Nourva Drop

What Drop does

Nourva Drop moves what is on your phone to your computer. You link the two once, with a code. After that you send files, photos or video, or a piece of text or a link, and they land on the computer. Every file, and its name, is sealed on your phone before it leaves, so only your own devices can open it.

Open it from the Apps seat by tapping Nourva Drop. Drop belongs to your account, so sign in first. You also need Nourva on the computer: get it from the download page. For a short walk-through, open the ⋯ menu on the Drop page and choose Take a tour.

Link your computer

You link once. The computer shows a code and you type it on the phone.

1. On your computer, open Nourva Drop and choose Link a device. It shows a six-digit code.
2. On your phone, open Apps › Nourva Drop and tap Link your computer.
3. Type the six digits into Six-digit code.
4. Tap Link the device.

The phone shows Linked. and names the computer. Tap Done.

A code is Valid for five minutes · single use. If it has run out, the phone says The code expired. Request a new one from the computer. After too many wrong tries, Drop asks you to wait a few minutes before you try again.

To link another device, or to link a computer again, open Nourva Drop › Devices and tap Link a device.

Send from Nourva Drop

1. Open Nourva Drop and tap Throw a file.
2. Under What to throw, choose one of the three ways in the table.
3. Pick your files or photos, or type your text and tap Review the send. The Review page opens.
4. Check the list. Your computer is shown under To.
5. Tap Throw to followed by your computer's name.

Files on their way are listed under In motion with their progress. Your plan sets how large one file can be and how much transfer space you have; Review shows the Per-file limit on your plan. The app tells you when a file is too big (The file is over the limit.) or when space runs short (Not enough space.). Manage space opens Storage, where Clear the temporary copies frees room. Files kept on your phone are not touched.

Send from other apps

On iPhone and iPad you can send without opening Drop.

1. In Safari, Photos or Files, open what you want to send and tap Share.
2. Choose Nourva. The file goes to your linked computer without opening the app.

If Nourva is not in the row of apps, tap More in that row and add it.

Files that Nourva makes for you can go the same way. In the Office or in Arachne's files:

1. Open the file.
2. Tap Send it to….
3. Choose Nourva Drop.

Only the file is sent, with no instruction attached. Nourva tells you whether it landed or is waiting for your computer.

Kept private, and waiting for a device

• Sealed before it leaves. The file and its name are encrypted on your phone. Nourva cannot open them.
• Only your devices. The code links the devices of your own account, and nothing is shared publicly. The Security page in Drop sums this up (before you link, tap How it stays private).
• Keys stay on the device. If a linked device's key changes, for example when Nourva is installed again on it, sending to it pauses until you link it again. If Nourva was not reinstalled there, leave it unlinked.
• A copy stays where it arrives. What reached a device does not disappear when the transfer copy ends.

If the computer is off, the sealed copy waits under Waiting for and your computer's name. Its status reads Waiting for the device to receive until the computer receives it or the temporary copy expires; the transfer's page shows Kept until. If a copy expires, send the original again. To take a waiting file back, open it and tap Withdraw, then confirm with Withdraw: the sealed copy leaves the cloud and the computer will not receive it.

Unlink a device

1. Open Nourva Drop › Devices.
2. Tap your computer.
3. Tap Unlink.
4. Confirm with Unlink, or choose Keep the link.

The computer stops being a place you can send to until you link it again. Copies that already reached your devices stay. The device's page shows Link valid until and tells you when a link is close to ending; renew it from the computer to keep sending.

Find what reached your phone

A file a linked device sends you lands inside Nourva on this phone and stays there until you delete it. Files already on the phone open even when you are offline.

1. Open Apps and tap Nourva Drop.
2. Look under On this phone. The number beside it is how many files you hold.
3. Tap a file to open its page.

Each row shows the file's size, the day it arrived and, when known, the device it came from («From» and the device's name). Thumbnails appear when Show previews is on; they are drawn on this phone only.

When you hold enough files, a row of filters appears: All, Images, Documents, Media and Links. The list shows only the first files; tap Show all for the rest and Show less to fold it back.

To send files from this phone, see Nourva Drop: send files to your devices.

Open, share or delete a file

A file's page shows a preview and the file's Size, From, Arrived and File type, with these options:

• Open in an app opens the file in your phone's viewer, or in Safari for a link.
• Share or save a copy opens the share sheet, so you can save it to Files, send it by AirDrop or hand it to another app.
• Throw to and your device's name sends the file on to your linked device.
• Delete from this phone removes it from Nourva on this phone.

To delete a file:

1. Open the file and tap Delete from this phone.
2. Tap Delete to confirm, or Keep the file to leave it.

Only the copy kept inside Nourva on this phone is removed. The transfer record stays.

Follow a transfer

A file on its way shows under In motion with its percent. A file that could not send shows under Needs you. A copy you sent that is waiting in the cloud shows under Waiting for and the device's name, marked Sealed, waiting and the day it is kept until. Files you sent are listed under Sent.

Tap any of these rows to open Transfer details: From, To, Status, Size and When, plus Kept until for a copy that is waiting. The Status row reads:

To withdraw a waiting copy:

1. Open its Transfer details and tap Withdraw.
2. Tap Withdraw again to confirm, or Keep it to leave it waiting.

The sealed copy leaves the cloud, and the other device will not receive it.

A file you send does not add a copy to the files on this phone. You open it where a local copy exists.

Limits and temporary copies

A file waits in the cloud as a temporary copy until the other device receives it. How large one file can be and how much transfer space you have depend on your plan. Temporary copies are kept for a set number of days. See Plans at a glance.

To see your figures, open Nourva Drop and tap Storage under Settings. It shows how much of your transfer space is in use, Per file, Your plan and Temporary copies are kept for. Files kept on this phone are not counted there.

When you send from this phone, a file that is too big brings The file is over the limit. with the size your plan allows; choose a smaller file. When the space is full, you see Not enough space.; tap Manage space to open Storage.

Clear the temporary copies

Clearing frees transfer space taken by copies still waiting to be received.

1. Open Nourva Drop and tap Storage.
2. Tap Clear the temporary copies.
3. Tap Clear the space to confirm, or Keep the space to cancel.

Copies waiting to be received go. If one did not reach the other device, send the original again. The transfer log keeps its rows.

If a file does not arrive

• Open Nourva Drop on this phone. A linked device is not always open, so a file sent while the app was closed waits as a sealed copy until it is received or its temporary copy expires.
• If Needs you shows This phone's key changed, nothing is sent or received. Tap it, choose Reset this phone's key, then link your computer again. Files already on this phone stay.
• If a device under Your devices shows Key changed, sending to it is paused until you link it again.
• When you see You're offline, files already on this phone open as usual, and transfers continue when the connection is back.

What the Apps seat holds

The Apps seat holds three rooms of their own, apart from Chat. The Designer makes pictures, brands and short films. The Financial Market shows prices, charts and analysis. Nourva Drop moves your files between your phone and your computer. Go there when you want to make something, follow a market or send a file.

The rooms are the same on iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets.

Open a room

1. Sign in to your Nourva account.
2. Tap the Apps seat, the fifth icon in the bar at the bottom, after Hiring.
3. Tap the room you want under Your spaces.

The large The Designer door comes first, with the line 12 studios. From a photo to a whole brand. Two rows follow: Financial Market (Prices, charts and analysis) and Nourva Drop (Your files, across your devices). On iPad with a keyboard, ⌘5 opens the seat.

If you are not signed in, a tap on a room opens a card, Sign in to power this, with one Sign in button. Chat and Settings stay open.

The three rooms

The Designer

Start from a door under What to make. The first time, the Designer asks First, show me you.: three quick photos, once, and every studio uses them. They are Kept on this phone. Looks develop while you wait, and the work Keeps going if you leave. You'll get a note. Your work in the ⋯ menu keeps your latest works from the photo studios, and under From the Studio your latest other works, each for a while. The + menu, Bring anything, adds a Camera shot, Photos, Files, a sketch with Draw, A logo or A font.

The Financial Market

Markets shows each exchange's hours in your time, then the Heatmap, Movers, Sectors, Crypto, Currencies & commodities and Top stories. Open a symbol for its chart. Its Nourva's read is tagged Engine · not advice. The Analyst gives one answer at a time. Some venues delay their feed, and the screen says so. Alerts arrive as notifications: Nourva watches prices and never places trades.

Nourva Drop

Link your computer once. After that, each file is sealed on your phone before it leaves, and only your linked device can open it.

1. On the computer, open Nourva Drop and choose Link a device. It shows a code.
2. On the phone, tap Link your computer, or open Devices and tap Link a device.
3. Enter the Six-digit code and tap Link the device. The code is Valid for five minutes · single use.
4. Tap Throw a file and choose From the phone's files, Photos or video, or Text or a link.

Credits and sign-in

Every room needs a signed-in account. A guest meets the sign-in card.

Paid work in the Designer shows its price in credits on the button before you tap it. A picture that does not come out is not charged. When you hold too few credits, the Designer says A little more credit and shows what the work needs and what you have.

Starter includes no credits; credits Nourva gives you work on any plan. Professional, Ultimate and Max come with credits and can buy more. See How credits work.

Take a tour

Each room has a guided tour. Tap ⋯ at the top of the Designer, the Financial Market or Nourva Drop and choose Take a tour, the first row of the menu.