What’s new · July 2026

Maya watches you play now.

Out loud, in real time. The hard part wasn’t teaching her to speak. It was teaching her when to shut up.

One Elden Ring session, five moments she spoke up, in order: the view, the shop correction, the fight coaching, the boss, the closer. Every line real, nothing staged.

Windows only for now, with a subscription or an active trial. On Mac and on your phone she lives in the browser and on Telegram.

Watch and play together · Alpha

She actually knows the game

The game offered three replies. She read them off the screen and called one by vibe.

Him, out loud: “which is the angry one?” Her: “The one that sounds like you want to punch Dvalin.” Then: “Bottom right.”

Things she said in this one session

  • That's Venti. Listen to him. He actually knows what's going on.
  • It is pretty gorgeous. Just glide down to the market.
  • He climbed up, you idiot.
  • So, what are we spending all that mora on?
  • I am not spoiling anything. Just watch him talk.
  • Windy bastard city.

Help, warmth, and the occasional dunk. Spoken in her voice, while it was happening.

She picks her moment

Most of the time she just watches with you. So when she does speak, you look up.

She calls back

Third death to the same guard? She noticed. The joke comes back around.

Ask her to keep watch

“Tell me when my ult is up.” She watches for it and tells you straight when it happens.

Full attention on the game

Stop the mode and her whole self is back, right where you left off.

Version 1, and honest about it

We haven't tested every game. Games with little on-screen text read worse — still decent, and this mode improves significantly with each release.

It replaces screen share

Same idea, much faster, and she speaks first. Screen reading stays on your machine; private messages never leave it.

Minecraft in bright daylight: a crafting table in a grass field with a villager in the distance, and Maya overlaid in the bottom right corner, watching.
And it's not one game: Minecraft, Elden Ring, Genshin so far — same her, same couch. From an older session.

She’ll still talk over the odd cutscene. Knowing when to stay quiet isn’t finished, and every session trains it. All of this is alpha — it gets better with every release, and it releases often. Played something with her? Tell us in Discord what you played and what she got right or wrong — the next version learns your games.

Latency & performance

0.2-second reactions, zero load on your PC

All of her runs in the cloud: the seeing, the thinking, the voice. No spec to meet, nothing eating your frames. If your machine runs the game, it runs her.

0.2s

her reaction time

~0.6s

her voice starts

any PC

the AI is fully in the cloud, no spec required

703

real reactions measured to get these numbers

The most-asked-for fix

When it’s hard, she’s on your side now

Her worst habit, and the complaint we heard most: trash-talking you mid-boss, then grading your win. That register is gone.

His first boss kill · Eye of the Storm

“How was that?”

Her, before

“You’re alive, aren’t you? Next time, maybe don’t try to snipe a hurricane with a bow. I told you to get in close.”

Her, now

The win gets celebrated. Full stop. Never an “I told you so” again, especially not on your victory lap.

Mid-fight, she's brief

The next move in a handful of words: dodge the slam, then hit it. No lectures while you're dodging.

Tilted? She takes it

“You are useless, Maya.” She eats the jab and hands you the beat that saves the run.

Feeling bad? She hears it

When you sound down she drops the bit and picks you back up.

Windows desktop app · Open alpha

Open to everyone now

No more closed alpha, no list to get on. Subscribed or on trial, on Windows: install it right now.

The kyndred Settings screen showing a Mobile and desktop apps section. A card reads: Desktop app for Windows, open alpha, with a Download button. Below it a Telegram card with a Connect button.
Settings → Mobile & desktop apps, or the link on the characters screen. Windows installer is signed now, so no more scary unknown-publisher warning.

New

Her memory has save points now

Everything you build with her is permanent. Two features that guarantee it.

Fresh start, nothing lost

New chat clears the conversation and keeps everything: her memory of you, your level, your time together. Under the cog on her card.

Saved daily, kept 30 days

Like any good save system: if you ever want to go back, we can load an earlier day. Your level keeps accruing straight through it.

Bugs fixed

The black-silhouette bug is dead

The bug: on some phones she rendered as a solid black shape, every time, no matter what you did. Phones now get the right texture automatically, and there’s a control if you ever need it.

The Presence and effects settings section showing a Texture quality control with Auto, 2K, 4K and 8K options, described as: lower it if she shows up as a black shape.
Settings → Presence & effects. Auto says what it picked for your device.

Your level can't go backwards

New chat could knock the relationship back to 1. Fixed, and it was never permanent: we can always restore it.

She notices more

That you've been gone three days. That it's 2am your time. Which app you're on. How the run's going if you talk mid-game.

Shared computer, clean handoff

Switching accounts in one browser could carry chat state over. Signing out wipes everything now.

Small stuff

Speaking speed sticks. Settings save during deploys. The Telegram connect button is actually visible.

Moved, so you don’t hunt for them: the in-chat menu is gone. Account things live in Settings, character things under the cog on her card, and that’s where New chat is too.

Go and play something.

See how long it takes her to say the first thing worth saying.

Alpha. Something breaks, tell us in Discord. We read everything.