Your Mind, Extended.

Make Niva your phone's assistant: in Niva, open Settings > Press and hold to talk > Open settings, choose Digital assistant app and pick Niva. Then press and hold the power button (or the home button) and just talk. On the lock screen your phone asks you to unlock first, so nobody else can reach your memories. On Samsung phones, if the power menu appears instead, go to Settings > Advanced features > Side button > Press and hold, and choose Digital assistant. You can also long-press the Niva icon for Talk to Niva, or add the Niva tile to Quick Settings.

Yes. Once Niva is your assistant app, press and hold the button on your Bluetooth earphones, or your car's voice button, and Niva starts listening.

No. Niva listens only after you start a conversation: a tap, a press-and-hold, a shortcut or your earphone button. A notification shows whenever Niva is listening, and you can end the conversation from it. We are exploring an optional “Hey Niva” wake word that would run on your phone; it is not available yet.

Yes. Tap the camera at the top left, take a picture or choose one from your gallery, and ask in your own language. It works for documents, letters and bills, medical reports and prescriptions, crops and plants, product labels, scripts, sheet music and more. Ask follow-up questions such as “What does clause 7 say?” or “What is my HbA1c?” and Niva looks at the photo again to answer exactly.

Niva explains what the report or document says in plain words: values and their normal ranges, terms, who must do what and by when. It is not a doctor or a lawyer: it does not diagnose, never tells you to start or stop a medicine, and suggests your doctor, lawyer or advisor for decisions. For crops it gives general guidance and asks you to follow the product label for amounts.

No. The photo is made smaller on your phone and sent through Niva’s server to OpenAI to be described. Niva does not store it; the app keeps it in memory only until the conversation ends, so Niva can answer follow-up questions. See the privacy policy.

Settings > Connected accounts > Add email account: choose your provider and sign in with your email address and password (Gmail needs an app password). Niva then offers to connect the calendar for the same email, with no server addresses to type. Niva reads your mail only when you ask, and sends an email only after showing you the draft and you say yes or tap Send. It never deletes or changes anything.

Yes. Tell Niva, for example “Remember that I’m in Ayyappa Deeksha”. During the Deeksha Niva calls you Swamy, greets you with “Swamy Saranam” and avoids suggesting things the vow abstains from. When you say it is complete, Niva goes back to your usual name. Other observances, such as Bhavani Deeksha, Ramadan or Navratri fasting, are respected the same way.

Niva is being developed toward 50 languages and regional varieties. Verified in the Android beta today: English and Telugu, including natural mixes. In testing: Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, Tamil, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam. Niva replies in the language you speak. See the full language table.

Niva saves what you ask it to and important dates you mention, and shows Undo on every save. You can review, export or delete memories in Settings > Your memories, or delete your account and everything in it.

Niva is in private testing on Android phones. iPhone is planned after the Android version is stable. Ask to join testing.