Kinsa Smart Thermometer for Fever - Digital Medical Baby, Kid and Adult Termometro - Accurate, Fast, FDA-Cleared Thermometer for Oral, Armpit or Rectal Reading - QuickCare

Rubbish!! On / off button stopped working after a week! Not good when constant temperature checks needed for a stroke victim! NEVER BUY THEIR PRODUCTS

PEDIATRICIAN RECOMMENDATIONS: - NEVER BUY TYMPANIC, FOREHEAD, TEMPORAL ARTERY, etc. thermometers (Even Kinsa's!). They can be 3 degrees off. - ALWAYS BUY ORAL/RECTAL thermometers for accuracy. BUY THIS ONE. It's awesome. Some Chinese off-brands may not be accurate. - You can take underarm temps for a "ballpark" number, but for an accurate number, take rectal for kids under 3, oral over 3 I am a pediatrician, and I just had my first child. He developed a fever but I didn't know how high. I almost bought a $260-300+ Welch-Allyn SureTemp Plus 692 (it's what I use at my office), but with an infant, I would mostly take rectal temps. I knew the SureTemp takes 4-6 second oral readings, but I did NOT know rectal readings took 10 seconds! So I decided to try this for LESS than 1/10th the price. And am I glad I did!!! I just received my Kinsa QuickCare Smart Digital Thermometer yesterday (a bit late, my son's fever had passed), and I am VERY impressed. Setup is VERY EASY considering there's an app to set up rather than simply taking temps. The app recognized the thermometer right away, sync'ed super fast. Readings happen VERY FAST. It starts showing temperature readings within 1 second, though it takes a few seconds to get a final reading. It feels like 3-4 seconds. The Kinsa QuickCare feels solid and the tip is surprisingly flexible. The silicone rubber shell feels like quality, not plasticky. The app is also very intuitive, allowing you to keep a record of temps taken as well as other symptoms, and allows multiple profiles so you can keep straight who started with what symptom when. It also offers the ability to move temp readings from one profile to another (in case you forgot to switch profiles before taking the next temperature). The app is handy for keeping track of common cold and stomach bug symptoms. Your pediatrician will be so impressed you know EXACTLY when your child's cough and fever started, when it stopped, etc! I know I would! FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS: - DON'T cheap out and buy the $8 Chinese off-brand; they may not be accurate and will crap out on you quickly. Buy this one! - DON'T spend more on "instant read" tympanic, temporal artery, and forehead thermometers; you will get LESS ACCURATE readings

This is the very best thermometer that any parent could ever wish for. It is quick (8 seconds), efficient, fun (it shows a little stuffed elephant during the 8 seconds) and it is so much more than a thermometer. Besides saving your child’s temp, you can also add all their symptoms from a list that is provided for you. This list will help you determine if your child has a cold or the flu. And it will recommend if your child needs to see a doctor or if their cold/flu just needs to run its course. It’s Great for children and adults alike. I highly recommend it for everyone.

This was one of those "I'll try it" kind of purchases. It's a thermometer, and it's very accurate and fast. The mobile app (iOS in my case) is what makes this 5 stars. It is so easy to take a measurement, even for a sick child. The app entertains them for the few seconds it takes to measure their temperature. It records the temperature in the child's profile in the app (giving you an accurate history without having to find a pad and pencil to write it down). And, you can add the medicines you have given the child right alongside the temperature readings. This is amazing when you have 2 parents each having to get up overnight with a sick child (now, when did my wife give him Children's Motrin...??). Surprising that something so little has much such a positive impact in treating our kids when they are ill.

(Updated Apr 14 - will leave posting for history, in case anybody has same issue) I picked this Kinsa over the other two models as it appears to be the most compatible with the phones moving forward. (being it connects bluetooth vs aux audio plug) I loaded the app, and it said it found the QuickCare device. This was followed by the screen going to "UPd", which after looking through the app meant it was updating the firmware on the QuickCare thermometer. The app shows a progress bar, and about 2 minutes into the firmware update, I get "Connection Failed". The thermometer drops the "UPd", but soon displays it again, and the app shows its trying to load the firmware update again. "Connection Failed" I try it several more times, and find that it does not always fail at the same place on the progress bar. The CR2032 battery it came with showed "Low" on the app, so I replaced it with a new battery.... twice. Each time the battery showed that it was good, and after getting "UPd" and trying to install the firmware again, the battery then shows "Low". I would say I tried to update the firmware nearly twenty (20) times. I then went to the Kinsa support website and created a ticket (#30797) explaining all this. I did this on Apr 8, at 6:22 AM. Kinsa responded on Apr 8, at 8:22 AM. "Your ticket 30797 has been received and is being reviewed by our support staff. We make every effort to respond to all requests within 2 business hours." Today is Apr 11... Wednesday, and no response. I'll give it a few more days, and if I can't resolve the issue, I'll have to return it. (I hate doing returns) Apr 12: Kinsa contacted me and will be sending out a replacement, updated to the newest firmware. Will post results and update rating as appropriate. Apr 13: Received replacement. Paired to my phone and saw that the firmware was not 1.0.1, but 1.0.3. Within the software I selected the first unit and "forgot" it and tested the new unit. Besides myself, I added my wife and grandson. Tested all three of us and verified the results using two other thermometers we have. Everything looks good. Apr 14: Okay, will up my review. I have to chock it up to I just got a bad unit. Kinsa handled it pretty well, and I'll be dropping the defective one in the mail back to them. (they handled the shipping both ways) I really like the recorded history, as in the past when somebody was sick, it will be nice to see the previous readings. I expect this to become my default temperature reader.

very convenient, displays temp quickly on my iPhone, This is a replacement for my three year old one, which was having trouble turning on properly.