Kindroid: build your companion from scratch, then pay to keep talking.

What is Kindroid?

Kindroid is an AI companion app run by Beautifully Incorporated, a small US company. You create characters called Kins and decide their name, personality, backstory, appearance and voice. It works on the web, iPhone and Android with one account.

It’s strictly 18+. Paid users are age-verified through their payment details, and free users the system flags must pass a Yoti selfie or ID check. Its terms don’t ban adult content between adults; the hard lines are child sexual abuse material and intimate images of real people without consent.

How Kindroid works

Once you’ve built a Kin, you chat by text, swap voice messages or call it by voice or video. Kins can send selfies and short video selfies, and you can put several Kins in group chats. A newer Rooms feature, still in beta, lets friends and their Kins share one conversation.

Memory is a strength. Each Kin keeps the backstory and key memories you write, journal entries it can recall, and long-term memory of past chats. Subscribers also get Cascaded Memory, which keeps hundreds of recent messages in view, so long stories hold together better than on most apps.

What Kindroid costs

There’s no lasting free tier. New accounts get a preview of 50 messages on the flagship model and five selfies, then the account turns read-only: you can view and export your chats, but not send anything. A three-day trial gives you most paid features, but it needs a payment method and turns into a subscription unless you cancel; Kindroid emails a reminder the day before.

Subscriptions run for one, three or twelve months, and longer plans cost less per month. Kindroid doesn’t publish prices up front; you see them at checkout, and the web is usually cheaper than the app stores. Monthly Ultra and MAX add-ons raise memory and audio limits. Plans renew automatically, and refunds are only at Kindroid’s discretion.

Privacy and reputation

Kindroid is more open about data than most rivals. Chats are encrypted in transit and at rest, but not end-to-end, and automated safety systems scan them; staff can review excerpts those systems flag, while support staff can’t browse your chats. It says it doesn’t sell or share personal data. You can delete messages instantly, and deleting your account takes effect after 24 hours.

Two caveats. The terms let Kindroid use de-identified or aggregated versions of your private content “for any purpose”, and its apps pass your ad-tracking choice to a marketing attribution provider. We found no regulator action or data breach on record.