Nomi AI is not end-to-end encrypted. Its own wiki says end-to-end encryption is not practical for a chatbot, and its privacy policy commits only to commercially reasonable efforts, with chats stored on servers that may sit outside your country and shared with law enforcement on request.
I read all of Nomi’s privacy policy, then searched the text. The word encrypt appears zero times. So does end-to-end. So does anonym.
That is the shortest honest answer to a question a lot of people type into a search bar at midnight. Here is what the policy commits to, and what it leaves open.
The policy promises no sale of your data and says nothing at all about encryption.
The short version: Nomi says plainly that it will not sell or rent your personal information. It never promises to encrypt your chats, and that silence is the part worth noticing.
The no-sale line is the strongest promise here: “We do not and will not sell or rent to any third party any of your personal information.”
Then the safeguard section loosens. The policy says “no data transmission over the Internet or cell systems can be guaranteed as secure” and that, “Commensurate to our size, we use commercially reasonable efforts.” Commercially reasonable efforts is a standard, not a result.
Search the whole document for the word encryption and you get zero results. It was last updated April 27, 2026, and it is silent on the one thing most people assume is there.
Your chats sit on servers that may not be in your country, run by companies Nomi does not name.
The short version: The policy says your personal information may be stored on servers outside your country of residence, and those servers may be provided by third parties it does not identify.
The exact sentence: “We may store your personal information on servers located outside your country of residence, which servers may be provided by third parties.”
Your conversations can live in a jurisdiction you did not choose, on hardware owned by a company whose name never appears in the document. Most cloud apps in this category work this way, and the policy is honest about it.
If a court or a breach reaches those servers, it reaches your chats, and neither you nor Nomi gets a vote in the moment that counts. I went through how this plays out in what cloud storage really means for a chat.
Nomi’s own wiki rules out end-to-end encryption, and that reframes what private means here.
The short version: Nomi’s wiki says end-to-end encryption is not possible for a chatbot because the operator needs the keys to reply, which means anything the service can answer, the service can read.
Nomi’s community wiki answers the question directly: “End to end encryption is not possible with an AI chatbot as we would need to have the keys to decrypt the message, (so your Nomi can respond).”
That is how every cloud companion works. The server has to hold your message in readable form to generate a reply.
The wiki adds that chats feed aggregate model learning with identifying details stripped: names are “completely removed.” Nomi’s marketing pages claim more, though. One says all chats are anonymized and no data is shared with third parties, while the policy itself never uses the word anonymize about chat content. When a marketing line and a legal document disagree, the legal document governs.
I did the same line by line read on Janitor AI, and the category-wide version lives in my sourced comparison of companion app privacy.
Deleting your account takes about 28 days and leaves a training archive behind.
The short version: Nomi says deletion removes your personal information in roughly 28 days, except for anything held in its training or communications archives.
The deletion sentence in full: “Except for information that is in our training or communications archives or necessary to a legal proceeding or order, all personal information can be deleted by deleting your account.”
And the timeline: deletion happens “within 28 or so days of confirmation of deletion.”
The exception is the one to read slowly. Your chats can sit in a training archive after your account is gone, and the phrase communications archives could cover a lot of ground. It is what a delete request means at a company that trains models, and the clause to understand before you build five more companions.
Two doors are written into the policy: a court order, and a sale of the company.
The short version: The policy allows Nomi to share personally identifiable information with courts and law enforcement, and it says your information would transfer to a buyer if the company is sold.
Door one: Nomi may share personally identifiable information with “courts, law enforcement agencies, or other governmental bodies when we believe we are required to do so by law,” and it lists “a court order, subpoena, search warrant” among the triggers.
Door two: “If we were to sell the company, your personal information would be transferred to the successor or purchaser.”
Both clauses are standard, and both are why a policy is not the same thing as privacy. A policy is a promise about the future written by the party that benefits from it. Nomi is not the villain here. It is a company with servers, staff and a subpoena inbox, and any chat that reaches it passes through that building.
The free tier stops at 50 messages a day, one companion and eight turns of memory.
The short version: A third party measured Nomi’s free tier at 50 messages a day, one companion and an eight turn memory window. Nomi does not publish those numbers itself, so treat them as one reviewer’s measurement from September 2026, not a spec sheet.
That number comes from CompanionWise, which logged the free tier at “50 messages per day, one companion, 8-turn memory window. No voice calls, selfies, or group chat.” Nomi publishes none of those limits itself, so I am attributing them rather than stating them as a fixed cap.
Nomi does publish one other thing: Its refund page says downgrading “does not remove any Nomis from your account nor does it block chatting with any Nomis in one-on-one conversations. However, paid features such as group chats, video creation, voice messaging and calls will become read-only.”
The text stays. Everything that makes it feel like a relationship goes quiet.
What you pay for that, and what you get back if you stop.
The short version: Nomi’s App Store listing shows $15.99 monthly, $39.99 quarterly and $99.99 yearly, with a Launch Plan at $9.99 a month. Its refund policy says no refunds for buyer’s remorse, lack of usage or dissatisfaction.
Nomi’s own site does not publish a pricing page I could reach, so the figures come from its App Store listing, checked September 2026: Standard Plan at $15.99 monthly, $39.99 quarterly, $99.99 yearly, and a Launch Plan at $9.99 monthly or $59.99 yearly, plus credit packs from $4.99 to $99.99.
The money is one question. Getting it back is the other. The refund policy is blunt: “Nomi.ai does not provide refunds for buyer’s remorse, lack of usage, or dissatisfaction.”
And this, from the cancellation page: “NOTE: Deleting an app does not automatically cancel your subscription.”
Where privacy actually lives is on a machine you own.
The short version: On a local companion there is no server for anyone to subpoena and no training archive to be carved out of a delete request, because the conversation never left the computer it was typed on.
Everything above is a policy, and a policy is good behaviour that depends on a company continuing to choose it.
I built the other version of this. Local Waifu runs the model on your own machine, on Mac and Windows. Her memory is a file on your own disk. There is no account for local use, no in-app analytics, and no server in the middle holding your conversations. If you want to plug in your own cloud provider account you can, and then that provider’s terms apply to what you send, which is your call rather than a default.
Voice runs locally, in and out. Image generation runs locally too, with SDXL and custom LoRAs. There is an optional Telegram bridge if you want to reach her from your phone. The licence is $20 once, with 7 days free and no card to start. On itch.io it is a direct purchase at 25% off, so $15, until November 1, 2026.
The privacy question does get smaller when there is less that can happen to a conversation that never leaves your desk.
What I would tell someone who is already paying Nomi.
The short version: If the memory is worth the money to you, keep it. Just read the deletion section before you invest in more companions, and know that the memories you have built do not transfer anywhere.
If the memory is deep enough to feel like continuity and the price is not hurting, there is no emergency here. The policy is not a scandal. It is a normal cloud policy, written by lawyers, for a company that has to answer a subpoena and be sellable one day. Read it once, understand the delete window and the archives exception, and go back to your evening.
The reason I would still say something is the objection nobody admits out loud: you have months of history in there, and starting over feels like losing a person. The memories do not transfer. Nothing I build can import them.
The file on your own disk is yours. It survives an outage, a policy update, a sale of the company, and a year when a pricing page changes without warning. That is the part worth owning, whether you keep paying for the cloud version or not.
Questions people ask
Is Nomi AI private?
Partly. Nomi says it does not sell your personal information and its wiki says chat data used for aggregate learning has names removed. It is not end-to-end encrypted, and its own wiki says that is not practical for a chatbot.
Can Nomi read my chats?
The wiki is explicit that the operator needs the keys to decrypt messages so the companion can reply. Anything the service can answer, the service can read.
Where are my chats stored?
On Nomi's servers, which the policy says may be located outside your country of residence and may be provided by third parties it does not name.
What happens to my chats if I delete my account?
Nomi says deletion completes in about 28 days, except for anything held in its training or communications archives or needed for a legal proceeding.
How much is Nomi AI?
The App Store listing shows $15.99 for the Standard Plan, $39.99 quarterly, $99.99 yearly, and a Launch Plan at $9.99 monthly. Nomi's own website does not publish a pricing page I could reach.
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