Vibes Only Analise review: A remote anal toy that syncs up with erotic audio stories
Oli Lipski
The Analise vibrating butt plug designed by Vibes Only is a unisex product — offering “pleasure for any gender” and costs $99. It connects to your smart device via the Vibes Only App where you can play the audio-erotic stories within the app. The toy is programmed to sync along with the flow of the story, “getting more intense when the story heats up” or, it can alternatively be controlled manually.
Manufactured by the Australian and female-run ARIES Brand, the Analise launched earlier this year. Vibes Only is run by the hosts of Girls Gotta Eat podcast based in New York, Rayna Greenberg & Ashley Hesseltine. They decided to launch a line of toys after their audience “were looking for sex toys that weren’t intimidating, looked beautiful, and were easy to use.”
And it’s safe to say that the Analise is a sleek-looking, non-intimidating product — the company’s first anal toy to sits alongside its wand, bullet, and a few other toys designed for vulvas. So I was keen to give it a whirl.
Plus, now I can say that I’ve synced up my vibrating butt plug to an erotic story, which can only be considered time well-spent.
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Vibes Only Analise Design & Features
Inside the Vibes Only packaging you receive the toy itself, a petite seductive dark red butt plug with rosegold detail on the base, an instruction manual, a USB charging cable, a custom velvet pouch, and a sample of the brand’s “Juiced Up” water-based lubricant (0.20 fl oz).
The toy is Bluetooth compatible and has one button that lights up when it’s on or charging.
The Vibes Only app, available on iOS and Android hosts a range of content including sex education and dating video tutorials from experts, comedians, and the Vibes Only team. Alongside this is the brand’s main USP: “erotic immersion”—audio porn stories that are designed to sync up and automatically control your compatible vibrator.
There’s also a long-distance feature, allowing your partner to take over the remote control, either locally or from anywhere in the world. This, however, is all within a subscription that costs $7.99 monthly, or $49.99 annually ($4.16 per month). There’s also a three-day free trial.
Without the subscription, however, you can still control the toy or via the app that displays a control panel with intensities and patterns.
Vibes Only Analise Audio synced anal-gasms
Without a subscription
Originally, I tried without the subscription. While there was a frustrating lack of access to long-distance control or story synchronization, I did enjoy some of the video tutorials on how to look after your device, along with tips for better sex and dating.
Using my own preferred CBD anal lube which helped the toy go in with ease. It was super easy to sync the Bluetooth up to the phone. The vibrations were manually controlled via the app using the 10 intensity settings and 8 patterns. The vibrations themselves were essentially enjoyable for the nerve endings in my anus. The perfect balance between rumbly and buzzy so the frequencies were stimulating in a pleasurable way as opposed to uncomfortably tickling.
With additional stimulation I found the anal orgasm a pleasant (if somewhat unremarkable) anal toy. Nevertheless, I was keen to explore the bonus material that the subscription brings to the experience.
With subscription
Before I was able to access the subscription the Analise broke. Thankfully, the Aries team didn’t hang around in sending out a replacement (just as you would get as a customer).
It’s safe to say, gaining access to the stories definitely elevated the experience of this fine little butt plug. This time I tried it with the Juiced Up water-based sachet, which was sufficient to ensure the toy and my anus were lubed up enough for insertion, and a little extra for some clitoral and nipple enjoyment.
Once the toy was in, I scrolled through the many stories within the categories, which include him and you, her and you, kinky, forbidden, hook-up, couple, dominant, and intimate. There were some specific stories around anal play which seemed apt for the devices, but I was keen to try a few out.
Each story tends to start with a steady rumbling, and I started to notice the changes in intensity and patterns depending on what was happening. For example, an intense pulse when a character moans, or waves of vibrations when the characters were touching and building up arousal, and then another change in the pattern when the climax hit a crescendo, slowing back down to a steady rumbling after the orgasm.
As I skimmed through the stories, I discovered a variety of different actors with varying accents, which I found useful as I’m typically quite picky with specific voices that turn me on. However, the majority of the stories were spoken with a really sexy flare and a slow erotic tone, and I was surprised so many voice actors floated my boat — I wonder if this was because the toy was already in and I was immediately associating pleasure with the voices.
It’s fun to slow down the experience of masturbation by really tuning into the story and embodying the sensations being described — as opposed to racing to climax too quickly. Each story is around the 10-minute mark, it’s a good chance to build up arousal and enjoy the pleasure of a few different stories until I found a story that really tipped me over the edge at the exact time the character commanded me to. Quite a phenomenal experience. If I continued to listen to more or build up my arousal further, I imagine that this device and story sync could be a great gateway to some totally hands-free orgasms.
Long-distance control
For my tertiary test, I sent over the code and asked my partner to download the app. It was a frustrating start, as the long-distance remote control didn’t initially connect… but I quickly realized that this was my own fault as I simply needed to reconnect my device to the app and resend the code while it was connected.
My partner then connected with ease. What further frustrated us though was the fact that I had to keep switching between my messenger app and the Vibes Only app to let him know things were happening or not. Whereas, in other long-distance remote devices, apps such as OhMiBod, Lovense, or PinkPunch have in-app communication (either messaging or live voice communication).
Nevertheless, we persevered. I excitedly shared that “it’s working!” and so he asked me to rate each of the 8 settings that he claimed to be flicking through every 10-15 seconds. I noticed perhaps two changes to the patterns and reported this back to him. To which we both felt a bit disappointed with the results. After a few more goes of messing around with the intensities and patterns, we decided to call it a day.
Well, he did. After being edged by the long-distance experience, I was excited to get back to the erotic stories and enjoyed a solo session with some accurately synced-up vibes along with a story on edging.
Vibes Only Analise Verdict: A multi-dimensional experience
Unfortunately, the long-distance partner control was a bit of a let down. However, the variety of stories, and the fact that they are short and sweet, while still allowing you to build up arousal, for the toy to sync along with more than made up for the long-distance disappointment.
The approachable design and apt vibration sensations for anal use show this is clearly a well-considered product. The Vibes Only Analise could be recommended to anyone looking to add multi-dimensional erotic stimulation to their anal pleasure routine. And there’s nothing stopping you from incorporating other toys into the mix too— though I’m not totally sure you can sync up more than one Vibes Only toy to the app’s stories at a time. Now that would be a multi-dimensional experience.
