# Kinli — Trusted Community > Trusted Community (iPhone/iPad app by Kinli Circles Limited.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kinli/id6805194572 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Kinli Circles Limited](https://appshunter.io/developer/6805194574) - Category: Social Networking, Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 61 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-09 - Data updated: 2026-10-08 ## What is Kinli? Kinli is a private community club for the people you trust. Belong to many circles at once - to sell to a good home, ask a real question, and share your world - all in one private space, by referral only. Posts arrive in the order they were written. Reactions are appreciative only - heart, thank you, useful, thinking, funny. No downvotes. Nothing is competitive. All real, trusted and useful When someone asks a question - "anyone know a piano teacher?", "is the bypass still closed?" - Ask Kinli answers from what your circle has actually said, and shows you the real posts behind the answer. So you don't lose what your circle already knows. There's a marketplace inside each circle. Real photos required. The four-digit handshake at collection confirms the sale. The buyer is never named publicly. Direct messages are one-to-one, encrypted at rest. If life gets noisy, one tap goes quiet - push and in-app nudges hush until you lift it, with a calm digest when you're ready to come back. Kinli is referral-only. To join an existing circle, a current member refers you in. To start a new one, the app walks you through it, location or interest based - you'll want a couple of people to help you get it going. Friend tier is free, always. Insider unlocks Ask Kinli and Quiet for a small monthly subscription, which you set up on our website (not through the app). Founder is for the people who run a circle. Members love to refer businesses and local trades and we've handled that too. Create a business, share a trader and Kinli will help surface these experts to others. If you need an electrician, babysitter or tutor, simply Ask Kinli or post an Ask and you'll receive recommendations. All from real users like you who recommend others. A note on privacy. Your posts, replies and messages stay inside the circles they were shared in. Location is used only while you're in the app, only when context calls for it, and never in the background. When you delete your account, your name and sign-in details are removed for good — the posts you wrote stay attributed to "Former member", so the collective memory isn't erased. Terms of Use: https://kinli.co.uk/terms Privacy Policy: https://kinli.co.uk/privacy ## Is Kinli safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Kinli. ## Is Kinli legit? Kinli has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Kinli is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.0.181 — 2026-09-29 Kinli now fits an iPad. The menu becomes a rail down the side, posts read in a proper column instead of running the width of the screen, the marketplace and Your Book become grids, and tapping a post, a listing or the bell opens it in a panel beside what you were reading. Turn your iPhone sideways. The menu stands up as a slim bar down the edge with every destination showing, and the ＋ moves to the bottom corner. Posts look like posts. A cleaner coloured band, the type as an outlined label rather than a block of colour, and every card now ends in the colour it started with. An open post finally matches the card you tapped. Longer posts read in the feed without tapping into them. Ask Kinli never sends your name anywhere. Your name, your neighbours' names and your circle's name no longer leave for Kinli's AI provider. Plus the real iOS glass material on the menu bar, and a lot of fixes — including "Worth a look" rows that did nothing when tapped, and the window that used to rotate itself whenever you opened something. ### 1.0.179 — 2026-09-17 REACT THE WAY YOU MEAN IT Six more reactions - congratulations, well done, love this, hello, me too, count me in — on a second row under the six you already have, which haven't moved. Tap the outline heart and the whole set opens, rather than putting a heart down and making you change it. Press and hold anywhere on a post to react without hunting for the heart. Every emoji is now a full-size target with room around it, so the edge of one can't catch the one beside it. And your own face stays on a reaction you've just given. ALL NEW HANDLES Claim a Kinli handle and it appears under your name. MESSAGES Sending is super fast. The composer empties properly when you send: an autocorrect still in flight used to leave your words in the box, which made it easy to send twice. Copy text out of a message. Back from a DM goes back. MARKETPLACE Sort by newest, cheapest, most expensive or A–Z - across everything for sale. Search now live. Blended circles now show on marketplace. WORTH A LOOK In a blended feed it says which circle a post came from, and Catch up covers your whole blend. ACTIVITY FEED A bell in the home header shows when something's waiting. It accumulates until you clear it rather than emptying because you glanced at it, and every row opens the thing it's about. The daily reaction roundup names who reacted instead of saying "someone". CIRCLES Find a circle to join from Your Circles. Announcements from every circle, as a swipeable gallery. Replies can be edited, deleted and reported. Blending a circle in shows its posts straight away; unblending removes all of them. NEEDS THIS BUILD Paste a picture into a post, a reply or a message — copy a screenshot anywhere on your phone and a Paste button appears in the composer. ALSO Ask, Share and Offer carry an icon, so the kind of post reads at a glance rather than by colour alone. Sort a thread newest or oldest first. Change your name from Account details. General improvements to the UI ### 1.0.178 — 2026-09-10 Updates to v178 Messages now arrive as messages from a person — with the sender's name and photo, so you can tell at a glance who it is, and let your circle through a Focus mode when everything else is quiet. A photo sent in a message shows the photo. Also in this version: • A bell in the feed shows when something's happened — an invitation, circle news, a host removing a post. Tap a row and it opens the thing it's about, straight away. • A host can pin an announcement to the top of the circle. If you're in more than one, swipe between them. • You can edit or delete your own reply now, and report someone else's. • Tapping a message notification opens that conversation, with its messages already there. • The feed no longer gets stuck if your connection drops mid-load. It keeps trying, and paints as soon as it can. • If your phone is online but still can't reach Kinli, the app says so and suggests why • Ask Kinli tells you what it's doing while it looks, and offers to turn your question into a post when your circle would answer it better. • A Paste button in the composer, when there's something on your clipboard. • Swipe away the "just joined" banner once you've welcomed someone. • Blocking someone clears them from everywhere at once, including marketplace offers. • Dates read the way they do where you are, and a business listing can carry a phone number from any country. • Notifications and Face ID are both optional, offered when you join, and easy to change your mind about later. ### 1.0.177 — 2026-09-08 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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