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No. All core features — sounds, fade timer, guided breathing, and your private notes — work without an account. Google Drive permission is requested only when you choose Backup or Restore.

Oryvelle can send a gentle morning reminder to log how you slept, after a session of at least 5 minutes. You can decline the permission and the rest of the app works normally. You can also control reminders from your device's notification settings at any time.

The routine builder lets you set up a sequence of steps for winding down — choosing a sound mix, a breathing exercise, a sleep timer, and a morning journal reminder. You can set a goal (such as falling asleep faster or winding down gently) and a support level. Set it up once in Settings → Wind-down routine, then start it from the home screen each evening.

The app includes two patterns: Box breathing (inhale, hold, exhale, hold — each 4 seconds) and 4-7-8 breathing (inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 7, exhale for 8). Both can be used as part of your bedtime routine or started independently.

The first time you play a sound, the app downloads it over the internet. Public sounds use an automatically managed cache of up to 72 MiB. Premium audio used in the current session can use up to 64 MiB and is cleared when the session ends. If a sound is not cached, an internet connection is required.

The sound catalog is updated periodically. Sounds that are removed from the catalog will no longer play, but they will remain visible as coming-soon placeholders until replaced. Saved mixes that include a removed sound will load the remaining sounds.

Make sure the app has permission to run in the background. On some devices (especially Xiaomi, Samsung, or Huawei), battery optimisation settings may kill background audio. Go to Settings → Battery → App launch (or similar) and set Oryvelle to manage itself manually.

Check that notification permission is granted for Oryvelle in Android Settings → Apps → Oryvelle → Notifications.

Yes. Open Sleep notes, tap the day you want to change, then use the edit or delete action. Deleting an entry is permanent and will ask for confirmation first.

If an encrypted Drive backup or .orybackup file contains the deleted entry, open Settings → BACKUP & TRANSFER and choose Restore sleep notes from Drive or Import sleep notes backup. Enter the code used for that backup. Restore adds missing dates, replaces entries on matching dates, and leaves other dates unchanged. Export your current notes first if you want an extra copy.

Yes. When logging a journal entry, tap + Add tag at the bottom of the mood tag list to add a custom tag. Custom tags are saved on your device and appear alongside the predefined ones for future entries.

The trends screen shows your sleep quality over the last 7 days, 30 days, or all time, based on the ratings and duration you log in your journal. It includes a quality trend line, a weekday pattern chart to spot which nights you tend to sleep best, and a rating breakdown. Personalized insights appear on the home screen and update weekly as you build more entries.

The app starts surfacing insights after a few entries. The more consistently you log, the more specific the weekly insights become — including which sounds and mixes are associated with your best nights.

The encrypted-backup update starts with Android build 34; availability depends on your Google Play release track. It uses a recovery code and .orybackup files. Earlier builds exported unencrypted JSON. Update Oryvelle and create a new backup from your existing local notes. Updating does not encrypt old copies, and the new importer does not accept legacy JSON files.

Only your journal: entry dates, ratings, durations, tags, notes and timestamps. Playback history, saved mixes, routines, settings and purchases are not included. Backups are manual snapshots, not automatic sync.

Tap Copy code below the code, save it in a password manager or another safe location outside Oryvelle, then paste it into the confirmation field. You do not need to type the full code. Viewing the saved code later from Settings → Journal recovery code requires device authentication when your phone has a secure lock.

A new installation needs the backup and the code used to create it. Google account access cannot replace the code. If your current installation still has a usable saved key, view the code in Settings and save it externally. Without either a usable local copy or an external code, the encrypted backup cannot be recovered. Generating a new code does not unlock old backups; it does not erase local notes.

Oryvelle requests access only when Backup or Restore needs the private Google Drive app-data folder. Continue only if you want to use that feature. Oryvelle does not create or keep a Google profile in the app.

Drive backups are stored in Oryvelle’s hidden app-data folder, separate from your main file list. To delete them, open Google Drive settings → Manage apps → Oryvelle and delete its hidden app data. Disconnecting Oryvelle alone does not delete the backup.

Disconnecting revokes Oryvelle’s Drive permission and clears pending authorization state. Your local data is unchanged, and existing Drive backups remain until you delete them from Google Drive. The next Backup or Restore will ask for permission again.

1. Try Backup or Restore again and complete Google’s account and permission prompt.
2. Check your internet connection.
3. Make sure you have enough storage in your Google account (the backup is typically a few KB to a few MB).
4. Try again — Drive can occasionally return a temporary error.

Open Settings → BACKUP & TRANSFER → Export sleep notes backup and choose a save location. The encrypted-backup update saves a .orybackup file. At initial setup, save and confirm your recovery code; keep it separate from the file. Export is available once you have a journal entry.

You can clear your sleep notes and saved mixes individually from Bedtime settings. To remove everything, uninstall the app — this removes all locally stored data. If you also want to remove your Drive backup, delete its hidden app data from Google Drive settings → Manage apps → Oryvelle. Also delete exported files and recovery-code copies from any locations where you saved them.

No. See our Privacy Policy for full details.

Go to Bedtime settings → PERSONALIZATION PROFILE → Reset profile. This clears your onboarding answers and relaxation profile. Your journal entries and saved mixes are not affected.

Go to Bedtime settings → BEDTIME ROUTINE → Reset routine. This clears only the routine setup. It does not stop active playback, delete journal entries, or change your timer defaults.