Questions and answers

Soon. A small group is testing it right now. To join them, sign up as a tester and you'll get an invitation through Google Play.

Android 8.0 or later, on phones, tablets and foldables. The app is in English and Swedish and follows your phone's language.

Not yet, but it's on its way. To hear when it arrives, write to novila@joeldenke.se.

So that every suggestion can be explained. The plan, your readiness and the insights come from fixed rules on your phone, built on the WHO's and the Swedish Food Agency's advice, and the app always shows why it suggests something. A language model can sound sure without being right, and that doesn't belong anywhere near your body.

No. Novila gives general advice on training, sleep and food and is not a medical device. Contact a healthcare provider about pain, injury or problems that don't go away, and call your emergency number if it's urgent.

Only on your phone, encrypted with a key from the phone's Android Keystore. Novila has no account and no server, and Android's backup leaves the app's data out.

Choose Save a copy of my data in Settings and save the file somewhere your new phone can reach, such as Google Drive. On the new phone, choose Read in a saved copy.

The copy isn't encrypted, so keep it where only you can get to it. Reminders and the app's settings don't come along.

Choose Delete all data in Settings. Uninstalling the app removes everything too. The developer has never received any of your data, so there is nothing more to delete.

The form gives us your email address and your answers. The address is used only to invite you to the test and email you about it, and is deleted when the test is over. More in the privacy policy.

No. You can log everything yourself. With a watch, steps, workouts, nights and recovery fill in by themselves.

The ones that share their data with Health Connect, Android's shared place for health data. Most watches and their apps do. Check in your watch's app that Health Connect is turned on.

Only what you allow: today's steps and active calories, your workouts from the last five weeks, your nights, and resting heart rate and HRV from the last two weeks. Novila reads only while the app is open, writes nothing there and keeps nothing from it.

Yes. The coach asks about your goal, your days and your time, starts gently and makes things harder only once you manage your sets. A walk counts as training.

Gentle training has three levels focused on the knee, lower back, shoulder, neck or hip, and the coach can leave out jumps and lunges. It is general training, not care: if a physiotherapist has given you exercises, follow them.

You tap in servings per food group, and the score from 0 to 100 shows how the day compares with the Swedish Food Agency's dietary advice. Vegetables and fruit weigh the most, and one sweet thing a day is free.

No. Novila counts servings, not calories. You can log your weight and measurements and see a smooth trend line, but the app sets no weight goals.

It is off until you turn it on in My goals. You log period days and how your body feels, and on days with a symptom the coach offers a lighter session. You choose. Novila never predicts ovulation and is not contraception. Turning it off deletes everything you logged.

Joel Denke, in Sweden. Questions, ideas and bugs go to novila@joeldenke.se.

Email novila@joeldenke.se and tell us which phone you have and what happened. A screenshot helps. Don't send health data you'd rather not share.