Nava Aura is a calm, privacy-first markdown reader and writer for iPad and iPhone, built around reading and listening first, writing second. Read in The Alchemist's Silence, a distraction-free reading view with clean, beautifully rendered typography and three curated themes (Obsidian, Artisan Paper, Minimal). The reader opens instantly: the markdown parse runs off the main thread so your tap lands on an already-visible page, not a stall. Listen with Agent Maya. Documents are spoken aloud on-device using Apple's natural speech engine. Enhanced and Premium voice tiers deliver close-to-Siri quality. A session listening clock tracks elapsed time across pause, stop, and skip, and audio continues seamlessly in the background, on the lock screen, and through AirPods or CarPlay. Lock-screen artwork is a unique per-document gradient with a Maya-picked icon, so each doc feels like its own "album." Write in a polished editor powered by Runestone: tree-sitter markdown syntax highlighting, native auto-pair, Apple Pencil Scribble, system dictation, ⌘F find-and-replace, and Focus Mode to dim everything except the paragraph under your cursor. Powered by Apple Intelligence (on-device): * Smart Summaries: concise summaries generated on-device on demand, shown on Gallery cards and in the reader. * Auto-Tag: intelligent tag suggestions from document content. * Writing Assist: refine selected text with Professional, Friendly, Concise, or Expand styles. * Ask Maya: ask questions about your document, answered privately on-device. * Smart Dictation Cleanup: cleans up raw speech-to-text with proper punctuation and paragraph breaks. Every Apple Intelligence feature is user-initiated. The app never drains the on-device model in the background. If Maya is momentarily unavailable (thermal throttle, low battery, models still downloading after device setup), you will see a single unified "try again" prompt with one-tap retry instead of a silent failure. Organize & Discover: * Favorites and tags with an instantly-visible favorite badge on each card * Camera OCR: scan physical documents and convert to clean markdown locally via Apple's Vision framework * Import from Files, AirDrop, Share Sheet, or clipboard * Outline view: navigate long documents by heading * Document inspector with metadata, summary status, and sharing * Optional Spotlight search integration: find your documents from the iOS home screen, with tap-to-open straight into reading mode Privacy & Security: * Optional biometric app lock: Face ID or Touch ID required to open the app. The biometric evaluation runs inside Apple's Secure Enclave; Nava Aura only receives a success or fail signal, never a fingerprint or face map. * Documents are encrypted at rest on iOS with file-level data protection * Storage is non-destructive. Migrations never erase your documents. If a future schema change encounters a problem, the app falls back safely and retries on the next launch with your data intact. * All AI features run on-device using Apple Foundation Models. Your documents, summaries, and AI conversations never leave your device. Adaptive & Accessible: * Adaptive layout for iPhone, iPad mini, and iPad Pro * Full Dynamic Type support. Every text surface scales with the user's Larger Text preference, up through the Accessibility sizes. * VoiceOver labels and rotor actions throughout. Read, Listen, Favorite, Inspect, and Delete are all reachable from the Actions rotor on every document card. * Respects Reduce Motion * WCAG AA contrast across all three themes * Optional haptic feedback * Use any voice Apple offers on iOS. Install your preferred language, accent, or Enhanced and Premium tier via iOS Settings, Accessibility, Spoken Content, Voices. The app picks up whatever you've installed. We don't ship our own bundled voices or lock you into a curated subset. No subscriptions. No accounts. Your content stays on your device. Crafted by Nava Ventures.
