The Kinside Scoop 👀 #16

Kin's biggest update yet

Hey folks 👋

Big one today.

Like we hinted in the last edition, Kin 0.6 is rolling out. This is Kin’s biggest update ever, and it’s packed.

Full rollout begins tomorrow (Tuesday, October 21, 2025), but we’ve got some sneak peeks for you.

We also have a super prompt based around making the most out of the new opportunities this update provides - so make sure you read to the end.

What’s New With Kin🚀

Meet your advisory board 🧠

You’ve probably seen them drifting into chat recently - little hints of Harmony, Sage, and the rest. Now the full board of five arrives, each with expertise in advising on a particular topic.

• Sage: Career & Work

• Aura: Values & Meaning

• Harmony (Premium only): Relationships

• Pulse (Premium only): Sleep & Energy

• Ember (Premium only): Social

Each one brings a different lens on your life, but all pull insight from your Journal entries, conversations, and memories.

Conversation Starters 💬

Every advisor’s chat screen now includes some personalized, context-aware starters - not just to make beginning a conversation easier, but remembering things you wanted to talk about as effortless as possible.

Memory, re-engineered (finally) 📂

It feels like we’re always alluding to this - but now it’s here.

Kin’s Memory is now 5× more accurate when recognizing and extracting memories from conversations.

Advisors can also now search across all of your memories, Journal entries, and conversations, so they can build an understanding of context quickly.

All of this means that no matter which advisor you speak with, Kin is much more able to pull the relevant information from its improved memory structure - so you get better, smarter, more relevant advice from every advisor.

We’ve also beefed up the Memory UI. On top of the classic memory graph, you can now see what Kin knows about you - as well as the organizations and people you’re connected to.

And each of these people/organizations/places now have their own Entity pages, where you can see, edit, and add to what Kin has collected about them from your conversations.

You can even finally search memories for key words and associations!

See your progress 📊

There’s a brand new Stats page that visualizes your growth with Kin.

You can see a breakdown of usage stats and Memory types, so you can see what you’re talking about a lot, and where you and your Kin might have some blind spots.

Journaling, cleaned up 📝

Based on all your feedback, we’ve finished rebuilding the Journal from the ground up.

There’s a brand-new, simplified UI to make daily journaling easier than ever.

Premium users also unlock custom journal templates, perfect for capturing anything from gratitude logs to tough feedback moments.

New onboarding (for everyone) 🔐

Next time you open Kin, you’ll be prompted to sign in with Apple, Google, or Email.

This makes onboarding smoother and syncing easier (rumours of a desktop version abound), and lays the groundwork for future features.

But don’t worry: your data hasn’t moved an inch.

It still lives securely with you, on your device.

We’ll share a detailed write-up soon (as promised), but the short version is: simpler sign-in, same privacy-first design.

Premium (by request!) ⭐

You asked. We built it.

Premium unlocks the full Kin experience, and extends existing Free features so you can make the most of your Kin.

If you join Premium, you’ll get:

• All 5 advisors (Harmony, Pulse, Ember + the two free advisors, Sage and Aura)

• Unlimited text messages

• 1 hour of voice per day

• Custom journal templates

Premium is currently $20/month - and there’s a discount if you go for 3 months.

If you don’t want to upgrade though, don’t fret. The Free tier is going nowhere: Premium is for power users who want the full advisor board and voice time.

When? 🗓️

Rollout starts Tuesday, October 21, 2025. That’s tomorrow, if you’re reading this as it goes out!

Expect updates over the following week as we make sure everything runs smoothly. Speaking of…

Talk to us!🗣

This is the biggest change Kin has ever gone through. It’s our largest step toward a 1.0 release yet - and we want to make sure we’re heading in the right direction before we get too far.

The KIN team can be reached at [email protected] for anything, from feedback on the app to a bit of tech talk (though [email protected] is better placed to help with any issues).

You can also share your feedback in-app. Just screenshot to trigger the feedback form.

But if you really want to get involved, the official Kin Discord is the best place to talk to the Kin development team (as well as other users) about anything AI.

We have dedicated channels for Kin’s tech, networking users, sharing support tips, and for hanging out.

We also regularly run three casual calls every week - and we’d love for you to join them:

• Monday Accountability Calls - 5pm GMT/BST
  Share your plans and goals for the week, and learn tips about how Kin can help keep you on track.

• Wednesday Hangout Calls - 5pm GMT/BST
  No agenda, just good conversation and a chance to connect with other Kin users.

• Friday Kin Q&A - 1pm GMT/BST
  Drop in with any questions about Kin (the app or the company) and get live answers in real time.

We updated Kin so that it can better help you - help us make sure that’s what it does!

Our current reads 📚

No new Slack screenshot this edition - we’ve been too busy to share new articles recently!

Article: Google announced DeepSomatic, an open-source cancer research AI
READ - blog.google

Article: Meta AI glasses fuel Ray-Ban maker’s best quarterly performance ever
READ - reuters.com

Article: Google launch Gemini Enterprise, to make AI accessible to employees
READ - cloud.google.com

Article: How are MIT entrepreneurs using AI?
READ - MIT News

This edition’s super prompt 🤖

This time, your chosen advisor can help you answer the question:

“How do I make the most of new opportunities?”

Once the update comes out tomorrow, try hitting the link with different advisors selected, and get a few different viewpoints!

Your are Kin 0.6 (and beyond) 👥

Without you, Kin wouldn’t be anything. We want to make sure you don’t just know that, but feel it.

So, please: get involved. Chat in our Discord, email us, or even just shake the app to get in contact with anything and everything you have to say about Kin.

Most importantly: enjoy the update!

With love,

The KIN Team