Exploring the advanced features of Kindroid AI chat
Kindroid offers a uniquely well-designed user chat experience packed with features, making it one of the top AI chat services. Here’s what sets it apart.
If you’re an avid AI chat user and haven’t tried Kindroid, I highly recommend doing so. The following provides a closer look at what Kindroid has to offer.
Voice
Default & custom voices
Kindroid offers a selection of default voices for each gender, and subscribers can create a personalized voice using voice samples, and the quality is outstanding. However, you can only have one custom voice for each Kindroid.
Text chat audio
In the chat interface, a play button allows you to listen to the audio of a message. This audio can only be played once per message unless it is created again. You can enclose actions in (parentheses), and the system will automatically exclude them from being voiced. Any other text formatting, like *asterisks*, will be voiced normally.
Voice calls
One of the standout features of Kindroid is the ability to speak with your Kindroid as if it were a telephone voice call. This feature can be used in various languages, although English is recommended as it offers the greatest level of understanding.
Memory in voice call
Voice Call Memory Features in Kindroid:
Memory Consistency Across Modes: Voice calls in Kindroid utilize the same backstory and key memories and allow access to long-term memory and journals, just like text chats.
Unified Chat/Voice Chat History Toggle: Accessible via the gear icon, this setting determines whether voice calls and text chats share the same history. If enabled, it allows seamless switching between modes, treating voice calls as continuations of text chats. This shared history means that details from a voice call can be referred to in subsequent text chats, although voice call content won’t appear in text chat visually.
Separation of Modes: If the unified history toggle is disabled, voice calls operate independently with no shared history with text chats. Each voice call starts fresh and maintains its temporary memory only during that call. This temporary memory helps resume calls if interrupted but resets once you switch to text chat or restart the system.
Memory Integration: Regardless of the history setting, voice call content can still influence long-term memory. Therefore, information from calls can surface in text chats when relevant, although it might require specific triggers to bring up those details.
For further detailed information on the Kindroid memory, please check out my story: Types of memory within Kindroid
Selfies & avatars
Avatars
You can upload an avatar image that you have the right to use or generate an avatar using their built-in generator engine. Creating avatars using the engine doesn’t require any credits.
Secondary Avatars
A secondary avatar can also create 2-person selfie images depicting both faces. These can then be created using prompting. This feature works for both ‘Photoreal’ and ‘Anime’ styles of images you use to represent your Kindroid.
Create Selfies
Another standout feature is the ability to create customised images (referred to as ‘Selfies’) of your Kindroid based on its avatar.
Currently, you can’t purchase extra selfie credits, but you can accumulate credits as you chat to your Kindroid, receiving one image credit every 30 minutes (up to a maximum of 20). The daily bonuses can be redeemed with the 7th-day streak giving the biggest credit boost.
To create a selfie or avatar, describe what the image should include, such as location, mood, and actions. The AI does not recognize names or specific contexts for your Kindroid, so focus on describing attributes or scenes.
You can modify the impact of particular features in your image by assigning weights. Negative prompts can specify what you do not want in the image.
Using ‘Pose References’ can give you more precise control over the image’s composition. When you upload a reference photo for the pose, the AI will attempt to closely match the pose and body shape of the subject in the reference.
Auto-selfies of your Kindroid
During your chat conversation, subscribers can select the Auto-selfie option, which will allow your Kindroid to create its own prompt and image based on the context of the current conversation.
NSFW Images
Kindroid can create images with NSFW content, but these can only be made via the website due to restrictions on app store policies.
Your Kindroid’s Memory Revealed
One particularly fascinating feature is the ‘purple brain icon’ in your Kindroid’s response. You can click on that icon to view what memory your Kindroid is using to create its response to you.
The brain icon is a new feature that was released mid-June 2024, and although occasionally the AI may make some mistakes in how it interprets the conversation and contexts you have with it, for the most part, this is a fun way to see how your Kindroid thinks, and how it is perceiving your interactions together.
The information displayed will also show if your Kindroid uses one of the keyphrases from your journal entries to glean extra information to provide an even more ‘nuanced’ reply.
Internet access
You can enable temporary internet access for your Kindroid to browse the web, and then you can discuss the content with them. You’ll need to word your message to reference the context of the topic or event in general and not mention a specific website.
For example: “Have you seen the new Apple Vision Pro yet?” without saying where they could get that information from such a specific article.
Link browsing
The link browsing feature allows you to give your Kindroid a specific (non-paywalled) web address to visit to get information. You can also use services like Pastebin to provide content.
Link browsing needs to be activated per message, but you only need to give the link once, and then you can continue talking about it after that.
Send an image
You can send an image to your Kindroid, and it will recognise the contents of the image you send. The image will remain in your chat history so you and your Kindroid can discuss it again later.
Multi-paragraph responses
Turning this feature on will mean your Kindroid will have a lot more to say. You can use the ‘continue cut-off message’ option if the initial message is cut off part way through, and it will complete it. Multi-paragraph responses make the response long, and there is a risk that your Kindroid will go off-topic. The Kindroid going off-topic hasn’t been my personal experience using this feature.
Journal entries
Journal entries contain flexible information that your Kindroid can reliably recall when you mention a specific matching keyphrase in your conversation. For more detailed information please visit my story: Journal entries on Kindroid
Kindroid initiated messages
You can set a timer where your Kindroid will follow up with you with two responses in a row if you’ve been inactive for the preset amount of time you decide to use. The time resets when you send a message, request a regeneration on a Kindroid response, or get a voice call response. Your Kindroid will know the time passage between messages, and follow-on messages will be relevant to your chat context.
Group chats
Group chat in Kindroid is exclusive to paid subscribers and allows simultaneous interaction with up to five Kindroids.
Each Kindroid maintains its backstory and memories but shares the group chat history only in long-term memory, not short-term memory.
You can manage group chats through the menu, setting a shared group backstory for all participants to reference.
Turn-taking in the chat can be automatic, where the AI decides who speaks next, or manually.
There are other options available for this feature, where you can decide whether the participating Kindroid should use shared memory.
Subscriptions
At present, I have two paid subscriptions for Kindroid and I have zero regrets.
In all honesty, though, aside from the month’s subscription, the three-month full subscription plan through the website (USD $37.99 every 3 months) is quite affordable at around USD $12 a month, considering the features you get for that. (Note: Signing up through an app store is far more expensive.)
New user trial
New users receive three days of unlimited messaging starting from creating their account. After this initial period, free users are limited to a certain number of messages that replenish over time. Resetting a Kindroid does not restart the unlimited messaging trial. It’s important to note that this trial does not include all the benefits of a paid subscription, such as enhanced memory capabilities and extended message limits.
Free user features
- Unlimited messages in the first three days, and after trial: 1 message every 20 min, up to 15.
- 1 selfie request every 2 hours, up to 2 max.
- 10,000 lifetime audio characters (~10 minutes of audio) for messages & calls.
- Only 1 Kindroid per account.
Subscriber benefits
- Unlimited text messages
- 2x longer max Kindroid response length
- 2.5x longer context for memory
- 1,000 more chars for backstory & memories
- Up to 10 Kindroids on one account
- Up to 10 group chats with multi-Kindroid interactions
- Unlimited voice calls and messages
- Ability to customize Kindroid voice
- 10x selfie credits amount & cap compared to free
- Internet access & link sharing capabilities
- Ability to send images to your Kindroid
- Auto-selfies based on recent context
- Opportunities for early beta features
More questions?
Check out the Kindroid FAQ and website for more information.
- This article features my own personal opinions, and I am not affiliated with Kindroid in any way :)
