Numinous Support

Getting around

Swipe up for the next passage. Swipe sideways for the same theme in another tradition; the small marks by the theme's name show which voices are waiting. Tap a passage for context and a question, and tap again to return. Double-tap it, or tap the bookmark by its citation, to keep it.

The … button reads a passage aloud (Numinous Plus), shares it as an image, makes a Lock Screen wallpaper (Numinous Plus), sends it to someone, lets you sit with its theme or see less of it, and reports a problem. At the top of the feed, the grid opens Themes and Journeys, the bookmark opens Kept & Journal, and the sliders open Settings. To hear fewer traditions, turn any off in Settings › Voices; at least one stays on.

Sessions and the end of the feed

Settings › Session sets the length: One (a single passage), or 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes. The clock counts only time with Numinous open, and a timed session ends once the time is up and you've read at least three passages. Then the feed shows That's enough for now, with one line to carry: the last passage you kept that session, or the one you stayed with longest. Keep going a little longer adds five minutes, or one more passage.

In the same section, Begin with one breath turns the short pause at the start of each session on or off; tap anywhere to skip it. If you leave Numinous and come back within half an hour, you pick up where you were. After that, a new session begins.

Themes and journeys

Open Themes (the grid at the top) to sit with one theme for a while, and tap the × on the pill to wander again. When you've heard every passage on a theme, Numinous says so and lets you stay or wander.

The Journeys tab lists journeys to start any time and, while their season lasts, seasonal ones. Dates that depend on the moon or local custom are shown as approximate. Start one and its first day comes next in the feed. After that, one new day opens each day, at the start of your next session; nothing is ever missed. Day 1 of every journey is free; the days after it are part of Numinous Plus. To stop, press and hold the journey you're on and choose Set this journey aside.

Sound

Settings › Sound has two switches, both part of Numinous Plus and off until you turn them on. Soundscape plays a quiet bed of sound matched to each theme's light, made on your device as you listen; it follows your silent switch and plays under your own music. Read passages aloud reads each passage as it arrives, and any single passage can be read from its … menu.

Read aloud uses the best English voice installed on your device. For a more natural one, download an Enhanced or Premium English voice in the Settings app under Accessibility › Spoken Content › Voices.

Numinous Plus

Numinous Plus is an in-app purchase. It adds the days after the first of every journey and seasonal companion, soundscapes, reading aloud and Lock Screen wallpapers. Everything else in Numinous is free and stays free. Yearly is $29.99 a year with a 14-day free trial for new subscribers, monthly is $3.99 a month, and lifetime is $79.99, one payment. Every plan is shared with your family through Family Sharing.

Restore a purchase: Settings › Numinous Plus › Restore purchases.

Cancel a subscription: in the Settings app, tap your name › Subscriptions › Numinous Plus, at least 24 hours before it renews. Your kept passages, journal and journey progress stay; the Plus features step back until you subscribe again.

Widget, Apple Watch and Siri

Add the Carry today widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen. After a session it shows the line you carried out, through the next day; otherwise it shows the passage of the day. Tap it to open that passage.

Install Numinous on your Apple Watch from the Watch app on your iPhone. It has three pages, Today, Breathe and Kept, and complications for the day's passage and a minute of breath. Passages you keep on your iPhone appear on the Watch's Kept page the next time you open Numinous on your Watch.

With Siri, try "Today's passage from Numinous", "Open Numinous on grief" or "Breathe with Numinous".

iCloud

Settings › Your devices › Sync with iCloud is on by default: kept passages, your journal, journey progress and settings stay in step on every iPhone and iPad signed in to the same Apple Account with iCloud on. Changes can take a few minutes to arrive. What the feed has learned about your reading stays on each device.

A passage looks wrong

Tap … on the card and choose Something's not right here. Your mail app opens a message to hello@apexmade.ai with the passage's citation and source filled in. Add what's wrong and send it. We read every note, especially about misquotes, wrong citations, or anything that misrepresents a tradition.

Settings › Every passage, and where it came from lists every passage with its source, its translator where there is one, and its license, and links to the copy it was checked against.

If you're struggling

Numinous is for reflection, not care. If you're in pain or thinking about ending your life, please reach out to someone now. In the US, call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, free at any time. Anywhere else, findahelpline.com lists free, confidential helplines in your country. If you're in danger right now, call your local emergency number. Talking to someone you trust, such as a friend, a doctor, a counselor or a faith leader, is also a real step.

These are always in Settings › If you're struggling, and under the context of passages on grief, loneliness and mortality.

Starting over

Settings › Forget everything erases your kept passages, journal, journey progress, settings and what the feed has learned, on this device and from your iCloud copy, and Numinous starts again from the welcome screen. If you use Numinous on more than one device, do this on each. Your Apple Watch clears its copy of your kept passages and carry line the next time Numinous opens on your Watch.

Contact us

Email hello@apexmade.ai with your device, iOS version and what you see. We usually reply within a day.