Questions, answered.

Usage Access is how NOTIVIVE knows that you’ve been in one app for a long stretch, or that you’re hopping between apps. That’s the signal it uses to pick a good moment. Without it, NOTIVIVE can’t tell a useful moment from a bad one, so it stays quiet.

It only sees which app is open and for how long, never what’s inside. The data stays on your phone. To turn it on or off: Android Settings → Apps → Special app access → Usage access → NOTIVIVE.

NOTIVIVE works well without it. If you turn it on, NOTIVIVE can see that other apps are posting notifications (which app, when, and how many), so it can avoid piling onto an already noisy moment. It never reads notification text or message contents.

You can switch it off any time in Android Settings → Notifications → Device & app notifications.

A few ways, from gentlest to strongest:

• Tap Not now on an interruption. NOTIVIVE backs off, and ignored interruptions reduce future frequency on their own.
• Switch intensity to Quiet (up to 2 a day) in Settings. Balanced allows up to 4 and Coach Me up to 7. These are ceilings, not targets.
• Turn off the kinds of interventions you don’t want in Settings.

Yes. In the app, go to Settings → Sound and feel. Pick a profile (Signature, Minimal, Focus, Calm, Expressive, Silent or Custom), turn vibration on or off, and choose whether to hear short spoken cues in your phone’s own voice (off by default). “Preview sounds” plays every sound and says what it means.

NOTIVIVE is always silent when your phone is on silent or vibrate, or during a call. Notification sounds are set per type in Android’s notification settings. You can hear the whole set on the sounds page.

During quiet hours NOTIVIVE sends nothing. They default to 10 PM to 8 AM in your local time, and you can change them in Settings → Quiet hours. NOTIVIVE also respects Do Not Disturb and any notification channels you’ve turned off in Android.

Subscriptions are managed by Google Play. Open the Play Store → tap your profile picture → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions → NOTIVIVE → Cancel. You keep Premium until the end of the period you’ve paid for, then NOTIVIVE switches to Free.

You can also get there from NOTIVIVE: Settings → Subscription → Manage in Google Play.

Sign in to the same Google account you used to subscribe, install NOTIVIVE, and go to Settings → Plan → Restore purchases. Your subscription is tied to your Google Play account, not to a NOTIVIVE account (there isn’t one).

It shouldn’t. NOTIVIVE doesn’t run a permanent background service or poll every minute. It checks usage summaries occasionally using Android’s standard scheduler, which batches work with other apps. If you use an aggressive battery saver, some interruptions may arrive late or not at all, and that’s fine: silence is a feature.

Never. In Free mode, a small number of clearly labeled sponsor cards appear inside the app only. There are no ads during the trial or on Premium.

Download the new APK from this site and open it. Android asks to update the existing app, and your history and settings stay. If you have the Google Play version, Play updates it for you.

One exception: version 1.6.0 from this site has a new signature, so if you installed an earlier version here, Android needs one reinstall. In the old app tap Settings › Your history › Save a backup, uninstall it, install 1.6.0 and choose Restore from a backup on the first screen. Updates after that always install over the top.

In the app, go to Settings → Your history → Save a backup and keep the file somewhere you can reach from the new phone (Files, your cloud drive, email to yourself). On the new install, tap Restore from a backup on the first screen, or later in Settings. Restoring adds to what’s there and never duplicates anything.

In the app, go to Settings → Delete all my data. Uninstalling NOTIVIVE also removes everything. More detail on the data deletion page.