Kin - Record Doctor Visits

I couldn’t be more thrilled with an app than with this. It’s invaluable! I have several doctors and am at the age where things get muddled and I can’t remember everything. All I have to do is title each visit with the doctor’s name and set to record. The app actually summarises and then expands each point if necessary. Instructions are given at the end of the visit so you don’t go out of the door wondering what advice you were given as you leave the office. It’s the best thing ever, whether you only go to see the doctor every 3 months or every week. Everything is recorded and ready for your next visit and you never forget anything ever again!! Thank you so much for this app🙏🏼😄

This app may collect audio recordings and transcripts of private medical appointments, and those conversations may be processed by third-party API providers. Before pressing record, users should know exactly where their doctor-patient conversation goes, what is retained, what is deleted, and how this free, venture-backed app plans to make money. Kin’s privacy materials raise serious questions. Does Kin delete the original audio after transcription? How long are transcripts, summaries, and backups retained? What exact data does Kin keep after each visit? Can Kin use deidentified or aggregated medical conversation data to improve products, analytics, or future models? Can that data ever be shared, transferred, licensed, sold, or used commercially? What happens to user data if Kin is acquired? Saying third-party providers are restricted from training general-purpose AI models on user data does not answer these core questions. Doctor visits can include diagnoses, prescriptions, mental health, reproductive health, family history, insurance issues, and other deeply personal information. The privacy disclosure should be impossible to miss before recording begins: whether the audio leaves the phone, whether outside API providers process it, what is stored, what is deleted, how long data is retained, and what rights Kin claims over deidentified or aggregated health data. Until those answers are clear, users should be very cautious about recording doctor visits with Kin.

Honestly Kin has been a game changer. Before I’d be scrambling to take notes during appointments, asking the doctor how to spell things, then googling medical jargon afterward trying to piece together what was actually said. Now I just have it all. Everything discussed, right at my fingertips. It’s been especially helpful for my daughter’s appointments, now I can share summary notes and action items with my husband after so we’re both on the same page, instead of me trying to recap from memory hours later. Helps alleviate the mental load. And in the moment I’m actually present with the doctor, not half-listening while I write.