Mochi Kinling
Photograph a flower on a wall, a beetle on the windowsill, the fern in the stairwell. Kinling lifts it out of the picture, draws it as a small sticker of itself, works out how it ought to move, and wakes it up. From then on it lives in your pocket with a passport, a name, and a history.
Coming to the App Store. It's in testing now — if you'd like to try it early, write to hello@ptk-studio.com.
The companion is made from your photograph — the same colours, the same markings, the same crooked wing. It is that particular flower, not a flower.
Every Kinling gets a small book: its name and number, where it came from, the stamps it has earned, and its Life Story. Drag it around the pages and it stays there. A butterfly flies between pages. A plant curls into a seed and drifts.
Plants want water and light. Insects want warmth and somewhere good to sit. Nothing is fed pellets from a generic menu, and nothing ever dies — leave for a month and you come back to something sleepy, not something lost.
New arrival, Young, Growing, Mature, Elder. Getting there takes time, variety and memories worth keeping — never tapping. There is no way to rush it, which is rather the point.
Kinling can usually tell a four-winged insect from a flowering plant. It is much less sure which one, and it says so instead of pretending. It will never tell you whether something is safe to touch, eat or pick up.
No ads. No account, no sign-up, no password. No streaks, no guilt, nothing nagging you to come back. No trading, no rarity, no leaderboards. Your photographs stay on your phone.
Kinling is made for photographing living things, not collecting them. A photograph is enough — nothing needs to be picked, caught or moved for the app to work.
Answers to the common questions are on the support page, and what the app does with your data is in the privacy policy.