Step 1
Download MyNaavi
Open Google Play Store on your Android phone, search for MyNaavi, and tap Install. MyNaavi is in open testing while it is still young, so Play shows it as a test version — it installs like any other app.
Step 2
Sign in with your Google account
Tap Sign in with Google and pick your usual account.
MyNaavi works on top of the things you already use — Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Tasks, Contacts, Google Drive. Signing in lets MyNaavi check your schedule, send messages on your behalf, and save things you ask MyNaavi to remember, without you switching apps.
Step 3
Allow notifications
Tap Allow when Android asks if MyNaavi can send notifications.
Notifications are how MyNaavi gets your attention — a phone call when you arrive at a place you care about, a text reminder, or a quiet alert. Without permission, MyNaavi can't ring your phone.
Step 4
Allow location — "all the time"
When Android asks about location, choose Allow all the time.
MyNaavi only knows you've arrived somewhere if location is allowed while the app is in the background. "While using the app" sounds safer, but it means MyNaavi can't help you when your phone is in your pocket while you drive home. MyNaavi never stores a history of where you've been — only checks whether you're at a place you named.
If your phone ever revokes this permission later (some Android updates, or Samsung's Sleeping Apps, do this quietly), MyNaavi notices the next time you open the app: a red banner appears at the top of your Alerts list — "Location alerts aren't armed — MyNaavi needs location permission. Tap to fix." One tap re-prompts you, and your alerts are armed again. No silent failures.
Step 5
Allow physical activity
Tap Allow when Android asks if MyNaavi can track physical activity.
Location alerts work by detecting when your phone transitions from moving to still — so MyNaavi knows you've arrived, not just passed through. Android's Motion API is what detects that transition. Without it, your phone may miss the moment you park and walk through the door. This data never leaves your phone.
Step 6
Set battery to unrestricted
When Android asks about battery, tap Allow — or go to Settings → Apps → MyNaavi → Battery → Unrestricted.
Android can pause apps running in the background to save battery. If MyNaavi gets paused, location alerts stop firing — silently, with no warning. Setting battery to Unrestricted tells Android to leave MyNaavi alone so it can watch for arrivals even when your phone has been sitting in your pocket for hours.
Step 7
Tell MyNaavi your first name
In Settings → Your Name, type your first name.
MyNaavi greets you by name on phone calls, and a text you ask MyNaavi to send arrives with "From" and your first name in front of your own words — so the person sees who it came from, not "MyNaavi." On WhatsApp your name sits in the sender line. MyNaavi's own reminders and alerts to you are not signed.
Step 8
Add your home and work address
In Settings → Home address and Work address, type your real addresses.
Once these are set, you can say "home" or "office" instead of typing the full address every time. Examples: "remind me when I get home", "alert me 15 minutes before I should leave for the office."
Step 9
Add backup phone numbers
Optional
In Settings → Your Phone Numbers, add any other numbers you might call MyNaavi from — your spouse's mobile, a work line, a home landline.
When you call MyNaavi at
+1 249 523 5394, MyNaavi recognizes you by the phone you're calling from. Adding extra numbers means MyNaavi knows it's you even if you're not on your own phone. Skip this if you only ever call from your own mobile.
Step 10
Set a six-digit PIN
Recommended
In Settings → Voice PIN, set a memorable 6-digit number.
You can call MyNaavi from a phone that isn't yours — a hotel room, a friend's mobile, a desk phone at work. MyNaavi normally knows you by the number you're calling from, so on an unfamiliar phone it needs another way to be sure it's you. It asks for
the last four digits of one of your registered numbers, then for this PIN. That is the whole reason the PIN exists. Three wrong attempts and the call ends — so pick something only you know. The full walkthrough is on
Call MyNaavi from someone else's phone.
If someone else tries and fails, MyNaavi texts you: "failed PIN attempts on your account from an unregistered phone." Reply BLOCK and MyNaavi will stop answering calls from any phone that isn't saved on your account — even with the correct PIN. To undo it later, open Settings → Voice PIN and tap Allow calls from other phones.
Step 11
Pick your alert channels
Optional
In Settings → Alert channels, choose which channels MyNaavi uses when an alert fires for you. Five toggles:
• Text message (SMS) — standard text to your phone.
• WhatsApp — works on Wi-Fi.
• Email — to your Gmail account.
• Push notification — pop-up on this phone.
• Voice call — MyNaavi calls you and speaks the alert.
All five are on by default — so an important alert never goes unseen. Turn off the ones you don't want. The one rule: at least one channel must stay on, so the alert always reaches you somehow. These choices apply to your own alerts; alerts you've set up to text someone else still go to them on the channels they expect.
Step 12
Set your Daily Briefing
Optional
In Settings → Daily Briefing, turn the call on, type the time you want, and tap Save Daily Briefing.
A briefing is MyNaavi coming to you rather than waiting to be asked. Once a day, at the hour you pick, MyNaavi calls and reads out your weather, your schedule, your reminders and your unread email, then says goodbye.
You don't need the app for this. Call MyNaavi and say "set my daily briefing to 8 AM" — MyNaavi changes it and reads the new time back to you. "Turn off my daily briefing" stops the call. There is one briefing a day, and you can set it for any hour.
On a call, MyNaavi can't see where in the world you are, so it will ask what time zone you're in. That's how 8 AM means 8 AM where you actually are, rather than back home.
Step 13
Try your first command
Tap the microphone in the app and say:
"Hi MyNaavi, what's on my calendar today?"
MyNaavi reads your day back out loud. That's it — you're set up. From here on, you're talking to MyNaavi the way you'd talk to a person.
And you don't have to ask for one thing at a time. Say "text Linda I'll be late, and remind me to call the pharmacy at four" — MyNaavi reads the list back, asks if it's right, then does them one at a time, checking with you at each one. It works the same in the app and when you call MyNaavi on the phone.
Want to hear MyNaavi in action first?
Call the free demo line and try a few scenarios out loud.
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