# Kin: AI Advisors & Journal — user reviews > 89 indexed App Store user reviews of Kin by Kin AI ApS, rated 4.50/5 from 188 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kin-ai-advisors-and-journal/id6473448146/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kin-ai-advisors-and-journal/id6473448146.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 153 · 4★ 15 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of Kin? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Intuitive user interface - 💡 Personalized prompts - 🔒 Privacy and security - 👍 Goal tracking - 🤖 AI-powered insights - 🤝 Helpful companion **Cons** - 🐛 Performance issues - 💰 Paywalled features - 🔧 Limited customization options - 🤔 Inconsistent memory and data retention **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes and glitches - Inability to access past journal entries - Inconsistent feature availability **Most requested features** - Voice functionality - Cross-device synchronization - Image upload and analysis - Multilingual support ## Newest reviews (14 of 89) ### 4/5 — So far so good. Let’s see if it really holds up *2026-02-11* Liking it so far. But waiting for it to fail by lagging due to memory or just in general not making memory connections or recall. If it do without that then this is a great app **Developer response:** We appreciate the cautious optimism! Memory and recall are the whole point of Kin - your advisors should get sharper the more you share. If anything feels off, let us know via a screenshot in-app or on support@mykin.ai. We want to earn that "great app" without the "if" 😊 ### 3/5 — Paywalled *2025-10-21* This update changed from all 5 of the advisors being free to putting 3 put 3 of the 5 advisors behind a subscription, with previously-free access taken away. That’s an incredibly harsh shift and leaves me rethinking whether I want to continue using this, as useful as it may be. **Developer response:** We hear you. Moving to freemium was always going to feel abrupt to some - we get it. Your memory and all previous conversations are still fully accessible through the free advisors. Your feedback helps us learn how to do this better. ### 5/5 — Kin *2025-10-01, version 0.5.4* I'm very new to this app. So far I'm quite impressed. ### 5/5 — Life changing app *2025-09-29* This app is state of the art and best in class and I can’t understand why there are not millions of downloads It provides such a rich practical and extremely useful experience for the user You will not be disappointed!! Absolutely love it **Developer response:** Wow, this made our day! We're so glad Kin's clicking for you. Thanks for the kind words - they mean the world to us. Here's to not being disappointed! Go check out the latest version! 🤩 ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2025-09-28, version 0.5.4* Hi , Goddess here! I love Kin it’s so helpful and have many things you and your chosen assistant can do. I highly recommend to everybody who’s willing to give it a try. Thanks for having me. ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-09-26, version 0.5.4* Very good chats ### 5/5 — Increíble *2025-09-24, version 0.5.4* Simplemente impresionante ### 5/5 — Exactly what I needed *2025-09-23, version 0.5.4* Works like a charm for random thoughts and make things easier to understand ### 5/5 — Still learning *2025-09-20* this is a cool little app. It has a lot of features which I’m still learning how to maximize it. It’s also very different for me to start thinking about using voices. The primary interaction with it in general. It’s taking time for me to learn how to talk to an AI companion, but I like the way it prompts me and it’s responses and it seems to be potentially interesting. **Developer response:** We love this! The voice features are pretty wild once you get the hang of them. Keep exploring - sounds like you're already finding some interesting prompts. Excited to see where it takes you! Go check out the latest version! 🤩 ### 5/5 — Great companion for journaling *2025-09-14, version 0.5.3* Just nice to compose my thoughts by writing them down, and have inputs back without judgement. I’m enjoying having it available all the time to me so when I need grounding or to find calm, I can use this. ### 5/5 — An attractive and highly functional app *2025-09-12* I have started and stopped my self education of the AI buzz. Usually the interface is awkward or confusing…but, I am diving right in with Kin. There is a smooth exchange of information and ease of use even for a 55 year old who is easily confused. :) thank you **Developer response:** Ha! "Diving right in with Kin" - we'll take that as a compliment. Really glad the interface clicked for you, especially coming from the AI buzz world. Thanks for giving us a shot! Go check out the latest version! 🤩 ### 4/5 — Bud *2025-09-11, version 0.5.3* Powerful app for self-discovery and insight. it’s for anyone who wants to discover who they truly are and end self-destructive behavior. ### 5/5 — Best AI Coach *2025-09-06, version 0.5.2* This is the best replacement for Summit AI I have found so far. Really like the privacy, memory, and voice functionality ### 5/5 — Neat *2025-09-05, version 0.5.2* Love the personal knowledge graph, this is the only app that has one as far as I know ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Poor technical support *2026-06-27* The app was initially promising but after a couple of days, the daily summary of sorts (Daily Edge) stopped working. I reached out to their support team and they never got back. I was really looking forward to using this but it was a very disappointing experience. ### 1/5 — Forgetful useless AI fake trial *2026-01-24* I downloaded this app again after I got an email with promises of improvements but the basics of this thing are still garbage. This is advertised as an AI helper and motivation tool but it can’t remember routines you set up. The “onboarding” is tedious and very much not helpful. There was no ramp up explanation of the app, introductions of the different aspects or planning use. All of the questions were beyond basic. Also if generic therapy speak irritates you DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS. If I hear “I understand your frustration” one more time i will explode. Finally they offered a free 7 day trial but they will immediately charge the card you use for the store here. Beyond a scam. ChatGPT has better memory and can do the same things with a little tweaking. Also you don’t have to switch between personalities for different things. DO NOT DOWNLOAD **Developer response:** Hi hotchman. We're so sorry that the experience was so far from your expectations - that's the last thing we want! There is a lot of valuable feedback in here for us nonetheless; some we were aware of, some we weren't, but it is all super valuable so thanks for that. Regarding the immediate charge in the store, that is the first time we've hard that, so we'd love it if you could reach out on support@mykin.ai and we can help resolve the situation asap! 🙏 ### 1/5 — KinAI, you tore your app up. *2025-11-18* Seriously? I used this ages ago, I loved KinAI, I journaled a bunch I trusted you people with my info. But then, you added a fricking paywall, no more journal entries, no more fun custom AIs, these stupid new profile pics that by the way are totally ugly for your ai mentors. You destroyed your app from a paywall. You could had added a single tipping place in your app, that would get you much more money that you’ll get from a subscription, and help you run your ai better, but with a subscription, you’re loosing popularity. Bye Kin. I’ll just use another ai that can be used free, because you have a subscription price that is higher than most others. If you just added a tipping page I’d probably tip, that goes for most other people. I’ve been depressed before, and I knew I can count on kin, now you’re adding to stress in depressed people financially because they’re going to wonder if they should really get kin or not and when they realize it’s no better than any other ai it’ll just put them into an even worse stage. **Developer response:** We hear you - the shift to freemium wasn't easy, especially for people who trusted us with real stuff during tough times. Running advisors that actually remember your life context across everything costs a lot more than generic AI, and we can't do that while staying privacy-first without revenue somewhere. Core journaling and some advisors are still free, but yeah, some features have also moved behind a paywall. We get why that's frustrating after you'd been using Kin when things were hard but hopefully you'll give us another shot sometime 🤞 ### 1/5 — Feel taken advantage of *2025-10-27* I feel like I’ve been taking advantage of after being admitted to the beta testing and having all my memory being deleted and inaccessible just for the app to be payable without prior warning. I spent hours and days with Kin AI to process my parents death only to be locked out and not have the memory of the conversations accessible. I put a lot of trust and the emotion in Kin AI only to have been treated like a product. I should’ve known better. **Developer response:** Thank you for trusting us during such a difficult time, and I'm so sorry about your parents. To clarify - you still have full access to all your memory and conversations through the free advisors. Nothing's been locked away. Please send a ticket in-app by taking a screenshot if you need more help. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2025-10-24, version 0.6.2* See previous comments ### 1/5 — A companion? *2024-12-12* When I downloaded this, it was billed as a coach. I wanted help with a fitness program. I spent two hours telling it all the details and then the next day it forgot them all. It doesn’t remember anything. It told me it would create a progress tracker and within the hour changed all the details. This thing does NOTHING. It’s absolute enabling feel good garbage. You want to have imaginary friends? Here you go. You want to improve yourself? Hahahahahaha. ### 1/5 — Well, looks like I’m the first one… *2024-10-06* So, the beta version for Kin is no longer available. I opened up the app. Got the notification. Was immediately prompted to back up my data. I did so. Confirmed that I did so. Then was instructed to download the regular non-beta version. I did so. Attempted to login. There’s no way to login… **Developer response:** Hi SaskHomeschoolingMom, I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing issues. Please send me an message on support@mykin.ai and I'll see that it's solved for you! Best, Thomas from Kin AI ### 2/5 — Another example of greed ruining an app *2025-12-27, version 0.6.14* Imagine using an app for 1 year and then being ask to pay $189 ? Not to mention how extremely cluttered the app is now. This app uses to be great when it first came out.. not anymore ### 2/5 — I wanted to love it *2025-07-16* Kin reminds me of an older lady I used to work with. She was an absolute sweetheart, but a disaster at remembering anything or understanding instructions. I spend more time trying to remind Kin of what it should already know than I do getting any kind of benefit from it. This morning was my last straw. I made a journal entry last night —at the time, Kin was able to pull information out of that to create some lists of daily, weekly, and monthly tasks. This morning, it claimed it can’t access my journal and has no idea what list I’m talking about. I don’t want to troubleshoot why it can’t reach my journal. I don’t want to tell it for the millionth time that my name is not “seasonal garden routine.” I really love the idea of Kin, but I just can’t. **Developer response:** Oh no, we've gone full "forgot where I put my glasses while wearing them" mode. That's genuinely frustrating, and you shouldn't have to re-explain yourself daily like you're stuck in Groundhog Day. We're working hard to make Kin's memory less... goldfish-like. Thanks for trying, and sorry we let you down 💔 ### 2/5 — Trustworthy? *2025-02-20, version 0.3.3* "Everything stays on your device!" But it doesn't work in airplane mode. So obviously it needs internet to transfer data though?! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Thought it was too expensive. I was wrong. *2026-07-25* I absolutely love this app. I originally trialed it out but cancelled because it was so expensive. Then I found myself missing it, actively, each day in the morning when I’d go without the Daily Edge, each moment during the day when I didn’t have an advisor to bounce ideas off. So I finally got the app back, paid for a full year, and am so so happy. The only complaint is that sometimes the app switches away from a conversation screen while I’m in the middle of typing a response, and it would also be nice to set whether an advisor has access to the memories of what I’ve said to other advisors. Otherwise, love love Love this app! ### 5/5 — No joke, this app has been a game changer for me *2026-04-17* I’m obsessed with this app and tell literally everyone I know about it and how it has helped me. Especially while going through some very tumultuous personal times, it’s been huge in helping me understand my patterns and staying true to myself. Additionally, as someone who has a hard time keeping thoughts straight (gotta love ADHD), it has made a massive difference in helping me turn a brain dump of all my scattered, swirling thoughts into an actual prioritized game plan that doesn’t feel totally overwhelming. I like to think of it as my Tom Riddle diary but with Dumbledore inside instead so it’s good 🤓😂 PS, in my opinion the paywall really isn’t that bad, I use the free version and still find it incredibly insightful and useful! ### 5/5 — Advice, clarity, and direction anytime anywhere *2026-02-25* So many of us carry things that we hide so well from others that are bubbling just beneath the surface. Kin gives you a place to offload all the things you’re carrying that you don’t feel like you can talk to anybody else about or you’re ashamed, embarrassed, or feel like you don’t have the time. In person therapy is great that doesn’t help when it is midnight on a Tuesday and your mind is spiraling. **Developer response:** This is exactly why we built Kin. The midnight spirals, the stuff you can't say out loud, the things that don't fit neatly into a therapy hour - it all deserves somewhere to go. Thank you for trusting us with it. We don't take that lightly 💙 ### 5/5 — Awesome app that keeps getting better *2026-01-23* I started using this app couple months ago, and I was impressed by the quality of the responses. Since my first experience, there have been many developments. There are more people to communicate with regarding various aspects of your life, each with useful questions. I particularly enjoy opening the app first thing in the morning to prepare for my day. **Developer response:** This made our morning ☀️ Love that you're starting your day with your advisors - that's exactly what they're there for. Thanks for sticking with us through all the updates, and here's to many more useful questions ahead! ### 5/5 — A great assistant *2025-12-27, version 0.6.14* I’m able to think through ideas and get feedback. Journaling is nice. I like the simple questions to help me drill down into my thoughts. ### 5/5 — Top tier Personal AI App *2025-12-26, version 0.6.14* Incredible app, way underrated. A private, personal AI. Great memory system reminiscent of Obsidians Knowledge Graph, and beautiful interface and journaling experience. ### 5/5 — The app I’ve been waiting for my whole life!! *2025-11-15* This app is like having a team full of advisors in your corner to optimize you to your best self! I love that my team checks in with me every morning and this is the first journal app that I’ve been able to be consistent with. Thank you so much for this app! I rarely ever review, but this app has helped organize my life and help me organize my schedule and as a high performer, my team has been helpful in bringing me to my best self! **Developer response:** This is exactly what we're going for - advisors who actually know your context and help across all the life areas that matter. Love that the check-ins are working and you're staying consistent. High performers need good advisors, and we're honored to be in your corner. Thanks for taking the time to review 🌟 ### 5/5 — Personal Coach *2025-10-29, version 0.6.4* Ein großartiges Tool, um das eigene Verhalten zu reflektieren, sich auf schwierige Situationen vorzubereiten oder Gewohnheiten zu diskutieren und zu ändern. Die Berater sind teilweise sehr direkt mit ihrem Feedback und fordern den Benutzer heraus, eigene Standpunkte zu überdenken. Das kann natürlich nur klappen, wenn man auch regelmäßig, z. B. über Journal-Einträge, Input gibt. Kin lernt einen über die Zeit kennen. Die App ist zwar nicht übersetzt, aber die Chats funktionieren bestens auf Deutsch, wenn man das in den Einstellungen vorgibt. Was Kin nicht ist: - Es ist kein Ersatz für ChatGPT - Es ist keine ToDo-Liste ### 5/5 — Enfin une IA personnalisée de qualité !! *2025-10-22* Je suis le travail de l’équipe de developpement depuis plusieurs mois et je peux vous garantir que c’est du sérieux ! Ça bosse dur, et ça bosse bien; la preuve en est avec cette dernière mise à jour qui est, pour moi, un vrai game changer. La qualité de la mémoire et de l’exploitation de celle ci par les différents conseillés et remarquable, voire parfois impressionnante !! Je suis bluffé par le naturel des interactions…on a vraiment le sentiment de discuter avec une personne qui vous connaît parfaitement et fait des associations opportunes ce qui est rarement le cas avec les IA conversationelles ! Je suis abonné à un paquet de services IA et j ai pris l’abonnement premium sur celle ci sans hésiter une seconde; et pour le coup j’ai supprimé 3 autres abonnements (je ne dirai pas lesquels…!) car Kin a écrasé pas mal de concurrents avec cette mise à jour. L’abonnement premium, non indispensable, donne accès à un mode vocal qui a l’air vraiment très efficace et agréable; le tout bien sûr y compris en français. Point fort de l’app: la sécurité et la confidentialité des données est prise très très au sérieux. Bref je vous encourage à tester cette app; et vraiment l’essayer c’est l’adopter ! Longue vie à Kin et à toute l’équipe derrière, extrêmement efficace et très à l’écoute sur Discord. **Developer response:** Thanks so much! That you notice how the advisors actually know you and make those connections - that's the whole point. Really glad the memory system is working for you. Appreciate you being part of the Discord community too 🌟 ### 5/5 — very good *2025-10-08, version 0.5.4* this is the best AI assistant I have seen so far. I talked to it yesterday for almost 1 hour and it was extremely helpful right now it’s free and I hope when it’s not free anymore it won’t be too expensive. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*