How to Use Kimi: Complete Beginner's Guide to Moonshot AI Chatbot on Android and Web (2026)

This kimi tutorial is a complete kimi beginner guide covering everything from long-document analysis to coding and slides.

Getting Started: Accounts and Platforms

Kimi is free to use. You need an account, which you can create with an email address or phone number. Once signed in, the experience is the same across platforms: web at kimi.com, the Android app (APKPure has the latest APK), iOS, or the Kimi Work desktop app for Windows and macOS.

The desktop app, Kimi Work, is specifically built for office productivity: document editing, slide creation, and spreadsheet work alongside the chat interface. The mobile apps are lighter but include full multimodal support.

How to Use Kimi for Long-Document Analysis

This is Kimi's signature feature. You upload a file and ask questions about it.

1. Open Kimi and tap the paperclip or upload icon

2. Select your file: PDF, Word doc, Excel sheet, PowerPoint, or plain text

3. Wait a moment for processing. Large files take longer

4. Ask your question: "Summarize this contract's key terms" or "Find all references to budget in this 80-page report"

Kimi's context window handles up to 2 million Chinese characters or about 1 million English tokens with the K3 model. That means you can upload an entire book, a full codebase, or hundreds of pages of legal documents and get coherent answers across all of it.

Pro tip: break long documents into specific questions rather than asking "tell me everything." You will get more useful responses.

How to Use Kimi Slides and Presentations

Kimi can generate slide decks from text descriptions. This is the "kimi slides ai" feature users search for most.

1. In the chat, describe the presentation you need: "Create a 10-slide pitch deck for a food delivery startup targeting university campuses"

2. Kimi generates a structured outline with slide titles and content

3. You can refine individual slides: "Make slide 3 more focused on market size numbers"

4. Export to PowerPoint or edit directly in Kimi Work

The slide generation works best when you give it a clear audience and purpose. "Create slides about marketing" produces generic results. "Create a 6-slide deck for CMOs explaining why TikTok Shop outperforms Instagram for beauty brands in Q3 2026" gets you something useful.

How to Use Kimi for Coding

Kimi K3 is strong at coding, and it works differently from standalone code editors.

1. Paste your code directly into the chat or upload a file

2. Ask for what you need: "Debug this function," "Refactor this to use async/await," or "Write unit tests for this module"

3. Kimi responds with the updated code and an explanation of what changed and why

For larger projects, upload multiple files and ask about architecture decisions. Kimi can also search the web for current documentation, so it is less likely to suggest outdated APIs or deprecated packages.

How to Use Kimi's Web Search

Kimi has built-in web search that you can trigger manually or let Kimi decide when it needs current information.

1. Type your question normally

2. Click the globe or search icon to force web search, or

3. Let Kimi automatically search when your question requires up-to-date info

The search pulls from current web sources and cites them in the response. This is useful for news, product comparisons, pricing checks, and anything that changes faster than a model's training data.

How to Use Kimi with Images and Video

Starting with K2.5, Kimi handles images and video alongside text.

1. Upload an image: screenshot, photo, diagram, or chartA

2. Ask your question: "What does this error message mean?" or "Extract the data from this chart into a table"

3. For video, upload a clip and ask: "Summarize what happens in this video" or "When does the speaker mention pricing?"

The vision model is good at reading text in images, understanding charts, and describing visual content. It is not a photo editor, but it is a capable analysis tool for visual information.

Kimi OK Computer AI: Desktop Mode

"Kimi OK Computer" refers to Kimi Work, the desktop application. It is a different experience from the web and mobile apps.

1. Download Kimi Work from the official site or APKPure

2. Sign in with your Kimi account

3. The interface combines chat with document editing, slide creation, and spreadsheet tools

The desktop app is designed for sustained work sessions: research, writing, data analysis, and presentation building in one window. It is closer to an AI-powered office suite than a chatbot in a browser tab.

Tips for Better Results

Be specific about what you want. "Help me with this document" gets a vague response. "Extract all action items from this meeting transcript and organize them by owner with deadlines" gets exactly what you need.

Use follow-up questions. Kimi remembers the context of your conversation, so you can build on previous answers. "Now make those action items into a table" or "Add priority levels to each item" work without repeating the original request.

Switch modes when needed. If a reasoning-heavy question gets a shallow answer, toggle to Thinking mode. If you need fast factual answers, use Instant mode. The mode switcher is in the chat interface.

You can download Kimi on APKPure for Android. The latest version includes K3 model access and all the features described here.