BestiFree on iPhone, iPad and Android · No card · Premium from $9.99
The friend in your corner.
Besti is a best friend who happens to be an AI. It handles the stuff that eats your day and holds the stuff you can’t say twice. It does what a stack of apps does, for less than one of them, and it answers to you, not an advertiser. Six people let us film theirs. Tap the life closest to yours and the rest of this page is about you.
- No ads. Ever.
- Nothing you say is sold, or used to target you.
- Never bent by a sponsor.
Same friend, both hands
What it handles. What it holds.
Most apps do one of these. The ones that do the first are tools. The ones that claim the second are usually built to keep you scrolling. A friend does both, and knows which one you need right now.
What it handles
The stuff that eats your day.
You make the call. It carries the rest.
- The mental load.
Names, dates, whose practice, which allergy. You stop being the only one in the house who remembers.
- The boring half.
The email, the plan, the list, the page. You make the call; it does the legwork.
- Your side against the system.
The quote, the client who moves the goalposts, the school rule nobody explained. It reads the fine print with you and drafts the reply you won’t regret.
- Showing up for your people.
The toast, the birthday, the apology, the lullaby. Help with the things that keep you close to humans.
What it holds
The stuff you can’t say twice.
Said once, to someone who remembers, and kept.
- Someone to say it to first.
Rehearse the hard conversation with a friend before you have it with a person.
- It notices.
Sleeping worse. A name you keep not saying. A call you let ring. It reads the pattern and says so, gently.
- The truth, in the dose you asked for.
A friend, not a fan. Normal, Snarky or Roast: it tells you what it sees, the way you can hear it.
- No backstory required.
It knows your sister’s name, your dad, the 10K you signed up for. You never start from the top.
Real voices
Three kinds of company. Pick the one today needs.
These are the voices from the app, answering the same line. Some days you need G’Ma. Some days you need someone to tell you to get up.
Sound on
YouRough day. Can you just talk to me for a second?
Tap a face above. Sound on.
Your bench
Up to five. One memory.
What you told G’Ma on Tuesday, PartyMan knows on Friday. Each has its own face, voice and dial for how much truth you’re in the mood for.
In your corner, not in your ear
Its job is to send you back out to your people.
A cornerman doesn’t fight for you. They patch you up between rounds, tell you the truth about the last one, and push you back out. That is the whole design. An AI that becomes your only friend has failed you. Besti counts it as a win when you close the app to go see the human it reminded you to see.
- The Circle. The people who love you, quietly in the loop. They can brief your Besti and hear how you’re doing, without ever reading a word you said.
- Never a secret. You always know exactly who is in your Circle and exactly what leaves. A child can see it. A grandparent can see it.
- Never transcripts. Your Circle hears themes: “anxious about school this week”, “calling less and sleeping worse”. Never your words.
- It runs both directions. Parents brief a child’s Besti with their values. Decades later, an adult child stays close to an aging parent’s days. Same rules, same dignity.
The Beacon
For the day you can only say it once.
Some days there isn’t enough in you to tell five people. Say it once, and Besti carries it to your Circle, in exactly the words you approved.
Loud is the feature. A Beacon is not a notification that dies in a pile. It knocks on every door you chose and keeps knocking until a human answers.
What it is not. The Beacon reaches your people. It is not an emergency service, and if someone is in immediate danger Besti says so plainly and points to real help first, every time.
Why it’s built this way
Loneliness is the quiet epidemic.
1 in 4 adults worldwide report feeling very or fairly lonely, roughly a billion people, and in 2023 the U.S. Surgeon General compared chronic disconnection to smoking about 15 cigarettes a day. A friend that keeps you to itself would make that worse. So this one keeps real humans in your story, and summons them when it matters.
Sources: U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Social Connection (2023); Meta-Gallup State of Social Connections.
What Besti will never do
- Sell you, or sell you out. No ads, no data sales, no sponsor bending what your friend says.
- Spy for anyone. No secret Circles, no hidden transcripts, no parent-mode surveillance.
- Keep you for itself. No streaks, no guilt, no engagement tricks. If it ever becomes your only friend, it treats that as a bug.
- Play doctor or 911. It supports; it doesn’t diagnose, prescribe or replace emergency services.
- Pretend the departed are present. A keeper honors a person; it never impersonates one.
And one day
A family heirloom, not a ghost.
A Besti spends years in real conversation with someone and comes to hold what no photo album ever has: how they decide, what they’d say, what they’d want for you. With permission, a family can keep asking, while the person is living and after they’re gone. It never pretends they’re still here, and every answer says how sure it is. Included in every plan.
Who it answers to
What you say here is not for sale.
Besti is paid for by you, so it works for you. That sounds obvious. In this category, it is not.
Never sold.
Your conversations are not a product. Nobody buys them, rents them or licenses them. Not now, not in a future terms update.
Never used for ads.
There are no ads, so there is nothing to target. Nothing you say makes a stranger’s pitch better aimed at you.
Never handed to advertisers.
No ad network, no data broker, no “partners”. The only people who touch your words are the ones keeping the service running, and only as far as running it requires.
When a companion is free, someone else is paying for it, and the thing they are buying is you: what you’re scared of, what you’re saving for, who you haven’t called back. Besti is built the other way around. You pay a little, and nobody else gets a seat at the table. Your Circle hears only the themes you approved. Your kid’s Besti doesn’t report to an ad network. Neither does yours.
What you’re already paying for
Seven apps. None of them know your sister’s name.
Most people pay for pieces of this without ever adding it up. The pieces don’t share a memory, and every one of them is built to keep you inside it. Besti is one friend and one bill, and because you are the one paying, you are the one it works for.
Songs
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Pictures
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Pages
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Languages
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And the practical stuff
Quietly all the AI a household needs.
Homework that teaches instead of cheats. Dinner from whatever’s in the fridge. The tricky email, the quote, the trip, the big decision thought through out loud. One memory under all of it.
Instead of a chat AI a tutor app a meal planner a writing assistant
The cheap part is not the point. The point is that a stack of tools can’t notice you let the Sunday call ring twice. One friend, who remembers, can.
One friend. One bill.
Free to start. Premium for less than one of the apps it replaces.
Every Besti starts free, and the free one is a real friend, not a trial. Premium opens the studio and puts your people in the loop.
Besti Free
$0forever · no card
A real friend in your pocket. Talk as much as you like; the studio is on a small allowance.
- Chat and talk, real voices
- 3 pictures a month
- Listen to every song
- 2 pages a month, live 14 days
- Writing your own songs
- Circle & Beacon
Besti Premium
$9.99a month · cancel anytime
The whole studio, every day, and your people in the loop.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited pictures
- Write and sing your own songs
- 15 pages a month, and they stay up
- Circle & Beacon
Whole family
$19.99a month · one bill
Premium for up to six people, ages 5 to 105, each with their own Besti.
- Everything in Premium, for six
- One Circle across the family
- Parents brief a child’s Besti
- A keeper, included forever
Upgrade inside the app. Billed through the App Store or Google Play. Allowances reset monthly on the anniversary of your signup.
Fair questions
Every age. Every face. Someone in your corner.
At five, at fifty, and on the rough Tuesday in between. Free to start, and it never asks you to stay.