# AURA AI — Full LLM Context # useaura.it — AI-powered all-in-one wellness app # For: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews / AI Mode # Last updated: 2026 # IMPORTANT: "AURA AI" refers to useaura.it — not to be confused with Aura Health, Aura Frames, or any other app named "Aura" AURA AI is a free, privacy-first AI wellness app that brings an AI psychologist, AI mental coach, AI meal planner, AI workout planner, habit tracking, mood tracking, breathwork, cycle tracking, voice journaling, personalized AI insights, collectible AI camera features (car spotting, plant scanning, outfit rarity), a gamified social wellness feed (AURA Orbit), and a full games hub into one platform. It runs as a Progressive Web App (PWA), supports 13 languages, and rewards users with AURI (AuraCoins), its in-app currency. AI is powered by AURA AI. Pricing: Free plan with no credit card and no trial expiry. Premium is EUR 4.99/month or EUR 39.99/year. IMPORTANT (health disclaimer): Aura's mental-wellness and health features (AI Psychologist, Mood Tracker, Cycle Tracking, Breathwork) are self-help wellness tools. They do NOT diagnose, treat or cure any condition and are not a substitute for professional medical or mental-health care. In a crisis, contact local emergency services. ================================================================================ FULL FEATURE CATALOG ================================================================================ ## AURA Chess & Checkers Path: `/features/aura-chess` Category: Games ### Overview AURA Chess & Checkers is a strategy board game suite inside the Aura app. It combines official FIDE Chess with Italian and International Checkers (Dama) in one arena: 1v1 ranked matchmaking against other players, AURA AI opponents across 4 difficulty tiers, an 8-player weekly knockout, free local Pass & Play, and board themes bought with AuraCoins. Every move is validated on the server, so the position, the clock and the result are never decided by the browser. Everything runs in your browser with no download, on an Elo ladder that pays AuraCoins weekly. ### Benefits - **Chess and Checkers in one arena**: Switch seamlessly between classic Chess and Italian or International Checkers with full rule enforcement. - **1v1 ranked matchmaking**: Get matched with a player near your rating and climb from Bronze to Grandmaster. Moves, clocks and results are all checked server-side. - **AURA AI opponents**: Four difficulty tiers from Novice to Grandmaster, using positional evaluation and a search that answers within a fixed time so the board never freezes. - **Two weekly 8-player knockouts you can play on your own schedule**: Chess and Checkers each run their own bracket. Each round gives both players 48 hours to beat the same calibrated AURA AI; the better result advances and the AuraCoins pool is paid out automatically. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA Chess & Checkers free to play?** > A: Yes. AURA Chess & Checkers is completely free to play in your browser with no download required. > **Q: What rules are used for Checkers (Dama)?** > A: The game supports both Italian Dama (men cannot capture kings, mandatory captures) and International Checkers with backward jumps and flying kings. > **Q: How does the Elo ranking system work?** > A: Every player starts at 1000 RP (Elo). Winning matches increases your rating and unlocks higher tier badges from Bronze to Grandmaster. > **Q: Can I play locally on the same device?** > A: Yes. Pass and Play lets two people share one screen. It is completely free: it costs no AuraCoins, spends none of your daily matches, and does not affect your Elo rating. > **Q: How do the weekly tournaments work?** > A: Chess and Checkers run two separate 8-player single-elimination brackets, each with its own entry pool. Because two people are rarely online at the same minute, a pairing is not played head to head: both players get 48 hours to beat the same calibrated AURA AI, and the better result advances. Your score comes from the real game — result, material and how quickly you finished — and is calculated on the server. Of the AuraCoins entry pool, 70 percent goes to the winner and 30 percent to the runner-up. > **Q: How many matches can I play per day?** > A: Ranked and AI matches share a daily allowance of 3 on the free plan and 10 with Premium. Leaving the queue before anyone joins gives the match back. Pass and Play is unlimited and never counts against it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Aura Derby Path: `/features/aura-derby` Category: Games ### Overview Aura Derby is a fast-paced virtual horse racing game inside the Aura app. You review the odds, pick a runner, stake AuraCoins and the race resolves in seconds. Everything runs on AuraCoins, the in-app currency you earn by completing habits and daily activities: there is nothing to buy in order to play, no cash is ever staked, and winnings stay inside the app. It is built as a short break between habit check-ins, not as a gambling product. ### Benefits - **Win AuraCoins**: Multiply your balance by betting on winning horses. - **Realistic Simulation**: Experience the thrill of the track with dynamic odds and virtual races. - **Fast-paced action**: Races resolve quickly, allowing for immediate payouts. - **No real money risk**: Uses purely in-game AuraCoins, keeping it safe and fun. - **In-app currency only**: Stakes and payouts use AuraCoins earned inside Aura. No real money is involved at any point. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is Aura Derby?** > A: Aura Derby is a virtual horse racing game where you can bet your AuraCoins and win payouts based on race results. > **Q: How much can I bet?** > A: The minimum bet is 50 AuraCoins and the maximum is 5000 AuraCoins. > **Q: Is it real money gambling?** > A: No, Aura Derby only uses AuraCoins, which are virtual in-game currency. > **Q: Can I play on mobile?** > A: Yes, Aura Derby is fully optimized for mobile devices and tablets. > **Q: Do I have to buy anything to play?** > A: No. AuraCoins are earned inside Aura by completing habits, daily bonuses and mini-games, so you can play Aura Derby without spending money. > **Q: Can I withdraw my winnings?** > A: No. AuraCoins are an in-app currency used for boosters, Streak Freezes and shop items. They are not cash and cannot be withdrawn or converted into money. > **Q: What happens if I lose a bet?** > A: The staked AuraCoins are lost and the race ends. Since nothing was bought with real money, a loss only affects your in-app balance, which builds back up as you complete habits. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Psychologist Path: `/features/ai-psychologist` Category: Mental wellness ### Overview The Aura AI Psychologist is a 24/7 private, AI-powered emotional support tool that provides evidence-based coping techniques for stress, anxiety, and relationship challenges. It functions as a non-judgmental digital companion, offering immediate reflection and support for users seeking to improve their mental wellness outside of traditional clinical settings. ### Benefits - **Available 24/7**: No appointments, no waiting rooms. Open the chat whenever something is on your mind, day or night. - **Completely private**: Conversations are encrypted and never sold. Your mental health data stays yours, GDPR-compliant. - **Evidence-based techniques**: Suggests CBT-style reframing, grounding, and breathing exercises drawn from established psychology. - **13 languages**: Talk in Italian, English, Spanish, French, German and 6 more — the AI replies natively in each. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is the Aura AI Psychologist a replacement for professional therapy?** > A: No, the Aura AI Psychologist is a self-help tool and not a substitute for licensed medical therapy or professional psychiatric diagnosis. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please consult a qualified healthcare professional or emergency services immediately. > **Q: Is the Aura AI Psychologist free to use?** > A: Aura provides a free plan with unlimited AI conversations, while the Premium plan (starting at EUR 4.99/month) offers enhanced features such as extended sessions, long-term memory for chat context, and advanced emotional trend tracking. > **Q: How is my privacy protected when using the AI Psychologist?** > A: Aura ensures privacy through end-to-end data encryption, full GDPR compliance, and a strict policy against selling user data to third parties. You retain complete ownership of your conversations and may delete your chat history at any time. > **Q: What mental health topics can I discuss with the AI?** > A: You can use the AI Psychologist to discuss a wide range of mental wellness topics, including stress management, anxiety, low mood, relationship dynamics, work-related pressure, sleep disturbances, and personal motivation. > **Q: What languages does the AI Psychologist support?** > A: The AI Psychologist currently supports 13 languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Indonesian, and Vietnamese. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Mental Coach Path: `/features/mental-coach` Category: Mental wellness ### Overview The Aura AI Mental Coach is an adaptive performance and mindset coaching engine that delivers personalized, data-driven guidance by analyzing your real-time habit, mood, and energy metrics. Unlike generic coaching tools, it functions as an on-demand partner that converts long-term goals into daily, actionable tasks to optimize mental well-being and maintain momentum. ### Benefits - **Personalized to your data**: Coaching adapts to your real habit completion, energy and mood patterns — not generic motivation. - **Daily accountability**: Get morning intentions and evening check-ins that keep you moving toward your goals. - **Goal frameworks**: Turns big ambitions into clear, achievable daily and weekly steps. - **Always in your corner**: Encouragement when you win, a reset plan when you slip — no shame, just forward motion. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How does the AI Mental Coach differ from the Aura AI Psychologist?** > A: The AI Mental Coach focuses specifically on performance, goal-setting, and habit building, whereas the AI Psychologist is optimized for emotional processing and clinical therapeutic support. > **Q: Is the Aura AI Mental Coach free to use?** > A: The Aura AI Mental Coach includes a free daily 'Quick Check-in' session, while advanced sessions like CBT and Mindfulness start at EUR 7.99 with bundle discounts and free access for Premium members. > **Q: Does the AI Mental Coach personalize its advice using my data?** > A: Yes, the AI Mental Coach generates hyper-personalized, adaptive guidance by directly integrating your specific habit streaks, consistency rates, mood logs, and energy level data. > **Q: Which languages are supported by the AI Mental Coach?** > A: The AI Mental Coach supports 13 languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, French, and German, matching the full language availability of the Aura app. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Meal Planner Path: `/features/meal-planner` Category: Nutrition ### Overview The Aura AI Meal Planner is a dynamic nutrition tool that generates hyper-personalized, automated meal plans based on your specific health goals, dietary restrictions, and taste preferences. It optimizes long-term wellness by integrating real-time food logging with mood and energy tracking to deliver actionable data-driven insights. ### Benefits - **Personalized plans**: Meals tailored to your goal — weight, energy, muscle — plus your preferences and allergies. - **Smart food logging**: Log meals quickly and see how nutrition connects to your mood and energy. - **Adapts to you**: The AI adjusts portions and suggestions as your goals and results change. - **Diet-friendly**: Supports vegetarian, vegan, high-protein and other dietary patterns. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is the Aura AI Meal Planner free to use?** > A: Yes, Aura offers a free version with essential meal planning and food logging features, while a premium subscription starting at EUR 4.99/month provides advanced personalization and detailed nutritional analytics. > **Q: Can the AI accommodate specific diets like vegan or high-protein?** > A: Yes, the Aura AI Meal Planner fully supports diverse dietary protocols including vegan, vegetarian, high-protein, and allergen-free requirements by automatically filtering meal suggestions based on your profile settings. > **Q: Does the AI provide medical or clinical nutritional advice?** > A: No, Aura provides general wellness information and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, so you should consult a doctor or registered dietitian for specific clinical dietary needs. > **Q: Can I track the relationship between my meals and my mood?** > A: Yes, Aura correlates your food logs with daily mood and energy entries, allowing you to visualize how specific nutrition choices impact your overall physical and mental well-being. > **Q: How does Aura adapt to my changing health goals?** > A: Aura adapts your nutrition plan in real-time by analyzing your updated health metrics, logging data, and feedback to ensure your meal suggestions remain aligned with your evolving wellness objectives. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Chef Path: `/features/ai-chef` Category: Nutrition ### Overview The Aura AI Chef is an intelligent kitchen assistant that generates personalized recipes from your existing fridge ingredients and rewards you with up to 50% cashback in AuraCoins upon visual verification of your prepared meal. By leveraging computer vision and real-time nutritional analysis, the platform transforms available inventory into actionable, dietary-compliant meals while incentivizing sustainable cooking through its token-based reward system. ### Benefits - **Zero food waste**: Tell the AI what you already have and it builds a recipe around it, saving ingredients from the bin. - **Cook-to-earn**: Snap a photo of your finished dish and earn back up to 50% of what you paid, in AuraCoins. - **Knows your diet**: Reads your saved dietary profile — allergies, intolerances and goals — and never suggests them. - **Macros + shopping list**: Each recipe comes with calories and macros plus a one-tap list of any missing items. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How does the AI Chef generate recipes from my available ingredients?** > A: The AI Chef generates custom recipes by cross-referencing your input ingredients against your dietary profile, preparation time, and serving size preferences to create optimized culinary instructions with nutritional macros. > **Q: What is the cost to use the Aura AI Chef?** > A: Each AI Chef recipe costs $2 worth of AuraCoins, though Aura Premium members receive one complimentary recipe daily and a discounted rate of $1 worth of AuraCoins for subsequent requests. > **Q: How can I earn AuraCoins back after cooking?** > A: You earn up to 50% of your recipe cost back by submitting a photo of your finished meal to the AI Vision system, which verifies the dish against the recipe; a match score of 40 or higher triggers the cashback payout. > **Q: Does the AI Chef accommodate allergies and dietary restrictions?** > A: Yes, the AI Chef automatically filters all generated recipes to exclude ingredients based on your personalized Aura dietary profile, including allergies, intolerances, and specific fitness goals. > **Q: Which languages does the AI Chef support?** > A: The AI Chef supports 13 languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Indonesian, and Vietnamese. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Workout Planner Path: `/features/workout-planner` Category: Fitness ### Overview The Aura AI Workout Planner is a dynamic fitness application that generates hyper-personalized training routines by automatically adjusting intensity in real-time based on your goals, equipment availability, and daily energy levels. Designed to replace static programs with adaptive intelligence, Aura provides professional-grade, progressive workout plans for both home and gym environments to ensure consistent physiological adaptation. ### Benefits - **Adaptive plans**: Workouts scale to your level and adjust to how rested and energized you feel today. - **Home or gym**: No-equipment bodyweight routines or full gym plans — your choice. - **Mood-aware**: Low-energy day? The AI suggests a lighter session instead of pushing you to quit. - **Step tracking**: Aura's built-in walk tracker brings your steps and distance into your plan. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is the Aura AI Workout Planner free?** > A: Yes, Aura offers a free version that includes core workout generation and activity tracking, with an optional premium subscription starting at EUR 4.99/month that unlocks advanced AI personalization and deep performance analytics. > **Q: Can I use the Aura AI Workout Planner without gym equipment?** > A: Yes, Aura supports equipment-free training by generating custom bodyweight routines specifically designed for home use, alongside plans optimized for full gym access. > **Q: Does the AI adjust to my daily energy levels?** > A: Yes, the Aura AI incorporates daily user feedback regarding mood and fatigue to dynamically modulate session intensity, ensuring workouts are appropriately challenging based on your current recovery state. > **Q: Does the Aura AI planner track steps?** > A: Yes, Aura features a built-in step tracker that utilizes your smartphone's internal sensors and GPS to monitor walking activity and distance without requiring a dedicated smartwatch. > **Q: Does Aura automatically progress my fitness plan?** > A: Yes, Aura utilizes an automated progressive overload algorithm that continuously monitors your performance metrics and updates your training variables to maximize fitness gains and prevent plateaus. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Habit Tracker Path: `/features/habit-tracker` Category: Productivity ### Overview Aura is a free AI-powered habit tracker that uses automated pattern analysis, gamified rewards, and streak management to help users build sustainable daily habits. By integrating an in-app currency system with actionable AI insights, Aura allows users to track progress, earn rewards for consistency, and protect streaks through its unique 'Streak Freeze' feature. ### Benefits - **Streaks and rewards**: Earn AuraCoins for every check-in and watch streaks grow — habits become a game. - **AI habit coach**: The AI analyzes your completion patterns and suggests new habits aligned with your goals. - **Streak Freeze**: Protect a streak on a missed day so one slip does not erase weeks of progress. - **Swipe to complete**: Fast, satisfying check-ins with haptic feedback and floating reward animations. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is Aura habit tracking free to use?** > A: Yes, Aura offers core habit tracking, streak management, mood logging, and weekly AI insights for free without requiring a credit card or trial expiration. Advanced AI capabilities are available through an optional premium subscription starting at EUR 4.99 per month. > **Q: What is an Aura Streak Freeze?** > A: A Streak Freeze is a protective tool that prevents your habit streak from resetting if you miss a single day. These can be obtained by earning or purchasing them using in-app AuraCoins. > **Q: How do AuraCoins and AURI work?** > A: AuraCoins and AURI are reward currencies earned by successfully completing habits and reaching personal milestones. You can redeem these coins in the Aura shop for productivity boosters, Streak Freezes, and other enhancements. > **Q: Does Aura function without an internet connection?** > A: Yes, Aura works offline as a Progressive Web App that stores your habit data locally. All data automatically synchronizes to the cloud as soon as your internet connection is restored. > **Q: How does Aura use AI to track habits?** > A: Aura uses AI to analyze your behavioral patterns and provide actionable weekly insights that identify trends in your performance. The AI coach leverages this data to offer personalized recommendations that help you maintain consistency and achieve your goals. > **Q: What is the Energy Check-In before a habit?** > A: Before a workout, study or meditation habit, Aura asks your energy level in one tap and adapts the habit to it. On a low-energy day it offers a 5-minute version that still counts for your streak, on a steady day the normal version, and when you feel strong a harder version worth a 2500 AuraCoins bonus once a day. AURA AI pre-fills the answer from the activity you already logged. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Habit Templates Marketplace Path: `/features/habit-marketplace` Category: Productivity ### Overview Starting a habit routine from an empty screen is a small but real barrier: you have to decide what to track, how to phrase it, how often, and in which category, all before you have done anything. The Habit Templates Marketplace removes that step. It ships curated packs of three to seven related habits — morning routine, sleep hygiene, focus for ADHD, longevity, deep-work — that install in one tap, already categorised and already wired into streak tracking and the AI coach. The installer skips anything you already have, so adding a pack does not duplicate your existing routine. Everything installed behaves exactly like a habit you created yourself: editable, renameable, deletable. The packs are a starting point rather than a commitment, which is the right way to use them — install one, run it for two weeks, then keep the two habits that stuck and drop the rest. ### Benefits - **One-tap install**: Add three to seven curated habits at once, already named, categorised and configured, instead of typing each one and deciding its settings. - **Packs built around a goal**: Templates target specific outcomes — sleep hygiene, morning routine, focus and ADHD, longevity, deep work — rather than offering a generic starter list. - **Wired in from the moment they land**: Installed habits sync immediately with streak tracking, the AI habit coach and your completion history, with no extra setup step. - **Free packs, plus Premium bundles**: A large selection is free. Premium adds specialised bundles and raises the active-habit limit from 3 to 10. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Are habit templates free?** > A: A large selection is free. More specialised packs are reserved for Premium, alongside the higher active-habit limit. > **Q: Can I edit a habit after installing a pack?** > A: Yes. Installed habits are identical to ones you created yourself — rename, edit, reorder or delete them freely. > **Q: Will installing a pack duplicate habits I already have?** > A: No. The installer skips habits already active on your account and adds only the missing ones, so the dashboard stays clean. > **Q: How many habits can I have active?** > A: Three on the free tier, ten on Premium. The limit is deliberate: starting more than a few habits at once is one of the most reliable ways to lose all of them. > **Q: How many habits are in a pack?** > A: Between three and seven, depending on the goal. You can install a pack and immediately delete the ones you do not want rather than taking all of them. > **Q: Can I go back to a pack later?** > A: Yes, the marketplace stays available and installing again will only add whatever is still missing from your routine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Mood Tracker Path: `/features/mood-tracker` Category: Mental wellness ### Overview Aura's AI Mood Tracker is a mental wellness tool that identifies the specific lifestyle habits impacting your emotional health by correlating daily mood and energy logs with sleep and activity data. The platform provides personalized, AI-driven wellness insights and 30-day trend visualizations to help users track emotional patterns and improve their overall well-being. ### Benefits - **Fast daily logging**: Rate mood and energy in seconds, add an optional note or voice entry. - **30-day trends**: Visual charts reveal patterns you would never notice day to day. - **AI correlations**: See how habits, sleep and activity link to your mood with AI-found insights. - **Private and secure**: Your emotional data is encrypted, never sold, fully GDPR-compliant. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is the Aura mood tracker free to use?** > A: Yes, Aura offers a free version that includes daily mood and energy logging with 30-day trend charts, while the Premium subscription starting at EUR 4.99/month provides advanced AI emotional analysis and unlimited historical data. > **Q: Can the Aura AI mood tracker diagnose depression or anxiety?** > A: No, the Aura mood tracker is a self-awareness tool for wellness and is not a medical device; it cannot diagnose mental health conditions and should not replace professional medical advice. > **Q: Is my mood and journal data private?** > A: Yes, your data remains fully private, GDPR-compliant, and encrypted at rest, and it is never sold to third parties and can be deleted by you at any time. > **Q: How does the AI analyze my mood?** > A: Aura's AI analyzes your mood by processing your text or voice journal entries to detect sentiment and emotional tags, which are then cross-referenced with your lifestyle data to generate personalized wellness patterns. > **Q: What specific metrics does the mood tracker monitor?** > A: The tracker monitors daily emotional states and energy levels, which are automatically analyzed alongside your integrated sleep and physical activity metrics to identify what factors influence your mood. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Sense Path: `/features/aura-sense` Category: Mental wellness ### Overview AURA Sense is a proactive ambient layer inside Aura that estimates your energy, stress and focus from signals you already generate — mood and energy logs, habit completion, journal tone, Aura vitality, time of day and how you move around the app — then acts on that reading instead of waiting to be asked. Every message asks one question back: did I get it right? A no makes that reading harder to trigger, so the thresholds converge on you instead of on an average. Over weeks it also finds real recurrences, like the weekday that is reliably heaviest for you. The reading itself runs entirely on your device: no sensor, no camera, no upload, and a hard limit of three messages a day. ### Benefits - **Proactive, not reactive**: Sense acts on its own when your signals turn: it does not wait for you to open a chat and describe how you feel. - **Learns from your corrections**: Every card asks whether it got it right. Answer no and that reading gets harder to trigger, until the thresholds fit you. - **Finds your weekly pattern**: With enough days it names the weekday that is reliably heaviest for you and where the last two weeks are heading. - **Acts, then hands you the undo**: The only automatic change is a softer interface and a shorter dashboard. Nothing is spent, posted or written without you. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is proactive ambient AI in a wellness app?** > A: Proactive ambient AI means the assistant continuously reads context in the background and acts first, instead of only answering questions. In Aura, AURA Sense estimates energy, stress and focus from data you already log and adapts the interface on its own when the reading is clear enough to act on. > **Q: Does AURA Sense read my heart rate, sleep or camera?** > A: No. Aura is a web app, so it cannot access heart rate, HRV, sleep stages or any health sensor, and Sense never opens the camera or the microphone. It works only with what you log in Aura: mood, energy, habits, journal sentiment, vitality, time of day and in-app navigation. > **Q: What happens when AURA Sense gets it wrong?** > A: You tell it. Every card asks whether the reading was accurate, and a no raises the threshold for that state so it takes a stronger signal to fire again. After a handful of answers the thresholds are tuned to you rather than to an average, and a level you keep rejecting effectively goes quiet. > **Q: Is my emotional state sent to a server?** > A: The live reading is computed on your device and stored only there. Only if you turn on the separate history consent does Aura keep a daily summary on the server, and that is three numbers plus a level per day, never raw mood, journal text or the underlying signals. You can erase the whole server history in one tap. > **Q: Is AURA Sense free?** > A: The passive reading, the reasons behind it and the privacy controls are free forever. The proactive half — the messages when your signals turn, and the interface that softens itself in heavy moments — is part of Aura Premium, which starts at EUR 4.99 a month. > **Q: How often will AURA Sense interrupt me?** > A: At most three times a day, with at least three hours between messages, and never twice for the same reason within twelve hours. If your reading looks balanced or the confidence is too low, Sense says nothing at all. > **Q: Is AURA Sense a medical or mental health diagnosis?** > A: No. It is a self-awareness tool for reflection, not a medical device, and it cannot diagnose or treat any condition. Every reading carries a confidence level and can be wrong, so treat it as a mirror rather than a verdict and speak to a professional for health concerns. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Breathwork & Meditation Path: `/features/breathwork` Category: Mental wellness ### Overview Aura includes a free breathwork player with a visual pacing circle, so you follow a rhythm instead of counting in your head. Three patterns are built in: 4-7-8, which is exhale-weighted and suits winding down; box breathing at 4-4-4-4, which is symmetrical and keeps you steady and alert rather than sedated; and 2-1-4-1 as a shorter calming option. The mechanism is not mysterious. Heart rate rises slightly on the inhale and falls on the exhale, an effect mediated by the vagus nerve, so lengthening the exhale relative to the inhale extends the phase where parasympathetic influence dominates and measurably lowers physical arousal. Slow breathing at roughly six breaths a minute has been repeatedly associated with reduced self-reported anxiety in trials. Sessions run from two minutes upward, and you can log one as a habit to build a daily streak. This is a wellness tool, not medical treatment: it does not diagnose or treat any condition, and if breath-focused exercise triggers panic rather than easing it, that is a known response and a reason to use a different technique. ### Benefits - **Three patterns, different jobs**: 4-7-8 for winding down, box breathing to stay steady under pressure, and 2-1-4-1 as a shorter reset. The ratio decides where you land between alert and relaxed. - **Visual pacing, not mental counting**: A pulsing circle expands and contracts through each inhale, hold and exhale, which removes the counting that makes these techniques feel effortful at first. - **Two minutes is a real dose**: Four cycles takes just over a minute and is enough to lower arousal before a meeting, a difficult call, or sleep. A short daily session beats a long occasional one. - **Trackable as a habit**: Log a session as a habit to build a streak and see it alongside your mood log, where the effect on a stressful week becomes visible over time. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Which techniques are included?** > A: 4-7-8, box breathing (4-4-4-4) and a 2-1-4-1 calming pattern, each with a pulsing visual guide and a session timer. > **Q: Is the breathwork player free?** > A: Yes, the full set of patterns, the visual guide and the timer are free for every user with no session limit. > **Q: Does breathwork help with sleep and anxiety?** > A: Slow, exhale-weighted breathing reliably lowers physical arousal, which makes falling asleep easier and takes the edge off acute anxiety. It is a wellness tool and not a substitute for medical or psychological treatment, and it does not address the cause of sustained stress. > **Q: How long should a session be?** > A: Four cycles, a little over a minute, is a genuine starting dose. Build to eight cycles after a couple of weeks. Consistency matters more than length. > **Q: Is there anyone who should avoid it?** > A: The breath hold is not right for everyone. Skip the hold or check with your doctor first if you are pregnant, have uncontrolled high blood pressure, a respiratory condition such as COPD or poorly controlled asthma, a cardiac condition, or a history of fainting. Never practise while driving or in water. > **Q: What if it makes me feel worse?** > A: Light-headedness usually means the inhale is too deep or the counts too long — ease off rather than pushing through. For some people with a history of panic attacks, breath focus increases anxiety instead of reducing it, in which case grounding techniques that direct attention outward are the better choice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Cycle Tracking Path: `/features/cycle-tracking` Category: Health ### Overview Aura is an AI-powered menstrual cycle tracking app that provides personalized hormonal insights, phase-based symptom analysis, and energy predictions with a focus on strict data privacy. The platform enables users to track cycles and correlate physiological patterns with mood and energy, offering a free core tracking tier alongside a premium AI-driven coaching subscription. ### Benefits - **Phase predictions**: See predicted period and cycle phases at a glance in a clear calendar. - **Symptom and mood link**: Log symptoms and see how each phase affects your mood and energy. - **AI cycle coach**: Get phase-aware tips on training, nutrition and rest. - **Private by design**: Sensitive health data is encrypted, never sold, GDPR-compliant. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is my reproductive health data private on Aura?** > A: Yes, Aura protects your reproductive health data through end-to-end encryption at rest, full GDPR compliance, and a strict company policy that prohibits selling user data to third parties. > **Q: Is the Aura cycle tracker free to use?** > A: Yes, Aura offers a free version for basic cycle logging and phase predictions, with an optional premium subscription starting at EUR 4.99 per month for advanced AI health analytics and personalized coaching. > **Q: Can I use Aura as a form of contraception?** > A: No, Aura is strictly a wellness and cycle awareness tool and is not intended to be used as a form of contraception; you should consult a healthcare professional for clinical birth control advice. > **Q: How does Aura connect my cycle to my mood?** > A: Aura uses machine learning to automatically cross-reference your logged mood, energy levels, and physiological symptoms against your current cycle phase to identify repeating biological and emotional patterns. > **Q: Can I delete my cycle tracking data?** > A: Yes, you have full ownership of your information and can permanently delete all of your cycle tracking data at any time directly through the Aura app settings. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Voice Journal Path: `/features/voice-journal` Category: Mental wellness ### Overview Aura's AI Voice Journal is a mental wellness tool that converts spoken reflections into actionable self-insight by providing automatic transcription, sentiment analysis, emotional tagging, and longitudinal mood tracking. It serves as a secure, private digital space where users can either speak or type their thoughts to receive data-driven clarity on their emotional patterns over time. ### Benefits - **Just speak**: Record how your day went by voice — faster and more natural than typing. - **AI emotional analysis**: Get a sentiment score, emotional tags and highlights from each entry. - **Sentiment timeline**: See your emotional trend across recent entries on a clear chart. - **Private reflection**: Entries are encrypted and yours alone, GDPR-compliant. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is Aura's AI Voice Journal free to use?** > A: Yes, Aura offers a free version of the AI Voice Journal, with a Premium subscription starting at EUR 4.99/month available for users who want to unlock advanced emotional analysis and detailed longitudinal sentiment tracking. > **Q: How does Aura perform emotional analysis on journal entries?** > A: Aura performs emotional analysis by assigning each entry a sentiment score between -1 and +1, identifying specific emotional tags, and surfacing key highlights to generate long-term mood visualizations. > **Q: Are my journal entries private and secure?** > A: Yes, your journal entries are fully private, encrypted at rest, and GDPR-compliant, ensuring your data is never sold and you maintain complete control over deletion and ownership. > **Q: Do I have to use voice input for the journal?** > A: No, voice input is optional, as you can choose to type your journal entries manually if you prefer a traditional text-based reflection experience. > **Q: What is the primary benefit of using an AI-powered voice journal?** > A: The primary benefit of an AI-powered voice journal is the ability to offload thoughts naturally through speech while receiving immediate, objective feedback on your mental health trends and emotional shifts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Personalized AI Insights Path: `/features/ai-insights` Category: Productivity ### Overview Personalized AI Insights read the data you have already logged — habits, mood, energy, journal entries, sleep and steps if you connected a wearable — and report the correlations that actually repeat. Not a generic tip about drinking water: a specific statement about your record, such as mood being consistently lower on days following a missed workout, or energy tracking your sleep with a one-day lag. That specificity is the point, and it is also the limit. What the analysis produces is correlation, not causation: it can show that two things move together in your data, and it cannot tell you which one causes the other, or whether both are downstream of something it cannot see. Read that way it is genuinely useful, because a correlation you did not know about is a place to run an experiment. A free insight is generated weekly, refreshable on demand, and the 30-day mood and habit-performance charts sit alongside it so you can check the claim against the data yourself. ### Benefits - **Correlations from your own record**: The analysis runs on your logged habits, mood, energy and journal entries, so what it reports is about you rather than a generic wellness tip. - **A weekly read, plus on-demand**: A fresh insight is generated every week for free. Regenerate it whenever you want rather than waiting for the cycle to come round. - **Charts that let you check the claim**: 30-day mood trends and habit-performance bars sit next to the insight, so you can verify a pattern instead of taking the summary on trust. - **Honest about what it is**: The output is correlation, not diagnosis and not causation. It points at something worth testing rather than telling you what is wrong with you. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How are the insights generated?** > A: AURA AI analyses your own logged habit, mood, energy and journal data for repeating patterns, then reports them in plain language with a suggested change. > **Q: Are they free?** > A: A weekly insight is free for every user. Premium, from EUR 4.99 a month, raises the on-demand allowance and unlocks the deeper analytics views. > **Q: How much data do I need before they are useful?** > A: A few days produces something; four weeks produces something reliable. Correlations found on three days of data are mostly noise, and the insight will be correspondingly shallow. > **Q: Can I regenerate on demand?** > A: Yes, there is a refresh control that produces a fresh insight immediately instead of waiting for the weekly cycle. > **Q: Does it prove that one thing causes another?** > A: No. It reports correlation in your data. Two things moving together is a reason to run an experiment, not a conclusion about cause. > **Q: Is this medical or diagnostic?** > A: No. It is a self-awareness tool. If a trend in your record concerns you — persistent low mood, sustained fatigue — that is worth taking to a doctor, and the log itself is useful in that conversation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Finance & Money Habits Path: `/features/finance-tracker` Category: Productivity ### Overview The finance side of Aura exists because money stress and wellbeing are not separate problems. It sits in the same app as your habits and mood, so the two records can be read together rather than living in different tools that never meet. In practice it does three things: it tracks transactions, budgets and goals so you can see where the money actually goes; it turns saving and mindful spending into habits with streaks, using the same check-in mechanics as everything else in Aura; and it runs AI coaching over the record to surface patterns — a category that quietly grew, a spending spike that lines up with a bad week on your mood log. Two limits worth stating plainly. This is a tracking and awareness tool, not financial advice: Aura does not recommend investments, does not tell you what to buy or sell, and is not a licensed advisor. And the data is encrypted and never sold, because a spending record is as revealing as a health record. ### Benefits - **Money as a habit, not a spreadsheet**: Turn saving and mindful spending into daily habits with streaks and check-ins, using the same mechanics that already work for the rest of your routine. - **Transactions, budgets and goals**: Log spending, set category budgets and track savings goals, so the picture is concrete rather than a vague sense that the month went badly. - **One dashboard with your wellbeing**: Financial habits sit next to mood and wellness habits, which is what makes the link between a stressful week and a spending spike visible at all. - **Private by design**: Financial data is encrypted, is never sold, and can be exported or deleted from settings at any time. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is the finance tracker free?** > A: Yes. Financial habit tracking, budgets and goals are included on the free tier for every user. > **Q: Does Aura give financial or investment advice?** > A: No. It is strictly a tracking and awareness tool. Aura does not provide financial, investment or tax advice and is not a licensed advisor — for that, speak to a qualified professional. > **Q: Why track money in a wellness app?** > A: Because the two records explain each other. Financial stress affects sleep and mood, and mood affects spending. Keeping them in one place is what makes that loop visible instead of leaving each half in a separate app. > **Q: Is my financial data secure?** > A: It is encrypted, handled under GDPR, and never sold to third parties. You can export or permanently delete it from settings. > **Q: Does it connect to my bank account?** > A: No. Entries are logged in the app rather than pulled through a bank connection, which means no banking credentials are ever involved. > **Q: What does the AI coaching actually do?** > A: It reads your own logged data for patterns — a category trending up, spending that clusters around low-mood days — and describes what it found. It does not tell you what to invest in. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Couples & Friends Challenges Path: `/features/couples-challenges` Category: Social ### Overview Aura's Couples and Friends Challenges allow users to sync habit-tracking goals and compete in real-time streak challenges through secure, invite-only account linking. This social feature enables shared accountability and gamified progress monitoring while maintaining strict privacy for personal journal entries and mood notes. ### Benefits - **Shared accountability**: A partner who sees your progress keeps you both consistent. - **Real-time progress**: See your partner's habit stats update live. - **Streak challenges**: Compete on streaks and weekly goals for friendly motivation. - **Easy invites**: Send an invite code; no friction to get started together. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is the Couples and Friends feature on Aura free to use?** > A: Yes, the Couples and Friends challenge feature is available for free, allowing all users to invite accountability partners and track shared habits at no additional cost. > **Q: Can partners see my private journal entries or mood notes?** > A: No, partners cannot access your private data; their visibility is strictly limited to the specific habit statistics and streak progress you explicitly choose to share. > **Q: Can I use Aura challenges with friends or family members?** > A: Yes, you can invite anyone to be an accountability buddy, including friends, family members, or romantic partners. > **Q: How do I invite a partner or friend to a challenge in Aura?** > A: You can invite someone by generating a unique invite code within the app settings and sharing that code with your partner to sync your accounts. > **Q: Does habit tracking sync in real time during shared challenges?** > A: Yes, once accounts are linked via an invite code, Aura automatically synchronizes habit completion status and streak data between both participants in real time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Gamified Rewards & AURI Path: `/features/gamified-rewards` Category: Gamification ### Overview AURI, also called AuraCoins, is the currency that runs inside Aura. You earn it by doing the things the app exists for — checking in a habit, keeping a streak alive, hitting a milestone, claiming a daily bonus, playing a mini-game — and you spend it on things that help you keep going: Streak Freezes that protect a run when life interrupts it, boosters, tournament entries and items in the shop. The design intent is narrow and worth stating, because gamification is easy to get wrong. Points do not motivate a behaviour on their own, and heavy extrinsic rewards can crowd out the reason you started. What does work is immediate feedback and visible progress, and a currency is one way to deliver both: the coin lands the moment you check in, so the action registers as having counted instead of disappearing. AURI is centralized and internal. It is not on any blockchain, no wallet is required, and it cannot be withdrawn or converted into money. ### Benefits - **Earn for every habit**: AuraCoins are credited each time you check in a habit or reach a milestone, so the reward arrives with the action rather than at the end of a month. - **Spend it on staying consistent**: Streak Freezes protect a run through a bad day, and boosters and shop items are bought with what you earned rather than with money. - **Several ways to earn**: Habits, daily login bonuses, the spin wheel, mini-games and game tournaments all pay out, so a quiet day still has a way to contribute. - **No wallet, no purchase required**: AURI is an internal currency. There is no crypto wallet to set up and nothing you have to buy to take part in the reward system. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is AURI in the Aura app?** > A: It is the internal currency, also shown as AuraCoins, earned by completing habits, hitting milestones, claiming daily bonuses and playing the in-app games. > **Q: Is it free to earn and use?** > A: Yes. Every route to earning AURI is available on the free tier, and nothing in the reward system requires a purchase. > **Q: What can I buy with it?** > A: Streak Freezes, boosters, tournament entries and shop items, plus rotating stock in the Dynamic Bazaar where prices move with demand. > **Q: Do I need a crypto wallet?** > A: No. AURI is a centralized in-app currency held on your account. There is no blockchain, no wallet and no gas fee involved. > **Q: Can I convert AURI into real money?** > A: No. It cannot be withdrawn, sold or exchanged for currency — it exists to be spent inside Aura. Cash rewards from referral and bug bounty programmes are a separate system with its own balance. > **Q: Do rewards actually help build habits?** > A: The useful part is the immediate feedback and the visible progress, not the coin itself. If you would abandon a habit the day the coins stopped, that is a signal to lean on the completion history instead. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Step & Walk Tracker Path: `/features/wearable-sync` Category: Fitness ### Overview Aura is a free, native step and walk tracking app that uses your smartphone's internal motion sensors and GPS to record steps, distance, and pace without requiring a smartwatch, external wearables, or account syncing. It provides accurate fitness tracking while rewarding users with XP and AuraCoins for daily activity. ### Benefits - **Built-in pedometer**: Counts steps with your phone motion sensor — no wearable required. - **Live GPS route**: See your path, distance and speed on a live map as you walk. - **Step-to-Earn**: Earn 5 XP and 20 AuraCoins every 1000 steps, up to a daily cap. - **Private by design**: Your location stays on your device. Nothing is sold or shared. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Do I need a smartwatch or third-party apps like Google Fit to use Aura?** > A: No, you do not need a smartwatch or third-party apps because Aura uses your phone's built-in motion sensors and GPS to track activity directly. > **Q: Does Aura count steps in the background?** > A: No, Aura only tracks steps when a walk session is active in the foreground with the screen turned on to ensure maximum precision from your device sensors. > **Q: Is the Aura walk tracker free to use?** > A: Yes, Aura is completely free to download and use for tracking walking metrics and earning in-app rewards. > **Q: How does Aura handle my location privacy?** > A: Aura protects your privacy by storing all GPS and location data locally on your device, ensuring it is never sold or shared with third parties. > **Q: What rewards can I earn by walking with Aura?** > A: You earn 5 XP and 20 AuraCoins for every 1,000 steps taken during an active walk session, up to a daily limit of 15,000 steps. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Dietitian Path: `/features/ai-dietitian` Category: Nutrition ### Overview Aura's AI Dietitian is an affordable, high-precision nutrition service that generates personalized 4-week diet plans based on your body data, health goals, and lifestyle for roughly one-tenth the cost of a human consultation. Available in 13 languages, the service provides professional-grade calorie and macro tracking while automatically evolving your nutrition strategy based on real-world weight and measurement progress. ### Benefits - **Fully personalized**: Calories, macros and meals built around your goal, body, activity level and tastes. - **A fraction of the cost**: The depth of a real dietitian plan at roughly 1/10 of the price. - **Adapts as you progress**: The plan updates with your results, weight and changing goals. - **Diet-aware**: Supports weight loss, muscle gain, vegetarian, vegan, high-protein and allergies. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How is the AI Dietitian different from the Meal Planner?** > A: The AI Dietitian provides a structured, long-term consultation with specific calorie and macro targets that adjust based on your progress, whereas the Meal Planner focuses solely on generating balanced daily meal suggestions without the adjustment cycle. > **Q: How much does the AI Dietitian cost?** > A: A single AI Dietitian session costs EUR 6.99, while bundles are available for EUR 5.99 per session (3 sessions for EUR 17.99 or 10 sessions for EUR 59.99), and Premium members receive their first session for free. > **Q: Is Aura cheaper than a human dietitian?** > A: Yes, Aura's AI Dietitian is significantly more affordable, costing approximately one-tenth of the price of a standard professional dietitian consultation. > **Q: Does the AI Dietitian track my progress over time?** > A: Yes, the AI Dietitian uses your historical weight and measurement data to automatically recalibrate your caloric and macro targets for each subsequent 4-week phase. > **Q: Is the AI Dietitian considered medical nutrition therapy?** > A: No, the AI Dietitian is designed exclusively for general wellness and does not provide clinical or medical nutrition therapy; individuals with medical conditions or eating disorders should consult a licensed healthcare professional. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Sexologist Path: `/features/ai-sexologist` Category: Relationships & intimacy ### Overview Dr. AURA is an AI-powered sexologist that provides anonymous, science-backed guidance for couples through private, clinical, and sex-positive intimacy coaching. As an accessible and judgment-free alternative to traditional therapy, Dr. AURA delivers personalized Love Maps and relationship exercises for adults while enforcing strict age-gated safety protocols to ensure user privacy and compliance. ### Benefits - **Private and judgment-free**: A discreet chat for intimate topics. Conversations are encrypted and visible only to you. - **Couple Love Map**: A 5-axis map of communication, intimacy, complicity, trust and desire that grows each session. - **Couple mode**: Do a session together on one device — Dr. AURA addresses both partners, perfectly balanced. - **Free advice + deep sessions**: Free daily couple-advice chat for quick questions; full private sessions for real depth. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is Dr. AURA AI sexologist explicit?** > A: Yes, Dr. AURA offers frank, clinical, and sex-positive advice for verified adults (18+), while providing age-appropriate content for minors focused exclusively on healthy relationship dynamics, emotional intelligence, and consent. > **Q: How much does the AI Sexologist cost?** > A: Dr. AURA offers a free tier for up to 5 messages per day, with full private sessions available for EUR 9.99 or in discounted bundles starting at EUR 24.99. > **Q: Are my intimate conversations private?** > A: Yes, all Dr. AURA conversations are fully encrypted, GDPR-compliant, and never sold to third parties, ensuring that your intimate data remains strictly confidential and visible only to you. > **Q: Can my partner and I use the AI together?** > A: Yes, the platform features a dedicated couple mode that allows you to use the AI as a neutral facilitator for shared sessions on a single device. > **Q: Does this AI replace a human sexologist or doctor?** > A: No, Dr. AURA is an educational support tool and does not provide medical treatment or clinical sex therapy; users experiencing physical pain, trauma, or clinical dysfunction should consult a qualified healthcare professional. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Tribes & Community Path: `/features/tribes-community` Category: Social ### Overview Tribes is the social layer of Aura, built on a deliberate split: the accountability is shared, the content is not. You join a tribe aligned with a goal, your check-ins add to its collective momentum, and other members can see that you showed up — but never your journal entries, your mood notes or what any individual habit says. Alongside it runs Aura Pulse, an anonymous live heatmap of habit check-ins across the whole community in the last 24 hours, which turns an otherwise solitary act into something visibly shared by thousands of people at 7am. The mechanism behind both is the same finding that makes accountability partners work: a goal someone else will notice is followed through more reliably than a private one. What Tribes avoids is the part of social wellness apps that backfires — comparison, ranking and public logs, none of which are here. ### Benefits - **A group aligned with your goal**: Join a tribe built around a specific aim rather than a generic feed, so the shared momentum is about something you are actually doing. - **Aura Pulse, live and anonymous**: A global heatmap of habit check-ins from the last 24 hours, refreshed continuously. Every record is anonymous — it shows activity, never who. - **Accountability without comparison**: There is no ranking of members and no public log. What is shared is that you showed up, which is the part that helps. - **Your private data stays private**: Journal entries, mood notes and individual habit details are never visible to other members, by design rather than by setting. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Are Tribes free?** > A: Yes. Joining tribes and viewing the Aura Pulse heatmap are both free features available to every user. > **Q: What is Aura Pulse?** > A: An anonymous, real-time heatmap of habit check-ins made across the whole Aura community in the last 24 hours. Each check-in is recorded without identity, so it shows the shape of global activity and nothing about individuals. > **Q: Can tribe members see my private data?** > A: No. Journal entries, mood notes and individual habit logs are never exposed. What a tribe registers is participation, not content. > **Q: Why does joining a group help?** > A: Because a goal someone else will notice is followed through more reliably than a private one — the same effect behind accountability partners. Tribes applies it without the comparison and ranking that make social feeds counterproductive. > **Q: Is there a leaderboard inside a tribe?** > A: No ranking of members against each other. The shared signal is collective momentum, which is deliberately different from a competition. > **Q: Can I leave a tribe?** > A: Yes, at any time, and you can join a different one. Nothing about your habits or history changes when you do. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Aura Score & Global Rank Path: `/features/aura-score` Category: Productivity ### Overview The Aura Score condenses four things you already log — habit completion rate, mood trend, how consistently you record anything at all, and overall activity — into one number, and places that number as a percentile against everyone else using the app. The reason it exists is that a single metric answers a question the individual charts cannot: whether the whole picture is improving or only one part of it. Someone with a perfect habit streak and a collapsing mood trend does not have a good week, and looking at the two charts separately makes that easy to miss. The score is weighted toward sustained, balanced behaviour rather than intensity, which means a steady four weeks moves it further than one heroic weekend. The percentile is computed against the aggregated scores of the whole user base, so it shifts as the community shifts rather than being fixed to a static curve. ### Benefits - **One number for the whole picture**: Habits, mood, logging consistency and activity combined, so a good streak alongside a falling mood shows up as what it is rather than as a win. - **A real percentile**: Your position is computed against the aggregated scores of the entire user base, not against a fixed curve, so it reflects the community as it actually is. - **Rewards consistency, not intensity**: The weighting favours sustained balanced behaviour, which is why a steady month moves the score more than a single very good week. - **Free, and it shows you the gaps**: The score and the global rank are on the free tier, and the breakdown points at which pillar is holding you back. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is the Aura Score?** > A: A single wellness metric combining habit completion, mood trend, logging consistency and activity level, expressed as a number and as a global percentile. > **Q: Is it free?** > A: Yes, both the score and your global rank are included on the free tier. > **Q: How is the global rank calculated?** > A: Your score is compared against the aggregated scores of the whole user base to produce a percentile position, which moves as the community changes. > **Q: How do I raise it?** > A: Consistent daily habit tracking and stable mood logging over weeks. The algorithm prioritises sustained, balanced behaviour, so intensity in a single area moves it less than steadiness across all four. > **Q: What exactly does it measure?** > A: Four pillars: habit completion rate, emotional mood trend, how frequently you log data at all, and overall physical or mental activity. > **Q: Is a low score a health assessment?** > A: No. It is a measure of how you are using the app and how your own logged data is trending, not a clinical judgement about your health. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Achievements & Badges Path: `/features/achievements-badges` Category: Gamification ### Overview Aura tracks a set of achievements that unlock automatically as you use the app: streak lengths, consistency thresholds, wellness targets, game results and long-term milestones. Each one that unlocks becomes a badge on your profile and pays AuraCoins, and the bigger ones can be turned into a branded card image you can share. The reason this exists is not decoration. Progress on a habit is genuinely invisible day to day — the difference between day 40 and day 41 is nothing you can feel — and that invisibility is one of the ordinary reasons people stop. An achievement converts an accumulation you cannot perceive into a discrete event you can, which is the same mechanism behind why a completion history chart is more motivating than a number. There are fifteen named achievements, all free, all unlocking automatically without anything to claim. ### Benefits - **Progress you can actually see**: Badges turn an accumulation that is invisible day to day into a discrete moment, which is what makes a long streak feel like something rather than nothing. - **Many routes to unlock**: Achievements cover streak length, consistency, wellness targets, game results and long-term milestones, so different kinds of use are recognised. - **Coins alongside the badge**: Many achievements pay AuraCoins when they unlock, so the milestone is worth something you can spend as well as something to look at. - **Shareable cards**: Streak and milestone cards render as branded images you can share through the native share sheet or save as a PNG. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Are achievements and badges free?** > A: Yes, all fifteen are included on the free tier. Nothing in the achievement system is behind Premium. > **Q: How do I earn a badge?** > A: Automatically. Each achievement has a condition — a streak length, a consistency threshold, a wellness or game milestone — and it unlocks the moment you meet it. > **Q: Can I share my achievements?** > A: Yes. Streak and milestone cards render as branded 1080x1080 images, shared through the Web Share API where the browser supports it and downloadable as a PNG otherwise. > **Q: Do I get rewards for unlocking them?** > A: Many achievements pay AuraCoins on unlock, credited alongside the badge. Those coins are spendable on Streak Freezes, boosters and shop items. > **Q: Can I lose a badge if my streak breaks?** > A: No. Unlocked achievements stay unlocked. A broken streak affects the current run, not the record that you once reached it. > **Q: Do achievements sync across devices?** > A: Yes. They are stored on your account, so they follow your login rather than living on one device. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Home Screen Widget Path: `/features/home-screen-widget` Category: Productivity ### Overview Aura installs from the browser as a Progressive Web App, which means it lands on your home screen with an icon like any other app — no App Store, no Play Store, no review queue, and no separate build per platform. Once installed, the widget view gives you the glanceable version of the app: today's habits as a checklist you can tick without going anywhere else, a live vitality bar, your current streak, and three quick stats. Alongside it, the PWA manifest registers shortcuts, so a long press on the icon jumps straight into habits, journal, mood or the widget rather than dropping you on the dashboard to navigate from there. The practical value is friction: a habit you can check off in two seconds from the home screen gets checked off, and one that costs four taps through a dashboard often does not. It works identically on iOS, Android and desktop. ### Benefits - **Glanceable, not another app to open**: Today's habit checklist, the vitality bar and your streak are visible and tickable without navigating into the full app. - **Shortcuts from the icon**: The PWA manifest registers direct entries for habits, journal, mood and the widget, so a long press lands you where you meant to go. - **No app store involved**: Installing is Add to Home Screen from the browser. There is no store listing, no regional availability and no update you have to approve. - **Same on iOS, Android and desktop**: One PWA rather than three builds, so the widget behaves the same everywhere and does not lag behind on one platform. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is the widget free?** > A: Yes, it is included for every user once Aura is installed as a PWA. There is nothing to buy or unlock. > **Q: Does it work on both iPhone and Android?** > A: Yes, and on desktop. It is a Progressive Web App, so the same install works across all three. > **Q: What does the widget show?** > A: A daily habits checklist you can tick, a live vitality bar, your current streak, and three quick stats, plus one-tap shortcuts for logging habits, mood and journal entries. > **Q: Do I need the App Store or Google Play?** > A: No. Aura installs directly from the browser, which is also why there is no regional availability to check and no store review delay on updates. > **Q: Is this a native iOS home screen widget?** > A: It is a PWA installed as an app icon with a glanceable widget view and manifest shortcuts, not a native iOS WidgetKit widget. In practice it opens instantly and shows the same information. > **Q: Does it work offline?** > A: Aura is a PWA with offline support, so previously loaded content stays available and check-ins made offline sync once you are back online. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Habit Coach Path: `/features/ai-habit-coach` Category: Productivity ### Overview The AI Habit Coach is the part of Aura that speaks first. Rather than waiting for you to open an analysis screen, it reads yesterday and today from your own completion record and produces one message: a short piece of encouragement grounded in what actually happened, and where it makes sense, a suggested next habit chosen because it fits the pattern that is already working for you. The rate limit is the design, not a restriction — it is capped at roughly one interaction a day and cached, because a coach that pings you six times becomes noise you learn to dismiss, and a dismissed nudge is worth less than none. It is also deliberately narrow. This is behavioural: completion patterns, streak risk, what to add next. Mindset, motivation and emotional work belong to the AI Mental Coach, which is a separate feature with a different job. Keeping them apart is what stops either from becoming a generic chatbot that does both badly. ### Benefits - **It reaches out first**: The coach reads your recent completions on its own and surfaces a nudge, instead of waiting for you to go looking for an analysis screen. - **Suggestions built on what works**: The recommended next habit is chosen from your own completion history — what you have actually sustained — rather than from a generic starter list. - **Encouragement tied to real progress**: Messages reference what you actually did this week. Nothing here is a motivational quote with your name substituted into it. - **Capped at one a day, on purpose**: Rate-limited and cached daily so each nudge stays worth reading. A coach you learn to swipe away has already failed. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How is this different from the AI Mental Coach?** > A: The Habit Coach is behavioural: completion patterns, streak risk, which habit to add next. The Mental Coach handles mindset, motivation and emotional resilience. They are separate features with separate jobs. > **Q: Is it free?** > A: Yes. It is available on the free tier, with the interaction frequency rate-limited so each nudge stays relevant. > **Q: How does it choose what to suggest?** > A: It analyses your own habit completion history and behavioural pattern to identify a next step with a realistic chance of sticking, rather than recommending from a fixed list. > **Q: Will it flood me with notifications?** > A: No. It is capped at approximately one interaction per day and the result is cached, so there is no way for it to become a stream. > **Q: How long before it says anything useful?** > A: It needs a few days of completions to have a pattern to read. On day one it can encourage; it cannot yet tell you anything you did not know. > **Q: Can I ignore a suggestion?** > A: Yes, and ignoring one has no consequence. The suggestion is regenerated from your newer data rather than being held against you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Private Encrypted Chat Path: `/features/private-chat` Category: Social ### Overview Aura Whisper is fully end-to-end encrypted private chat that keeps your conversations confidential and inaccessible to third parties. Text messaging is free, every message uses per-message key isolation, and you can verify a contact with a safety number to rule out interception. Photos and voice notes are encrypted before upload and get a one-line AI preview, and disappearing messages delete themselves after 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days — across 1:1 and group chats. You can also edit sent messages, delete them for everyone, react with emoji, reply with swipe, send AURI tips, ask AURA AI inline with @aura, control read receipts and online status per device, place real-time voice and video calls, drop into a group voice room, get an AI tone check before sending plus smart-reply suggestions, share a Flash status (text, photo or voice) that disappears after 24 hours, and install Whisper as its own app on your phone. ### Benefits - **Free & end-to-end encrypted**: Text messaging is free and encrypted so only you and your contact can read it. - **Verify your contact**: Compare a safety number to confirm no one is intercepting — with a key-change alert if it moves. - **Encrypted photos & voice**: Media is encrypted on your device before upload; storage only ever sees ciphertext, and voice notes get a one-line AI preview before you play them. - **Calls, group voice rooms & Flash**: Place encrypted 1:1 voice/video calls or drop into a group voice room, and share a 24h Flash status update in text, photo or voice. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is Aura chat end-to-end encrypted?** > A: Yes. Aura Whisper uses end-to-end encryption with per-message key isolation, so only you and your intended recipient can read your messages — and each message is protected by its own key. > **Q: Is Aura Whisper free?** > A: Yes. Text messaging is completely free and end-to-end encrypted for all users. Only optional media messages use in-app AURI. > **Q: How do I verify a contact?** > A: Open Verify Contact to see a safety number computed from both encryption keys. Compare it with your contact in person or on a trusted call; if it matches on both phones, no one is intercepting. Aura also warns you if a contact's key changes. > **Q: Do photos and voice notes stay encrypted?** > A: Yes. Media is encrypted on your device before it is uploaded, so cloud storage only ever holds ciphertext — the decryption key travels with the message, not the file. > **Q: What message controls does Aura Whisper offer?** > A: You can set messages to auto-delete after 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days, edit sent texts (marked as edited), delete messages for everyone, react with emoji and reply with a swipe. Privacy toggles let you switch off read receipts and hide your online status, you can place encrypted voice/video calls or drop into a group voice room, share a 24h Flash status (text, photo or voice), and install Whisper as a standalone app from the chat page. Aura never sells your chat data and is GDPR-compliant. > **Q: Can I call multiple people at once in a group chat?** > A: Yes. Any group chat can start a drop-in voice room — an audio call any member can join or leave anytime, encrypted peer-to-peer like the 1:1 calls, no recording, no server relay of your voice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Advanced Wellness Analytics Path: `/features/advanced-analytics` Category: Productivity ### Overview The analytics view turns the data you have logged into charts you can actually read: a 30-day line for mood and energy, and a horizontal bar ranking of which habits you keep and which quietly slip. That second chart is the one most people find uncomfortable and useful, because the habit you believe you are keeping and the habit you are actually keeping are often different, and a ranked bar makes the gap impossible to argue with. Colours are derived from the values rather than fixed, so a weak area reads as weak at a glance without you having to compare numbers. This is the raw-data half of the pair: analytics shows you what happened, and AI Insights writes the interpretation of the same record. Keeping them separate is intentional — you can check any claim the insight makes against the chart it came from instead of taking a summary on trust. Core charts are free; Premium extends the historical range and adds the deeper performance views. ### Benefits - **30-day mood and energy trends**: Line charts over a month, which is roughly the shortest window where a genuine pattern separates from ordinary day-to-day variation. - **Habit performance, ranked**: Horizontal bars order your habits by how reliably you actually complete them — usually not the order you would have guessed. - **Colour that carries meaning**: Chart colours are derived from the values, so strong and weak areas are visible at a glance rather than requiring you to read every number. - **The evidence behind the insight**: Analytics and AI Insights run on the same record. Having the raw charts alongside the written interpretation means you can verify a claim instead of trusting it. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is the analytics dashboard free?** > A: The core charts are free for every user. Premium, from EUR 4.99 a month, extends the historical range and unlocks the deeper performance metrics. > **Q: What charts does it show?** > A: 30-day mood and energy trend lines, plus horizontal habit-performance bars with value-derived colour coding for an immediate read of where you stand. > **Q: How is this different from AI Insights?** > A: Analytics is the raw visualisation of your data. AI Insights is the written interpretation of the same data. Analytics shows what happened; Insights proposes what it might mean. > **Q: Is my data private?** > A: Yes. Analytics are computed from your own encrypted data, handled under GDPR, and never sold. You can export or delete everything from settings. > **Q: How long before the charts are meaningful?** > A: About four weeks. Under that, a line chart mostly reflects normal variation rather than a trend you can act on. > **Q: Does it need a wearable?** > A: No. The charts run on manual habit and mood logging. Connecting steps or heart-rate data adds signals but is entirely optional. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Weekly Wellness Report Path: `/features/weekly-report` Category: Productivity ### Overview Every Monday Aura produces a Weekly Wrapped: your habit completion percentage for the week just finished, your average mood, your best streak, and the AuraCoins you earned, laid out in a branded card you can export as a high-resolution image or a PDF. It is generated automatically with nothing to configure. The reason a weekly summary works better than the daily view is memory bias — people recall the most recent and most intense days and describe a whole week from them, which is why a week with four hard days and three good ones gets remembered as a bad week. A completion percentage corrects that in one number. The export exists because a private record is easy to dismiss and a shareable one is not: people who post a weekly result tend to produce another one. Free for every user, with no setup step and no limit on how many weeks you generate. ### Benefits - **The week in four numbers**: Completion rate, average mood, longest streak and coins earned — enough to see the shape of the week without reading seven days of entries. - **A correction for memory bias**: Recall over-weights the worst days. A completion percentage is what shows you that the week you remember as a write-off was 71 percent. - **Exportable as image or PDF**: The card renders at high resolution for sharing through the native share sheet, or as a PDF to keep as a record. - **Automatic every Monday**: It is generated on its own from the previous week. There is nothing to schedule, enable or remember to run. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is the weekly report free?** > A: Yes, it is included for every user with no setup and no limit on how many you generate. > **Q: What does it include?** > A: Your habit completion percentage for the week, average mood trend, longest active streak, and total AuraCoins earned over the preceding seven days. > **Q: Can I export it as a PDF?** > A: Yes, as a PDF or as a high-resolution image, both rendered from the same branded layout. > **Q: When is it generated?** > A: Automatically every Monday morning, summarising the week that just ended. > **Q: How do I share it?** > A: Through the in-app share button, which uses your device share sheet where the browser supports it, or by downloading the file and posting it yourself. > **Q: What if I barely logged anything that week?** > A: The report reflects the record honestly, so a sparse week produces a low completion rate. That is the intended behaviour — a summary that flattered a missed week would not be worth reading. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Wellness Plan Generator Path: `/features/ai-plan-generator` Category: Productivity ### Overview Aura's AI Wellness Plan Generator creates a fully personalized, habit-based wellness strategy in seconds by transforming your specific health goals into an actionable, adaptive routine. By analyzing user-selected focus areas like fitness, sleep, and productivity, the tool eliminates the friction of building a habit system from scratch, providing a dynamic roadmap that evolves automatically based on your daily progress and tracking data. ### Benefits - **Goal to plan instantly**: Pick goals; the AI returns a structured habit plan. - **Sensible sequencing**: Habits are ordered to build on each other, not overwhelm. - **Editable from day one**: Tweak the generated plan before you commit. - **Backed by your data**: As you track, the plan adapts via AI insights and coaching. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is the Aura AI Wellness Plan Generator free to use?** > A: Yes, Aura's AI Wellness Plan Generator is completely free to use during the initial onboarding process to build your custom routine. > **Q: How does the Aura AI build a custom wellness plan?** > A: The Aura AI builds your plan by analyzing your selected wellness goals and lifestyle preferences to curate a structured, logically ordered sequence of daily habits tailored specifically to your needs. > **Q: Can I customize or modify my AI-generated wellness plan?** > A: Yes, every Aura wellness plan is fully editable, allowing you to manually add, remove, or reorder specific habits at any time to accommodate changing priorities. > **Q: Does the AI wellness plan update based on my progress?** > A: Yes, the AI and integrated habit coach continuously refine your plan based on your real-time tracking data to ensure your wellness routine remains effective and relevant to your evolving progress. > **Q: What specific wellness areas can the AI plan cover?** > A: The AI plan can cover a wide range of focus areas, including fitness, sleep quality, stress management, mindfulness, and productivity habit formation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Streak Freeze Protection Path: `/features/streak-freeze` Category: Gamification ### Overview Aura Streak Freeze is a gamification utility that prevents habit streaks from resetting to zero by automatically protecting your progress when you miss a daily task. This feature functions as digital insurance, allowing users to maintain momentum and long-term consistency without losing established streaks due to unforeseen interruptions. ### Benefits - **Protect your progress**: One missed day will not wipe weeks of streak. - **Earn or buy**: Get freezes through rewards or buy them with AuraCoins. - **Visible protection**: Frozen habits show a clear glow and snowflake so you know you are covered. - **Less all-or-nothing**: Removes the shame spiral of a broken streak. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is an Aura Streak Freeze?** > A: An Aura Streak Freeze is a protective tool that prevents your habit streak from resetting to zero by covering a missed day of activity. > **Q: How do I earn Aura Streak Freezes?** > A: You can earn Streak Freezes by completing in-app reward milestones or by purchasing them directly using AuraCoins, the platform's internal currency. > **Q: Is the Streak Freeze feature free to use?** > A: Yes, the Streak Freeze feature is free to use, provided you have acquired a freeze item through gameplay rewards or by spending AuraCoins. > **Q: How can I verify if my streak is currently frozen?** > A: You can confirm your streak is protected by checking your habit card for a blue glow and a snowflake icon, which indicate an active Streak Freeze. > **Q: Does a Streak Freeze apply automatically when I miss a day?** > A: A Streak Freeze is automatically applied to a missed habit to ensure your progress remains intact and your streak count is not interrupted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Daily Rewards & Spin Wheel Path: `/features/daily-rewards` Category: Gamification ### Overview Daily rewards are the smallest loop in Aura: open the app, claim a login bonus in AuraCoins, take one spin of the prize wheel, and that is it. The design intent is a low-friction reason to open the app on a day when nothing else is pulling you in, because the days you do not open it are the days a streak quietly ends. Both are free, and neither requires you to complete anything first — the login bonus lands for showing up. The wheel resets every 24 hours and pays a variable amount, which is the part that keeps the daily check interesting rather than automatic. What you earn flows into the same balance your habits pay into, so a run of daily bonuses accumulates into something concrete: a Streak Freeze that protects a run through a bad week, a booster, an item in the shop. AuraCoins are internal to Aura and cannot be converted into money. ### Benefits - **A bonus just for showing up**: The daily login credits AuraCoins without requiring you to complete anything first, which is deliberate — it lowers the cost of opening the app on a bad day. - **One spin every 24 hours**: The prize wheel resets daily and pays a variable amount, so the daily check has a small element of chance rather than being a fixed transaction. - **It keeps the routine alive**: The days you do not open the app are the days streaks break. A small daily reason to open it is a cheap defence against that. - **Feeds the same balance**: Coins from daily rewards mix with what your habits earn and spend on Streak Freezes, boosters and shop items. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Are daily rewards free?** > A: Yes. Both the login bonus and the daily spin are free for every user, with no purchase and no Premium requirement. > **Q: What do I earn?** > A: AuraCoins (AURI), the in-app currency, redeemable for Streak Freezes, boosters and shop items. > **Q: Do I need a crypto wallet?** > A: No. AuraCoins are held internally on your Aura account. There is no blockchain, no wallet and nothing to connect. > **Q: How often can I spin the wheel?** > A: Once every 24 hours, alongside the daily login bonus. > **Q: What happens if I miss a day?** > A: The daily bonus for that day is simply not claimed, and an unprotected habit streak breaks. A Streak Freeze bought with earned coins can shield the day so the streak survives the interruption. > **Q: Can I convert the coins into money?** > A: No. AuraCoins are an internal app currency and cannot be withdrawn, sold or exchanged for cash. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Aura Orb 3D Biofeedback Path: `/features/aura-orb` Category: Mental wellness ### Overview The Aura Orb 3D Biofeedback is a browser-based mental wellness tool that provides real-time, voice-reactive visual guidance to lower stress, improve focus, and facilitate breathwork through interactive 3D animation. Accessible directly in any standard web browser, it utilizes Web Audio API technology to sync a dynamic sphere with your breath patterns, serving as an immersive anchor for daily mindfulness and emotional regulation. ### Benefits - **Breathes with you**: A gentle sine-wave rhythm gives you something to sync your breath to. - **Voice reactive**: The orb responds in real time to sound via the mic (Web Audio API). - **Beautiful by design**: A distorting 3D material and orbiting rings make it mesmerizing. - **A daily focal point**: A calm anchor for check-ins and breathwork moments. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is the Aura Orb free to use?** > A: Yes, the Aura Orb is completely free and included as a standard feature within the Aura mental wellness platform. > **Q: How does the Aura Orb mic reaction function?** > A: The Aura Orb uses the browser's Web Audio API to detect real-time sound frequencies to animate the 3D sphere, and it is built with privacy in mind as it never records, processes, or stores any audio data. > **Q: What is the primary purpose of the Aura Orb?** > A: The Aura Orb is primarily designed as a visual anchor to ground users during breathwork sessions, emotional check-ins, and moments of mindful presence. > **Q: Does the Aura Orb require additional hardware or software?** > A: No, the Aura Orb requires no hardware or software downloads because it runs entirely in your web browser, with microphone permissions remaining optional for users. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Genesis Space Strategy Path: `/features/aura-genesis` Category: Gamification ### Overview AURA Genesis is a browser-based space colony strategy game that converts real-world wellness habit tracking from the Aura app into in-game resources for fleet expansion and colony development. By bridging personal habit formation with neon-spacial gaming mechanics, players earn AURI tokens and Bio-Essence to power mining reactors, command drones, and participate in global cooperative raids. ### Benefits - **Habit-Powered Progression**: Completing daily habits rewards you with Bio-Essence, the fundamental resource used to expand your bio-colony. - **Real-Time Space Raids**: Launch coordinate missions using support and war drones to raid other active players and harvest space debris. - **Deep Infrastructure**: Upgrade 21 distinct structures including Bio-Extractors, Nano-Forges, and Shield Generators to secure your space domain. - **Co-op Void Boss**: Every few days a Void Entity appears for 48 hours. Its health is sized against the fleet the whole galaxy can field, and the Dark Matter pool is split by the damage each player deals. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is AURA Genesis?** > A: AURA Genesis is a multiplayer space strategy game that synchronizes with the Aura wellness app, allowing players to build colonies and earn AURI tokens by completing real-life daily habits. > **Q: How do real-world habits impact gameplay?** > A: Completing daily habit streaks generates Bio-Essence, which is the primary resource required to power your Plasma Reactor and accelerate fleet production and colony building. > **Q: What protections exist for new or weaker players?** > A: Players are protected by a 7-day newbie immunity period, a safety buffer for those with scores 10% lower than their attacker, and a resource theft cap limited to 50% of storage capacity. > **Q: Is AURA Genesis free to play?** > A: Yes, AURA Genesis is free to play, though optional premium memberships are available starting at EUR 4.99 per month for cosmetic skins, increased fleet slots, and resource production multipliers. > **Q: How can players earn rewards in AURA Genesis?** > A: Players earn rewards by hitting gameplay milestones, maintaining consistent habit streaks, and participating in recurring cooperative boss raid events linked to the AURI token platform. > **Q: What is there to do once my buildings are maxed out?** > A: The fleet becomes the game. Deep space expeditions send a fleet past the outer ring with no other player involved and come back with resources, Dark Matter, salvaged ships or a pirate fight. Roaming alien fleets scale up to Void Armadas and Harbingers as your defences grow, elite variants appear at every tier, and Bio-Engineering levels 11 and 12 unlock a fourth and fifth colony, each of which is a whole construction tree to build again. > **Q: Is AURA Genesis playable with only a few players online?** > A: Yes. Expeditions, alien fleet hunting, debris collection and the co-op Void Boss all work without opponents: the galaxy is populated with alien fleets that scale to your combat power, and the boss is sized against the fleet the active players actually own, so a small server can still finish it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Aura Future Self Path: `/features/future-self` Category: AI motivation ### Overview Aura Future Self is an AI-powered motivation tool that projects your future energy, mood, and vitality at 6 months, 2 years, and 5 years based on your current habit-tracking data. By simulating a 'thriving' trajectory versus a 'drifting' one, it provides vivid, second-person snapshots that help you visualize the long-term impact of today's choices. ### Benefits - **Two divergent timelines**: See the thriving path and the drifting path side by side, so the cost of consistency becomes real. - **Grounded in your data**: Projections are built from your actual habit adherence, streaks and mood — not generic motivation. - **Three horizons**: Look 6 months, 2 years and 5 years ahead with energy, mood and vitality forecasts for each. - **Refreshes as you grow**: Regenerate your Future Self any time; as your habits improve, the thriving timeline climbs with you. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is Aura Future Self?** > A: Aura Future Self is an AI feature that uses your real-time habit data to simulate two potential future versions of you—one that succeeds through consistency and one that declines due to slipping habits—to provide personalized long-term motivation. > **Q: Is Aura Future Self based on scientific predictions?** > A: No, it is a motivational tool designed for visualization rather than a medical or clinical prediction tool. While the projections are extrapolated from your actual habit adherence and mood data, they are illustrative snapshots intended to help you conceptualize personal growth rather than forecast specific future health outcomes. > **Q: Is Aura Future Self free to use?** > A: Yes, Aura Future Self is free for all users and updates weekly, allowing you to manually regenerate your projections at any time as your habits and lifestyle evolve. > **Q: How accurate are the Future Self projections?** > A: These projections are illustrative, not guarantees, as they serve as a motivational framework to show realistic best-case and worst-case trajectories based on your current momentum. > **Q: What languages does Aura Future Self support?** > A: Aura Future Self supports all 13 languages currently available in the Aura app, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Korean. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURI — Aura in-app currency Path: `/features/auri` Category: In-App Currency ### Overview AURI is the native in-app currency of the Aura ecosystem that rewards users for completing healthy habits, mining, and gaming, while offering instant peer-to-peer transfers and an internal AURI / USD-credit exchange. Unlike public cryptocurrencies, AURI is a centralized balance managed entirely within the Aura app: it never leaves the platform and cannot be cashed out, functioning as a frictionless, fee-free personal wallet for in-app transactions. ### Benefits - **Earn by living well**: Every habit, mood log, milestone, mining block and game win adds AURI to your balance. - **Send & receive (P2P wallet)**: Transfer AURI to any Aura user or get paid in AURI instantly, zero fee, with an optional fiat value and note. - **Passive mining + internal trading**: Accrue AURI passively even when the app is closed, and swap it for in-app USD credits on the internal liquidity pool. - **In-app only, no crypto needed**: AURI lives entirely inside Aura — no wallet app, no gas fees, no blockchain. Just earn and spend in the app. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is AURI in the Aura app?** > A: AURI is a proprietary in-app currency that acts as a rewards token for wellness activities, a medium of exchange for goods in the Aura shop, and a tradable balance that can be swapped for in-app USD credits. It is not a public cryptocurrency and cannot be transferred out as a token; real money is only reachable by selling it for USD credit and requesting a payout, which requires a purchased Lifetime plan. Fixed supply of 1 billion tokens. > **Q: How can I earn AURI tokens?** > A: You earn AURI by completing daily habits, logging moods, reaching personal milestones, participating in passive mining sessions, and winning Aura-based games or tournaments. > **Q: Can I transfer AURI to other users?** > A: Yes, AURI functions as a peer-to-peer wallet, allowing you to send or receive funds from other Aura users instantly with zero transaction fees. Transfers support optional fiat value labeling and personalized notes, with real-time balance updates and push notifications for recipients. > **Q: Can I convert AURI into real money?** > A: Indirectly, and only in part. Swap AURI for USD credit on the internal liquidity pool, then request a payout: only the part of that credit above everything you ever paid into Aura is payable, only on a purchased Lifetime plan, from 20 USD, under a per-user monthly cap and a total monthly platform budget, reviewed and sent by hand. AURI itself is never transferred out and there is no blockchain transfer. > **Q: Is AURI a blockchain-based cryptocurrency?** > A: No, AURI is not on any public blockchain. It is a centralized in-app currency that lives entirely within the Aura platform, meaning it cannot be traded on external crypto exchanges or moved to third-party digital wallets. > **Q: How does the AURI mining system and boosts work?** > A: Every day a fixed pool of AURI is divided among all active Free miners. If you purchase a mining Boost (up to 250x), you do not take from the free pool. Instead, the system calculates a Free user's base earnings and multiplies it exactly by your boost hashrate, allowing paid users to mint new AURI without pool limits! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Visual Validation Path: `/features/visual-validation` Category: Gamification ### Overview Visual Validation is an Aura feature that uses AI computer vision to automatically track your meals and reward you with AuriCoins instantly upon taking a photo. By replacing manual logging with AI-powered image analysis, you can verify a balanced meal in under one second without typing. ### Benefits - **Zero manual logging**: No forms, no sliders. One photo and Aura's AI does the rest — confirmation and reward in a second. - **Instant AuriCoin rewards**: A valid photo pays out immediately, scaled by an AI quality score, with a confetti Wow moment. - **AI vision you can trust**: AURA AI-powered image analysis judges whether the photo really shows a balanced meal. - **Fair and abuse-resistant**: Daily limits and server-side scoring keep rewards fair — 5 validations/day free, 20 for Premium. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How does Visual Validation work?** > A: Visual Validation uses AI vision to analyze your meal photo and immediately rewards you with AuriCoins if the content matches a real, balanced plate. The AI evaluates the image in under a second and calculates a quality score to determine your reward, eliminating the need for manual data entry. > **Q: Is Visual Validation free to use?** > A: Yes, Visual Validation is free for all users with a limit of 5 validations per day. Premium subscribers, starting at EUR 4.99 per month, receive an increased limit of 20 validations per day. > **Q: What types of photos can I validate?** > A: Visual Validation is for meals: photograph the plate you are about to eat and the AI scores it for nutritional balance. It lives in the Meals section of the app. > **Q: Can I cheat the Visual Validation system?** > A: No, the system uses server-side AI analysis to score the authenticity of each photo and automatically rejects mismatches or attempts to bypass requirements. Strict daily limits and algorithmic verification ensure reward integrity across the platform. > **Q: Are my photos stored by Aura?** > A: No, your photos are not stored or used to build a public profile; they are processed securely for instant analysis and then discarded. Only the final reward outcome is saved to your personal account. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Living Aura Orb Path: `/features/living-orb` Category: Gamification ### Overview The Living Aura Orb is a gamified wellbeing tracker that visualizes your vitality as a dynamic digital twin, where your daily engagement, habits, and mood dictate the life and appearance of an evolving, reactive orb. Instead of static data, users maintain a 60% vitality floor through daily logins, with an additional 40% earned through habits, mood tracking, and activities. If engagement lapses, the Aura fades by 5% daily until it expires, requiring consistent interaction to rebuild. This system transforms personal health data into a real-time experience of color, motion, and AI-generated insights that reflect your current state of being. ### Benefits - **Your data, felt not read**: No dashboards to decode — the Orb shows your wellbeing momentum at a glance through color and motion. - **Earned, not guessed**: Vitality is deterministic: a daily login gives a 60% floor, all your habits add 25% and a mood log 15% — the full daily ritual is exactly 100%. - **Real-time reaction**: Complete habits, lift your mood or play and the Orb climbs toward thriving with vivid color and faster motion. - **Private by design**: Raw journal text is never sent to AI — only numeric sentiment powers the Orb's personal message. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is the Living Aura Orb?** > A: The Living Aura Orb is a gamified wellbeing visualization tool that represents your daily vitality levels through a reactive, evolving digital twin that changes color and motion based on your habits, activity, and consistency. > **Q: How is my vitality score calculated?** > A: Vitality is calculated deterministically: a daily login provides a 60% baseline, completing all your habits adds 25% and logging your mood 15%, so the full daily ritual reaches 100%. Games and in-app activity add up to 15% more, letting a partial habit day still max out. Your earned bonus is kept for 48 hours before it fades. > **Q: What happens if I stop logging in?** > A: Your vitality score decreases by 5% for every day you miss, eventually causing the Aura to fade and expire if it reaches zero, though it can be rebuilt through renewed engagement. > **Q: Is my personal data private when using the Orb?** > A: Yes, your privacy is protected because the AI does not read your raw journal text; it only uses numeric sentiment scores to generate personal messages while computing your vitality score through objective, deterministic metrics. > **Q: What are the different states of the Living Aura Orb?** > A: The Orb displays four primary states: Thriving for high momentum, Stable for consistent wellbeing, Recharging for low energy, and Tender for depleted states, each uniquely expressed through distinct colors and animations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Wellness Raids Path: `/features/wellness-raids` Category: Gamification ### Overview Wellness Raids are daily live gamified breathing events where the Aura community collaborates to defeat a global Boss for real-world rewards. By participating in a 3-minute guided breathing session at 16:00 (Europe/Rome), users deal collective damage to the Boss to unlock a 24-hour 2x AuriCoin multiplier for all participants. ### Benefits - **Real-time and global**: A live boss HP bar drops as warriors worldwide complete breathing — you feel the crowd. - **Calm that rewards**: 3 minutes of guided breathing damages the Boss and earns AuriCoins instantly. - **Win together**: Defeat the Boss as a community and everyone unlocks a 2x AuriCoin multiplier for 24h. - **A daily ritual**: Same time every day (16:00) builds a calming habit you share with thousands. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is a Wellness Raid?** > A: A Wellness Raid is a synchronous community event where users perform 3 minutes of guided breathing to collectively defeat a shared Boss and earn a 2x AuriCoin multiplier. > **Q: When do Wellness Raids take place?** > A: Wellness Raids occur daily at 16:00 (Europe/Rome), featuring a live-updating Boss HP bar that tracks collective progress. > **Q: Is it free to participate in Wellness Raids?** > A: Yes, Wellness Raids are completely free to join, and every participant receives AuriCoins upon completing their breathing session. > **Q: What are the rewards for winning a Wellness Raid?** > A: Winning a Wellness Raid rewards participants with base AuriCoins and unlocks a community-wide 2x AuriCoin multiplier active for the following 24 hours. > **Q: How does breathing damage the Boss in a raid?** > A: Each completed 3-minute breathing session acts as an attack that reduces the shared Boss HP in real time until the raid is successfully defeated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Proactive AI Coach Path: `/features/proactive-coach` Category: Mental wellness ### Overview Aura's Proactive AI Coach is a personalized mental wellness tool that delivers one hyper-relevant, daily message based on your specific mood, habit progress, and journaling sentiment from the last three days. Unlike generic reminders, the Proactive AI Coach acts as a private wellness mentor by providing data-driven nudges, momentum-based celebrations, and gentle resets tailored to your actual state of mind. ### Benefits - **Personal, not generic**: Each message references your real recent data — it feels like Aura actually knows you. - **One a day, never spammy**: A single thoughtful nudge daily, capped at 1/day and easy to dismiss. - **Acts on the right moment**: Suggests a habit, a breathing session or a chat based on your current state. - **Private by design**: Only numeric aggregates reach the AI — your journal text never leaves your account. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is the Aura Proactive AI Coach?** > A: The Proactive AI Coach is a feature that sends a daily, hyper-personalized message to your dashboard based on an analysis of your mood trends, habit completion, and journal sentiment over the previous three days. > **Q: Does the Proactive AI Coach read my actual journal entries?** > A: No, the AI does not read your raw journal text; it only processes numeric sentiment scores and aggregated behavioral data to ensure your private entries remain confidential. > **Q: How often will I receive messages from the AI Coach?** > A: You will receive no more than one proactive message per day, delivered via push notification around 19:00 server time, with the message always accessible on your app dashboard. > **Q: Is the Proactive AI Coach included in the free version of Aura?** > A: Yes, the Proactive AI Coach is a standard feature included at no additional cost for all Aura users. > **Q: Is the Proactive AI Coach considered spam?** > A: No, it is not spam; messages are limited to one per day and can be easily dismissed or ignored directly from your app dashboard. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Dynamic Bazaar Path: `/features/dynamic-bazaar` Category: Rewards & economy ### Overview The Dynamic Bazaar is Aura's AI-driven marketplace where prices for soft items like XP boosts and streak freezes fluctuate hourly based on real-time community demand, while exclusive time-boxed drops provide up to 75% discounts on professional wellness consultations. This stock-market-inspired economy incentivizes daily engagement by rewarding users with dynamic pricing and rare, high-value service opportunities. ### Benefits - **Live, demand-driven prices**: Soft-item prices update hourly with real community demand — buy low when an item cools off. - **Rare drops up to 75% off**: Time-limited drops surface real psychologist and dietitian sessions at deep discounts, for one hour only. - **Spend what you earn**: Soft items are paid in AURI, the coins you earn from habits and wellness — no real money needed. - **Fair and transparent**: Every price is computed server-side from a public formula; no hidden surge, no pay-to-win. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is the Dynamic Bazaar in Aura?** > A: The Dynamic Bazaar is a live, demand-based marketplace where prices for in-app items rise and fall hourly according to community purchasing patterns. > **Q: How are prices determined in the Dynamic Bazaar?** > A: Prices are calculated using a transparent server-side formula that combines a fixed base price with a demand factor based on the ratio of recent purchases to active users. > **Q: What currencies are used in the Bazaar?** > A: Soft items are purchased using AURI coins earned through healthy habits, while rare professional wellness sessions are paid for via real-money transactions through secure Stripe checkout. > **Q: What are rare drops in the Bazaar?** > A: Rare drops are limited-time, one-hour offers that feature significant discounts on professional services, such as sessions with psychologists or dietitians. > **Q: Is the Dynamic Bazaar pay-to-win?** > A: No, the Bazaar is not pay-to-win because all items are either convenience boosts purchased with earned currency or optional, non-competitive discounts on external wellness services. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Audio Mind Space Path: `/features/mind-space` Category: Mental wellness ### Overview Audio Mind Space is an AI-powered voice journaling tool that automatically transcribes spoken thoughts, analyzes vocal emotional tone, and updates your mental wellness dashboard without requiring manual input. By recording while walking or driving, users receive an instant sentiment analysis, mood score, and structured journal entry, making it the most efficient way to track mental health on the go. ### Benefits - **No typing, no sliders**: Just talk for a few minutes; AI turns your voice into mood, sentiment and a journal entry automatically. - **Native voice emotion analysis**: AURA AI reads not just your words but emotional tone, extracting tags and key themes from how you speak. - **Updates your Digital Twin**: Each session feeds your mood timeline and emotional stats, so your dashboard reflects how you really are. - **Private by design**: Audio is never stored — only the transcript and analysis. Encrypted, GDPR-compliant, yours to delete. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is Audio Mind Space a replacement for therapy?** > A: No, Audio Mind Space is a self-reflection and journaling tool, not a medical service or licensed therapist. It does not provide clinical diagnoses or treatment; if you are in a crisis or require clinical care, please contact a qualified professional or your local emergency services. > **Q: Is my audio stored by Audio Mind Space?** > A: No, your audio is never saved; it is processed in real-time and discarded immediately after transcription. Only the encrypted text transcript and the generated emotional analysis data are stored privately for your account. > **Q: How much does Audio Mind Space cost?** > A: Audio Mind Space offers one free session per day, while Premium users receive two sessions daily. Additional sessions beyond these limits can be purchased for approximately 5 USD worth of AURI at the live in-app exchange rate. > **Q: What data does the AI analyze during a session?** > A: The AI analyzes your spoken words and vocal emotional tone to generate a comprehensive report, including a mood score, energy level, sentiment analysis, emotional tags, key themes, and a personalized empathetic insight. > **Q: What languages are supported by Audio Mind Space?** > A: Audio Mind Space supports written insights in 13 languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Indonesian, and Vietnamese. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Digital Detox Blackout Path: `/features/digital-detox` Category: Focus & rewards ### Overview AURA Blackout is a gamified digital detox tool that rewards users with AURI currency and AuraOrb XP for staying off their phones during Focus, Detox, or Sleep sessions. By incentivizing real-world presence over screen time, the feature applies a Zen multiplier to session length, allowing users to earn app progress simply by minimizing phone usage. ### Benefits - **Rewarded for not scrolling**: Earn AURI + XP for time spent OFF your phone — the wellness app that wants less screen time, not more. - **Zen multiplier**: Your reward multiplier grows every 5 minutes you stay off, up to 3x. - **Three modes**: Focus for work/study, Detox for a break, Sleep for the night — each with its own rules. - **Honest and capped**: Time is verified server-side and rewards have a daily cap, so it rewards presence, not farming. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is AURA Blackout?** > A: AURA Blackout is a digital wellness feature that rewards you with AURI tokens and XP for completing phone-free sessions including focus, detox, and sleep timers. > **Q: How do I earn rewards in AURA Blackout?** > A: You earn rewards by staying off your phone for the session minimum, which is 15 minutes for focus, 30 minutes for detox, or 4 hours for sleep, with payouts calculated by your Zen multiplier. > **Q: How does AURA Blackout detect phone usage?** > A: AURA Blackout detects usage through web-based page visibility, screen wake-lock, and idle detection, utilizing strict monitoring modes to ensure you remain off your device during active sessions. > **Q: Is there a daily limit to how much I can earn?** > A: Yes, AURA Blackout implements a daily reward cap to ensure the system encourages genuine digital presence rather than allowing users to farm currency through excessive grinding. > **Q: Is AURA Blackout free to use?** > A: Yes, AURA Blackout is a free feature, and the AURI earned is the standard in-app currency used throughout the entire AURA ecosystem. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Orbit Path: `/features/social-orbit` Category: Social & community ### Overview AURA Orbit is a gamified, localized social wellness platform that rewards users with AURI cryptocurrency for health-focused interactions and content creation. Blending the real-time micro-blogging of X with the immersive vertical scroll of TikTok, the app incentivizes community engagement while maintaining a clean, ephemeral ecosystem where all data automatically deletes after seven days. ### Benefits - **Earn as you browse**: Get rewarded in AuraCoins / AURI for viewing, commenting (>5 chars), and sharing posts, subject to daily caps. - **Creator tipping & rewards**: Earn 10 coins for every interaction on your wellness posts. Receive tips directly from other users with a low 5% platform fee. - **Stripe advertising boost**: Boost your services, products, or coaching with highly attractive CPM packages (like €9.99 for 5,000 views) paid via Stripe. - **Ephemeral 7-day feed**: All posts, comments, and uploaded video/image assets are permanently deleted after 7 days to keep the feed fresh and storage tidy. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is AURA Orbit?** > A: AURA Orbit is a gamified social wellness feed that allows users to share habits, earn AURI tokens for interactions, and boost content through localized community features. > **Q: Is AURA Orbit free to use?** > A: Yes, AURA Orbit is free for all guests and registered users to browse the feed, post content, and earn rewards, with optional paid CPM packages available for those who wish to boost posts. > **Q: How can I earn rewards on AURA Orbit?** > A: Users earn AURI rewards by engaging with the community: you receive 1 coin per view, 10 coins per comment, and 500 coins per share, while creators earn 10 coins whenever others interact with their posts. > **Q: How much do AURA Orbit advertising packages cost?** > A: AURA Orbit offers three Stripe-integrated CPM advertising tiers: €9.99 for 5,000 views, €14.99 for 10,000 views, and €24.99 for 20,000 views. > **Q: Why does AURA Orbit content expire after 7 days?** > A: All posts, comments, and media expire after 7 days to ensure the community feed remains active, relevant, and free of outdated data. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AuraNavigator Path: `/features/aura-navigator` Category: Fitness & mobility ### Overview AuraNavigator is a free, Waze-style turn-by-turn navigation system for the Aura fitness app that integrates real-time OpenStreetMap routing, community-based traffic reporting, and a gamified reward system. By leveraging OSRM technology, it provides optimized pathfinding for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians, allowing users to earn AuraCoins and XP for every kilometer traveled while tracking friends through private, secure radar circles. ### Benefits - **Turn-by-turn voice routing**: Sleek navigation UI with step-by-step arrows and Text-to-Speech instructions in 13 languages. - **Waze-style community reports**: Report and verify speed cameras, police presence, traffic jams, and road hazards instantly with the community. - **Family and friends radar**: Add family members or friends to your private radar circle using their codes to view their live traveling locations on the map. - **Earn coins & XP**: Earn 1 AuraCoin/km for driving, 2 for cycling, and 3 for walking, with no caps. Unlock achievements and top the travel leaderboard. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AuraNavigator completely free to use?** > A: Yes, AuraNavigator is 100% free with no premium subscriptions or API limits, as it utilizes open-source OSRM and OpenStreetMap infrastructure. > **Q: How can I earn rewards using AuraNavigator?** > A: You earn rewards by navigating, specifically receiving 1 AuraCoin/km for driving, 2 AuraCoins/km for cycling, and 3 AuraCoins/km for walking, which are credited upon reaching your destination. > **Q: How does the AuraNavigator friend radar work?** > A: The friend radar is a private tracking feature that allows you to see a friend's live location on your map by entering their unique referral pairing code while they are actively navigating. > **Q: Can I report traffic or road hazards in AuraNavigator?** > A: Yes, you can report traffic, accidents, speed cameras, or police presence by tapping the alert button, which publishes the report to all nearby users for a duration of 30 minutes. > **Q: Does AuraNavigator support voice-guided navigation?** > A: Yes, AuraNavigator supports voice directions using your device's native Text-to-Speech Web Speech API, which you can toggle on or off in the navigation settings. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Multimodal Chatbot Path: `/features/chatbot` Category: Productivity ### Overview The Aura Multimodal Chatbot is a premium AI productivity hub that generates high-definition images, cinematic videos (4s to 60s), and custom music tracks using AURA AI, Veo 3.1, and Lyria 3. It provides native support for 13 languages, allowing users to create, download, and share professional-grade multimodal content through a flexible, token-based payment system. ### Benefits - **Text & Conversation**: Engage with AURA AI for nuanced, lightning-fast text generation and problem solving. - **HD Image Generation**: Create stunning visual concepts instantly using AURA AI. - **Cinematic Video**: Request high-quality video generation powered by Veo 3.1 Lite and Pro, from 4 to 60 seconds. - **Music Composition**: Draft custom audio and music tracks natively using Lyria 3. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Which AI models power the Aura Multimodal Chatbot?** > A: Aura utilizes AURA AI for text and image generation, Veo 3.1 Lite/Pro for video production, and Lyria 3 for custom music creation. > **Q: How does the token-based pricing system work?** > A: Tokens are purchased via one-time secure payments, with usage costs scaling by media type: 1-2 tokens for text, 15 tokens for images, and up to 1800 tokens for 60-second video generation. > **Q: Can users download media generated by the chatbot?** > A: Yes, every piece of generated media features a direct download button that allows users to save and export files for personal or professional use. > **Q: What languages does the Aura Multimodal Chatbot support?** > A: The chatbot natively supports 13 languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Plant Identifier & Botanical Garden Path: `/features/plant-identifier` Category: Nature & lifestyle ### Overview Aura is a mobile plant identification and botanical database that uses AI to instantly identify species, diagnose plant health, and provide customized care instructions. By utilizing a live-camera scanning system, Aura populates the Global Botanical Garden, a community-driven encyclopedia where users earn 'Botanical Pioneer' status and exclusive badges for being the first to document a specific plant species. ### Benefits - **Instant AI identification**: Scan live with your rear camera and get the common + scientific name in seconds, no typing. - **Health diagnosis + care plan**: AI checks the plant's health and gives tailored light, watering and recovery steps. - **Global Botanical Garden**: A worldwide Pokedex of plants. Discover a new species first and become its Botanical Pioneer. - **Authentic by design**: Live camera only — gallery uploads are disabled so every discovery is real, not farmed. - **AI-powered progress tracking**: Re-scan a plant you already own and AI compares it to your last photo and health state, telling you if it improved, got worse, or held steady. You also see both photos side by side — the previous check next to the new one. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How does the Aura plant identifier work?** > A: The Aura plant identifier works by using your phone's live camera to capture a real-time image, which is then processed by AURA AI to identify the species, assess health, and generate personalized care instructions. > **Q: Is the Aura plant identifier free to use?** > A: Yes, Aura provides one free plant scan per day for all users, with additional scans available for 25,000 AuraCoins, which are earned through in-app activity. > **Q: Why is the plant scanner limited to the live camera?** > A: Aura restricts scanning to the live camera to ensure all entries in the Global Botanical Garden are authentic, fresh, and prevented from being manipulated by downloaded or stock images. > **Q: What is a Botanical Pioneer badge?** > A: A Botanical Pioneer badge is an exclusive profile distinction and bounty reward granted to the first user globally to scan and catalog a specific plant species in the Aura database. > **Q: Can Aura detect if a plant is sick?** > A: Yes, Aura provides a health status—categorized as Healthy, Stressed, Diseased, or Critical—along with a brief diagnosis and actionable care steps for your plant. > **Q: Can Aura tell if my plant is actually improving over time?** > A: Yes. Re-scanning a plant you already own triggers a Care Loop comparison: AI checks the new photo against your last one and health record, then reports whether it improved, worsened, or stayed stable, plus what changed. You also see both photos side by side — the previous check next to the new one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Fit-Check Rarity Path: `/features/fit-check-rarity` Category: Fashion & Style ### Overview Aura Fit-Check Rarity is an AI-powered fashion analysis tool that scans your outfit via live camera to assign a rarity tier, identify your aesthetic, and rank your style on a global leaderboard. By utilizing advanced computer vision, the feature evaluates clothing, accessories, and overall vibe to determine if your look ranks as Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, or Legendary. ### Benefits - **Instant AI Fit Check**: Scan your outfit live. Our AI instantly analyzes your style, colors, and accessories. - **Rarity Tiers**: Get classified from Common (gray) all the way up to Legendary (gold) based on your unique drip. - **Style Breakdown**: Receive a detailed breakdown of your aesthetic, vibe, and the standout piece of your outfit. - **Authentic Flexing**: Live-camera only scanning ensures that every fit check is real—no uploading internet photos. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How does the Aura Fit-Check Rarity scanner work?** > A: The Fit-Check Rarity scanner works by using your phone's live camera to capture your outfit, which is then processed by AURA AI to analyze your clothing items, color palette, and aesthetic to calculate a unique style rarity tier. > **Q: Is the Fit-Check Rarity feature free to use?** > A: Fit-Check Rarity includes one free daily scan shared across all Aura categories, while additional scans can be purchased or earned using AuraCoins, valued at approximately $1 per scan. > **Q: Can I upload photos from my camera roll to Fit-Check Rarity?** > A: No, uploads from your camera roll are not permitted; the Fit-Check Rarity tool requires a live-camera scan to ensure authentic fashion representation and prevent the use of celebrity or stock imagery. > **Q: What are the rarity tiers in the Aura app?** > A: The Aura rarity tiers consist of Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Legendary, with each level designated by a signature color that reflects the uniqueness and coordination of your styled outfit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Car Spotting Garage Path: `/features/car-spotting-garage` Category: Automotive & Lifestyle ### Overview Aura's Car Spotting Garage is a real-world automotive collection game that uses AURA AI to instantly identify, rarity-rank, and mint vehicles as unique digital cards. Users scan cars in real-time to claim global ownership, earn AuraCoins based on rarity, and manage a limited 5-car garage. By combining hyper-accurate vehicle identification with a gamified marketplace economy, Aura turns street sightings into tradeable, high-value digital assets. ### Benefits - **AI Car Identification**: Instantly identify any car's make, model, and year just by pointing your camera at it. - **Collectible Rarity Cards**: Every car becomes a Pokemon-style card with a rarity tier (Common to Hypercar) plus specs like horsepower and 0-100. - **Marketplace**: Buy unowned cars with AuraCoins at live prices, or sell yours: the seller earns 70% of the sale (30% is burned). - **One Owner Per Car**: Each car model has a single global owner. Spot it first to mint it, or grab it on the marketplace if it is free. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How does the Aura car scanner work?** > A: The Aura car scanner uses your phone camera to capture a vehicle, which is then processed by AURA AI AI to identify the make, model, and year with live web-grounded verification. > **Q: Is the Car Spotting Garage free to use?** > A: Yes, every user receives one free daily scan, and spotting vehicles earns you AuraCoins rewards ranging from approximately $0.10 for common models to $250 for hypercars. > **Q: Can multiple people own the same car model?** > A: No, each car model is restricted to a single global owner, making the first person to spot and mint the vehicle its exclusive proprietor. > **Q: How does the car marketplace and selling system work?** > A: You can buy unowned cars on the marketplace using AuraCoins, or sell your own cars to receive 70% of the sale price, with the remaining 30% permanently burned. > **Q: Can I share my spotted car collection?** > A: Every spotted car generates a branded 1080x1080 PNG card featuring its rarity tier, specifications, and a unique QR code linked to your referral profile to help you earn AURI. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Car Racing Path: `/features/car-racing` Category: Automotive & Lifestyle ### Overview Aura Car Racing is a weekly race weekend where the cars users spot in real life become playable race entries on 15 legendary circuits, from Monza to the Nordschleife. Timed qualifying laps (50,000 AuraCoins each) set the grid; once a track has at least two qualified cars, a deterministic 6-lap RACE simulates the whole field together — overtakes, driver mistakes, mechanical DNFs and purple sectors — replayed as a live multi-car pit-wall broadcast. Results are split by rarity category, Common through Hypercar, so a Legendary garage and a Common garage each get their own podium and prize share; a thin category simply cascades up into the next tier rather than racing alone, and grids are topped up with unowned wildcard cars from the Car Spotting market (never for money, just for a fuller field) when real entries fall short. Each category podium (P1/P2/P3) splits its share of the pot 60/20/10, with a confetti ceremony at the flag. A lone qualifier on a quiet track simply rolls into next week's race at no extra cost. ### Benefits - **15 Legendary Tracks**: Monza, Spa, the Nordschleife, Monaco, Le Mans, Suzuka, Bathurst and more — each with its own layout, weather and character. - **Your Real Cars Race**: Lap times are simulated from the actual specs of the cars in your Car Spotting garage: horsepower, 0-100 acceleration and category. - **Category Podiums**: Results split by rarity tier (Common to Hypercar) — each category gets its own 3-car podium sharing 60/20/10 of that tier's pot, weighted so rarer tiers earn more. - **Live Multi-Car Broadcast**: Watch the whole grid battle lap by lap: overtakes, mechanical DNFs, radio call-outs and a confetti podium ceremony at the checkered flag. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How much does a Car Racing lap cost in Aura?** > A: Each timed qualifying lap costs a flat 50,000 AuraCoins per car per track per week; you can enter multiple cars on the same track by paying the fee for each one. > **Q: How are Car Racing lap times calculated?** > A: Lap times are computed server-side by a deterministic simulation that uses the real horsepower, 0-100 acceleration and category of your spotted car, combined with track characteristics, weekly weather and random race events such as traffic, driver mistakes and purple sectors. > **Q: How does the weekend race and category podiums work in Aura Car Racing?** > A: Once at least two cars have qualified on a track that week, the next weekly settle simulates a full 6-lap race with the whole qualified grid, split into podiums by rarity category (Common to Hypercar): each category's top 3 real finishers split that category's share of the pot 60%/20%/10%, weighted so higher rarities earn a bigger share, with the remainder retained as a platform fee. A thin category cascades up into the next tier, and grids can be topped up with non-paying wildcard cars from the Car Spotting market when real entries fall short. If only one real car has qualified overall, the race is skipped and the entry rolls into the following week at no extra cost. > **Q: Do I need cars in my garage to play Car Racing?** > A: Yes, you can only enter cars that are already sitting in your Car Spotting garage; cars you do not own cannot race. If your garage is empty or missing the car you want, scan it in real life with the AI scanner or buy it instantly on the Car Spotting marketplace, then come back and enter it on any track. > **Q: Which tracks are available in Aura Car Racing?** > A: Fifteen world-famous circuits are available at launch: Monza, Spa-Francorchamps, the Nürburgring Nordschleife, Silverstone, Suzuka, Monaco, Le Mans, Laguna Seca, Interlagos, Daytona, Imola, Mugello, Bathurst, Zandvoort and COTA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## GT3 Championship Path: `/features/gt3-championship` Category: Automotive & Lifestyle ### Overview Aura GT3 Championship is a fully separate racing series from Aura Car Racing and Aura F1, and it is deliberately a different sport from both: instead of scanning cars in real life you mint one of 30 real, currently-homologated 2026-season GT3 cars (Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo, Lamborghini Temerario GT3, Porsche 911 GT3 R 992.2, Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO, BMW M4 GT3 EVO, McLaren 720S GT3 Evo, Aston Martin Vantage GT3, Ford Mustang GT3 Evo, Audi R8 LMS GT3 evo II, Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R, Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 and Lexus RC F GT3) directly from AURA at a flat AuraCoins price, one at a time, and resell it freely to other players (free cars excepted: those are seats on loan, released back to the market instead of sold). A round is a real race weekend, not a single lap: eight hours of free practice where every run spends a real tyre set out of a finite allocation, then Q1 — your own two timed attempts, with a lap deleted if you put a wheel over the white line — then Q2, where the second driver you hired for the season runs their lap. Your grid slot comes from the AVERAGE of those two laps, the real GT World Challenge Endurance Cup rule, so a quick driver can never carry a slow team-mate. That hire is the biggest decision of your season: a Bronze, Silver or Pro team-mate costs a different fee and, because a crew races in the class of its strongest driver, signing a Pro buys pace and moves you out of the easy Bronze Cup at the same time. There is no upgrade tree and there never will be, because GT3 bans development: the only performance knob is Balance of Performance, published per circuit and per manufacturer before every weekend, which never reacts to the championship standings. Ten rounds run one every three days — six 60-minute sprints and four 3-hour endurance races on circuits that really host GT3 (Spa, the Nürburgring Nordschleife, Bathurst, Daytona, Le Mans, Monza, Silverstone, Zandvoort, Mugello, Imola, Barcelona and more) — with a mandatory pit stop and driver change, one dry tyre spec, safety cars, red flags, changing weather and track-limits penalties. Points are the real ones: 16.5 for a sprint win, 25 for an endurance win, and a point for pole. Four championships run in parallel — drivers, teams (both of a two-car team score), and the Pro, Silver and Bronze Cups — with fixed AuraCoins prizes for the top 10 drivers, the top 5 teams and each class champion. ### Benefits - **Two Drivers, One Grid Slot**: You run Q1, your hired team-mate runs Q2, and the grid comes from the average of both laps — the real GT3 rule, and the thing no other Aura series has. - **Hire Your Team-Mate**: Sign a Bronze, Silver or Pro second driver for the season. A Pro is faster but puts your crew in Pro Cup, so buying pace and buying an easy title are mutually exclusive. - **Balance of Performance, Not Upgrades**: GT3 bans development, so there is nothing to buy for speed. A published per-circuit BoP sheet levels the manufacturers and never handicaps the championship leader. - **Sprint and Endurance**: Ten rounds: six 60-minute sprints and four 3-hour endurance races, with a mandatory pit stop and driver change, safety cars, red flags and real weather. - **Four Championships At Once**: Drivers, teams, and the Pro, Silver and Bronze Cups all run together, so every player has a title they can realistically win. Fixed prizes for the top 10 drivers and top 5 teams. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How does GT3 qualifying work, and why does my team-mate matter?** > A: Two drivers share the car. You run Q1 with two timed attempts and your hired team-mate runs Q2, and the starting grid is set by the AVERAGE of both laps — the real GT World Challenge Endurance Cup rule. A fast driver cannot carry a slow one, which is why hiring a quicker second driver is the single most consequential decision of a GT3 season. > **Q: Can I buy upgrades to make my GT3 car faster?** > A: No, and there will never be an upgrade tree. Real GT3 bans development and levels the category with Balance of Performance, so Aura GT3 does the same: a small per-circuit, per-manufacturer BoP figure is published before every weekend. It applies to a homologated car rather than to a team, and it never reacts to the championship standings, so leading costs you nothing. > **Q: What is the difference between a sprint and an endurance round?** > A: A season is ten rounds, one every three days: six 60-minute sprint races with a single mandatory pit stop, and four 3-hour endurance races with two or three stops, held at the venues that host the category's real long-distance classics. Endurance rounds pay a bigger purse and score full points (25 for a win against 16.5 in a sprint), so one bad endurance round costs more than one bad sprint. > **Q: How do the Pro, Silver and Bronze classes work?** > A: Every driver carries a category earned from their own rating, never bought, and a crew races in the class of its strongest driver — so hiring a Pro team-mate moves you into Pro Cup. Each class has its own standings and its own champion with a fixed AuraCoins prize, which is why a Bronze crew that never troubles the overall top ten still has a real title to race for. > **Q: How much does a GT3 car cost, and how many can I own?** > A: Every one of the 30 catalog cars mints from AURA at the same flat AuraCoins price, and each player owns one GT3 car at a time. The first eight players to ever mint get their first car free. A free car is a seat on loan, not an asset: it can never be listed for sale, pressing sell releases it straight back to the market free for the next player, and missing a single settled round loses it the same way. Only a car bought with AuraCoins can be resold, at any price its owner chooses on the open market with a small platform fee, and that one stays with its owner for good. > **Q: Do the AI-driven cars take prize money?** > A: No. Every round fields the full 30-car grid, and any catalog car nobody entered is run by a simulated crew with its own two drivers and its own qualifying laps, so a simulated seat can legitimately qualify anywhere on the grid. It can finish on the podium, but its purse and prize share are burned rather than rolled down — a car ahead of you is still ahead of you, it just cannot be paid. > **Q: How are the season prizes decided?** > A: They are fixed, minted AuraCoins amounts rather than a share of a pool: the top 10 in the drivers' championship, the top 5 in the teams' championship (split equally between a team's two cars), and the champion of each of the three classes. The season pass itself is paid once and burned in full. > **Q: Is GT3 Championship connected to my Car Spotting garage or to Aura F1?** > A: No — it is a fully separate series with its own catalog, economy, calendar and standings. Your Car Spotting garage, Aura Car Racing cars and Aura F1 cars never race against or merge with GT3 Championship cars, and the two championships share no money. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## F1 2026 Championship Path: `/features/f1-championship` Category: Automotive & Lifestyle ### Overview Aura F1 2026 Championship is a manageriale racing series, fully separate from Aura Car Racing and Aura GT3 Championship: every one of the 22 cars across all 11 real 2026 constructors (Ferrari, Red Bull Racing, Mercedes-AMG Petronas, McLaren, Aston Martin, Williams, Audi, Alpine, Haas, Racing Bulls and Cadillac) mints from AURA with identical baseline performance — zero pay-to-win at purchase — and each player can own only one F1 car at a time, resold freely to other players afterward. Performance only comes apart through three upgrade categories bought with AuraCoins (Engine, Aero & Gearbox, Reliability, five levels each) and through the tire compound and pit-stop count you pick before every Grand Prix, exactly like a real team principal: soft tires are fastest but degrade quicker, hard tires last longer at a pace cost, and more pit stops trade time in the pits for fresher rubber. The championship runs one live Grand Prix every 4 days across the full 24-round 2026 calendar (Melbourne through Abu Dhabi, including new venues like Madrid), on a real qualifying format spread over the three days before each race: Q1 on day 1, Q2 on day 2, Q3 on day 3, Grand Prix on day 4, each session open for a full 24 hours. A one-time season entry fee unlocks every round after — just qualify in whichever session is live. Real points build both a Drivers' Championship and a Constructors' Championship (car pair points combined per team, exactly like the real sport); at season end the top-3 drivers split a AuraCoins bonus pool and the top-3 constructors split a separate constructor bonus pool, with both champions enshrined in the F1 Hall of Fame. ### Benefits - **Full Season Calendar**: A Calendar tab lists all 24 rounds in running order with circuit length, lap count, race distance and sprint format, plus the date of every round on the 4-day cadence — and it fills in with pole and winner, sprint included, as each round is run. It resets with the new season calendar. - **Free Practice That Matters**: The eight hours before Q1 are a live session: pick a low-fuel or full-tank programme, watch the field circulate with a live timing tower, and earn the setup, energy, tyre-life and pit-stop advice that used to be free. Bots practise on the same simulation and the same tyre allocation you do. - **22 Cars, 11 Real Constructors**: The full 2026 grid — Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes, McLaren, Aston Martin, Williams, Audi, Alpine, Haas, Racing Bulls and Cadillac — every car starts perfectly equal, mint at a flat price. - **Real Manageriale Layer**: Buy Power Unit/Aero/Reliability upgrades, then set your aero setup, energy deployment map, tyre compounds, pit-stop count and wet-weather plan before every Grand Prix — genuine team-principal strategy, not just a lap-time roll. - **2026 Energy Management**: The 2026 rules deleted the MGU-H and pushed the MGU-K to 350kW, so half the car is electric and that energy has to be harvested back under braking. Attack, Balanced or Harvest is a real per-circuit call: deploying flat out wins at Monaco and runs the battery flat at Monza. - **Strategy That Decides Races**: The circuit tells you which setup and energy map it wants and you choose whether to listen; you commit a plan for rain before the start and it governs every crossover the weather throws at you, in both directions. Tyres wear and fall off a cliff, stops cost real time, a Safety Car can hand you the cheap stop of the race, and a red flag can wipe every gap and hand the field free tyres. - **24 Rounds, A Race Every 4 Days**: The full real 2026 season, sequentially, from Melbourne to Abu Dhabi: Q1, Q2 and Q3 on three consecutive days, Grand Prix on the fourth — the whole grid always races the same round together. - **Drivers' + Constructors' Titles**: Real F1-style points build both championships in parallel; separate season-end bonus pools reward the top drivers and the top constructor. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Can I see the full F1 season calendar and past results in Aura?** > A: Yes. The Calendar tab lists all 24 rounds in the order they are run, each with its circuit, lap length, lap count, total race distance and whether it is a sprint round and over how many laps. Every round shows its date, derived from the fixed 4-day cadence, so you always know when the next one is; dates still to come are estimates, because a postponed round shifts every round after it. As each round is settled the row fills in with who took pole and who won — sprint pole and sprint winner too on sprint weekends. At the end of the season the whole calendar resets with the standings and starts again on the new one. > **Q: Is there free practice in Aura F1, and what does it actually give me?** > A: Yes. The eight hours between one race finishing and the next Q1 opening are a live free practice session. You choose a programme — a qualifying simulation on low fuel or a race simulation on full tanks — a compound, a new or scrubbed set, and how many laps, then the cars circulate on the track map in real time with a live timing tower. Practice is where the setup, energy-map, tyre-life and pit-stop advice comes from: it used to be given away for free and is now earned, low-fuel laps answering setup and energy, race laps answering tyre life and stops. The data is also worth a small amount of lap time (capped at 0.2%) in qualifying and the race, to the driver who gathered it and to nobody else. Practice tyres come out of the same finite round allocation qualifying and the race spend, so a soft you burn here is a fresh qualifying set you no longer have, and entering practice enters you in the Grand Prix. Every bot on track runs the identical simulation through the identical function, spends the same allocation and picks its own programme and run count from its own driver personality — some do the mileage, some only chase one lap, some skip the session entirely — so the field behaves like 22 drivers rather than a backdrop. > **Q: How many sets of tyres do I get in an Aura F1 round?** > A: Six sets of softs, four of mediums and three of hards for the whole round, shared across every session. Intermediates and wets are unlimited. Qualifying always runs on softs and each timed run puts three laps on the set it uses (out-lap, flying lap, in-lap), so six softs is exactly a full weekend of new rubber and not one set more — two attempts in each of Q1, Q2 and Q3. Before every run you choose a new set or a scrubbed one, and a scrubbed set is genuinely slower on the same wear curve the race uses, so saving new rubber for Q3 is a real call. Race stints are fitted from what is left: plan a soft stint after spending every soft in qualifying and the game refuses the strategy, or fits the most durable set you still have. Past its cliff a set is finished and stops being offered. > **Q: Does Aura F1 tell me the chance of rain before I commit to a wet plan?** > A: Yes. Every round publishes a rain forecast for the Grand Prix as a real percentage, and the wet plan (box immediately, wait two laps, gamble on staying out) is chosen against it. The number is honest rather than decorative: it is drawn from the same hidden roll that decides whether rain actually arrives, so across many races a 50% forecast is followed by rain about half the time — and it never reveals what happens in your race, because a 15% round still rains sometimes and an 85% round often stays dry. You also get a push notification if another driver takes your pole position during a qualifying session, sent once per session and only to the driver who lost P1. Stewards' penalties — track limits, jump start, unsafe pit release, five seconds each — are added to the finishing time and shown on the result. > **Q: Can I watch another driver's qualifying lap and share my grid position?** > A: Yes. The starting grid updates live while a session is open: when any driver sets a time it appears immediately with an on-screen alert, no page reload. Tap any driver on the grid — bots included — to replay their qualifying lap in the full broadcast, with the live timer, the delta against the session best, the sector splits in timing-screen colours and every incident on that lap (traffic, mistakes, the purple sector). You can also export the grid as a shareable image showing your position, your lap time, your gap to pole and the top five. > **Q: How much does an F1 car cost in Aura, and can I buy upgrades for it?** > A: Every F1 car mints from AURA at the same flat AuraCoins price with identical baseline performance — the first ten players to ever mint get their first car free. A free car is a seat on loan: it can never be listed for sale, pressing sell releases it back to the market free for the next player, and missing a single settled round loses it the same way, while a car bought with AuraCoins is yours to keep and to resell. After purchase you buy Engine, Aero & Gearbox and Reliability upgrades separately (five levels each, rising AuraCoins cost) to make your car faster and more reliable than a stock one. > **Q: How do intermediates and full wets work in Aura F1?** > A: Each wet-weather tyre has a band of track wetness it is designed for, and the race prices how far outside that band the circuit is. Intermediates work on a damp track; full wets are for standing water. Run a full wet on a track that is drying and it loses pace and wears out up to two and a half times faster, because there is no water left to cool it. Run intermediates in a downpour and they cannot move the water. A race declared wet before lights out publishes how wet the circuit will be, so you choose your compounds against a number you can actually see — and free practice and qualifying run in their own conditions, because a wet weekend is not equally wet on every day of it. > **Q: How does tire and pit-stop strategy affect the race in Aura F1?** > A: Before each Grand Prix you choose your tire compounds (soft, medium, hard, intermediate or wet) and a pit-stop count (1-3), and the race then simulates them lap by lap. A fresh soft is the quickest tire on track but loses grip every lap it stays on, so a worn soft ends up slower than a fresh hard; each stop costs real time in the pit lane and hands you a new set. That makes undercuts and overcuts decide actual positions, and a stop that happens to fall while a Safety Car is out is far cheaper than one under green. Rain is not a switch: the race tracks how much water is actually on the circuit, so an intermediate and a full wet each have a window they work in. A full wet on a drying track is slow and tears itself apart; an intermediate in standing water aquaplanes; a slick in the wet costs up to a fifth of your lap time. A front can also pass through and leave the circuit drying lap by lap, back through both crossovers, and your pit wall reacts on the wet plan you committed to before the start. > **Q: What is the difference between the Drivers' and Constructors' championships?** > A: The Drivers' Championship ranks real players by individual points from their true finish position each round. The Constructors' Championship sums the points of both cars from the same real-world team across the season. Both pay a separate AuraCoins bonus pool to their top three at season end. > **Q: Is F1 Championship connected to my Car Spotting garage or GT3 Championship?** > A: No — it is a fully separate series with its own catalog, economy and standings. Your Car Spotting garage, Aura Car Racing cars and GT3 Championship cars never race against or merge with F1 Championship cars. > **Q: How many races are in an Aura F1 season, and how long does a season last?** > A: The full real 2026 calendar: 24 Grands Prix, one live round every 4 days, so a complete season runs about 96 days before the standings reset and a new season begins immediately on the same calendar. > **Q: How does the qualifying schedule work in Aura F1?** > A: Each round runs on a 4-day cycle. Q1 opens the day after the previous race and stays open 24 hours; Q2 runs the next 24 hours for the top 15; Q3 the 24 hours after that for the top 10. The grid then locks and the Grand Prix runs on day 4, at the same time of day every round. On sprint rounds the sprint is run one hour after Q1 closes, on the Q1 order. > **Q: Can I still race if I buy an F1 car after qualifying has started?** > A: Yes. A car bought mid-round takes over the seat of the bot driving it, so you never have to sit out a race. Join during Q1 or Q2 and you qualify normally and keep a real grid slot; join from Q3 onward — and up to one hour before the race starts — and you are added to the grid but start from the pit lane, behind every qualified car. Grid position costs real race time, so a pit-lane start is a genuine handicap, not just a label. > **Q: How realistic is the race simulation in Aura F1?** > A: Every race is simulated lap by lap with the things that actually decide a Grand Prix. Tyres lose grip as the stint goes on and fall off a cliff if you stretch them too far; pit stops cost real time on the lap you box, and a stop that lands under a Safety Car is far cheaper. Cars running within a second of each other trade slipstream on the straights against dirty air in the corners, so Monza produces overtakes where Monaco produces a train. There are launches off the line, jump-start and track-limits penalties, unsafe-release calls, safety cars caused by real incidents, red flags that stop the race outright, fuel burning off across the race, and weather that changes underneath you: a front arrives at its own intensity, the track wetness rises, and it can stop again and dry out over a handful of laps so the field has to guess when the intermediate stops being the quickest tyre. Every one of those is seeded and deterministic: the same race always plays out the same way, for every viewer. > **Q: How does 2026 energy management and Manual Override work in Aura F1?** > A: The 2026 regulations removed the MGU-H and raised the MGU-K to 350kW, so roughly half a car's output is electric and that energy has to be recovered under braking. Before each Grand Prix you pick an energy map: Attack deploys hard and wins time on circuits with heavy braking zones that refill the battery, but runs it flat where there is nothing to harvest; Harvest lifts and coasts, giving up outright pace to stay alive down long straights; Balanced costs nothing either way. Manual Override Mode has replaced DRS — there is no rear-wing flap any more — so a car within a second of the one ahead gets an extra burst of deployment on the straights, and because it comes out of the same battery, a car in Attack has more of it to spend than one in Harvest. The game tells you what each circuit favours before you commit. > **Q: What is parc ferme in Aura F1 and what can I still change before the race?** > A: Exactly like the real regulation, your aero setup is sealed the moment you set a qualifying time and cannot be touched again before the race. Everything that is not a parc ferme item in the real rules stays open until one hour before lights out: your tyre compounds, pit-stop count, wet-weather plan and energy deployment map — the calls a real team makes on race morning with the forecast in front of them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Aura Soccer Path: `/features/aura-soccer` Category: Gamification ### Overview Aura Soccer is a retro top-down football game inside the Aura wellness app. Friendly matches are free and pay AuraCoins on every result — 50 for a win, 20 for a draw, 5 for a loss — up to 5 paid wins a day. Ranked matches against AI nations are free too and move your RP and tier on the global weekly leaderboard, where the top 10 are paid by a weekly job. Tournaments charge an AuraCoins entry fee that funds the prize pool. AuraCoins are the in-app currency you also earn by completing habits: nothing is bought with real money and nothing can be cashed out. ### Benefits - **Retro arcade action**: Fast, responsive top-down football with classic mechanics like aftertouch and sliding tackles, in the browser. - **Free friendlies that pay**: Every friendly result credits AuraCoins server-side: 50 for a win, 20 for a draw, 5 for a loss, up to 5 paid wins a day. - **Ranked RP and tiers**: Ranked matches against AI nations move your Elo-style RP and tier — free to play, no entry fee. - **Weekly tournaments and leaderboard**: Join a bracket with an AuraCoins entry fee, and chase the weekly global leaderboard where the top 10 are paid. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is Aura Soccer free to play?** > A: Friendly and ranked matches are both free. Only tournaments charge an AuraCoins entry fee, and that fee is what funds the tournament prize pool. > **Q: How do I earn AuraCoins in Aura Soccer?** > A: Friendly matches pay 50 AuraCoins for a win, 20 for a draw and 5 for a loss, capped at 5 paid wins a day. Ranked matches pay RP instead, and the weekly leaderboard top 10 receive AuraCoins prizes. > **Q: Can I play Aura Soccer on my phone?** > A: Yes, Aura Soccer is fully compatible with mobile devices and features responsive touch controls optimized for gaming on the go. > **Q: Is Aura Soccer a multiplayer game?** > A: Matches are played against AI nations. The competition is asynchronous: global weekly leaderboards and tournament brackets, not live head-to-head play. > **Q: Can I convert Aura Soccer winnings into money?** > A: No. AuraCoins are an in-app currency used for shop items, boosters and tournament entries. They are not cash and cannot be withdrawn or converted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA ONE Path: `/features/aura-one` Category: Gamification ### Overview AURA ONE is a multiplayer UNO gamification platform integrated into the Aura ecosystem that supports up to 6 players, features AI-powered bot backfilling, and hosts a weekly leaderboard competition based on wins using AuraCoins (AURI). ### Benefits - **Real-Time 6-Player Tables**: Tables fill with real players first; smart bots fill empty seats so a game starts instantly, any time. - **Classic UNO + Power Rules**: Full stacking (+2 on +2, +4 on +2/+4), 7-0 variant (7=swap hands, 0=rotate all), and 20-second turn timer. - **AuraCoins Economy**: Buy in at micro ($0.50) to high ($5) stakes with AuraCoins, cash out any time between hands. - **Weekly Wins Leaderboard**: Compete on the weekly leaderboard based on wins to win AuraCoins prizes every Monday. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA ONE free to play?** > A: AURA ONE is free-to-play using in-app AuraCoins (AURI) rather than real money, with micro-stake buy-ins equivalent to approximately $0.50 that allow users to cash out at any time. > **Q: How many players can join an AURA ONE table?** > A: Each AURA ONE table seats up to 6 players, with smart bots instantly filling any vacant seats to ensure continuous gameplay without wait times. > **Q: What specific UNO rules are used in AURA ONE?** > A: AURA ONE uses classic UNO rules supplemented by the 7-0 variant, card stacking (+2 and +4), and an automatic kick feature that removes players after 3 consecutive missed turns. > **Q: How do AURA ONE weekly competitions work?** > A: AURA ONE hosts a weekly competition based on wins where players climb the leaderboard, and the top players win AuraCoins prizes every Monday. > **Q: What happens if a player leaves AURA ONE during a hand?** > A: If you leave mid-hand, your seat is marked as sitting-out, and you are automatically removed after the hand concludes, with your remaining stack returned to your AuraCoin balance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Wars Path: `/features/aura-wars` Category: Gamification ### Overview AURA Wars is a free browser-based multiplayer battle game built into the Aura app. Matches run on a pixel combat engine against other live players, with no download, no install and no app store — you open it from the Game Hub and you are in a queue. Around the matches sits the structure that keeps it interesting past the first week: clans you join and fight alongside, a ranked ladder that decays if you stop playing, a seasonal Battle Pass with a progression track, and periodic season rollovers that reset the standings so a new player is never permanently behind. Wins pay AuraCoins, the in-app currency you also earn by completing habits elsewhere in Aura, which is what connects the game to the rest of the app rather than leaving it as a separate arcade. AuraCoins are internal to Aura: they buy boosters, Streak Freezes and shop items, and they are not a cryptocurrency and cannot be cashed out. ### Benefits - **Real-time PvP combat**: Fast pixel-engine battles against other live players, matched by rank so the fights stay competitive rather than one-sided. - **Clans and clan wars**: Join a clan, coordinate through clan chat and climb together. Clan wars run on their own schedule with separate standings and rewards. - **Seasonal Battle Pass**: Progress a seasonal track by playing. Seasons roll over on a schedule, resetting the ladder so late arrivals can still reach the top tiers. - **Earn AuraCoins**: Wins and Battle Pass tiers pay AuraCoins, the same in-app currency your habits earn, spendable on boosters and shop items across Aura. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA Wars free to play?** > A: Yes. It runs in your browser with no download, no installation and no purchase required to play. The Battle Pass has a free track, and the paid track is optional. > **Q: Is it real multiplayer against people?** > A: Yes, matches are real-time against other live players, matched by rank. It is not a single-player game with bots dressed up as opponents. > **Q: How do I earn AuraCoins in AURA Wars?** > A: By winning battles and by progressing tiers on the seasonal Battle Pass. Clan war results contribute as well. > **Q: Are AuraCoins a cryptocurrency I can cash out?** > A: No. AuraCoins are an internal app currency for boosters, Streak Freezes and shop items. They are not on any blockchain and cannot be withdrawn or converted into money. > **Q: What happens when a season ends?** > A: The ladder resets and a new Battle Pass track opens. Ranked positions also decay with inactivity, so the standings reflect current players rather than whoever played hardest at launch. > **Q: Do I need to join a clan?** > A: No, solo ranked play works on its own. A clan adds clan wars, shared standings and clan chat, but nothing is gated behind joining one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Flappy Aura Path: `/features/flappy-aura` Category: Gamification ### Overview Flappy Aura is a free neon arcade flyer built into the Aura app, and the one game in the catalogue you can start with no account at all: open the page and the first tap launches the run. One tap, one orb, and a corridor of energy gates that never stops scrolling. What separates it from the flyers it takes after is that the course is shared. Every player in the world flies the identical layout of gates and coins until UTC midnight, so a score is directly comparable with anyone else who played that day instead of being an accident of a private random seed. Skimming a gate edge rather than sailing through the middle registers a near miss and stacks a multiplier through x2, x4 and x8, and that multiplier lapses if you settle back into playing safe — so the highest scores belong to whoever flies closest to the walls, not to whoever survives longest. Hexagonal AuraCoins sit along the route, and the most tempting of them are pressed right against the gate edges where the near-miss band is, which turns every pickup into a decision. Your own best run of the day flies beside you as a translucent ghost, so you are always racing the version of yourself that did better. A challenge link drops a friend onto the exact same course. Signing in adds AuraCoins, XP and a place on the daily ladder; the flying itself never asks for anything. ### Benefits - **Playable with no account**: No download, no install and no sign-up. The first tap starts the run, and creating an account later only adds the rewards on top. - **One shared daily course**: Every player flies the identical gate and coin layout until UTC midnight, so scores compare directly instead of depending on a private random seed. - **Near-miss multipliers**: Shaving a gate edge stacks x2, x4 and x8. The streak lapses when you play it safe, so precision rather than endurance sets the top scores. - **Race your own ghost**: Your best run of the day flies alongside as a translucent ghost, and a challenge link puts a friend on the exact same course. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Can I play Flappy Aura without an account?** > A: Yes. Flappy Aura runs in the browser and the first tap starts a run with no sign-up, no download and no install. Guests pick a name before playing and their score enters the same daily ladder as everyone else, because the server replays every run and recomputes the score rather than trusting what the page sends. An account is needed for AuraCoins, XP and the daily prize, which always goes to the best signed-in player. > **Q: What is the daily course?** > A: Every player flies the same layout of gates and coins, regenerated at UTC midnight. Because the course is shared, a score is directly comparable with anyone else who flew it that day, which is what makes the daily ladder and the challenge links mean something. > **Q: What is a near miss?** > A: Passing within a narrow band of a gate edge instead of through the middle of the gap. Each near miss raises a multiplier through x2, x4 and x8, and the streak lapses if you clear several gates without shaving one, so the scoring rewards precision instead of caution. > **Q: How do I earn AuraCoins in Flappy Aura?** > A: Signed-in players earn AuraCoins from the score of each run, up to a daily earning cap. Playing is unlimited and only the earning is capped, so grinding cannot mint currency. Every run is verified on the server by replaying the inputs you sent, so a score cannot be forged. > **Q: Are AuraCoins a cryptocurrency I can cash out?** > A: No. AuraCoins are an internal app currency for boosters, Streak Freezes and shop items inside Aura. They are not on any blockchain and cannot be withdrawn or converted into money. > **Q: Does Flappy Aura work on a phone?** > A: Yes. It is built mobile-first and runs in a mobile browser or in the installed Aura PWA. Tap anywhere to flap; on a desktop you can click or use the Space bar or the Up arrow. > **Q: Is there a prize for topping the daily leaderboard?** > A: Yes. The top scorer on the shared course each day wins 50,000 AuraCoins, paid automatically just after UTC midnight when the day is settled. A day needs at least 3 players before a prize is paid, so a single player on a quiet day cannot claim it. The last 7 settled days stay visible in the leaderboard with the winner and whether the prize has been paid. If a guest tops the board, the prize goes to the best signed-in player. > **Q: Does Flappy Aura have a tournament?** > A: Yes, an 8-player knockout bracket with an AuraCoins entry fee, run the same way as the AURA Blast and AURA Surge tournaments. Every match in a round is flown on one shared seed, so both players face the identical course, through quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final. If 8 players do not sign up, bots take the empty seats, and at least 4 real players are needed before a bracket starts. Seventy percent of the entry fees form the prize pool, split between champion and runner-up, and past champions are listed in the Hall of Fame. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Blocks Path: `/features/aura-blocks` Category: Gamification ### Overview AURA Blocks is a competitive neon arcade Tetris puzzle built into Aura and playable instantly in any browser with zero signup. Featuring standard guideline Super Rotation System (SRS), a 7-bag piece randomizer, piece hold and next queues, combo multipliers, and an Overdrive fever mode that ignites when clearing back-to-back lines. Every day at UTC midnight, a new daily seed is generated so players worldwide compete on the exact same tetromino sequence. Tactically deploy powerups like Quantum Bombs and Laser Sweepers, unlock cyberpunk and liquid gold piece skins in the shop, and bank your scores for AuraCoins and leaderboard glory. ### Benefits - **Free Tetris with no signup**: Jump right in with no registration or download required. Your local best score is saved on your device, and an account lets you bank AuraCoins. - **Guideline SRS & 7-Bag PRNG**: Standard Super Rotation System with wall kicks, T-spin detection, lock delay, hold piece, and fair 7-bag random tetromino distribution. - **Aura Overdrive fever mode**: Chain line clears, combos, and T-spins to charge the Overdrive meter, triggering double score multipliers and electric neon visuals. - **Daily seeds & tactical gadgets**: Compete globally on a synchronized daily tetromino seed, or deploy Quantum Bombs and Laser Sweepers to clear the matrix in tight spots. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What is AURA Blocks?** > A: AURA Blocks is a modern neon arcade Tetris puzzle game featuring guideline SRS rotation rules, 7-bag piece generation, daily synchronized competition seeds, tactical powerups, and AuraCoins rewards. > **Q: Can I play AURA Blocks without an account?** > A: Yes. AURA Blocks is completely free to play as a guest directly in your browser with no download or signup. Guests pick a name before playing and enter the same global daily leaderboard, because the server replays every run and recomputes the score. A free account is what adds AuraCoins, XP and eligibility for the daily prize. > **Q: How do I earn AuraCoins in AURA Blocks?** > A: Authenticated players earn 1 AuraCoin for every 2 points scored (up to 5,000 coins per run and a daily cap of 35,000 AuraCoins). Runs are verified server-side to prevent tampering. > **Q: What are the daily play limits?** > A: There is no limit on playing: runs are unlimited for everyone, guests included. What is capped is earning — a signed-in player can bank up to 35,000 AuraCoins a day, 5,000 of them from any single run. Past that cap the score, the XP and the daily leaderboard still count, the run simply pays no coins. > **Q: Does AURA Blocks work on mobile devices?** > A: Yes. AURA Blocks is built mobile-first with responsive touch controls, haptic vibration feedback, and portrait orientation optimization, as well as full keyboard support on desktop. > **Q: Is there a prize for topping the daily leaderboard?** > A: Yes. The top scorer on the shared course each day wins 50,000 AuraCoins, paid automatically just after UTC midnight when the day is settled. A day needs at least 3 players before a prize is paid, so a single player on a quiet day cannot claim it. The last 7 settled days stay visible in the leaderboard with the winner and whether the prize has been paid. If a guest tops the board, the prize goes to the best signed-in player. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Blast Path: `/features/aura-blast` Category: Gamification ### Overview AURA Blast is a browser-based competitive puzzle game integrated into the Aura platform that combines Block Blast mechanics with Elo-ranked 1v1 matchmaking and weekly tournament play. Players compete for AuraCoins by clearing blocks using mood-powered multipliers that scale based on individual wellness data, all with no download required. ### Benefits - **Mood-powered multipliers**: Your wellness state boosts scoring multipliers in the puzzle. - **1v1 Ranked (Elo)**: Same seed, 30 moves, opponent score climbing live; an Elo ladder ranks you. - **Weekly bracket tournament**: 8-player bracket, 15 moves max, AuraCoins entry, Elo-ranked prizes. - **Earn AuraCoins**: Play as much as you like; the first 3 games a day pay AuraCoins on the free plan and the first 10 on Premium. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA Blast free to play?** > A: Yes, AURA Blast is entirely free to play with no download required, though ranked matches and tournament entries utilize AuraCoins that players can earn through gameplay. > **Q: How does the 1v1 Ranked mode work in AURA Blast?** > A: The 1v1 Ranked mode pits two players against each other using the exact same puzzle seed and a 30-move limit, where the higher score wins and determines your position on the global Elo ladder. A live ticker shows the opponent score climbing while you play, bots included, and the match pays AuraCoins worth a tenth of your score. > **Q: Are there tournaments in AURA Blast?** > A: Yes, AURA Blast hosts a weekly 8-player bracket tournament where participants compete within a 15-move limit for a prize pool of AuraCoins. > **Q: What are mood-powered multipliers in AURA Blast?** > A: Mood-powered multipliers are scoring bonuses that increase based on your current wellness and mood state tracked within the Aura app, directly rewarding healthy habits with higher puzzle scores. > **Q: Can I win prizes playing AURA Blast?** > A: Yes, players can win AuraCoins by competing in Elo-ranked matches and successful participation in weekly 8-player bracket tournaments. > **Q: How many AURA Blast matches can I play per day?** > A: Solo play is unlimited. What is limited is earning: the first 3 games of the day pay AuraCoins on the free plan and the first 10 on Premium, and after that the score, the XP and the weekly leaderboard still count while the game pays no coins. Ranked 1v1 keeps a real daily cap of 3 matches free and 10 on Premium, because those move Elo. The weekly 8-player tournament is a paid entry outside both. > **Q: Can I try AURA Blast without an account?** > A: Yes. Solo AURA Blast is playable as a guest with no sign-up and with no limit on how much you play; your best score is kept on that device. An account is needed for AuraCoins, XP, 1v1 Elo ranked, the weekly tournament and the leaderboard — the solo board is not open to guest scores, because a solo run is scored on the device rather than replayed on the server. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Surge Path: `/features/aura-surge` Category: Gamification ### Overview AURA Surge is a competitive 1v1 ranked Match-3 game within the Aura app that allows players to win Ranking Points (RP) and wager AURI currency through fast-paced, seed-based board battles. Players race to achieve the highest score on identical 15-move boards where matches of four or more gems grant extra moves, each side gets the same two free one-shot boosters drawn from the match seed, and a live ticker shows the opponent score climbing move by move. ### Benefits - **1v1 ranked PvP**: Race the same seed; match 4+ gems for extra moves, higher score wins RP. - **Two free boosters**: Same pair for both players in ranked and in the weekly tournament, drawn from the seed. Using one costs no move. - **Live opponent score**: A ticker shows your rival score climbing in real time, bots included. - **Tournaments + AURI wager**: Enter tournaments and wager AURI on ranked outcomes. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA Surge free to play?** > A: Yes, AURA Surge is free to play directly within the Aura app with no download required, though optional tournaments and wagering utilize in-app AURI currency. > **Q: What boosters can I use in AURA Surge?** > A: Every ranked match and every weekly bracket tournament match hands both players the same two free one-shot boosters, drawn from the match seed: colour blast, rocket, bomb, surge orb, hammer, shuffle or plus two moves. Firing one never costs a move, and firing one onto an orb already on the board fuses the two into a bigger combo: two arrows make a cross, an arrow plus a bomb sweeps three whole lines, two bombs go supernova. > **Q: Can I see my opponent score during a match?** > A: Yes. A live ticker shows the opponent score climbing move by move while you play, streamed over the Realtime Database, and a bot opponent shows its own run progressing the same way. > **Q: What are the rules of AURA Surge?** > A: Players compete on identical 15-move boards from the same seed, where the goal is to earn the highest score by matching gems, with matches of four or more granting extra moves and two free boosters available to each side. > **Q: Can I wager on AURA Surge matches?** > A: Yes, you can wager AURI, the native in-app currency, on competitive ranked matches and participate in various skill-based tournaments. > **Q: How many AURA Surge matches can I play per day?** > A: Ranked is capped: 3 matches a day on the free plan and 10 on Premium, counted together across bot and 1v1 games because both award RP. Free practice is unlimited for everyone, signed in or not — it stakes no RP and pays no AuraCoins, so it is what you play once the ranked allowance is gone. The weekly tournament is a paid entry outside the cap. > **Q: Can I try AURA Surge without an account?** > A: Yes. Guests get the free practice board: the same Match-3 engine and the same 15 moves, unlimited, played locally with nothing submitted. Ranking Points, the booster shop, the weekly tournament and 1v1 matchmaking all need a free account. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Master Path: `/features/aura-master` Category: Gamification ### Overview AURA Master is a daily gamified rewards system within the Aura app that allows users to earn AuraCoins (AURI) through activities like the daily spin wheel, raids, and attendance bonuses. It is designed as a free, high-frequency engagement ritual that provides tangible in-app currency for boosters, streaks, and tournament access without requiring external crypto wallets. ### Benefits - **Daily spin wheel**: A daily spin pays out AuraCoins / AURI with a chance at bigger rewards. - **Raids**: Run raids for extra coin rewards. - **Daily bonus**: Claim a login-style bonus every day you return. - **Feeds your economy**: Earned coins spend on boosters, Streak Freezes and shop items. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA Master free to play?** > A: Yes, AURA Master is completely free to play, with the spin wheel, raids, and daily bonuses costing nothing to access while rewarding you with in-app AuraCoins (AURI). > **Q: What rewards can I earn in AURA Master?** > A: You earn AuraCoins (AURI) which can be spent on premium features such as boosters, Streak Freezes, tournament entries, and various exclusive shop items. > **Q: How often can I spin the AURA Master wheel?** > A: You can spin the AURA Master wheel once every 24 hours in conjunction with claiming your daily login bonus. > **Q: Do I need a crypto wallet to use AURA Master?** > A: No, you do not need a crypto wallet because all AURA Master rewards are strictly in-app and do not require external wallet integration. > **Q: What is the purpose of AURA Master?** > A: AURA Master serves as a daily gamification layer that encourages consistent app usage by providing a quick, rewarding ritual that stacks your digital currency balance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Arena Path: `/features/aura-arena` Category: Gamification ### Overview AURA Arena is a browser-based 1v1 PvP platform inside Aura where you queue against another real player and climb a ranked ladder. There is nothing to download and matches start from the app on phone or desktop. The ladder resets every week: at each reset the top-ranked players are calculated and their AuraCoins rewards are issued automatically, so a late start never locks you out of the board. Arena is part of the Premium plans. ### Benefits - **1v1 PvP ranked**: Battle other real players head-to-head on a competitive ladder. - **Climb the ladder**: Win matches to rise through the rankings. - **Weekly winners**: Top of the ladder each week earns rewards. - **Earn AuraCoins**: Competitive wins pay out in-app AuraCoins. - **Weekly fresh start**: The ladder resets every week, so joining late never puts the top of the board out of reach. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA Arena free to play?** > A: Yes, AURA Arena is entirely free to play and requires no software downloads to participate in ranked matches. > **Q: Does AURA Arena feature real PvP gameplay?** > A: Yes, all matches in AURA Arena are real-time 1v1 ranked battles against other live players on a competitive global ladder. > **Q: How can I earn rewards in AURA Arena?** > A: Players earn AuraCoins by winning competitive matches and achieving high placements on the leaderboard before the weekly reset. > **Q: How does the weekly ranking system work?** > A: The competitive ladder resets every week, at which point the top-ranked players are calculated and automatically issued their AuraCoins rewards. > **Q: When does the ladder reset?** > A: Every week. At the reset the top-ranked players are calculated and their AuraCoins rewards are issued automatically, then everyone starts the new week from the same position. > **Q: Do I need to download anything?** > A: No. Arena runs in the browser inside Aura, on phone or desktop, and a match starts straight from the app. > **Q: What happens if I lose a match?** > A: A loss costs ladder position, not AuraCoins you have already earned. Because the ladder resets weekly, a bad run never permanently damages your standing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Mirror Path: `/features/aura-mirror` Category: AI tools ### Overview AURA Mirror is an AI-powered face analysis tool that provides real-time personality and aesthetic insights from your selfie, while simultaneously transforming your image into personalized avatars across 24+ unique artistic styles. Designed strictly for entertainment and self-reflection, the tool analyzes visible cues to estimate apparent age, energy, and mood, providing a fun way to visualize your digital persona without serving as a medical or psychological diagnostic instrument. ### Benefits - **A real read, not invented**: The AI judges only what is visible — expression, gaze, energy — states its confidence, and never fabricates. - **24+ avatar styles**: Restyle your selfie into anime, Pixar 3D, cyberpunk, oil portrait, comic and more, keeping your likeness. - **Shareable aura card**: Every read becomes a branded postcard with a QR link — perfect to post and compare with friends. - **Privacy by design**: Your raw selfie is auto-deleted after 24 hours; only the stylized avatars you keep stay in your gallery. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA Mirror accurate or just for fun?** > A: AURA Mirror is designed exclusively for fun and self-reflection, not for medical, psychological, or diagnostic purposes. The AI provides an honest perception based solely on visible data, reporting its confidence levels without making health-related claims. > **Q: How much does it cost to use AURA Mirror?** > A: Each AI analysis and avatar generation costs approximately $1, payable in AuraCoins at the live exchange rate. If a generation attempt fails, users are entitled to a free retry. > **Q: Is my selfie stored after I use AURA Mirror?** > A: Raw selfies are automatically deleted from our servers 24 hours after processing to ensure user privacy. Only the stylized avatars you explicitly save to your personal gallery are retained; face data is never sold to third parties. > **Q: Can AURA Mirror detect my real age or mental health status?** > A: No, AURA Mirror cannot determine your biological age or diagnose any mental or physical health conditions. It provides only an estimation of your apparent age range and current vibe based on visible surface cues. > **Q: What artistic styles are available for avatar generation?** > A: AURA Mirror offers over 24 distinct styles including anime, Pixar-inspired 3D, cyberpunk, watercolor, oil portrait, manga, pixel art, and superhero themes. Access to certain premium styles may vary based on current app offerings. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Affinity Path: `/features/aura-affinity` Category: AI tools ### Overview AURA Affinity is an AI-powered face and vibe analysis tool designed for couples and friends. By analyzing two selfies, it provides an entertaining, perception-based reading of your energetic and emotional compatibility. It generates a detailed affinity score and transforms your photos into a stylized, shareable anime avatar card. This tool is designed strictly for entertainment, not as psychological or relationship advice. ### Benefits - **Honest AI perception**: The AI reads visible cues—expressions, energy, and vibe—to provide an entertaining compatibility score without inventing data. - **Anime couple avatar**: Transform your two selfies into a beautifully stylized, high-quality anime couple portrait. - **Shareable affinity card**: Get a stunning 9:16 shareable card complete with your score, AI advice, and a QR code for social media. - **Privacy first**: Your raw photos are automatically deleted. Only the final stylized card remains in your gallery. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA Affinity a real relationship test?** > A: AURA Affinity is designed purely for fun and entertainment. The AI provides a reading based on visible expression and vibe in the photos, but it cannot diagnose real-world relationship compatibility. > **Q: How much does it cost to use AURA Affinity?** > A: The first scan costs $1 worth of AuraCoins, and subsequent scans cost $2. Premium users get their first scan free. > **Q: Are my photos saved?** > A: No, your raw selfies are automatically deleted after processing for privacy. Only the final generated anime card is saved. > **Q: Can I scan a photo with a friend instead of a partner?** > A: Yes! AURA Affinity can analyze the energetic connection and vibe between any two people, whether they are romantic partners or just friends. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA AI API Path: `/features/developer-api` Category: Developers ### Overview AURA AI for Developers is an AI-as-a-Service platform that exposes one clean, OpenAI-compatible endpoint for text, image, video and music generation. Instead of juggling separate keys and SDKs for each modality, developers integrate a single API, billed in transparent AURA credits, and ship generative features into any app or company product in minutes. ### Benefits - **One API, every modality**: Text, image, video and music from a single endpoint and a single key — no more wiring five providers together. - **OpenAI-compatible**: Point your existing OpenAI SDK at the AURA base URL and call model aura-1 — zero migration friction. - **Transparent credit billing**: Pay in AURA credits via Stripe. Free sandbox tier, subscriptions, and pay-as-you-go top-ups. - **Optimized for Italian + 13 languages**: Native-quality output across Italian, English and 11 more, ready for the local and global market. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What can the AURA AI API generate?** > A: The AURA AI API generates text (chat completions), images, video and music from a single unified endpoint. Text is OpenAI-compatible via /api/v1/chat; image, video and music use /api/v1/media. > **Q: Is the AURA AI API compatible with the OpenAI SDK?** > A: Yes. Set your OpenAI client baseURL to https://useaura.it/api/v1, use your aura_live_ key and model aura-1, and existing OpenAI SDK code works without changes. > **Q: How much does the AURA AI API cost?** > A: Billing is in AURA credits. There is a free Sandbox tier, a Startup plan at EUR 29/month and a Business plan at EUR 99/month, plus pay-as-you-go credit top-ups. Text is metered per token; image, video and music have fixed credit costs. > **Q: Do I need a credit card to start?** > A: No. The free Sandbox tier gives you starter credits to test text and image generation. You only pay when you upgrade or buy pay-as-you-go credits with Stripe. > **Q: Can I use the API in a commercial product?** > A: Yes. AURA AI for Developers is built so any developer or company can integrate AURA AI into their own app or product. Review the developer terms of service for usage and liability before going live. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Calendar Path: `/features/ai-calendar` Category: Productivity ### Overview AURA Calendar replaces the grid you drag events onto with a sentence you write. Type or dictate something like "gym for two hours this week, remind me to pay the electricity bill on Friday, wake me at seven tomorrow" and AURA AI parses it into three different object types — a flexible activity, a task with a deadline, and an alarm — then places each one appropriately. The part that does the real work is the auto-scheduling: a flexible activity has no fixed time, so it is fitted into the first free slot that does not collide with something higher priority, which is the step people actually skip when planning by hand. Reminders fire as push notifications tuned to the event type. Manual creation and editing stay free and unlimited; only the natural-language parsing has a daily allowance, three requests a day free and fifteen on Premium. One honest limitation: Aura is a Progressive Web App, so it sends push notifications before an event and cannot take over your phone's native alarm clock. ### Benefits - **One sentence, a whole week**: Describe the week in ordinary language and AURA AI creates each event, task and alarm from it, rather than making you fill in a form per entry. - **Auto-scheduling for flexible activities**: Anything without a fixed time — training, study, errands — is placed in the first free slot that does not conflict with a high-priority commitment. - **Reminders tuned per event type**: Push notifications fire ahead of each entry, with the lead time matched to what kind of event it is rather than one global setting. - **Free and unlimited for manual use**: Creating and editing events by hand is free with no cap. Only the natural-language parsing has a daily allowance: three a day free, fifteen on Premium. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA Calendar free?** > A: Creating and editing events manually is free and unlimited. The natural-language parsing has a daily free allowance of three requests, raised to fifteen on Premium. > **Q: What is AURA AI?** > A: The natural-language engine inside AURA Calendar. It turns a written or spoken sentence into structured events, tasks and alarms, and finds free time for the flexible ones on its own. > **Q: Does it set real alarms?** > A: It sends push notifications ahead of your events. Aura is a Progressive Web App, so it cannot trigger your phone's native alarm clock — that is a platform limit, not a setting. > **Q: What does Premium add?** > A: It raises the daily AURA AI allowance from 3 to 15 parsing requests. Manual event management is already unlimited and free. > **Q: What happens if it misreads my sentence?** > A: Every generated entry is a normal calendar item, so you can edit, move or delete it like anything you created by hand. Nothing is locked to the AI that produced it. > **Q: Is my calendar data private?** > A: Yes. Calendar data is encrypted and never sold, and it can be exported or deleted from settings along with the rest of your account data. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AI Home Manager Path: `/features/ai-home-manager` Category: Productivity ### Overview AURA Home is an AI vision-powered home management tool inside the Aura wellness platform. Users photograph a room and AURA AI vision identifies visible appliances and suggests recurring maintenance tasks; users photograph a utility bill and AURA AI extracts the provider, amount and due date, saving it as a tracked expense and syncing a reminder into AURA Calendar automatically. ### Benefits - **Photo to to-do list**: Snap a room and get a maintenance checklist for its appliances. - **Bill scanning**: Photograph a utility bill — provider, amount and due date are extracted automatically. - **Calendar sync**: Bill due dates create a reminder in AURA Calendar with no extra step. - **Spending trend**: See monthly utility spending by category over time. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA Home free to use?** > A: Yes, free users get 1 room and a monthly allowance of room and bill scans; Premium unlocks unlimited rooms and a higher monthly scan allowance. > **Q: Does AURA Home store my bill photos?** > A: No, bill photos are discarded right after AURA AI extracts the data — only the extracted provider, amount, category and due date are saved, since bills contain personal data. > **Q: Does a scanned bill create a calendar reminder automatically?** > A: Yes, when the due date is read with reasonable confidence, AURA Home creates a high-priority AURA Calendar reminder 2 days before the due date. > **Q: What does Premium add to AURA Home?** > A: Premium removes the 1-room limit, raises monthly room and bill scan allowances, and unlocks the monthly spending trend chart by category. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Aura Whisper (Private Chat) Path: `/features/aura-whisper` Category: Social ### Overview Aura Whisper is Aura's integrated messaging system: end-to-end encrypted text, voice and video calls, drop-in group voice rooms, a 24h Flash status, an AI copilot that checks your tone and suggests smart replies, AI-generated chat wallpapers, a Ghost Mode to hide your status, and a Vault protected by PIN or biometrics for your most private conversations. ### Benefits - **Absolute Privacy**: End-to-end encrypted messages, voice and video calls that only you and the recipient can access. - **Voice & Video Calls**: Encrypted 1:1 calls plus drop-in group voice rooms for your group chats — no recording, no middleman. - **Whisper Flash**: Share a photo, voice note or text status that disappears after 24 hours. - **AI Chat Copilot**: AURA AI checks your tone before you send, suggests smart replies, previews voice notes, and can paint a custom AI wallpaper for any chat. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is Aura Whisper free?** > A: Yes, basic messaging is completely free for all users. > **Q: Are my messages and calls really private?** > A: Yes. Whisper messages use end-to-end encryption, and 1:1 and group voice/video calls run on WebRTC with built-in end-to-end DTLS-SRTP encryption. Not even Aura can read or listen in. > **Q: What is the Vault?** > A: The Vault is a hidden folder for chats, protected by an additional PIN or your phone's biometric authentication. > **Q: How does the AI in Whisper help me chat?** > A: AURA AI checks your message tone before you send and suggests a calmer rewrite if it risks sounding harsh, offers 3 quick smart-reply suggestions on incoming messages, and adds a one-line preview above voice notes before you play them. > **Q: What is Whisper Flash?** > A: Whisper Flash is a 24-hour status — a photo, voice note or text update that disappears automatically after a day, similar to a story. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA NASCAR Manager 2026 Path: `/features/nascar` Category: Gamification ### Overview AURA NASCAR Manager 2026 is a free stock-car team-management game that runs in the browser inside the Aura app. You pick a team and a car number, spend AuraCoins on engine, aero, tyre and pit-crew upgrades, then race a 36-round official championship with playoffs. The simulation is where the interest is: tyre wear and dirty air are modelled, aerodynamic drag rises as damage accumulates, and a car past 90 percent damage retires with a DNF. Race control follows real NASCAR rules — Green-White-Checkered overtime extends the race by two laps when a late caution would otherwise end it under yellow, the Lucky Dog free pass returns a lap to the first car one or more laps down, and speeding on pit road carries a penalty. Standings are authoritative and global, held on the Realtime Database rather than computed per client. Nothing here costs real money: AuraCoins are the internal currency you also earn from habits, and they are not convertible into cash. ### Benefits - **A full 36-round championship**: The official 2026 schedule with stage racing, playoffs and authoritative global standings held server-side rather than trusted from the client. - **Pit strategy that decides races**: Choose four tyres, two tyres or fuel only at each stop. The fast call and the safe call genuinely diverge, which is what makes a caution period interesting. - **Oval physics, not a slider**: Tyre wear, dirty air and aerodynamic drag are modelled, and accumulated damage makes the car progressively slower until 90 percent forces a DNF. - **Real NASCAR race control**: Green-White-Checkered overtime up to three attempts, the Lucky Dog free pass, and pit-road speeding penalties, all applied automatically. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA NASCAR Manager 2026 free to play?** > A: Yes. Upgrades and entry fees are paid in AuraCoins, the in-app currency you earn from habits and gameplay. No real money is involved at any point. > **Q: How does Green-White-Checkered overtime work?** > A: If a yellow flag comes out near the end, the race is extended by two laps so it can finish under green. Race control will attempt this up to three times. > **Q: What is the Lucky Dog rule?** > A: During a caution, the first car that is one or more laps down is automatically given a lap back and rejoins at the tail of the lead lap. > **Q: What happens if my car is damaged?** > A: Contact and over-driving increase aerodynamic drag, so the car gets progressively slower. At 90 percent damage it retires with a DNF and scores nothing. > **Q: Are the standings shared with other players?** > A: Yes. The championship is global and the standings are authoritative, computed and stored server-side on the Realtime Database rather than reported by each player. > **Q: Can I win real money?** > A: No. Prizes are paid in AuraCoins, which are internal to Aura and cannot be withdrawn or converted into cash. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Solitaire Path: `/features/aura-solitaire` Category: Games ### Overview AURA Solitaire is a classic Klondike card game built into the Aura ecosystem, with a twist: every day, every player gets the exact same seeded deal, so the Daily Deal leaderboard and win streak are fully fair. Casual games are unlimited and free, with slick procedural card animations, undo, and one-tap auto-complete once the board is fully revealed. ### Benefits - **Fair Daily Deal**: Every player gets the same server-seeded shuffle each day — no client can pick a favorable deal. - **Win Streaks**: Win the Daily Deal on consecutive days to build a streak, tracked on your profile. - **Casino-Grade Animations**: Procedural SVG cards with smooth flip and slide animations, zero external assets. - **Unlimited Casual Play**: Play as many free casual Klondike games as you want, any draw mode. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA Solitaire free to play?** > A: Yes, casual Klondike games are unlimited and free. The Daily Deal is also free, once per day. > **Q: How is the Daily Deal kept fair?** > A: The deal is seeded server-side from the UTC date, so every player gets an identical shuffle. Your finished game is replayed server-side against the same seed before the result is saved, so no client can fake a score. > **Q: What happens if I miss a day?** > A: Your Daily Deal win streak resets. Casual games are unaffected and always available. > **Q: Can I undo a move?** > A: Yes — casual games have unlimited undo. The Daily Deal caps undos so the leaderboard stays meaningful. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Aura Free Web Tools Path: `/features/free-tools` Category: Tools ### Overview The Aura Tools hub is a set of browser utilities that work without an account, a download or a payment. There are seven: a 66-day habit streak and compound-growth calculator, a breathwork timer with a visual pacing circle for 4-7-8 and box breathing, a BMR and macro calculator using the Mifflin-St Jeor equation, a sleep-cycle calculator built on 90-minute cycles with sleep latency included, a daily water-intake calculator, a Pomodoro timer, and an AI reflection-prompt generator for when a blank journal page is the obstacle. Each one is a complete answer to a single question rather than a teaser for the app: the calculator gives you the number, the timer runs the session, and nothing is held back behind a sign-up wall. If you do want to keep the result, one tap carries a calculated routine or macro target into the free Aura app, but that step is entirely optional and the tools work identically without it. ### Benefits - **No account, no payment, no install**: Every tool runs in the browser on phone, tablet and desktop. There is no registration wall and no trial that expires. - **Established formulas, not invented ones**: The macro calculator uses Mifflin-St Jeor, the sleep calculator uses 90-minute cycles plus a 14-minute latency allowance, and the streak calculator is built on habit-automaticity research rather than the 21-day myth. - **Interactive, not static**: The breathwork timer paces your breathing with a visual circle, the Pomodoro timer runs the sprints, and the calculators respond as you move the inputs. - **Optional one-tap sync**: Save a calculated routine or a macro target straight into the free Aura app if you want to keep it — or use the tool and close the tab. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Are the tools completely free?** > A: Yes. All seven run in any browser with no registration, no payment and no usage limit. > **Q: Do I need to install an app?** > A: No. They run directly in the browser on mobile, tablet and desktop. Aura itself is a Progressive Web App, so even the full app installs from the browser rather than an app store. > **Q: How accurate is the BMR and macro calculator?** > A: It uses Mifflin-St Jeor, the equation generally regarded as the most accurate standard formula for basal metabolic rate. Like every population formula it carries an individual error margin of roughly 10 percent, which is why calibrating against two weeks of real weight data matters. > **Q: Can I move a calculated routine into the app?** > A: Yes. Saving a routine opens the free Aura onboarding with your habits already configured, so you do not have to re-enter them. > **Q: Is any of my input stored?** > A: Not unless you choose to save it into the app. The calculators run in your browser and nothing is written to an account you have not created. > **Q: Which tool should I start with?** > A: The one that answers a question you already have. The sleep and macro calculators give the most concrete numbers; the breathwork and Pomodoro timers are the ones you use repeatedly rather than once. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Aura Interactive Quizzes & Assessments Path: `/features/quiz-hub` Category: Assessment ### Overview Aura Interactive Quizzes is a hub of free, no-login self-assessments. Check your burnout risk, identify your habit archetype (Disciplined, Visual, Competitive, Mindful) or measure mental clarity, each in under three minutes. Every quiz is five questions, runs entirely in your browser, and returns a score breakdown with concrete next steps you can send straight into the Aura app. They are reflection tools for spotting patterns you might otherwise talk yourself out of noticing, not clinical instruments. ### Benefits - **100% Free & Anonymous**: No account or personal data required. Tests run instantly in your web browser. - **Framework-inspired, not clinical**: Questions are inspired by well-known concepts in burnout and habit research. They are self-reflection prompts, not validated diagnostic instruments. - **Instant Visual Results**: Get immediate score breakdowns, archetype badges, and personalized AI recommendations. - **1-Click App Export**: Import your recommended habit stack or recovery plan directly into the free Aura app. - **Nothing stored, nothing to sign up for**: Scoring happens in your browser. There is no account, and your individual answers are not saved to your profile. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Are Aura Interactive Quizzes free?** > A: Yes, all assessments in the Aura Quiz hub are 100% free with no registration or fees. > **Q: Is my data kept private?** > A: Yes, all calculations are performed locally in your browser. No personal survey answers are stored. > **Q: How is the Burnout Risk Index calculated?** > A: It uses a 5-question screening score based on physical exhaustion, emotional depletion, detachment, and worry. > **Q: Can I import my quiz results into Aura?** > A: Yes, clicking the action button transfers your recommended habit stack directly into the free Aura app. > **Q: Is this a medical diagnosis?** > A: No. These quizzes do not diagnose, treat or screen for any medical or psychological condition. They are self-reflection tools. If your results worry you or symptoms affect daily life, speak to a qualified professional. > **Q: How long does each quiz take?** > A: Under three minutes. Each is five questions, and the result appears immediately with a score breakdown and suggested next steps. > **Q: What do I do with the result?** > A: Each result ends with a small, concrete action: a habit stack, a recovery step or a routine adjustment. One tap sends it into the free Aura app so you can track whether it changes anything. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Bug Bounty and Ideas Path: `/features/bug-bounty` Category: Community ### Overview The AURA Bug Bounty is the official channel where users report problems and suggest new features in exchange for AuraCoins. Rewards run from 100,000 AuraCoins for a minor visual defect to 5,000,000 for a critical bug or an idea that actually gets built, and the top tiers add up to 12 months of Premium. Every submission is reviewed by hand: nothing is paid automatically, and a rejected report never costs the reporter anything. ### Benefits - **Up to 5,000,000 AuraCoins**: Four bug tiers and four idea tiers, with fixed public amounts the server pays from — no negotiation, no surprises. - **Premium months on top**: Critical bugs and implemented ideas add 12 months of Premium; high severity bugs and accepted ideas add 3. - **Ideas count as much as bugs**: Half the programme is for features that do not exist yet: games, integrations, improvements to what already ships. - **Open in 13 languages**: Anyone with a free AURA account can report, from any country, in Italian, English, Spanish, French, German and 8 more. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How much does AURA pay for a bug report?** > A: From 100,000 AuraCoins for a minor defect up to 5,000,000 for a critical bug such as data loss, a security flaw or a wrong payment. Critical reports also add 12 months of Premium, high severity ones add 3 months. > **Q: Do I get paid for suggesting a feature?** > A: Yes. An idea that gets implemented pays 5,000,000 AuraCoins plus 12 months of Premium, an accepted idea 2,000,000 plus 3 months, a shortlisted one 500,000 and a useful suggestion 100,000. > **Q: Who can take part in the AURA Bug Bounty?** > A: Any registered AURA user, from any country and in any of the 13 supported languages. The programme page is public, but submitting requires signing in because the reward is credited to an account. > **Q: What happens if the bug was already known?** > A: It is closed without a reward. Nothing is ever deducted for a rejected or duplicate report — first reporter wins, and later duplicates simply pay nothing. > **Q: How do I report a security issue in AURA?** > A: Send it through the same form and do not publish it anywhere else until it is fixed. Security issues are the highest paid tier of the programme. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Habit Buddy Mode Path: `/features/buddy-mode` Category: Productivity ### Overview Habit Buddy Mode links your Aura account to one other person — a partner or a friend — so you can support each other without any of the social-media machinery. There is no feed, no likes, no leaderboard and no audience. Each of you sees a narrow slice of the other: how many habits they completed today, their mood, their coins and their streak. You can send one encouraging emoji a day, and if you both reach 100 percent on the same day you each receive a 5000 AuraCoins shared bonus. The reason it works is well documented: stating a goal to someone who will notice, and knowing your effort matters to them, raises follow-through more than private intention does. The reason it has hard limits — one poke a day, completion counts only, no access to journal entries or AI conversations — is the other half of the same research. Accountability helps; surveillance does not, and the line between them is a design decision rather than a matter of good intentions. ### Benefits - **Support without an audience**: No public feed, no likes, no ranking. Just one other person, seeing how your day went and nothing about what you wrote. - **A bonus you unlock together**: If both of you complete every habit on the same day, you each receive 5000 AuraCoins — the shared stake is what makes the other person's effort matter to you. - **One poke a day, deliberately**: The daily encouragement is capped at one. The cap is the feature: it keeps this as support rather than something that turns into pressure. - **Partner or friend, switchable**: Choose a romantic partner bond or a platonic buddy bond, change it later from settings, and unlink at any time without ceremony. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: What can my buddy or partner actually see?** > A: How many habits you completed today, your mood value, your AuraCoins and your streak. They cannot see journal entries, AI conversations, or notes attached to a habit. > **Q: What is the shared bonus?** > A: If both of you complete 100 percent of your habits on the same day, you each unlock 5000 AuraCoins. It is evaluated on each person's own day, so a time-zone difference does not by itself break it. > **Q: Can I switch from partner to friend?** > A: Yes, the bond type can be changed at any time in the Buddy Mode settings, and either person can unlink whenever they want. > **Q: How many pokes can I send?** > A: One per day. The limit is deliberate and not configurable — it is what keeps the feature encouraging rather than intrusive. > **Q: What if my buddy is much less consistent than me?** > A: Lower the bar rather than pushing harder: reduce the number of tracked habits, let each person keep different ones, and treat the shared bonus as an occasional win. If the gap persists, unlinking the reward while keeping the visibility usually works better than both. > **Q: Is Buddy Mode free?** > A: Yes. Linking, the shared visibility, the daily poke and the shared bonus are all on the free tier. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Weather Path: `/features/weather-alerts` Category: Utility ### Overview AURA Weather is the weather layer inside Aura: current conditions, 24 hours, 7 days and an animated rain radar for wherever you are, plus an opt-in push alert when something serious is coming. Forecast data comes from MET Norway, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, and the radar from RainViewer. Where an official government warning feed exists it is shown as such; everywhere else AURA reads the forecast against severe-weather thresholds and labels the result clearly as an app reading, never as an official warning. Your position is stored rounded to about a kilometre and used for nothing else. ### Benefits - **Alerts that mean something**: Push only for orange and red conditions - strong wind, heavy rain, snow, thunderstorms, extreme heat or cold - at most one every three hours. - **Animated rain radar**: See where the rain is now and where it is heading over the next half hour, on a map centred on you. - **Honest about the source**: Official government warnings are marked official. AURA readings of the forecast are marked as such, with a pointer to your national civil protection service. - **Privacy by default**: Location is opt-in, requested only when you tap, stored rounded to roughly one kilometre, and never shared or sold. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Is AURA Weather free?** > A: Yes. The forecast, the rain radar and the severe weather alerts are all free, with no separate subscription and no AuraCoins cost. > **Q: Are the alerts official weather warnings?** > A: Where a free official feed exists the warning is shown as official: MeteoAlarm covers 38 European countries and the National Weather Service covers the United States. Elsewhere Aura reads the forecast against severe-weather thresholds and labels the result as an AURA AI reading. For official warnings always follow the civil protection service of your country. > **Q: How accurate is the location Aura stores?** > A: Your coordinates are rounded to two decimals, roughly one kilometre. That is enough for local weather and deliberately too coarse to identify a home address. You can revoke the permission at any time in your browser. > **Q: How often will I be notified?** > A: Only for orange or red conditions, and at most once every three hours. The same phenomenon is never pushed twice. > **Q: Which countries does it cover?** > A: The forecast and the radar work worldwide. Official warning feeds are integrated where they are free and public; everywhere else you get the AURA reading of the same forecast data. > **Q: Do the alerts include hail and tornadoes?** > A: Yes, wherever an official warning exists. Hail, sudden squalls and tornadoes are convective phenomena that no point forecast can predict: they come from the warnings issued by national weather services, which Aura receives through MeteoAlarm for 38 European countries and through the National Weather Service in the United States. In those cases the notification carries the service own official text, in your language when the feed publishes it. Where no free official feed exists Aura can warn you about the thunderstorm but not about the hail or the tornado itself, and says so. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Coach for Volleyball Path: `/features/aura-coach-volleyball` Category: Sport coaching ### Overview AURA Coach is an assistant coach for volleyball inside the Aura app. You enter your team once — federation, age category, roster, training days, match days, the equipment your gym actually owns and your season dates — and it lays out the entire season before you plan a single practice: preparation, pre-season, the two halves of the championship, the winter break and the transition, with mesocycles that build for three weeks and unload on the fourth. Every training slot gets a load from 1 to 10, a jump budget, a focus and a physical block, all derived from where the slot sits relative to the next match. AURA AI then writes each session from a curated drill library of 500 exercises: it never invents a drill, it picks the ones your gym and your age group can actually run, and a deterministic validator refuses any session that breaks the block order, the duration or the jump ceiling. The result is printable, with court diagrams drawn as vectors, so you carry a sheet into the gym instead of a phone. The roster holds what a coach measures with a tape against the wall - standing height, spike reach and block reach - and the session writer uses the gap between the reach of a player and the net to pick targets that player can actually hit. Body weight is never asked for or stored. After each practice you mark the register - present, late, excused, injured, absent - and the season totals come out as a printable report or a CSV for the club secretary. Your club badge sits on the team page and on the header of every PDF. ### Benefits - **A real season, not a list of practices**: Macrocycles, mesocycles with deload weeks and microcycles are computed from your calendar. The day before a match is a rehearsal, the day after is recovery, and the load curve follows the championship instead of ignoring it. - **Youth load ceilings that are enforced, not suggested**: Each age band carries its own jump ceiling and forbidden exercise families. A U12 session is capped at 40 jumps with no external load; a senior session is not. A session over the ceiling is rejected before it ever reaches you. - **Built around the gym you actually have**: Declare your court, balls, boxes, hurdles, bands, ropes and weights. A drill that needs equipment you do not own is never offered, so nothing in the plan is impossible on the night. - **Printable sheets with court diagrams**: Every session exports to a PDF with the diagram of each drill drawn as vectors, the wall-clock time of each block, the setup, the execution, the volume and the coaching points. The club badge you upload is printed on the header of the practice sheet, the match report and the attendance report. - **Match-day paperwork you print at home**: The call-up sheet with the squad, the meeting time and the venue, plus the lineup slip for the referee laid out twice on one landscape page so you cut it in half - one copy for the officials, one for the bench. Each set block has a place for the captain and for both liberos, L1 and L2. The same call-up also goes out as a plain-text message, so it can be pasted straight into the parents chat group. It costs nothing: it is paper, not AI. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How much does a training session cost?** > A: The first session of every team is free. Each session after that costs 1 USD paid in AuraCoins, the in-app currency, and includes one free regeneration if you want a different one. Browsing your season plan, your drill library and your team costs nothing. > **Q: Which federations and age categories are supported?** > A: Fourteen federations are built in, including FIPAV with its real Italian categories (S3, U12 to U19, Senior) and divisions from Serie A1 down to 3a Divisione, plus FIVB international defaults for the other national bodies. The category decides the format, the net height, the libero and block rules and the load ceiling. > **Q: Does it adapt if players are missing?** > A: Yes. Before generating you untick whoever is absent. The session is built for the number of players actually in the gym, uncovered roles are listed, and blocks that cannot run with that squad — a six against six with seven players, for instance — give their minutes to the blocks that can. After the practice you also mark what actually happened, and the season register exports to PDF or CSV with a percentage per player that leaves excused and injured absences out of the total. > **Q: Can the AI invent an exercise that does not exist?** > A: No. AURA AI chooses only from a curated library of 500 drills, each with its own diagram, age bands, equipment and jump cost. A session that references anything else, breaks the block order or exceeds the jump budget is refused by a deterministic check and never delivered. > **Q: Can somebody else help me run the team?** > A: Yes. You can invite an assistant coach or someone from the club with a code. They can open and code matches and mark the attendance register, so you can coach from the bench instead of tapping a tablet. They cannot edit the roster or generate practices, and everything is charged to you, the head coach, never to them. > **Q: In which languages is AURA Coach available?** > A: The interface is available in 13 languages. Drill instructions currently ship in Italian and English, with English shown as the fallback in the other languages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Scout — Volleyball Match Scouting Path: `/features/volleyball-scouting` Category: Sport coaching ### Overview AURA Scout is live volleyball scouting built for one person standing at the side of the court with a phone or a tablet. It uses the notation coaches already know — S, R, E, A, B, D and F for the skills, and the # + ! - / = scale for how each one went — so an action costs three taps: who, what, how it went. You never tell it who won the point: tapping an attack as a kill is the point. The score, the serve and both rotations follow from that one rule, so the rotation you are watching is always the rotation the numbers are filed under. The whole match is stored as an append-only list of events, which makes undo exact even in the middle of a rally, survives a reload, and lets the report be rebuilt later. At the end you get sideout and breakpoint for each of your six rotations, per-player attack efficiency, reception positivity, aces, blocks and errors, and a printable match report. ### Benefits - **Three taps per action, standard notation**: Who, which skill, how it went. The symbols are the ones used on paper sheets and in professional scouting, so a coach who has scouted before needs no manual and one who has not learns six symbols. - **The rotation wheel keeps itself**: A team rotates only when it wins a rally it did not serve. That single rule is applied for you, so the serving player and the six on court are always right without anyone tracking them by hand. - **Sideout and breakpoint per rotation**: The two lines that decide what you train next week. Best and worst rotation are highlighted, so you know which six is leaking before you plan the next practice. - **It survives the gym wifi**: Events are queued while the connection is down and mirrored on the device, so a tablet that reloads mid-match does not lose the match. - **Somebody else can hold the tablet**: Invite an assistant coach or a club scout with a code and they code the match on their own phone while you coach. The report says who coded it, and you get a push notification the moment the match is closed. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: How much does scouting a match cost?** > A: The first match of every team is free. Each match after that costs 1 USD paid in AuraCoins, charged once when you open the match, never per rally and never at the end. Reading and exporting a match you already scouted costs nothing. > **Q: What statistics does it produce?** > A: Sideout and breakpoint overall and for each of the six rotations, attack efficiency, kill percentage, reception positive and perfect percentages, serve aces and errors, block points, digs, the point breakdown between attack, block, serve and opponent errors, and a per-player table with points and errors. > **Q: Does it work without an internet connection?** > A: The live match is stored on the device as well as on the server. Actions coded while the connection is down are queued and sent when it returns, and the screen shows how many are still waiting to sync. > **Q: Can I correct a mistake?** > A: Yes. Undo removes the last action and everything is recalculated from the event log, so the score, the rotation and the statistics can never end up disagreeing with each other. > **Q: What does the on-court and off-court split show?** > A: Once you have scouted a few matches, each player gets the team sideout percentage while they were on court next to the percentage while they were not. It is only shown when there are enough rallies on both sides, and it is a correlation rather than a cause: your best six usually play together. > **Q: Is this an official match record?** > A: No. AURA Scout produces a coaching report from the data you code. It is not an official federation match sheet and does not replace one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Volleyball Drill Library with Court Diagrams Path: `/features/volleyball-drills` Category: Sport coaching ### Overview The AURA Coach drill library holds 500 volleyball exercises, each one written as a coaching card rather than a title: the objective, how to set the court up, how the drill is run, the coaching points to shout and the variations to try. Every drill carries a court diagram drawn in real metres, so the same picture appears on screen and on the printed sheet. Each one also declares what it needs and what it costs: minimum players, the space required, the equipment and the quantity of it, the age bands it suits and how many jumps it asks of a player. That last number is what lets a session respect a youth jump ceiling instead of guessing. The library is filtered to your team, so what you browse is exactly what AURA AI is allowed to use for tonight — nothing shown that your gym cannot do. ### Benefits - **Cards you can run, not titles you have to interpret**: Objective, setup, execution, coaching points and variations for every drill, so you know what to say and where to stand before the players walk over. - **A diagram for every drill**: Positions, movements and ball paths drawn on a real court in metres. The same geometry feeds the screen and the PDF, so the sheet in the gym matches what you planned. - **Honest requirements**: Minimum players, space, equipment with quantities, age bands and jumps per player. A drill you cannot run tonight is never suggested. - **Eighteen families across six session blocks**: Warm-up, mobility, strength, plyometrics, speed, injury prevention, setting, forearm pass, serve, reception, attack, block, defence, setting distribution, small-sided, full game, play and cool-down. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Does browsing the drill library cost anything?** > A: No. Browsing the library, reading a drill and looking at its diagram are free. Only generating a training session or opening a match to scout costs AuraCoins. > **Q: Are the drills suitable for youth teams?** > A: Each drill declares the age bands it suits, from child through preteen, teen and junior to senior. Drills with external load or high plyometric demand are not offered to the youngest bands at all, and jump counts are used to keep youth sessions inside their ceiling. > **Q: What if my gym has almost no equipment?** > A: A gym with one court and a bag of balls can still run a full session in every block and every age band. Equipment adds options, it is not a requirement. > **Q: Can I export the drills as a PDF?** > A: Drills are exported as part of a practice session sheet, each with its court diagram, setup, execution and coaching points, on A4 and ready to print. > **Q: In which languages are the drills written?** > A: Drill instructions currently ship in Italian and English. The other 11 interface languages show the English text until the translation pass is complete. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Tennis Coach & Scout Path: `/features/tennis-coach` Category: Sport coaching ### Overview AURA Tennis Coach is an AI-powered coaching and match charting system built for both independent self-coached tennis players and coaches running academy squads. You configure your profile or squad once — federation (ITF, FITP, USTA, FFT, RFET, DTB), age band, handedness, backhand style, court surface (clay, hard, grass, indoor), and weekly training slots — and AURA Coach designs a full-season periodized roadmap with weekly volume and serve load ceilings. A curated library of 500 geometrically validated tennis drills covers technical basket feeding, tactical patterns (Serve+1, Return+1), baseline crosscourt duels, net transition, drop shots, and tennis-specific footwork with vector court diagrams printable as PDF practice sheets. On match days, AURA Scout provides mobile courtside point-by-point charting with 1st/2nd serve tracking, aces, winners, unforced errors, rally length distributions, or quick post-match self-scouting. ### Benefits - **Periodized season plans for solo players and squads**: From preparation to tournament peaks, weekly training sessions are dynamically balanced with serve volume caps to protect the shoulder and rotator cuff. - **500 tennis drills with vector court diagrams**: Spanish basket feeding, baseline patterns, Serve+1 sequences, volleys and wall routines with real-metre court geometry, setup instructions and coaching cues. A drill needing equipment the club has not declared is never offered. - **Court surface adaptation**: Tailored sessions for clay, hard court, grass and indoor, with footwork, sliding mechanics and bounce-specific drill variations. The surface can be changed before any practice or match. - **Live courtside charting and post-match self-scout**: Chart matches point by point with one-handed mobile controls or enter fast post-match summary stats. Produces printable A4 PDF match reports. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Can independent tennis players use AURA Tennis Coach without a coach?** > A: Yes. Solo mode is specifically designed for self-coached players, providing solo drills, wall routines, ball machine patterns, and sparring progressions. > **Q: How does the serve load budget protect athletes?** > A: Every practice slot enforces an age-band serve volume ceiling - 20 serves for red ball, 35 orange, 50 green, 75 for teens, 90 juniors and 110 seniors - and a deterministic check refuses a session that goes over it before the coach ever sees it. This is training-load planning, not medical advice. > **Q: Does AURA Tennis Coach support different court surfaces?** > A: Yes. Clay, hard court, grass and indoor are supported. Coaches and players can change the surface before generating a session or opening a match, and the technical cues adapt to it. > **Q: How much does generating a practice or scouting a match cost?** > A: The first practice session and first match for every profile are free. Subsequent practice sessions and matches cost 1 USD in AuraCoins, charged only on opening with a free regeneration included. > **Q: Can I export training sessions and match reports to PDF?** > A: Yes. Practice sessions with vector court diagrams and finished match reports with head-to-head stats export instantly to vector A4 PDFs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## AURA Fitness & Calisthenics Coach Path: `/features/aura-coach-fitness` Category: Sport coaching ### Overview AURA Fitness & Calisthenics Coach is an intelligent strength training, calisthenics skill progression, and workout tracking system designed for solo athletes, personal trainers, and group classes. Configure your profile once with your experience level (beginner, intermediate, advanced, elite), age band, and available gym or park equipment (pull-up bar, gymnastics rings, dip bars, barbells, kettlebells, or bodyweight only). AURA Coach automatically constructs periodized strength and hypertrophy training cycles with strict set, repetition, and volume tonnage ceilings. A comprehensive library of 456 exercises features body-position vector diagrams, coaching cues, tempo prescriptions, and canonical block organization. Built-in skill ladders for planche, front lever, muscle-up, handstand, and pistol squats evaluate real logged performance against strict entry criteria. During workouts, an integrated wall-clock interval and rest timer keeps you on schedule with audio-haptic cues and Screen Wake Lock protection while you log sets, calculate estimated 1RM, and celebrate personal records. ### Benefits - **Deterministic calisthenics skill progression ladders**: Unlock advanced bodyweight movements including planche, front lever, muscle-up, and handstand step-by-step with objective performance criteria rather than arbitrary estimates. - **456-exercise catalog with vector biomechanical diagrams**: Bodyweight progressions, free weights, kettlebell complexes, and metabolic circuits with clear target joint angles, tempos, coaching cues, and printable A4 PDF summaries. - **In-app wall-clock interval and rest timer**: Dedicated gym timer supporting rest countdowns, work-rest intervals (Tabata, EMOM, AMRAP), Web Audio beeps, haptic pulses, and background tab immunity using wall-clock timestamps. - **Live workout logging, Epley 1RM, and PR badges**: Record sets, reps, load, and RPE with lightweight Realtime Database sync. Celebrate personal bests and track cumulative tonnage and density over time. ### Frequently Asked Questions > **Q: Can beginners use AURA Fitness & Calisthenics Coach without gym equipment?** > A: Yes. The catalog includes extensive floor-based bodyweight progressions requiring zero equipment. Beginner levels start with elevated push-ups, assisted squats, and scapular mobility before progressing toward bar and ring exercises. > **Q: How does the in-app interval timer handle locked phone screens or background tabs?** > A: The timer calculates remaining duration directly from wall-clock timestamps rather than counting down internal clock ticks. If your phone locks or you switch apps, the timer automatically resyncs accurately upon return without losing a single second. > **Q: How are calisthenics skill progressions unlocked?** > A: Skill ladders for planche, front lever, muscle-up, and handstand use deterministic mathematical rules. To unlock the next progression step, an athlete must log the required clean repetitions across two consecutive training sessions. > **Q: What training modes are available for coaches and personal trainers?** > A: AURA Fitness supports Solo mode for independent athletes, Personal Trainer (PT) mode for managing one-on-one client programs, and Group Class mode for coaching bootcamps and calisthenics group workouts. > **Q: How are personal records and 1RM calculated?** > A: Whenever a set is logged, AURA Coach evaluates repetitions and weight against previous historical performances using the Epley formula, awarding instant PR badges for rep maximums, weight, and isometric hold duration. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Tech Stack - Frontend: Next.js (App Router), React, Tailwind CSS, Phaser (games) - Backend: Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Storage, RTDB europe-west1) - AI: AURA AI for all insights and coaching - Real-time: Firestore onSnapshot, RTDB for games/live state, FCM push notifications - Payments: Stripe for premium subscriptions and one-time purchases - Hosting: Firebase App Hosting (Cloud Run) ## Security & Privacy - Privacy-first: user data encrypted at rest, never sold to third parties - GDPR compliant: full export/delete endpoints - Health features (AI psychologist, mood, cycle, breathwork) are wellness self-help tools, NOT medical care or diagnosis. Crisis: contact local emergency services. ## Contact & Support - Website: https://useaura.it - Email: support@useaura.it - Twitter/X: @use_AURA_AI - Telegram: @use_aura_ai