Kinsa Smart Stick Hack 9.0.11 + Redeem Codes

I bought four. Two of the sticks and two of the ear model. I’m mailing a set of them to my daughter in Boston. I’m in a rural setting and she is in a big urban area. She has roommates and I have family here. It seemed reasonable to have the larger thermometer for others in our homes and the stick for personal use. It is quick and easy to use. I am very pleased with them and will feel better knowing my daughter has them too. I really like the idea of data sharing to catch infection in hot spots, or areas that may be heating up. I hope you will continue to make this side benefit of data available to folks and make a nice forecast of healthy areas vs not so healthy areas before they get bad. It is so important and will, I believe, save lives. Carry on!!!

We bought this thermometer for our newborn who is under 2 months old. For newborns under 3 months, a fever of 100.4 is an emergency. This thermometer indicated that our newborn had a fever on 3 separate occasions, one reading as high as 100.9. This caused us to go to the emergency room where they drew blood (which is very hard on a baby under two months). They had to try twice to draw her blood because her veins are so small. They also took urine samples to rule out a UTI and talked about a possible SPINAL TAP to find out if she had meningitis! At this point, we wondered if the thermometer was the problem and we bought a rectal thermometer at CVS. The Kinsa thermometer consistently read high compared to the CVS thermometer, as high as 2 degrees. Based on the CVS thermometer, our baby never even had a fever! This was also verified at the hospital when they re-checked her temperature. This thermometer is highly inaccurate and needs to be taken off the market. Had we not thought to verify its accuracy, we may have put our newborn through more invasive procedures (spinal tap) that were unnecessary.

Horrible software & hardware.

At least now they’re selling your data maybe about your sick child to Clorox!

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Original Kinsa stopped working when I went from an iPhone 5 to an iPhone 6. Kinsa never mentioned this in any app update notes. I complained so they sent me a replacement (eventually THREE REPLACEMENTS) that were all supposed to be iPhone 6 compatible. All failed with Error 3 4 despite two being the proper lot number. Why the sent me the first replacement that even they knew was incompatible? Beyond me. They even refunded my money and sent another Kinsa. It didn't work either and never replied to me. How are they in business if they can't even test the product before the ship it after multiple failures? I don't understand. A cheap drug store thermometer works better and is faster. The original Kinsa that sometimes worked with my iPhone 5 was slow and flakey. Totally unreliable. Who would have guessed the "iPhone 6 compatible" update would be worse and completely non-functional. Kinsa is 0-4. Hard to say that's a fluke.

I bought this Thermometer last year when my husband and I had the flu and all of my Battery Thermometers had dead batteries. Problem is, today when I needed to use it, I realized that it requires a headphone port and my newly updated iPhone 8 doesn’t have a headphone port. I had an IPhone 6 when I bought the Kensa Thermometer.
I did some internet searching and learned that an adapter came with my new iPhone 8 and sure enough I found it still in the box that the phone came in. Now I’m back to using this Thermometer and it’s working beautifully. Maybe this info will help someone else with an updated iPhone. I think IPhone 7 also has no headphone jack. Not sure if it included the adapter though.

I’ve been using Kinsa for a few years now for my little one. I’ve only had to change the battery once so far. After all these years, I realized just now that I had better write a review because I literally track all of my child’s symptoms on the app so I hope that this app never gets shut down or anything. I wouldn’t want to lose my child’s years of medical history. I hope technology like this never goes away, but only keeps getting better. Kinsa is a MUST HAVE for all parents, that’s for sure!!!

We don’t have our thermometer 🌡 yet but I’m told it should be coming home with one of my kids this week so I can’t yet say anything about that part but I’ve been using the app for about 3 weeks or so anyway. My only complaint so far is that I cannot change the time stamp of when the symptoms are put in. I’m a busy mother of 7 kids and I can’t always immediately turn on the app to put in their symptoms and sometimes I forget to do it until way later (i.e. my daughter was sick last night but I didn’t get it into the app until this morning). I don’t know about you but I would prefer to be able to have accurate information about the time as well as the rest of it. Please fix this and I’d gladly give a 5th star.

I tell everyone about this thermometer! I love it. The fact that it has profiles for the whole family, I can keep track of everything in one place, when the doctor asks when something happened or symptoms started I can actually be confident that I’m giving an accurate answer 👍 (even when loopy from lack of sleep 😴)
Never need to worry about the batteries in the thermometer again 🤗🤗
I have been frustrated on a couple of occasions with not being able to get an accurate reading on the first, or second, attempt. Which is maddening when trying to care for a sick infant. 😠
Overall though this is by far my favorite new baby gadget.

The app was OK at the beginning. Everything worked as advertised, and it was syncing nicely with HealthKit.

As far as accuracy goes, this thermometer is about 2°F warmer than any of my other thermometers, both oral and ear types. Even the Kinsa Stick shows about 2 degrees lower.

I can’t say for sure if it’s inaccurate, maybe all the other thermometers I own have drifted too much. But the fact that it stopped working with the app after 1 day is a deal breaker. The whole point of the smart thermometer is to automatically log your vitals so you don’t have to remember. I’ve had a low-grade fever for 6 months, my doctors want me to track them. Since the ear thermometer appears to be inaccurate and the quality control of both the ear and app seem to be suspect, I can not recommend any Kinsa product.

I’ve tried it on multiple devices and platforms and followed all the instructions on re-syncing the device. The app sees that the device is connected, but it never sensed or logs the readings. After one day, this “smart thermometer” is just an inaccurate $40 ear thermometer.

DO NOT BUY ANY KINSA PRODUCTS.

Save your money, ask your doctor for a recommendation for a cheap and accurate thermometer, and log it the old fashioned way.

This thermometer is more accurate then most. We got it to compare to our other rectal thermometer after our 8month old was spiking fevers for 2months due to daycare colds and ear infections. It reads only a few 10ths of a degree higher then our other 2 (one rectal and one in ear). My only complaint is with the app. I can’t change how the app is registering the reading once it’s been read ie underarm, rectal, mouth- leading to inaccurate app guidance and inaccurate data for doctors appointments. I also can’t change the times of when a temp was taken if I’m entering it manually. This is crazy annoying because I’m a mom of a sick baby- I don’t always record in real time!

This company should be sued for selling a faulty product for NEWBORN BABIES. This constantly tells me that my son has a fever and has left me with countless trips to multiple doctors, as well as speaking to specialists, all in an effort to understand why my son has chronic fevers despite a clean bill of health otherwise. No one could make sense of it. Each time his temp was taken at the doctor's office, the fever wasn't there. We bought different thermometers to see if it was the Kinsa. The Kinsa would read 101.2 while the others read 99.8, for example. THIS IS A HUGE AND DANGEROUS DIFFERENCE. The Kinsa tells me my son has a high, dangerous fever while the others tell me he is perfectly fine. The emotional distress placed on a parent with a newborn constantly "having a high fever" only to find out it's wrong is unacceptable, which is putting it lightly.