Your Personalized Recovery Companion. In Your Pocket. On Your Side. 24/7.
Recovery Doesn't End at the Clinic Door. Neither Do We.
An AI recovery companion that remembers your story, helps you check in on how your body is doing, and supports you between sessions. No wearable required. No judgment.
Coming soon to iOS & Android.
NOVA LiFE is a recovery companion and wellness tool. It is not therapy, not a diagnostic tool, and not a substitute for professional care. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 or call 911. NOVA's AI is never your crisis service.
Home & Daily Pledge
A calm, grounded home screen. No streak shaming. A personal daily pledge, a gentle morning reflection, and the tools you need within one tap.
Privacy-First
HIPAA protections when your access comes through a healthcare provider.
Camera Video Stays on Your Phone
Check-in video is processed on your device and never stored.
Help, One Tap Away
Call 988 or 911 from any screen.
Trauma-Informed Design
Built by and with people who have lived versions of the story.
The Problem
The Clinic Closes at 5 PM.
Your Recovery Doesn't.
For many people, the hardest days come right after treatment ends. In one study of patients leaving inpatient opioid detox, more than half returned to use within the first week, and those who did not enter aftercare relapsed sooner. That is not a failure of treatment. It is what happens when support stops at the door. No one who knew their story. No one watching for the signs. No one to reach for at 3 AM when the craving came.
The clinical community is not failing at treatment. They are failing at what comes after treatment. The session ends. The building goes dark. The patient goes home to the same environment, the same stressors, the same nervous system patterns that drove everything in the first place. That is where relapse lives.
of people treated for a substance use disorder experience a relapse
of patients relapsed within one week of leaving inpatient opioid detox
of patients in the same study reported a relapse after inpatient opioid detox
Smyth et al., Irish Medical Journal, 2010 (same study) (opens in a new tab)
people who needed substance use treatment in 2025 received any
SAMHSA, 2025 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (opens in a new tab)
Sources: National Institute on Drug Abuse (opens in a new tab); Smyth et al., Irish Medical Journal, 2010 (opens in a new tab); SAMHSA, 2025 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (opens in a new tab). These figures describe industry research, not outcomes from using NOVA.
NOVA LiFE is built for that gap.
Meet NOVA
Meet NOVA. The Recovery Companion That Never Leaves Your Side.
NOVA LiFE is a 24/7 intelligent companion designed for the moments between sessions. The quiet ones. The hard ones. The ordinary ones. The dangerous ones. NOVA remembers your story after you tell it once, offers a quick check-in to help you notice how your body is doing, and responds to you in the moment.
This is not a journaling app. Not a streak counter. Not another wellness experience that forgets who you are every time you open it. NOVA LiFE is built on a single idea: the recovery community has been missing an architecture, not a tool. We built the architecture.
See Every Feature
24/7
Always available
3 AM
Built for the hard hours
0
Judgment. Ever.
What Makes NOVA Different
Three Pillars.
One Platform. Zero Judgment.
Most recovery apps count streaks. NOVA focuses on you: your story, your daily check-ins, and your care.
A Companion That Knows You
Persistent life-story memory
- Tell your story once. NOVA remembers it for as long as you keep your account
- Thoughtful, paced onboarding, never an interrogation
- Voice or text, any hour, any mood
- Built for 3 AM, not 3 PM
Biometric Intelligence in Your Pocket
No wearable. No extra device.
- A 30-second camera check-in estimates heart rate, HRV, and breathing
- Optional voice analysis spots day-to-day shifts
- Two optional check-ins: camera and voice
- The app learns which practices help you most
A Living Loop With Your Care
Optional, powerful, seamless
- Pairs beautifully with your clinical team
- No retelling your trauma to every new provider
- Share the check-ins you choose with your care team
- Recovery becomes personalized, not generic
Inside the App
Everything You Need.
Nothing You Do Not.
A complete recovery ecosystem in one app. Every feature has a purpose. Every screen was designed with someone in early recovery in the room.
Home & Daily Pledge
A calm, grounded home screen. No streak shaming. A personal daily pledge, a gentle morning reflection, and the tools you need within one tap.
NOVA, Your AI Companion
Voice or text, 24 hours a day. She knows your full story. She meets you where you are. She reflects, she listens, she never diagnoses, and she never disappears.
The Life Story Intake
A thoughtful, paced onboarding that captures who you are, what shaped you, and where the patterns began. You tell it once. NOVA remembers it, and you can delete it anytime in settings.
Body Check-In
A 30-second camera check-in estimates heart rate, heart rate variability, and breathing rate. Video is processed on your phone and never stored. No wearable needed.
Voice Intelligence
With your permission, NOVA notices how you sound during your conversations (pace, pitch, energy) to spot day-to-day shifts. Wellness signals, not diagnoses.
Content Library
Breathwork. Guided meditation. EFT tapping. Somatic practices. Yoga. Frequency audio. Non-denominational spiritual guidance. Peer recovery videos. Recommended based on your check-ins, not a generic algorithm.
Coming Soon
Live Peer Classes & Telehealth
Real humans. Real sessions. Real connection. Weekly live peer support classes, plus telehealth with licensed providers, all in the same app.
One-Tap Crisis Support
A help button on every screen. One tap connects you to 988 or 911. No menus. No gatekeeping.
Clinician Mode
A separate experience for recovery professionals, for patient care or your own wellbeing. Your personal wellness data is not visible to your employer or the facilities you serve.
Your Story
Tell Your Story Once. We'll Remember It.
One of the cruelest patterns in addiction treatment is how many times you are asked to relive the worst moments of your life. New counselor. New doctor. New intake. Same trauma, told again, and again, and again. Each retelling reactivates shame. Each retelling can make the work harder.
NOVA LiFE ends that pattern. Your story is captured once, through a paced, trauma-informed intake built with you at the center. From that moment forward, every interaction, every recommendation, every response is built on top of it. The person you are at 3 AM in a hard moment is the same person NOVA has been getting to know since the first day you opened the app.
If you later choose to connect NOVA LiFE to your clinical team, they see a structured, respectful summary. They walk into your session already knowing you. The relationship starts where the relationship actually starts.
Dignity as a Product Feature
Never start over. Never prove yourself again. NOVA holds your history the way a true companion would, with full memory and zero judgment.
The Science
Recovery Support That Uses the Phone You Already Have.
A short, optional camera check-in estimates everyday signals like heart rate and breathing, as wellness cues you can reflect on. Optional voice check-ins can reflect day-to-day shifts in how you sound and feel. These are wellness signals, not clinical measures. On the device you already own.
No watch. No ring. No chest strap. No additional purchase. Just the phone in your hand and the voice you were going to use anyway.
Read the Full Science
For Treatment Facilities
Powerful Alone. Extraordinary Together.
NOVA LiFE is a complete recovery companion on its own, even if your clinic never connects it to another system.
But when NOVA LiFE is used inside a treatment facility or network that also runs on NOVA Clear, our clinical verification platform, something rare happens. Sessions and treatment touchpoints inside the facility are documented and verified as they happen. With your consent, your NOVA LiFE experience can reflect that care. NOVA LiFE reads those verified records, matches them with the check-ins you choose to share, and begins to learn what is actually working for you, specifically.
Does your clinic use NOVA Clear?
Ask them. If they do, the integration is seamless. If not, NOVA LiFE works beautifully on its own.
For Clinicians
For the People Who Carry Everyone Else.
First responders, counselors, nurses, and recovery workers quietly carry the heaviest emotional load in American healthcare. In 2017, more U.S. police officers and firefighters died by suicide than in the line of duty (Ruderman Family Foundation, 2018 (opens in a new tab)). Burnout is chronic. Compassion fatigue is real. The people who hold the recovery community together are often the last ones to ask for help themselves.
NOVA LiFE includes a separate, private Clinician Mode. Your login is yours. Your personal wellness data is not visible to your employer or the facilities you serve. You get the same persistent story memory, the same biometric intelligence, the same 24/7 companion, built for the specific weight of the work you do.
Because the people protecting the rest of us deserve to be protected too.
Privacy & Trust
Your Story Belongs to You.
When your access comes through a healthcare provider, we protect your information under HIPAA as their business associate. Camera check-in video is processed on your phone and never stored; only results, like your heart rate, are saved. You decide what is shared with your care team. In a crisis, 988 and 911 are one tap away.
Built for Healthcare Privacy
AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit, role-based access controls, and audit logging.
Camera Video Stays on Your Phone
Check-in video is processed on your device and never stored or uploaded. Voice analysis focuses on how you sound, not the words you say.
Your Data, Your Choices
You choose what to share with your care team. Request a copy of your data or delete it from the app settings.
Help Is One Tap Away
Call 988 or 911 from any screen. NOVA's AI is a companion, never a crisis service.
Trauma-Informed Design
Every screen, flow, notification, and conversation was designed with trauma-informed principles, reviewed by people who have lived the story.
No Wearable. No Commitment.
Support between sessions, already in your pocket.
Coming Soon
NOVA LiFE is Coming Soon.
Be the first to know when we launch. Join the waitlist and begin where you are.