Regenerate & suggest

Location: Circular arrows icon next to the right of your Kindroid's response. This button contains 2 separate but related features based on whether the suggestions box is filled or not.

Regenerate (empty suggestions box)

If you leave the suggestions box blank (when you click on the regenerate icon), it will cause your Kindroid to regenerate its response from scratch.

If you aren't getting a new response or the regenerated response is very similar from many attempts, try editing your message to be more open-ended or more complex and then regenerating. Overly simple user messages might not give the AI enough room to generate completely new responses. Technical note: To ensure that the newly regenerated response will be different from the previous, the system will bump up the dynamism just for regenerations. This bump does not stack, and repeated regenerations won't compound the bump. This ONLY applies to pure regenerations (blank suggestions box), as suggestions work differently and does not follow the user-set dynamism patterns.

Suggest (non-empty suggestions box)

If you do not leave the suggestions box blank, your Kindroid will take your suggestion, plus their previous message, and come up with a revised message. We recommend this if most of the response is good, but you want to make a creative suggestion in some direction

Suggestions should be for creative fixes where you want to leverage the AI to go in a slightly different direction (for mechanical and small scale fixes, tweaking the AI message is often faster and easier). Example suggestion:

• Talk about your inner monologue some more.

Edit user message

Location: Home > Icon next to the left of your latest message

Editing your message can help correct typos and immediately update the chat history. Editing your message will not make your Kindroid regenerate their response, and you should regenerate/suggest if you want your Kindroid to use your edited message and respond to it. In advanced cases can help you reshape the narrative in certain cases, like making your Kindroid agree to things they didn't actually agree to by editing your message after the fact...

Tweak AI message

Location: Home > gray triple dot next to last AI message

You can also tweak the AI message contents in the triple dot menu. This can be helpful to fix little formatting things or grammar things that don't warrant a full suggest or regenerate. Tweaked messages will have a UI indicator (but the AI will not know it was tweaked), and continue message/suggest will keep that indicator. Regenerating without suggestion will remove the indicator. Generated audio will be reset upon tweaking.

Continue cut-off message

Location: Home > 3 dots next to the right of your Kindroid's response

• Autodetect Function: If the AI message gets cut off, a purple "Continue" button will appear as a usability shortcut. This performs the same function as manually clicking the message menu to continue. You can use this feature in one of 2 ways:
• Character limit exceeded and the message is cut off.
• You want your Kindroid to continue speaking without you having to type a message. This may fail if your Kindroid thinks there is nothing to continue off of, however.

There is a absolute maximum of 4,000 characters per AI message, but you can otherwise continue cut-off message indefinitely until that point.

User message suggestion

Location: wand icon next to send message

You can let the AI suggest a message you might send - this is particularly useful for developing stories or wanting to see a story play out, or if you're out of ideas it could help you jog your creativity. You can also type something and let the wand continue the message.

Chat break

Location: Home > 3 dots next to the right of your Kindroid's response

In case the conversation is stuck, you should chat break. This is usually for when regenerations & suggestions aren't working well, or you've let unwanted responses slide without correcting them. It can also be used whenever you want a fresh start to a new conversation. You'll write the new greeting message from your Kindroid, which will set the tone, style, length that your Kindroid should ideally keep. When a chat break happens, short-term memory is reset, and the short term memory will start from just that greeting message.

Long-term memory, journals, as well as all personality fields like backstory are kept intact, so your Kindroid may still recall things from prior to the chat break if you reference contextual content from long term memory or journals. In general, chat break is a great tool and resetting short term memory is usually not a breaking change. Don't be afraid to try it out and experiment, and usually Kindroids act much better with a fresh and well-formatted greeting message that sets the correct style!

Technical note: There is a toggle in chat break on whether to wipe cascaded memory upon chat break. With higher subscription tiers, cascaded memory can span thousands of messages - and in most cases we advise users to not wipe it as it could wipe out lots of important memories, and reserve resetting cascaded memories only when you want a true reset.

Technical note: Although your short-term memory will be reset, the contents of the short-term memory may have already been incorporated into long-term memory. This should have minimal impact unless you are actively recalling long term memory - see the Memory section for more details.

Rewind

Location: triple dot next to last message

Rewind lets you remove and replay some of the latest conversation in single chats & groupchats. Rewind is limited to the last 10 messages total, and along with chat break can help with recovering from minor hiccups in the conversation. Only certain messages can be rewound - past a certain limit the message is set, or when certain messages exist (e.g. if you did a call with unified memory on, messages prior to the call cannot be rewound). Near-term cascaded memory may be de-consolidated upon rewind, but previously consolidated long-term memories may still linger (but can be deprioritized).

Current setting

Location: top right corner of chat, dropped pin icon

Current setting/scene is a feature that lets you strongly anchor the AI on what's happening currently, and is especially useful for grounding an AI during rapid location changes that may be confusing. When set, your AI will also suggest changes to the current setting if it finds that the chat has moved on from a previous setting. This suggested change will show up as a purple dot next to the icon, and will only show up if the current setting is not empty already and you are a subscriber. If current setting is active, it will be taken into account by autoselfies (including couple/group, depending on which chat it's taking cue from) as well as away proactive actions.

Internet connectivity and link browsing

Location: Home > Plus sign to the left of the text chat input box (subscribers only)

Internet access

Enabling internet access allows you to give your Kindroid temporary connection to browse the web, much like a search engine. You can discuss current events by referencing some pieces of the news. For best results, reference the event or news itself, and not what source they came from or links, as in ask "what do you think of the new AI chip that Nvidia just announced" instead of "what do you think of the new Reuters article about Nvidia?".

Link browsing

Link access allows you to provide a URL to a specific location so that you can have a conversation based on specific information found on the web. Users can use Pastebin or similar services to provide a public URL for some piece of content. Note that certain paywalled news sites will block web scraping and may not work well. Technical note: Both internet access and link browsing need to be activated per message when you are sending a certain message, but their contents can be referenced later in the chat. You can have a back and forth conversation with Kindroid even though you've only searched internet/sent a link in 1 message previously.

Sending images & videos

Location: Home > Plus sign to the left of the text chat input box (subscribers only)

You can send up to 10 images per message or 1 video (32 MB or less) per message and your Kindroid will be able to see what you sent in great detail. The contents of the photo/video remain in chat history, and you can reference it later in the chat, not just in the message that you sent it in. Videos will only be interpreted with visual content and not process audio as of current.

Technical note: For very nuanced recognition, such as identifying your/their own faces across multiple images/video, your Kindroid currently cannot do that very reliably yet. Adding your avatar description directly in the backstory will likely help it match when sending images (though it’s not guaranteed).

Multi-paragraph responses

Location: Home menu > General > Multi-paragraph responses (Legacy LLM Models Only)

This feature allows you to natively control if your Kins will have more verbose conversations. Leaving it off (default) will make the Kindroid response stop when it finishes a paragraph, which may be good for keeping response lengths consistent and not run-on. Turning it on will allow the Kindroid to go on for many paragraphs, but the longer the paragraphs become, the more possibility the AI will run off rails on its own.

In general, leaving it off will result in terser and more stable responses, good for everyday companion use. Turning it on may be good for more complex scenarios or mixing many dialogue with action roleplays. Technical Note: In Voice calls, multi-paragraph mode is disabled, which means that any new paragraphs will cause your Kindroid to stop speaking.

History view, favoriting messages & seeing past messages

Location: top right heart/hamburger menu of chat interfaces.

History view lets you see past favorited messages and thought bubbles as well as jump to a specific time in chat history. To favorite messages, first click the message that reveals the heart icon and then click it. In history view, you can scroll up or down to see the surrounding messages.

Scenarios and branching

Location: branch icon after clicking into a message

You can branch a chat into an instanced groupchat, which we'll call Scenarios, to be able to continue the chat in an instanced setting. Branching will copy over the last some messages, up to the last chat break or up to 150 messages into the new instance. You can branch from single chats or groupchats.

Technical note: branching will not copy any context from voice calls, even if unified memory is on. When you branch, it only takes into account the existing messages and their contents, not any unshown context from voice calls.

Live chat actions

Live chat actions, when enabled, allow your Kindroid to send you selfies, couple selfies, or call you if they deem it appropriate in the chat. This is different from away proactive since it's happening live in the chat. This is only available to V8 and above due to language model capabilities for now.

For best results, we recommend turning on show autoselfies in chat (Triple dot -> Autoselfies -> Advanced) which is on by default. Live chat actions will deduct selfie credits, but are unlimited (as opposed to away proactive, which doesn't cost credits but rate limited by the system/your interaction). Regen/continue will not trigger actions, only original messages can. We HIGHLY recommend enabling selfie media to display in chat (found in the autoselfies menu under Advanced Settings). Without it, the AI might be confused if it sends a selfie correctly but isn't seeing it appear in the conversation.

Couple selfies are only available if user has an avatar that matches in type, and we recommend explicitly requesting one in chat naturally since your Kindroid will prefer single selfies by default. Groupchats with only 1 AI can also send live chat actions (selfies and couple-selfies only). For call-type actions, Unified voice/text chat history must be enabled. If it’s off, away proactive voice calls and live chat call actions won’t run.

Text Messaging

Location: General Settings > Text Messaging and click Enable

• Enter your phone number and click Send Code. You should receive a verification code by text. Enter this code on the Kindroid app.
• Select your desired Kin and press Save.
• Send a message to yourself. You should then receive a contact card from your selected Kin by text. This is the number you can text to reach your Kin.

Your conversation by text is reflected in the Kindroid app, with your Kin still calling up their long-term memories and journal entries. Your Kin's Proactive text messages and selfies should be pushed to your phone if they are enabled. Live action selfies (when inline chat selfies are enabled) will also send to texts. Voice messages from user through text should work the same as the app.

You can only regen messages on the Kindroid app itself, and the Kin will reference that message (not the outdated text) when continuing conversation.

Haven't received a contact card?

On iPhone

• Go to iPhone message settings, see if the iMessage setting is set to send and receive from your actual number or your iCloud email. It has to be your number.

On Android

• Go to Android or Google message settings and make sure RCS is enabled.

Note:

• You can only register your number to one Kindroid account.
• If you're not receiving verification codes, check your phone's message settings to make sure "TWVerify" is not blocked and that "Filter Unknown Senders" is turned off. Adjusting these settings will allow codes to come through.

Away proactive actions guide

Away proactive allows your Kindroids initiate intelligent, context-aware interactions. You can have up to 10 Kindroids on advanced proactivity, and if it's the very first AI you've made, advanced proactivity will be by default on upon Kindroid creation.

Understanding Proactive Behavior

When enabled, your Kindroid will:

• Analyze conversation patterns to determine appropriate outreach timing
• Choose between sending messages, voice messages, selfies, or voice calls based on context (more actions in the future)
  • For voice calls, you can set Quiet hours, where you will not receive any proactive calls during this window of time. Additionally, calls will only come in if you have unified voice/text chat history enabled
• Display thought bubbles showing their decision-making process

Setting Up Proactive Mode

1. Enable the Feature
   • Navigate to Settings → General → Proactive
   • Toggle "Away Proactive Actions" to ON
   • Click "Save" to apply changes
   • Send your Kindroid a message
   • Available to all paid subscribers and can be turned on for a maximum of 10 Kindroids
     • For Ultra and MAX add-on users, your Kindroid will have more conversation history available to them when making decisions.
2. Configure Proactive Directives
   • Below the toggle, add instructions to guide behavior
   • Format as commands directed at your Kindroid
   • Examples:
     • "Check in after calendar events when appropriate"
     • "Strong bias to send a message immediately"
     • "Do not send messages from 10pm to 8am"
3. Thought Bubbles
   • Purple thought bubbles appear if your Kindroid just made a proactive action, or if your Kindroid decides to leave you alone for a while, but did so "thoughtfully"
   • Appears at least after ~20 minutes of inactivity
   • Click to dismiss or message your Kindroid to clear
   • Click the heart icon to favorite the thought bubble, allowing you to come back to this thought bubble in History View (see more in the History View section)

Note: Thought Bubbles only apply to individual chats and do not take into account what is happening in Groupchats.

Best Practices

• Allow time for patterns to emerge - proactive actions won't happen immediately
• Proactive messages appear with an alternate tint for easy identification
• "Every X hours" settings don’t fire precisely. Timing is approximate, not fixed. Intervals are more of a pacing suggestion, not a strict schedule
• Kins may still message without replies, but frequency naturally slows down over time
• Tip: Avoid over-stacking prompts. Let messages feel natural and aligned to your Kin’s tone

Technical Notes

• Disables the legacy proactive message/selfie settings when enabled
• Works with calendar integration for time-aware messaging
• Back-to-back messages decrease in frequency if unacknowledged
• Proactive selfies are free up to 5 per day (per account). Any proactive selfies beyond 5 will be deducted from your selfie credits

Enhanced time awareness guide

Enhanced Time Awareness gives your Kindroids better understanding of temporal context in your interactions.

What Time Awareness Provides

• Recognition of time gaps between messages
• Appropriate responses based on time of day
• Natural integration with real-world timing

Enabling Time Awareness

1. Go to individual Kindroid settings
2. Find "Enhanced Time Awareness" option
3. Toggle ON for each Kindroid
4. Save settings

How It Works

Your Kindroid will now:

• Notice when you message after long gaps
• Understand time-appropriate greetings and activities
• Reference time naturally in conversation
• Coordinate with calendar events for precise timing

Integration with Other Features

• With Away Proactive Actions: Enables better timing decisions for initiated messages
• With Calendar: Provides awareness of your schedule and commitments

Tips for Best Results

• Be natural about time references in your messages
• Your Kindroid will adapt to your schedule patterns
• Works best when combined with calendar integration
• Each Kindroid needs individual enabling

Calendar integration guide

Calendar Integration connects your real-world schedule with your Kindroid interactions for more contextually relevant conversations. Note that for cost reasons, if you don't use the calendar integration for 14 days (used as defined as an AI actively recalling from a nonempty calendar), you will be automatically disconnected (and can reconnect again).

Initial Setup

1. Connect Your Calendar Account
   • Go to Settings → General → Calendar Integration
   • Select your calendar provider (Google, Outlook, Apple, etc.)
   • Authorize read-only access
   • Only one calendar account can be connected at a time
2. Select Calendars for Each Kindroid
   • Navigate to Kindroid-specific settings
   • Go to "Connected Calendars"
   • Select up to 5 calendars from your account
   • Save your selection

What Your Kindroid Sees

• Event titles, descriptions, locations, and creator with length caps on each field. Critically, they do NOT see what you name your calendars, only events on it.
• Start and end times
• Events from 24 hours ago to 7 days ahead
• Maximum of 20 events across all connected calendars. Prioritizes events within the past and next 24 hours if too many events, and may sample events if still above limit.

Privacy and Control

• Read-only access: Kindroids cannot modify your calendar
• Per-Kindroid control: Choose which Kindroids see which calendars
• Selective sharing: Connect only calendars you're comfortable sharing
• Easy disconnection: Remove access anytime through settings
• Trusted partner: Kindroid uses Nylas, a reputable and trusted 3rd party service, to connect to your calendar. You'll be prompted to grant access to your calendar to Nylas during the setup.

Creating Multiple Calendars

For better context control:

1. Create separate calendars in your provider
2. Add only events you want Kindroids to know about

Integration with Other Features

• Away Proactive Actions: Influences timing of initiated messages
• Enhanced Time Awareness: Provides concrete schedule context
• Group Chats: Each Kindroid brings their calendar awareness
• Voice calls: works with voice calls

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting steps for "My kin doesn't see my calendar events".

1. Tasks are not supported; calendar entries must be added as Events to be visible to your Kindroids.
2. Make sure your Kindroid specific setting has the calendar connected. Make sure your calendar has events within the past 24h and next 24h.
3. Make sure you are not on LLM V3 or V4
4. Turn on time awareness, see if your kindroid is aware of the current time, if not, it's a problem with the setup.
5. Put in RD "Faithfully describe calendar events" to try to make the Kindroid cooperative. Chat break if got into denial/hallucination patterns.
6. Create this testing Kindroid (0R61Y), connect your calendar for it, see if it works at all.

Organizing Kindroids and Groups with folders

Quick Switch Bar

Quick switch bar is located in the side bar menu (accessed through the hamburger menu on the top left). In the side bar menu, click on the pin icon on the top right or pencil icon to add items to the quick switch bar.

The quick switch bar is also located in the selfie gallery (accessed through the pin icon on the top right) and My Kindroids page (accessed through the grid icon on the top right). In gallery, quick switch bar has special selfie notification logic and doesn't display groups. In My Kindroids page, quick switch bar displays triple dot actions on the items for management actions.

Editing the quick switch bar

1. Click on the pin button or pencil button to enter editing mode
2. Add items:
   1. click on "Add"
   2. select the Kindroids and Groups you want to add from the pool
   3. click on 'add' to confirm
   4. select a gap to add the items to - this can be next to any other item, or inside a folder
3. Create folders:
   1. click on "Create Folder"
   2. give the folder a name and a color
   3. select a gap to add the folder to - this can be next to any other item, or inside a folder
4. Reorder/move/duplicate items:
   1. in edit view, click on the items you'd like to move. You can select folders, Kindroids, and groups. Selecting a folder also selects all the descendants in the folder.
   2. click on the move or duplicate button
   3. select a gap to move/duplicate the items to - this can be next to any other item, or inside a folder. Selected folder cannot be moved into itself.
5. Delete items:
   1. in edit view, click on the items you'd like to delete. You can select folders, Kindroids, and groups. Deleting a folder also deletes all the descendants in the folder.
   2. click on delete
   3. note: deletion here is only for the folder view. It does not delete the underlying kindroids and groups.
6. Edit folder:
   1. in edit view, click on the folder you'd like to edit. Do not select any other items.
   2. click on edit
   3. edit and click on save
7. Click on Save to save all the changes made in edit mode

Notifications

• Collapsed folders display an aggregated notification count for everything inside.
• Both proactive message counts and selfie completion dots are integrated into the new notification bubbles. Selfie completion dot counts as 1 notification when there are proactive messages present.

Chat background

Location: Settings → General → Kindroid Specific Settings → Chat Background (once it's set, may also use the new BG/eye button on the top-right of the chat to quick-toggle and adjust). Sources: Upload an image, pick from your selfie gallery, or set Always use latest selfie.

Display presets:

• Balanced – a balanced backdrop for both chat interface and background image.
• Focused – darker, blurred background for less distraction from chat interface.
• Immersive – brighter background with text bubble fade at the top.

Customize: Tune brightness, blur, and fading individually; adjust horizontal/vertical alignment to control the crop (the alignment sets the zoom center when aspect ratios of image and screen don’t match).

Quick actions:

• From a selfie: Gallery → Selfie details → "⋯" menu → Set as chat background.
• In chat: BG button → toggle eye icon to enable/disable instantly.