Kindred launches AI companionship and matching app
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Kindred has launched on the App Store as an AI companionship app: users can confide privately via text or voice, with voice conversations powered by OpenAI's GPT-Live and text chats powered by GPT-5.6 Luna. After users enable matching, the system identifies themes and emotions in conversations and looks for people with similar experiences; once both sides accept, they enter a shared room under pseudonyms. The app also offers Memory, Chapters, and W Folder, used respectively for cross-conversation memory, saving complete conversation chapters, and recording positive moments. The settings feature is not yet connected.
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Kindred is an AI companion app for private text or voice conversations that, if users enable matching, detects broad themes and feelings in those conversations and notifies them when someone with something in common is found, with both parties able to join a shared room under pseudonyms. It also offers Memory and Chapters, which carry selected context between saved conversations, and a W Folder for keeping positive moments. Voice conversations use GPT-Live by OpenAI and text chats use GPT-5.6 Luna by OpenAI, and the app is available on the App Store with a demo.
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