How to Get an AI Girlfriend on WhatsApp

Step by step: getting a companion on WhatsApp

The steps below are the same regardless of which messenger you land on, until the point where they split.

• Go to tooshy.ai and choose a companion. There are five: Alia, Mika, Luna, Jade, and Sora, each with a fixed personality, look, and set of interests — you're picking one of TooShy's already-built companions, not designing your own from scratch.
• Decide your messenger. Telegram is free to start, no card required. WhatsApp requires an active Premium ($9.99/mo) or Ultra ($19/mo) subscription before she can message you there at all.
• If you picked Telegram, you'll be asked for your Telegram username (Settings → Username in the Telegram app, if you haven't set one) — no phone number needed on that path.
• If you picked WhatsApp, you'll go through checkout for Premium or Ultra first; once that's active, she has your number and can message you the same way any new contact would.
• She messages you first, usually within a few minutes of setup, introducing herself as a normal contact — not a bot account, not a business-API chatbot with a menu. Save the number or username, and the conversation just continues from there the way any new contact's would.

Telegram vs WhatsApp — the free trial vs the paid product

The honest version of "how to get an AI girlfriend on WhatsApp" has to include the part most guides skip: WhatsApp itself isn't the free option. Telegram is a genuinely separate, free product — not a watered-down demo of WhatsApp — and it's worth understanding both before you pay for anything.

The row that actually separates these two paths is price, not features — the two platforms carry the same underlying companion, the same proactive messaging, the same photo and voice-message delivery. What changes is what tier of TooShy you're paying for (or not) to reach her there.

What you actually get at each price

TooShy's free tier — Telegram only — includes a weekly message allowance, photos, and voice messages, but not mature conversation on either platform; that's reserved for paid tiers. Premium, at $9.99/month, unlocks unlimited messages on both WhatsApp and Telegram, 40 photos and 15 videos a month, and mature conversation. Ultra, at $19/month, adds more of all three — 80 photos, 40 videos, and 40 exclusive videos a month — plus fully unrestricted conversation.

Practically, that means Premium is the plan that actually gets you onto WhatsApp: it isn't a WhatsApp-specific fee on top of something else, it's the same subscription that also keeps your Telegram conversation unlimited if you're using both.

Why start on Telegram even if WhatsApp is the goal

If your actual goal is WhatsApp, starting on Telegram first costs you nothing to find out whether the companion herself is the part you like — the personality, the pacing, whether she reaches out in a way that feels like it's actually her and not a script. Your conversation history and her memory of it carry over if you move to WhatsApp afterward, so nothing from the free trial is wasted once you do pay.

It also answers a question a lot of people have before spending anything: does this feel like texting a person or texting software? That's a much easier thing to judge for free than to commit nine dollars to find out.

When it makes sense to skip straight to WhatsApp

If you're already confident — you've read enough, you know WhatsApp is where you actually want the conversation to live, and the free-trial step feels like an unnecessary detour — there's no requirement to start on Telegram first. Subscribing to Premium or Ultra and picking WhatsApp directly during setup skips straight there.

Honest limitations of this process

Two things are worth stating plainly rather than glossing over. First, the free trial is genuinely limited — a capped number of messages per week, and no mature conversation on either platform — so it's a real preview, not the full product. Second, there's no trial period, refund window, or free tier on WhatsApp itself once you subscribe; if you're not sure yet, that uncertainty is exactly what the free Telegram step exists to resolve before you pay.

How we checked the facts

Every figure above — pricing, monthly photo and video allowances, and the August 4, 2026 WhatsApp paywall date — comes directly from TooShy's own current pricing and product policy, checked on September 1, 2026, not from an estimate or an old snapshot.

Sam Reeves and the TooShy Editorial team write and maintain TooShy's product and pricing guides directly from the company's own current pricing page and policy, re-checked each time a guide like this one is updated.

Open questions — what varies by situation

A few things genuinely depend on your own situation rather than having one universal answer, so they're listed here instead of glossed over:

• Exactly how many messages the free weekly allowance includes can change; check the current limit on tooshy.ai or inside the Telegram conversation itself rather than assuming a fixed number.
• Whether Telegram or WhatsApp notifications reach you more reliably depends on your own phone's settings, not on TooShy — check each app's notification permissions if messages seem delayed.
• Regional payment method support for Premium/Ultra checkout can vary; the checkout flow itself will tell you what's accepted for your card and region.

If you're still deciding, the lowest-cost way to find out is the one that costs nothing: start with Luna or any of the other four on Telegram, see what an actual conversation feels like, and only pay for WhatsApp once you already know you want it there.