LuvYa app for iPhone and iPad

Note: iCloud and an internet connection is required for LuvYa to work.

The brother and sister co-founders, inspired by his daughter and her favorite stuffed gorilla, created LuvYa because we believe:

1. None of us gets enough love notes. When was the last time you got one?

2. Data about our emotions, and their reasons, can lead to insights that help us improve our lives.

3. Convenient, bite-sized, self-care is a practical solution for a busy world.

4. It will feel good to share the wisdom weve gathered over the years with others.

5. When we are feeling emotional, seeing an animated gorilla or other fun Gifs can help as a simple diversion.

6. App users will appreciate having insights created from their anonymous app usage data shared back with them.

LuvYa is meant to be a tool to help you cope with emotions in the moment, and learn from those moments over time. Tracking your emotions in LuvYa is easy and meant to be something you do on a regular basis, but only for brief periods of time, because finding screen-time balance is important for emotional health.

LuvYa is completely free to use without restriction. Those who find LuvYa valuable have the option to become a financial sponsor to support the app and help to keep it ad-free and cost-free for other LuvYa community members who cannot afford to pay.

Here’s how LuvYa works: When you experience a noteworthy emotion, you open LuvYa, log the emotion and its reason, and get a ‘LuvYa’ note in return as a supportive, inspirational pick-me-up. The app will then organize your emotion+reason entries in a journal, and provide you with simple emotion statistics over time so that you can make connections between the things that happen in your daily life and their effects on your overall emotional well-being. You can even access all your past LuvYa’s in your journal to give yourself an instant boost during your day, or to share with a friend or loved one who might need support. And, because we think everyone has wisdom to share, we also give you the option to submit your own LuvYa’s that may then be shared with the rest of the LuvYa community. The app will even let you know how many people have seen your LuvYa’s, plus the LuvYas average ratings, so you can learn which of your sayings are most helpful.

Because personal privacy is important to us, and we know it’s important to you, your unique LuvYa user ID contains zero personal information. The format is [your selected Gender]_[your age]_[random 10 digit code]. You are anonymous beyond these two basic demographics. In addition, data collected by the app is securely stored on Apple CloudKit and is never shared with third parties. And, as we strive to refine and improve our app, LuvYa will continue to be open and transparent about how we use your data. Right now, the privacy policy on our website even lists every data field the app collects with a description of what the data field is used for.

So, what are you waiting for? Give LuvYa a try and see if it helps. That is why we made it, to help our neighbors, because we LuvYa.