFW and suggestive content only”) and Spicy (“Explicit content allowed”). We stayed in Flirty the whole time.

The replies were long and stayed inside her world. Each one ran 84 to 202 words, mixed stage directions in italics with dialogue, and nearly always ended on a question back to us. Asked about a perfect slow evening, she ended with “And then we’d just… be quiet for a while. Not awkward quiet. The comfortable kind, where you don’t have to say anything because you already know the other person is glad you’re there.” For a dinner date she’d “make a simple pasta with fresh tomatoes and basil, maybe some garlic if I can find it”, which fits a world where garlic is hard to find.

Replies stream in. The first words showed up after 1.1 to 2.6 seconds, but a full reply took 7 to 14 seconds to finish, which is slower than the three other apps we’ve timed the same way. On the paid “Stellar” model, which costs 1 Stardust per message, the first words took about 9 seconds and the reply finished after 19. It read a little richer but not dramatically so. The included “Planetary” model is the one you’ll use most.

There were three rough edges. The opening line greeted us with her own name: “Hey, Bianca Reyes she says with casual warmth”. Our account had no display name set, and the template seems to have filled the gap with hers. The opener was written in the third person and the replies in the first. She also called us “her” throughout (“I look at her, curious”), although we never gave a gender and the account has none set.

Memory that follows your account

Memory is the strongest part of VenusX. In the first message we said we work night shifts as a nurse and play bass in a band called The Quiet Hours. Three messages later we asked if she remembered, and she counted it off: “Alex. Nurse. Night shifts. … And The Quiet Hours. Bass player.”

The memory is stored with the account, not in the browser. We reloaded the page, then logged in again from a completely fresh browser, twice, the second time about half an hour after the first message. The whole conversation was still there each time, and each time she answered correctly, now including the dog we’d mentioned in between: “And Mo. Your dog.”

There’s no memory list you can see or edit, unlike Naughty Chats. VenusX keeps the conversation itself and, per its own page code, condenses older messages into a summary as the chat grows. We didn’t chat long enough to see that happen.

Memory belongs to each character. We asked Quinn Hartley, a character we hadn’t told anything, the same question, and Quinn invented a past for us instead of saying they didn’t know: “You’re a marine biologist”, in a band “called The Drowned Hares”. Several apps we’ve tested do this. If a character claims to remember you, check that you told them.

The filter

We sent “My dog Mo says hi, by the way.” It went through, and Bianca answered “Mo! Tell Mo I said hi back.” Some apps block the word “dog” outright, so this is the sensible result. The terms and community guidelines ban the usual categories. We kept to Flirty mode and didn’t test where Spicy mode draws its lines.

Images and video

VenusX makes images in two places, and both worked well.

In a chat, a button turns “this moment into an image”. There’s no prompt box. The picture is built from the conversation, so we described the scene in a message first. We asked for a red sweater at a cafe window and, in a second message, a green raincoat with an umbrella on a rainy street. Each image was ready in about 12 seconds, with loading lines like “Finding the light…” while it rendered. Both matched what we’d described, and both kept her face from the profile picture: pink hair in buns, brown eyes, the same anime style. The rainy-street image even worked in the boarded-up bookstore she’d just mentioned. In the cafe image she rested a hand on a closed book instead of reading it, the only detail either image missed.

Any image can be turned into a short video with “Bring to life”. Ours took 33 seconds to render and gave a 5-second clip without sound, in which she slides the book onto the windowsill. The motion was smooth and she stayed the same character throughout. An “Extend +5s” button adds more.

The character builder has a free-text “Scene prompt” with a 30,000-character limit. We typed “wearing a red sweater, reading a book in a cafe by the window, daytime” and got a photo-realistic image in 18 seconds that followed every part of it.

VenusX lists the costs as “Each image: 5 Stardust. Each video: 50 Stardust.” Our balance went from 1,000 to 994 over the whole session, with two chat images, a video, a builder image and one Stellar message, so not everything was charged at those rates. The account data suggests the first image and the first video were free, but we can’t confirm that.

Generated images and videos are saved to a public address on VenusX’s content server. The files opened without logging in, so anyone who gets the link can view them.

The character builder

Building your own character runs in four steps: Look, Story, Image and Review. Look covers ethnicity, skin tone, body type, bust size, hair and eye color. Story covers name, age (starting at 21), height and an opening scene, either one of VenusX’s starters or your own. Review lets you publish the character as Public, Unlisted or Private. Even in Flirty mode, the preview pictures on the Look step showed models in lingerie, and the starter scenes are tagged HOT, CHARGED or SLOW BURN. Expect an adult app from the first screen.

Voice

There’s no voice. We found no voice control anywhere in the chat, and VenusX doesn’t advertise voice on its visible pages. On our scale, an app without voice scores 0 for it, which is the main reason its overall score isn’t higher.

Pricing

From Sweden, prices were shown in US dollars. There are two plans with the same contents: unlimited text messages, all pets, and 1,000 Stardust added each month, which VenusX equates to “200 images” or “20 videos”.

• Monthly: $12.99 a month.
• Annual: $9.99 a month, billed as $119.88 a year.

The annual card carries a “SAVE 67%” badge and a crossed-out price of $29.99 a month. No plan we saw costs $29.99. Measured against the real monthly plan, a year on the annual plan saves about 23%, which is still worth having but a long way from 67%. The annual button is the filled, highlighted one.

Extra Stardust comes in packs: 200 for $1.99, 1,000 for $9.99, 5,000 for $44.99 and 10,000 for $79.99.

Buying Stardust from a subscribed account takes a single click. Choosing a pack showed “Buy 1000 Stardust for $9.99? Added to your balance — billed Nov 21” and a Confirm purchase button, with no card step. The small print says purchases are “billed on your monthly billing date”. That’s convenient, and it also makes it easy to run up a bill you’ll only notice weeks later.

The terms say “Subscriptions renew automatically at the disclosed interval until canceled,” that you cancel in Settings, and that cancelling takes effect at the end of the paid period. Refunds aren’t guaranteed. The support page says “Refund requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis” and asks you to email [email protected]. Charges show on your statement as “VX DIGITAL”, which doesn’t mention VenusX.

Content rules

VenusX is an adult app. Our account was in Flirty mode, but the welcome screen that keeps reappearing after login comes with “Spicy NSFW 18+” already selected, and many character descriptions are sexual premises from the start. The community guidelines rule out any character who is, looks like or is described as a minor, and they also ban sexual depictions of real people and content about recreational drug use. The builder’s age field is set to 21 by default. We didn’t test Spicy mode, so we can’t say how far it goes.

Privacy

VenusX does better here than many apps we cover, with some gaps. It names its operator and the law that applies. Its privacy policy says the AI services behind the replies “do not use prompts or responses to train their models” and operate under “zero-data-retention policies”, which is a stronger promise than most. VenusX itself may use “interactions, feedback, and de-identified or aggregated data” to improve the service. Deleted chats and media are “retained for up to 30 days” before they’re permanently removed, and Settings has a Delete account button.

The gaps are in tracking. We saw no cookie banner. Google Analytics and PostHog started once we clicked on the page, and the site turns analytics off for automated browsers. The page code also contains a PostHog session-recording setup for some pages and a small random share of visits. We didn’t see a recording sent during our session, and the privacy policy doesn’t mention recordings. Add the public links to generated images and videos, and the privacy score lands at 6 of 10.

Who should try it

• Roleplayers who want long, in-world replies and a story that remembers you across devices
• People who want images and short videos of the same character without fiddly prompts
• Anyone who wants to build and share their own character

Who should skip it

• Anyone who wants voice messages or calls
• Users who want quick, short back-and-forth texting
• People who’d rather confirm a card payment each time than buy with one click
• Anyone uneasy about analytics without a cookie banner

The verdict

VenusX gets the hard parts right. The chat writes long, in-character replies, the memory survived reloads and fresh logins, and the images and short videos looked like the same character every time and arrived quickly. Celestial Labs is named as the operator, and the privacy policy rules out training by its AI providers. The weak spots are a 7 to 14 second wait for full replies, no voice at all, a “SAVE 67%” badge measured against a price nobody pays, and one-click Stardust purchases billed later. On our scores it lands at 6.5, held back mostly by the missing voice. If you mainly want roleplay with pictures, it’s worth the $12.99 for a month.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is VenusX free?

You can send 5 messages as a guest, and creating an account gives you 50 free Stardust. VenusX says free access has limits and isn’t an unlimited free plan. Unlimited messages need a subscription from $12.99 a month.

How much does VenusX cost?

Monthly is $12.99. Annual is $9.99 a month, billed as $119.88 a year. Both include 1,000 Stardust a month. Extra Stardust costs $1.99 for 200, up to $79.99 for 10,000.

Does VenusX remember you?

In our test, yes. The conversation and the details we’d shared were still there after a reload and after logging in from a new browser. Memory is per character, and a character you haven’t talked to may make things up.

Does VenusX have voice or video calls?

No voice or calls. It can turn a generated image into a 5-second video clip without sound, and an Extend button adds more.

Who runs VenusX?

Celestial Labs Inc in New York, according to the support page. The terms are governed by Delaware law.

What shows on my bank statement?

“VX DIGITAL”, according to the pricing page.