Your network as a brain.

Strength is off by default. You can turn it on in the tour when you first start the app, under Nodi › Strength › Turn On or under Settings › Privacy & Security › Network Strength. That’s also where you turn it off again. More in the Help Center.

You start at phase 1. Your bar fills with your contacts. When it’s full, the next phase begins. It brings you a new card for your profile, from Pearl to Platinum, and what you’ve reached stays. Phase and bar never go down.

In the app’s brain every dot is a person in your network. With every phase it grows deeper and more colourful.

• Real meetings. Swap your cards when you meet: hold your devices together (“Hold Together”).
• Staying in touch. Meet again or reply to each other on a few days. Then you’re connected and that person counts fully. People you only met once contribute only up to a part.
• People at your level. “Level” means the phase someone has reached; you see it on their phase card. People at your level or above bring the most. Someone who shows you a higher phase card counts up to double (from your phase 7 on as much as someone at your level), someone one phase lower counts half. If someone shows no phase card, they count like someone at your level.
• Inviting. If someone creates a new Nodbase account through your one-time link or link for several, confirms it and you connect, you move up once from phase 1 to phase 2.

Your circles – the closest (up to 10 people), the close one (up to 50) and the wide one (up to 150) – form every four weeks from your contact, with everyone you met in person and are connected with. You can hold up to 5 people in your closest circle, and quietly take anyone out. Only you see your circles. Nobody learns which circle they are in.

When someone in your circles grows stronger (their phase card shows it) and you stay in touch, they take you along: step by step they count more for you, with their whole gain in the closest circle, half in the close one, a quarter in the wide one, less from your phase 8 on. When much of it adds up, Nodi shows “Tailwind” under Strength.

• What you write. Only the days on which you reply to each other count, never the content.
• Your address book and imported contacts.
• Communities and group chats.
• Connections made only by link count little.

You get your phase cards with your phase. While strength is off, the app calculates none of this; new phase cards then come only from cards swapped in person. They go into your collection and stay yours.

Others only see the card you show on your profile. You can also choose a lower one. A phase card does show that you’ve reached that phase; your connections’ apps calculate with it, only on their devices. Nobody but you sees your phase, your bar, your circles or your strength.

The app calculates your strength only on your device. For this it uses whom you swapped cards with in person and when you met again, while strength is on the number of days you replied to each other in one-to-one chats (never content), and the phase of the phase card a connection shows you. None of it goes to our servers. The only exception is moving up by inviting: for that, our server only keeps that you’ve had your move-up, and the month.

Reply days and circles are stored protected on your device and not in backups. Phase and cards can end up in backups. If you turn strength off, the app deletes the reply days and the meeting weeks; your phase cards stay yours. If you delete your account, the app deletes everything with it. More in the Privacy Policy.

The Terms of Use don’t allow manipulating network strength or phase cards, for example with invented meetings or modified apps.

Write to us at support@nodbase.app.