For Android, open the Chrome browser and navigate to the KIOS log in page, tap the menu button (the three dots in the top right corner) and then tap Add to Home Screen. The icon will appear in your home screen like any other app shortcut or widget. 

For iOS, launch the Safari browser and navigate to the KIOS log in page. Tap the Share button on the browser’s toolbar and then tap the Add to Home Screen icon in the Share menu. 

Ideally, you’ll find a regular time each day to take the 2 minute assessment and to review the new advice. KIOS will not let you take more than one assessment per day. At a minimum, though, to see the best results, you should take at least 3 assessments per week. If you get off track, don’t worry. Just take a new assessment and start again. Once you assess, you’re back on track!

Answer each question to the best of your ability based on how you have felt since your last assessment. If you have difficulty remembering, then answer how you feel at the time of the assessment. 

The advice is designed to reflect the most recent changes in your bipolar state. Advice from prior assessment periods will no longer be accurate.

The calendar-based journal view allows you to see which dates you made a journal entry. Dates with a journal entry will show up as a highlighted color box. 

To access the calendar view:

1. Click on “Journal” at the top of the screen. 
2. A screen showing a blank journal entry with the current date will appear. Click on the current date.
3. A calendar-view, one month at a time, should drop down. Use the arrows to each side of the month’s title (i.e. September) to scroll from month to month. 
4. Select the highlighted date for any past journal entry you want to read. 

Instability is a measure unique to KIOS and is a combination of anxiety, shifting emotions and irritability. These items play an important role in bipolar disorder. Better self-management of these symptoms can help you to maintain your emotional balance. 

KIOS is a HIPAA compliant system that uses data encryption to protect your information. KIOS has been engineered so that no one but you has access to your data without your permission. 

Find out more on our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use pages.

KIOS is not a replacement for the medical professionals managing your care. KIOS is not a substitute for regularly scheduled visits with psychiatrists and therapists for professional bipolar advice. KIOS is, however, designed to enhance the care that you receive from medical professionals and includes a downloadable report, which shows a history of your own unique bipolar symptoms, and can be shared with your treatment providers. Sharing your report with your health care team can provide them with important data to help them make more informed decisions about your care.

No. KIOS is accessible from any device with an internet connection. KIOS can be used without downloading any software to your device (so it won’t take up any of your device’s memory) and it does not require any permissions to access other settings in your phone or device.

We hope you’ll love KIOS and want to continue indefinitely, but if that doesn’t happen, we understand.

While we don’t pro-rate for unused time on KIOS subscriptions, we will stop billing as soon as we receive your notice of cancellation.  You’ll be able to keep using your KIOS account through the end of the period that has already been billed. At the conclusion of the paid period, the account will close.

Please note that once you close an account, we cannot reinstate that particular account. If you decide to rejoin KIOS (and we hope you do!), you’ll need to start over with a new account.

Before you cancel, though, you can use the downloadable report to print out the prior 90 days worth of data and keep it for your records. You might also want to take screenshots of any special journal entries that you care to save. At present, we do not have a way to download journal data.

We hope you’ll keep using KIOS for expert guidance and emotional support.

While the free service/ “paid-for-by-advertisting”  model works for some products, we have determined it is not a good fit for KIOS for several reasons:

1. KIOS is not an app  created by a person in a garage, with little to no overhead. It is a clinically tested tool developed under the guidance of some of the world’s leading bipolar experts and validated in trials and focus groups with hundreds of patients. The development and testing of KIOS has taken millions of dollars and over seven years of work. In order to maintain that level of scientific rigor and product excellence going forward, as well as to pay for  ongoing maintenance, stellar customer support and continuous improvement of the product, we need to charge for KIOS.
2. Because mania and hypomania, two states common to bipolar, include the tendency for increased spending, we feel it would be unethical to  advertise to patients inside of KIOS.  This eliminates the option of having advertisers pay for KIOS.
3. The purpose of KIOS is to give users a quiet moment to reflect on their thoughts and feelings, to pay attention to their bodies and emotions, and to establish a sense of objectivity about their condition. Interrupting this process with distracting ads also defeats the purpose of KIOS.