#alternativeai

A nice alternative to the big players like OpenAI, Gemini, Copilot, and so on…

Lumo is Proton’s AI companion, launched in July 2025. It delivers fast, privacy‑first assistance on iOS, Android, and the web, with end‑to‑end encryption, a free tier, and a premium “Lumo Plus” option for unlimited use and web search. Built on specialized models, Lumo offers thoughtful, balanced answers without the data‑harvesting of larger AI services.

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Let me be straight about my bias going in: I find most AI girlfriend photos slightly off-putting. There's usually a tell, the waxy skin, the too-perfect symmetry, the sense that no real camera was ever involved. That expectation is exactly why my time on sweetdream.ai stuck with me. The images cleared the uncanny-valley bar that trips up most of the field, and they did it repeatedly, not just once.

The strongest mark in this review is reliability. I generated photo after photo and the character stayed herself, same features, same personality showing through the expression, same look I'd carefully built during creation. Plenty of platforms can fake one good shot; staying convincing across a whole set is the real test, and SweetDream passed it more often than not.