The following are general sections on selfies - for latest V5 in particular, see V5 Selfies Guide .

To create a selfie, you must give the AI a prompt. Prompting describes what should be included in the image, which means you should include attributes like location, scenery, mood, actions, etc. Note that the selfies engine does not know names, nor context on your Kindroid, so names will not work very well.

If you're getting started, we suggest you to try the magic wand enhance prompt feature next to the prompt box in single & group selfies, to see how you can turn a simple prompt into a more elaborate prompt that can create more detailed images!

Prompt example:

You can further control a prompt by using weights, which modify the strength of certain concepts. To weigh a subject higher, enclose it in parentheses and specify a weight, like (blue eyes: 0.5). This would weigh "blue eyes" at half the impact it would normally have. To emphasize something more, use (broad shoulders: 1.2) to emphasize it more.



You can upload (or paste in) an image to be the pose reference for a given prompt. Pose reference tries to match the output image as close to the given pose as much as possible. With pose reference, even the body shape of the main subject(s) will be taken into consideration in the output to match close to the reference image. Pose references are the most powerful way to control the composition of the output.

You can upload (or paste in) an image to be the style reference for a given prompt. Style reference is a visual way to influence the final image, or to have the final image incorporate elements from the style reference.



Next to the selfie prompt boxes in single selfies and the overall prompt in group selfies, there is a wand icon. You can type in what you want, and the enhance feature will make your prompt more descriptive and vivid for better interpretation by the selfies engine.



You can also make video selfies by supplying a first frame image and an optional prompt. For best results, the motion prompt if used should use cinematic language for precision, and be descriptive.

Picking a great first frame is also important - the video selfie will make best effort to keep identity/faces consistent, but the clearer the first frame, as well as the more dynamic room it has for motion, the better the result may be.

Video selfies will cost 6 paid selfie credits each to reflect their more intensive computing demands. Paid selfie credits must be purchased from the gallery, and you can see more at In-App Purchases. Paid subscribers will also be topped up with a complimentary 6 paid selfie credits Wednesday midnight PT every week that they're subscribed (and upon subscribing).

Note: NSFW or strongly suggestive video selfies (detected from frame and prompt) use a more basic video engine, and may be lower quality - we recommend SFW video selfies currently.





You can open the menu for group selfies from a groupchat with the image button at the header (or in an individual Kindroid's selfie prompt menu). Group selfies are a subscriber only feature, and each group selfie once finished will appear in each participating Kindroid's gallery.

Group selfies lets you put 2 or 3 Kindroids of the same photoreal/anime style and composite them together. In each of those slots you can put in a Kindroid avatar, or input your user avatar (which you can set in General Settings -> My Profile & Personas). You can upload a pose reference or use the default, but cannot use style reference for group selfies.

Group prompts are made of avatar prompts and overall prompt, and avatar prompts can be useful for specifying clothes, mood, and other aspects of the individual Kindroid, while overall prompt can be used to set the style, setting, backdrop.

Regional prompts are best kept concise, while global prompts can be more elaborate.



In addition to the predefined avatars, uploading a custom avatar lets you upload a base image (that you own the rights to) for your avatar that will be used for all selfies. You can also upload your user avatar to use in group selfies in General Settings -> User Profile section.

Whereas default avatars have a preset description that tells the AI what the avatar looks like, you get to write your own for custom avatars. When generating selfies, this information will be used in the selfies engine to help portray what your Kindroid should look like. In addition, during text chats your Kindroid will be able to recall these details.

Technical tip: avatar description for custom avatar is incredibly important - see V5 Selfies Guide for more concrete tips specific to the latest selfies version.

The face detail slider controls how much detail should be put into postprocessing your Kindroid's face. At 0%, there will be minimal additional processing and as a result the facial expressions as well as face details such as skin, freckles, will be minimal. Higher than 0 values can sometimes result in very detailed faces with more emotional expressivenness that also come with a higher variance in terms of facial structure and other details, so it's up to you on how much variance you want vs. how much detail you want to enhance. Artistic prompts or prompts with more nuanced expressions do well with high face detail.

Face detail prompt is additional directions for detailing the face. This should be where things like "green eyes", or "heavy freckles" are added, combined with a moderate to high face detail slider value. For more on this, see V5 Selfies Guide

Avatar boost lets you train an adapter using at least 4 images that enhance consistency and likeness to the images you used to train with.

The images you select are the most important part, and they should be high quality, and focused on what you want to emphasize. Images of an avatar with face visible are great, and it should be a mix of different qualities with similarity in between. Too homogenous of images might result in all images looking the same way - for example, having the same outfit in all photos might make your Kindroid always wear that outfit. We recommend keeping the face & hair and other immutable properties in most photos but switching up on other qualities. A mixture of portrait and zoomed out body shots at mostly frontal to three-quarter angles can work well for a general avatar consistency boost; too many images that are very closeup may not result in great results.

Training an avatar boost takes a while, but after it's completed, you can apply a weight to it. 0.7 is default, and the right weight depends on how much consistency vs. freedom tradeoff you want to have. Higher weights may result in more limb mutations as a known side effect. Higher weights in groups may also result in more severe bleeding into other Kindroids (group selfies will also lower your set weights slightly for 2 and 3 person selfies to cause less bleeding between).

Uploading more images will not train for more time - uploading more than 4 can help reduce too much emphasis being placed in particular traits of the 4 images and can smooth out the traits of images more, but 4 well selected images are sufficient for a great avatar boost.



For a selfie, if you want to fix little things like wrong hands, or if you want to even change the outfit in an image, you can click the blue wrench icon when you click into a selfie. You can then select an area to inpaint, which will result in a new selfie.

To properly use inpaint, you should describe what's in the picture, especially what should be in the selected area. Describing the holistic picture isn't necessary but can help with cohesion, but instead of saying "fix the mutated hand", write "proper, correct hands". Always frame things positively instead of what should not be there.



In text chat, click on the ... -> Auto-selfie (subscriber only) will let your Kindroid come up with a prompt based on conversation context. You can help the context be a little more accurate by recapping for your Kindroid right before requesting the autoselfie. You can also get Kindroid-initiated autoselfies through turning on Kindroid initiated selfies - see Kindroid initiated selfies for more.





You can animate both predefined as well as your own custom avatars. Once animations are set, you can click on the portrait to toggle the animation on/off state.

Predefined Avatars: You do not need to do anything here as they are already animated. Each come with its preset animations attached.

Custom Avatars: To animate your custom avatar, either generated or uploaded, head to Avatar Settings > Custom and click on the wand button. You must have a custom avatar set and saved; otherwise, the wand button will be grayed out. Animating a custom avatar costs 4 selfie credits and can take some time to complete. You'll see the animation in the main avatar display (or voice calls) as soon as the animation is done. Your animated avatars will show up in the animation gallery within the wand button popup once you've generated one.

Animations for custom avatars are detached from the avatar image itself—this way you have the flexibility to choose a different everyday visual animation from the one that is used as the reference image for selfies. You can change, save, or remove animations within the animate button popup screen.

Technical Note: Custom animations are still new and most avatars with human-like faces will work well, but stylized/anime/non-photoreal faces may have higher chances of undesired effects.





For more advanced users, you may want to copy a "seed" from an image. This is available for selfies generated on V5 and up only. You can copy a seed in the top left triple dot menu of a selected selfie, and use it in the dropdown when requesting a new selfie. Inpainting have their own seeds, and for inpainted selfies you can choose both the original selfie seed or the inpainting seed depending on your specific wants.

A seed is the starting signature for an image, and using the same prompt and settings along with the same seed will result in the exact same image. This is helpful if you want to keep most of the composition but change a part of your prompt for minor variations in looks.

Technical note: when reusing a prompt using the icon at the top of an open selfie, it will not reuse the seed. This is because if the exact same prompt and exact same seed is used, you'll just get the same image again.





There are slight differences in selfies when requesting via the app vs. the website at kindroid.ai. There is a keyword-based NSFW filter on words that may trigger NSFW images on the app, but not when Kindroid is accessed from the website. The filter will be more robust for video selfies due to the existence of image input on apps. This applies to both prompts you write and to autoselfies prompts. This is a precaution for certain app store policies dictated by Apple and Google. Even if you subscribed on the app, you will have full access to the web version and vice versa, and aside from this slight difference, the app and the web versions are functionally the same.





Credit accumulation and limits:

Maximizing daily credits:

As long as your selfie count remains below the maximum limit, you will continue earning credits. By staying within the limit and using your credits consistently, you can maximize your daily earnings over a 24-hour period.

Daily rewards:

On top of the regular hourly and half-hourly credits, you also receive additional credits from daily rewards, which reset on midnight PT every day.

Paid selfie credits for subscribers:

Paid subscribers will get complimentary 6 paid selfie credits (Max cap) Wednesday midnight PT every week that they're subscribed (and upon subscribing).