Every screen in Aura, on a real device.

1. Start from an empty list. A fresh identity has no contacts. Tap the add-contact icon (or the Add a contact button) to begin.

2. Reach someone. Share your invite code or QR code, or scan / paste theirs, then tap Send request. Sending a request doesn't open anything by itself — they see exactly who asked and why, and have to accept before either of you can message the other.

3. Or find people already in your phone contacts. Turning on Find contacts checks your address book against other Aura users — only SHA-256 hashes of numbers and emails ever leave the device, never the contacts themselves.

4. Android asks first. The OS-level permission dialog explains exactly what's hashed and sent before you grant it — and you can skip it entirely and add people by QR or invite code instead.

5. Wait for acceptance. Once the other person accepts, they show up as accepted in your Requests list — nothing was delivered to either side before this point.

6. They're in your Contacts list, with message, voice-call, and video-call icons right there — no separate step to "unlock" messaging.

7. Open their profile for the full set of actions — Message, Audio, Video, Mail, Schedule — plus a "keys verified by you" safety-number check.

8. Fine-tune what they can do. Per-contact toggles for messages, voice calls, video calls, and mail — changeable any time, and separate from what they allow you.

1. Search to jump to a thread — or a contact — instantly. Search covers people, messages, mail, files, notes, calls, and settings, and it's all resolved on-device; nothing you type is sent anywhere. From a contact's profile (see Contacts, above) tap Message to open or start that thread directly.

2. Name it and add members. A group needs at least two existing contacts — add some first if your list is empty — then tap Create group for a thread with the same tools plus per-member roles. Have an invite code instead? Use Join with a code at the top.

1. Set a Vault PIN the first time you open Vault. It protects the vault independently of your device sign-in and never leaves this device — if you forget it, only restoring from a vault backup on another of your devices can recover its contents, so this is deliberately a bigger commitment than a normal app PIN.

2. Position the document in frame. With Auto capture on, Aura shoots the moment the page is steady; switch to Manual to control the shutter yourself. Add more pages the same way to build a multi-page scan, then the finished pages save straight into the Vault as an encrypted entry — Aura only ever gets access to the images you scan.

3. Point the camera at any QR or barcode — a Session invite, another device's linking code, or a contact's invite code. No image on hand? Scan from an image reads a QR straight out of a photo instead of the live camera.

1. Open Sessions from the bottom navigation and tap New session. A session is a time booked with someone that also lets them message or call you — but only while it lasts; calls you've already had live under the Calls tab instead.

2. Say what it's for and who it's with. Add people from Contacts, by scanning a QR code, or by Aura ID/invite code — no existing contact relationship required. Then choose what they're allowed to do: message, audio call, video call.

3. Pick a length and a time. Choose a duration — 15m, 30m, 45m, 1h, or a custom length — then a date and time slot, shown in your local timezone. The session grants access only for that window, and can be revoked early with one tap.

The Calls tab lists your call-capable contacts under Contacts, with past calls under Recent. Tap someone to call them directly — calls can only reach a contact whose permissions allow it — or tap Group call to ring more than one person at once. The quicker path for a single person is the Audio or Video button on their contact profile (shown under Contacts, above).