Aira from HoneyPlayBox is a hybrid sex toy and Kegel training device. It’s app-connected and includes both an assessment to see how strong your Kegel muscles are, and interactive training exercises designed to improve pelvic floor strength. It does this using a unique inflatable bulb at the end of the toy, mounted on a long, flexible neck.
Unfortunately, the app side of things is best described as functional and not a lot else, while the secondary vibration function of the Aira is more akin to an electric toothbrush that’s desperately low on battery.
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Unboxing and Design
The box actually calls the device “Puff”, though it’s marketed as Aira on the website. It is HoneyPlayBox-branded either way, so this may just be a packaging refresh or naming inconsistency that hasn’t quite been resolved yet.
Admittedly, it’s probably one of the weirdest-looking sex toys we’ve ever used, and it’s a lot smaller than I expected too. The handheld part of Aira is a small, bulbous egg. From that extends quite a long, flexible neck, and at the end of that you’ve got the squishy inflatable bulb itself. This is the minimum deflated to maximum inflated size:
If you’re thinking there’s not a lot in it, you’d be right, but it does the job and this isn’t an inflatable butt plug. It’s designed to assess and train your Kegel muscles, not stretch you to your limits and beyond.
How It Works
You insert it — there’s no set position as such, but we found it easier to test closer to the front. Once inserted, it inflates slowly. There’s an air pressure sensor inside the bulb, so when you squeeze, the air compresses and the pressure increases, which the app can detect.
The inflation is very quiet and extremely slow. I have no safety concerns here at all, especially given it doesn’t inflate by a huge amount. This is a very delicate affair.
Vibration (or Lack Thereof)
While you can use it as a basic vibrator, it’s really not very strong. Even pulled out and applied directly to the clitoris, it wasn’t enough to orgasm from at all. The sensations are muted and far too buzzy.
Honestly, I’d forget about that aspect of the toy completely and focus on it purely as a Kegel muscle assessment and training tool. For that, you need the app. It basically can’t be used properly without it.
Training Exercises and App Experience
It’s a simple concept: the more forcefully you can squeeze, the higher the pressure reading and the better your score. At the end of the assessment, you’re given a scorecard. In theory, that score should increase over time as you train and strengthen your pelvic muscles.
The training exercises also inflate the bulb, but instead of a test, it’s more about squeezing and holding on a beat, as hard as you can. You’re not really judged during these sessions; you just see a simple graph showing sensor data and target values.
If I have one main complaint about the app, it’s that the instructions are unclear. There’s a tiny bit of on-screen text telling you to squeeze and hold and for how many seconds, and that’s about it. A giant pause button is larger than the single piece of instructional text that you actually need.
This really could have been handled better with a full-screen color system — something like red to squeeze and green to relax — rather than forcing you to squint at tiny on-screen text. Better audio cues would also have helped a lot here.
Durability and Maintenance
The battery isn’t great. It feels like it loses a lot of charge when not in use, and there have been several occasions where we’ve tried to start a session only to find it completely dead. It also no longer indicates a full charge properly, it just flashes endlessly.
Inflatable silicone is always a bit of a concern long-term. We haven’t had any issues yet, but durability over time is difficult to judge. That said, there are no obvious seams, no awkward crevices, and nothing particularly fiddly about cleaning or maintenance.
Is the Aira Worth It for Kegel Training?
I’m a bit underwhelmed by the Aira. Fundamentally, it does work. It measures your Kegel strength and offers training, but it does so in a very lacklustre way. The software isn’t great, it’s mildly frustrating to use, and it’s just not especially compelling. They could have gamified this far better and offered clearer feedback and guidance. The vibration function, if you were hoping for a two-in-one toy, is completely useless; it won’t get you off unless you’re extremely sensitive. They should have dropped it entirely and focused on making this a better Kegel trainer.
If you can grab it on sale at less than $100, I’d say it’s not bad; but it’s hard to fully recommend at $140. Inflatable Kegel trainers are pretty rare; I couldn’t actually find another inflatable model to compare it to. The closest alternative I could find was the Perifit Care, which costs roughly the same but offers significantly better software, including playable games controlled with your pelvic muscles, with mechanics like Flappy Bird.
What’s especially frustrating is that the computer software HoneyPlayBox offers for the Vibrosa, which I reviewed last week, is far better than anything else on the market. So I know they’re capable of doing better.
I even looked into whether I could integrate Aira with existing PC software, or maybe build my own web-based app. Unfortunately, the communication protocols aren’t published, and it isn’t supported by Intiface, a third-party middleware layer that connects hundreds of sex toys to thousands of apps and games. That turned out to be a dead end.
Still, it does the core job, just in a fairly uninspiring way. That said, I’d recommend checking out what else HoneyPlayBox has to offer (again, use code TIGERLILY for 15% off!), as they have a wide range of far more impressive toys on their site.