Nourva One

Start a conversation

Nourva One is the voice of Nourva: you talk, she listens and answers aloud. She sits in a seat at the top of every screen, with a row of small bars as her icon, and she stays with you when you move to another screen. On Apple Watch and in CarPlay she has guides of her own.

Siri also knows "Start Nourva" and "Ask Nourva a question".

When you open Nourva, a thin line draws under her seat for a few seconds with the words Talk to Nourva One. Tap the words to start her, or tap anywhere else and the line goes away. It shows once each time you open the app, never when you move between screens.

Type to her

You do not have to speak. Tap the pen and the seat becomes a text field. Write your message and send it with the arrow, or press return. She answers in writing, briefly, in a strip under the seat; her sheet stays closed. Ask her to open a part of the app and she takes you there.

• Tap + to add photos or files from Photo Library, Files or Camera.
• Tap anywhere outside the seat to put it back to rest.

What you see while you talk

The seat and the top of her sheet always name what she is doing.

Her sheet adds Stopped when you cut in, and Paused while you have paused her. You can interrupt her at any time: start speaking and she stops the moment you speak, then listens.

If the seat says Muted, Can't hear you, Asleep, On a call or Allow on screen, tap it. Instead of ending the conversation, the tap opens her sheet, where you can see what she needs.

Mute, pause, lower and end

Her sheet has a row of controls at the bottom: Reports, Translate, the white button in the middle, Mute microphone and Options.

• Mute microphone: she cannot hear you, but she keeps working. Tap it again to unmute.
• The white button: a tap pauses her. Your microphone goes silent, her voice is muted and her sentence is cut. Tap again to resume.
• Lower the sheet: the arrow at the top takes the sheet down, and so does pulling the sheet down. The conversation goes on, and the seat shows her state on every screen.

To end the conversation, do any of these:

• Tap the seat while she is live.
• Press and hold the white button until its ring fills.
• Open Options › Session details and tap End session.

Once she has ended, tap the white button to start a new conversation.

How long it lasts

A connection has a time limit. The line under her words counts the time, and Options › Session details shows the time Elapsed and Remaining. When the time is up, the sheet says Our hour is complete. You can start a new conversation whenever you like.

A pause that goes on too long ends the call. The sheet then says Paused for a while. and I ended the call.

On the Lock Screen

While a conversation is live on your iPhone, a card on the Lock Screen shows her state, with Mute and End buttons. On an iPhone with a Dynamic Island, she shows there too. Amber means she needs you.

To hide the card, open Options › Presence and turn off Lock screen card.

Who can talk to her

Anyone signed in can talk to Nourva One, and a conversation uses credits. Guests, who use Nourva without an account, have chat only. Credits Nourva gives you work on any plan; Starter includes no credits of its own. See How credits work.

Talk, and she does the work

Nourva One does more than answer. While you talk, she can make an Office file, put a question to an employee, send Arachne on a mission, work with your calendar and reminders, play a song or draw a chart. Say what you want in your own words, and she picks the right tool.

Before she deletes something, places a call, runs a shortcut or presses a button that sends, buys or pays, she asks for your spoken yes. What she makes or starts for you is paid from your credits, like the conversation itself.

What you can ask for

Make me a one-page PDF with the plan for Monday's meeting.

Your phone's own apps

On iPhone and iPad she can work with the apps on your device, once you have allowed Nourva to use them. See iPhone permissions.

• Calendar: she reads the days ahead and adds, changes or deletes events.
• Reminders: she reads them, creates them, marks them done and deletes them.
• Contacts: she finds a contact by name.
• Calls: she brings up the call screen for the number, and iOS asks you before the call starts.
• Messages: she opens WhatsApp, a text message, an email or Telegram with the message already typed. You tap send yourself, because iOS never lets a message go out silently.
• Apple Music: she plays a song from your Apple Music subscription. Say pause, resume, next, previous or stop to control it.
• Shortcuts: she runs one of your own Apple Shortcuts when you say its exact name.

Remind me to call the dentist tomorrow at 9, and add lunch with Sara on Friday at 1.

In CarPlay she handles calendar, reminders, contacts, calls and messages by voice too. See Nourva One in CarPlay.

When she waits for your yes

These steps wait for your spoken yes:

• Deleting a calendar event, a reminder, a report or a file.
• Placing a call.
• Running one of your Shortcuts.
• Signing you out.
• Pressing a button on the Nourva screen that deletes, signs out, sends, buys or pays.

She tells you in one sentence what she is about to do and asks a plain yes or no question. Say "yes" or "go ahead" and she does it. Say "no", "wait" or "cancel" and she drops it. If you say anything else, she asks again and does nothing. The question stays open only for a short while; after that she has to ask again.

When Arachne needs your approval in the middle of a mission, Nourva One reads the card to you and acts only on your spoken answer. See What she asks you first.

Reports, read aloud

Open the Nourva One sheet and tap Reports in the bottom row. See Talk to Nourva One for how to open the sheet.

• Reports lists her reports: the ones from Nourva One and the ones she made or tracked for you on any Nourva screen.
• Tap a report to open it in Nourva.
• Tap its speaker (Read aloud) and she reads it to you while the conversation is live. Say "stop" to end the reading.
• Swipe a row for Delete.

You can also ask by voice: "open my latest report", then "read it to me".

Two ways to show her

While you talk to Nourva One, she can look through your camera or follow your screen. Use the camera when the thing is in front of you: a letter, a label, a broken part. Use screen sharing when it is on your phone, including in apps other than Nourva.

Neither starts on its own: she turns them on only when you ask, in the middle of a conversation. They are part of the conversation, so they need what any talk with her needs: an account and credits. See Talk to Nourva One.

Show her with the live lens

1. Start a conversation with Nourva One.
2. Ask her to look, and say what you want to know.
3. The first time, iOS asks whether Nourva may use the camera. Allow it.

Look at this and tell me what it says

A small camera view opens, marked her live eye. She takes a fresh look as you talk, so you can move the camera and keep talking. She always goes by the newest picture.

• Switch cameras. Tap ⇄ on the camera view, or ask her to use the front or the back camera.
• If the camera won't open. If you once refused it, open the iOS Settings app › Nourva and turn on Camera, then ask her again.

If you stay quiet for a while, the lens closes by itself. Ask her to look again when you are ready.

Let her follow your screen

Screen sharing lets her see your whole screen, not only Nourva, so she can follow what you do in other apps. On iPhone and iPad it uses the iOS screen broadcast.

1. In a conversation, ask her to follow your screen.
2. She asks first whether she may watch your whole screen. Say yes. She asks once per conversation.
3. If sharing is not on yet, the iOS broadcast sheet opens. Tap Start Broadcast.

Follow my screen while I fill in this form

While she follows, she stays quiet, like a colleague beside you. She answers when you ask and speaks up only when something worth mentioning changes. In Nourva, a pulsing red dot and a Stop sharing button sit near the top of the screen. Outside Nourva, iOS shows its own red indicator.

Without screen sharing she sees only Nourva's own screens. For anything outside Nourva, start sharing first.

• After a while she stops following by itself. Ask her again to carry on.
• If sharing drops, she tells you and stops following. Ask her again to restart it.
• On Android, sharing starts through Android's own consent dialog each time, a notification stays up while it runs, and what she sees is not stored on Nourva's servers after the session ends.

When the sheet folds

When she opens something for you while the Nourva One sheet is up, such as the camera, a chart, a video, a file, a report or the browser, the sheet folds into the lower part of the screen and what she opened takes the top. You see both, and the conversation carries on.

• Change the split. Drag the sheet's handle up or down. Nourva keeps your split for that kind of thing next time.
• Unfold it. Close what she opened, or ask her to close it, and the sheet fills the screen again.
• Get the sheet out of the way. Tap Lower the sheet, the arrow at its top left. The conversation keeps going. To bring the sheet back, tap the chevron on Nourva One's seat at the top of the screen.

How to stop each

The broadcast can outlast the conversation that started it. As long as it runs, the red dot and Stop sharing stay in Nourva, and they come back when you return to the app.

Why Nourva asks for the camera and for screen broadcast is in Your privacy and device permissions. What happens to your audio and words is in Your voice and privacy.

Two modes for two people in the room

Nourva One has two modes for conversations between people. In interpreter mode she sits between two people who speak different languages: each sentence she hears in one language comes out in the other, spoken and written. In minutes mode she stays silent, writes down every word in the room with its time, and turns it into minutes when the meeting ends.

Both run inside a conversation with Nourva One, so you need to be signed in, and they use credits like the rest of your time with her. You start either one by asking her. Interpreting also has a button. For the basics of talking to her, see Talk to Nourva One.

Interpret between two people

Interpreter mode works between any two of the 20 languages Nourva speaks. She translates faithfully: no comments, no answers to what is said, nothing added or left out.

1. Open the Nourva One sheet, or talk to her from the bars at the top of any screen.
2. Tap the Translate button in the sheet's bottom row, or say that you want an interpreter.
3. Put the phone between you and the other person.
4. Speak in either language. The other language appears on the screen, and she says it aloud.

Interpret between me and Maria. I speak English, she speaks Spanish.

Nourva starts with your app's language and English, or English and Spanish if your app is already in English. To change a language, tap one of the two language buttons in the middle of the screen and choose from the list of 20. The swap button between them exchanges the two languages. If you choose the language that sits on the other side, the two trade places.

The two halves of the screen

The screen is split in two halves, with the two languages between them. The far half is turned upside down for the person across the table, and the near half is yours. On each half, the translation into that person's language is large and what was heard is small. The half belonging to whoever is speaking lights up.

Text only

Choose Text only when you want the translation written on the screen without being spoken. You find it first in the list that opens when you tap a language button, or you can tap the speaker button in the middle of the screen. The screen shows Text only while it is on, and the translation is written here, not spoken. It goes off by itself when the interpreter ends.

Stop translating

Tap Stop translating, tap the Translate button again, or say "stop translating". The sheet goes back to being the ordinary Nourva One sheet and her voice comes back. While interpreting, she translates everything she hears, even sentences that sound as if they were meant for her. The only sentence she does not translate is an order to stop.

Take minutes of a meeting

Minutes mode is for a meeting, a lesson or a family conversation where you want a record and no replies. Ask her by voice.

Take minutes of this meeting.

She says one short sentence and then stays silent. The sheet shows Taking minutes with a running clock, and every line she hears is written on the screen with its time. She does not answer anyone in the room.

Set the speaking language in Options › Conversation before you start if the meeting is not in your app's language. See Her voice, language and thinking.

End and write the minutes

Tap End & write the minutes, or say that the meeting is over. She then turns the text into structured minutes:

• a title,
• the date and how long it ran,
• the attendees, when they were named,
• the points discussed,
• the decisions,
• the tasks, with their owners.

The minutes appear on the screen, and she offers to save them as a file. If nobody spoke, she tells you that nothing was heard, and you can start again.

In the car

In CarPlay, the Shortcuts button on the car screen has Interpreter and Minutes. For minutes, Nourva asks first: "Take minutes of this conversation?" The words on the car screen are in English, and the conversation itself follows your language.

What is learned

What two people say to each other in interpreter mode is not learned: those words are not added to your memory, even when memory is on. For how voice and transcripts are handled in general, see Your voice and privacy.

One account, everywhere

One Nourva account works in every Nourva app. Sign in with it on a new device and what belongs to the account is already there, with nothing to copy across.

What follows you:

• Your plan and your credits. They belong to the account, so they are the same on every device. Your free chats are one count, shared by the Nourva app and the web. See Free chats every day.
• Your Office projects. A project keeps its brief, every version and its files in your account, so it opens on any of your devices. If it changed on another device, you see the latest. See Projects and versions.
• Your memory, on plans that include it. Professional, Ultimate and Max include Nourva Mind. You choose once where your memory lives, and that choice follows your account to every device. Starter has no memory. The computer app keeps its own memory on the computer. See Nourva Mind: the memory that works for you.

Your chat History is different: it is kept on the device where you had the chat and does not follow you. See Find, pin and share your chats.

As a guest, without an account, you can only chat, and only on that device. Create an account or sign in to take your plan and your work with you.

Sign in on a new device

1. Install Nourva from the App Store or Google Play, or open nourva.ai in a browser. See Get Nourva on your devices.
2. Sign in the way you first signed up: with email and password, Google, GitHub or Apple.
3. If two-factor authentication is on, enter the 6-digit code from your authenticator app.

Apple sign-in works only in the iPhone and iPad app. If you made your account with Apple and want to use Nourva in a browser or on a computer, set a password first: on your iPhone, open Settings › Account › Password. Then sign in there with your email and that password. More in Create your account and sign in.

Link your watch

A watch never asks for your password. It links to your account with a six-digit code that it shows you. Sign in on your phone first.

Apple Watch

The Apple Watch app comes with the Nourva app on your iPhone and needs watchOS 26.

1. Open Nourva on your Apple Watch. It shows a six-digit code and how long the code is valid.
2. On your iPhone, tap ⋯ at the top, then Settings › Account › Apple Watch.
3. In Link Apple Watch, enter the code in Six-digit code and tap Link Watch.

The iPhone answers Your watch is linked. Open Nourva on your wrist. If the code has expired, get a fresh one on the watch. For what you can do from your wrist, see Nourva One on Apple Watch.

Wear OS

The Wear OS app comes from the same Google Play listing as the Android app, and you link it from your Android phone.

1. Open Nourva on your watch to see its six-digit code.
2. On your phone, tap ⋯ at the top, then Settings, and tap your name, the card that reads Account and watches.
3. Tap Your watch.
4. In Link your watch, enter the code in Six-digit code and tap Link Watch.

CarPlay

CarPlay comes with the Nourva app on your iPhone and needs iOS 26.4 or newer. It uses the account your iPhone is signed in with. Connect your iPhone to the car and open Nourva on the car's screen. Talking to Nourva One in the car uses credits, as it does on your phone. See Nourva One in CarPlay.

The web and your computer

• The web. Open nourva.ai in any browser, sign in and carry on where you left off. There is nothing to install.
• Windows and Mac. Download the app from the download page and sign in with email and password, Google or GitHub. See Nourva on Windows and Mac.

To move files between your phone and your computer, link the two in Nourva Drop with a six-digit code. See Nourva Drop: send files to your devices.

Sign out, and change your email

Signing out affects only the device you do it on, and removes nothing from your account. An Apple Watch linked to an iPhone or iPad that signs out asks to be linked again.

• On your phone or tablet: open Settings › Account and tap Sign Out. Nourva asks Sign out of Nourva?; tap Sign Out again.
• On a watch: choose Sign out in the Nourva app's settings on the watch. It takes only that watch off your account.
• In a browser: Security & devices in your dashboard lists the browsers signed in to your account and lets you end any of them. See Where you're signed in.

Nourva One on your wrist

Nourva One is on your Apple Watch, with the same account as your iPhone. The watch app comes with the Nourva app on your iPhone and needs watchOS 26. Its screens are in English, or in Arabic when your watch is set to Arabic. Talking to her uses credits, as it does on your phone.

Link your watch

1. Open Nourva on your Apple Watch. It shows a six-digit code and how long the code is valid.
2. On your iPhone, tap ⋯ at the top, then Settings › Account › Apple Watch.
3. Enter the code in Six-digit code and tap Link Watch.

If the code runs out first, the watch says The code expired — get a fresh one. The first time you talk, the watch shows Before we talk: what you say and type goes to Nourva's servers, which pass it to the AI services that power her answers. Tap Agree to start. Nothing is sent before you agree.

Talk to her

Tap Talk on the first page and speak. She answers out loud with her words on the screen, and you can interrupt her any time.

While Nourva is on your screen, she stays ready: the first page reads Ready · just talk, and you can speak again without a tap. Nothing leaves your watch until you speak. A quiet spell closes the line, and your next words open it again. Tap End beside the ready line to stop listening.

To start without a tap:

• Double Tap, on watches that support it. Settings shows Ready, or Not on this watch.
• Clench. In your watch's own Settings app, open Accessibility › AssistiveTouch › Hand Gestures › Clench and choose Talk to Nourva.
• Siri. Say "Hey Siri, talk to Nourva".

When a conversation reaches your Session cap, the watch asks Time's up — continue on your phone?

Her pages

Turn the Digital Crown to move between the pages.

After you approve, the watch says Approved and Follow it on Work. In Inbox, Hide puts a note away on this watch only, and Clear all empties the inbox. Brief opens your day's brief when there is one, and Settings is at the end.

Settings on the watch

Account shows your email, your plan and your credits.

Sign out, or delete your account

Sign out asks Sign out of this watch? It takes only this watch off your account; the account stays. If your iPhone or iPad signs out of Nourva, the watch asks you to link it again with a fresh code.

Delete account in the watch's settings tells you how to delete your account: sign in at nourva.ai, open your settings and choose Delete account. You can also delete it in the Nourva app on your iPhone. See Delete your account.

Make her yours

Nourva One has a handful of settings that shape how a conversation feels: the voice you hear, the language you speak together, how much she thinks before answering, and what stays on your screen. They all live in one place, Options, on her sheet. A few more you change by talking: her name, a dialect, and sleep.

To open the sheet, press and hold the bars at the top of any screen, or pull them down. Talk to Nourva One covers the sheet and its controls.

1. Open the Nourva One sheet.
2. Tap Options in the bottom row.
3. The menu is titled Voice & conversation. Tap a row to open it, and tap the back arrow to return.

Choose her voice

The card at the top of Options shows the voice she is using now. Tap it to open Choose a voice. You get one female and one male voice for your language, under Best for and your language's name. Tap one to select it.

Until you choose, she uses the female voice. Changing the voice reconnects the line in a moment, and the conversation carries on.

Choose how she thinks

In Options, tap Thinking and pick Fast, Balanced or Deep. Fast answers soonest. Deep takes longer to start and thinks further into a hard question. Until you choose, the row reads Balanced. Changing it also reconnects the line.

Choose the language you speak together

1. In Options, open Conversation.
2. Tap Speaking language.
3. Pick Automatic, or one language from the list of 20 under A fixed language.

Automatic is the starting choice. She detects the language from your voice and uses the app's language when she is unsure. A fixed language makes her speak it every time. Changing it reconnects the line.

When she is unsure on Automatic, she uses the language set in Settings › Language. See Change the language.

On the same Conversation page, the Conversation text switch shows the words beneath the wave. It starts on.

Presence and session details

Open Presence in Options for two switches, both on at the start:

• Lock screen card keeps a card on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while you are connected, so she stays in view. It appears when a conversation starts.
• Sound & haptics adds subtle cues: a soft tick when you finish speaking and a tap when she starts.

At the bottom of Options, Session details shows the state, the time Elapsed and the time Remaining, with End session while you are connected. A connection has a time limit.

Reset sets the voice, Thinking, Speaking language and Conversation text back to how they started. It leaves the two Presence switches as they are.

Change things by saying them

Some settings you change by talking to her, with no menu.

• A new name. Tell her what to call herself. She keeps it as her name from then on, and she answers to it when you call her.
• A dialect or another language. Ask for it for a moment, or for the rest of the conversation. A request that has no end, such as "always", is kept. When it names one of the 20 languages, it also becomes your Speaking language.
• Sleep. Ask her to go to sleep. She can stay quiet and listen for her name, close the microphone until you touch her, or end the session. If she sleeps for a while, the session closes to save credits.

From now on, your name is Noor.

Speak Egyptian Arabic for a bit.

Go to sleep.

A bare "stop" or "enough" only cuts off the sentence she is saying. It does not put her to sleep.

She keeps an eye out

Some of what Nourva One does for you carries on after the conversation ends. She can watch a price or a web page and tell you when it moves, keep a list of what you said you would do, and gather your day into one short brief. Ask for any of it in your own words while you talk to her.

Ask her to watch something

Tell her what to watch and when to tell you. She sets up the alert and confirms it.

Tell me if the euro goes above 1.20 dollars.

When an alert goes off, it reaches you as a notification, even when Nourva is closed. She checks at a regular pace unless you ask for another one. You can keep several alerts at a time.

• Ask "What are you watching for me?" to hear your alerts and the news from the ones that went off.
• Say "Stop watching the euro" to end one.

Promises she keeps for you

When you say you will do something, such as "I have to send the offer to Sami tomorrow", she writes it down quietly, without asking. Your open promises come back in your brief until you mark them done.

• Ask "What did I promise?" to hear the ones still open.
• Tell her when you have done one, for example "I sent the offer", and she marks it done.

What's on today

Ask her, and she gives you your day in one spoken brief, the most important first.

What's on today?

Your morning brief

Each morning, in your local time, Nourva sends the same brief as a notification: Your morning brief is ready. It comes on mornings when there is something to tell you.

The morning brief needs calendar access on your iPhone or iPad. To have your day ready before you open the app, Nourva keeps a short copy of your calendar in your account: each event's title, times and place, never its notes. The copy is refreshed when you talk to Nourva One, so the morning brief pauses after a while without a conversation. What the copy holds is in Your voice and privacy.

Nourva One in your car

Nourva One comes to CarPlay with the Nourva app on your iPhone. It needs iOS 26.4 or newer and uses the account your iPhone is signed in with. Everything happens by voice, with a few large buttons on the car's screen. Talking to her in the car uses credits, as it does on your phone.

Start a conversation

Connect your iPhone to the car, open Nourva on the car's screen and tap Talk. While she is live, Pause holds the conversation, Resume brings it back and End closes it. A short line on the screen tells you where she is, such as Let me think. or You can interrupt me anytime.

When no conversation is running, two buttons sit at the top of the screen:

• Shortcuts: Brief me, Interpreter, Minutes, Call, Directions and Talk, one tap each.
• Help › What I can do: the same doors, each with a line on what it does.

The car screen's words are in English, and she talks with you in your language.

Directions and stops

Say where you want to go, and the route opens in Apple Maps. Name Google Maps or Waze and she uses that one instead, when it is on your iPhone.

• A stop on the way. Ask for one, such as a coffee shop on your route, and she adds it without losing your destination.
• On to your destination. When you leave the stop, she offers to take you on, and the car screen asks Continue to «…»? with Continue and Not now.
• Back to your route. Ask her at any time.

She remembers the drive for a while. If you stop and turn the car off, she still knows where you were going when you come back.

Calls, your day and your answers

When something needs your yes, the car screen shows it with two buttons, and a tap counts as your answer, as if you had said it. A decision from Arachne shows as Decision needed, with Approve, Deny and Details.

What waits until you park

While you drive, she puts no chart, picture, web page or document on your phone. She tells you what matters in a sentence instead, or offers to show it once you have parked.

In the car, Nourva uses your location only during a car conversation: for directions and for places along your route.

Your voice is not kept

When you talk to Nourva One, your microphone audio is streamed to the voice service that listens, transcribes, answers and speaks. No recording of your voice is kept, and no voiceprint is made. On Apple Watch, Nourva's servers pass your voice on without keeping it.

The microphone works only in a conversation or a dictation you start. On Apple Watch, it listens while Nourva is on your screen, and nothing leaves your watch until you speak.

What she learns from a conversation

With memory on Fully cloud, when a conversation ends, the text of what you and she said is sent to your account, stored encrypted and learned from. That is how she remembers what you told her.

• Your audio is never part of it, and neither are the receipts of what her tools did.
• What two people say to each other in interpreter mode is never learned.
• Calls with your employees and meetings you chair are not added this way.
• The raw text is deleted within a year. What was learned stays until you delete it.

With memory off, or with Allows One to remember turned off in Nourva Mind › Memory & permissions, the text of your conversations is not sent to your account. Memory is part of Professional, Ultimate and Max; Starter has no memory. See Turn memory on and choose what remembers.

If a call fails, Nourva keeps a short diagnostic note for 7 days so the problem can be found. It may hold a few of the words that were said.

Your calendar copy

With calendar access on your iPhone or iPad, Nourva keeps a short copy of your calendar in your account, so your brief and the answers that depend on your time work even when the app is closed.

• It holds each event's title, its start and end times and its place, up to 120 events.
• It covers the next 14 days. Nourva One refreshes it at most every 6 hours, and each refresh replaces the last copy.
• Event notes are never copied.

Camera and screen sharing

She uses the camera only when you ask her to look, and your screen only when you choose to share it.

• On iPhone and iPad, screen sharing starts from the system's own broadcast control and stops when you end it.
• On Android, it starts only through Android's consent dialog, a notification shows while it runs, and frames aren't stored after the session.

How to show her something is in Show her with your camera or screen.

What she asks your phone for

Contacts, Calendars and Reminders are used on iPhone and iPad only. You can change any permission in your device's own settings. See Your privacy and device permissions.