# Notes from the heyaifriend team

Canonical: https://heyaifriend.com/blog/

Last updated: 2026-10-17

heyaifriend is a free AI friend you talk to in Telegram. It remembers you, runs on our own servers in the Netherlands, and your chats are never sent to other AI companies or used for training. Here we write about AI friends and privacy, and we date every fact.

Last updated 17 October 2026. We make heyaifriend, so we are not neutral. We say where others do better.

## Posts

[2026-10-17Which AI companion apps keep your chats?A privacy table of 10 apps: training, sharing, retention, deletion, human review and encryption, with quotes and dates.](https://heyaifriend.com/blog/ai-companion-privacy-comparison/)

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