The Nadiswara app can build a wellness report in two ways. With the Nadiswara wrist sensor it records a short pulse reading and produces a Nadi Pariksha Wellness Report. Without any hardware it works from a photo of your tongue and produces a Tongue Wellness Report. The app's method screen puts it simply: "Select how you would like to perform this wellness session." This guide walks through what each one needs, how the steps differ, what each report shows, and when to choose which.
What each session needs
Nadi Pariksha Wellness Report. The app labels this option "Nadiswara device" with the note "Required Nadiswara Device": you use the device during the wellness session to capture the pulse signal. You need the Nadiswara sensor, an Android phone with the app, the USB-C cable that joins them, and a quiet minute in which the member can sit still.
Tongue Wellness Report. The app labels this "No device needed": you continue the wellness session without connecting or using the Nadiswara device. You need the phone's camera and good light. Nothing else.
The steps compared
Both sessions begin the same way and differ only at the end. The app shows the progress as four steps without the device and five with it. A returning member first sees "How have you been?" and rates each symptom from the last session as Better, Same or Worse before the steps begin.
- Symptoms. "How are you feeling?" You type or speak, in your own words, in English or Kannada. The app turns what you said into a list of symptoms.
- Symptoms summary. You review the extracted summary and the symptom list before continuing.
- Tongue capture. "Take a clear photo of your tongue in good lighting so it fills the frame", then fit it in the cropper ("Fit your tongue"). In a device session this step can be skipped; the skip sheet's other button reads "Capture tongue". In a tongue session it is required: "A tongue photo is needed for this session. Since no pulse was recorded, your report will be based on your tongue."
- A few questions about you. A short set of questions, each with one or several answers to pick, with a "more to go" counter. In a tongue session the app then shows "Checking your tongue photo", which can take up to a minute, and asks for a new photo if it cannot read the one you gave.
- Pulse reading (device sessions only). Connect the sensor, rest the probe at the wrist and keep still while the app records the pulse. The caption on screen says it all: sit still, breathe normally.
After these steps both sessions ask a few quick yes/no questions about the top-scoring meridians, then prepare the report: reading your answers, mapping your meridians, writing your summary.
What each report shows
Both sessions open the same tabbed report. At the top is the score card: a wellness score from 0 to 100 (a wellness score, not a medical measurement), a status of Thriving, Balanced, Needs attention or Needs care, and the "Main pattern" the reading points to. The Overview tab then shows "Wellness at a glance" with its six scored areas, "Body balance", and "Your main patterns": the findings ranked Main focus, Secondary and Tertiary, each naming the organ (Liver, Spleen, Kidney and so on) with an element chip such as Wood element, a Yin or Yang chip and a level chip of Healthy, Mild, Moderate or High. The Mind, Food and Therapies tabs are the same in both.
The difference is what sits between the body balance and the main patterns:
- A Nadi Pariksha Wellness Report shows the pulse recording, captioned with its samples and "Nadiswara device", an explanation of the pulse qualities, and a "Five Elements" card, "How the five elements show in your pulse".
- A Tongue Wellness Report shows the tongue reading: your photo, the written reading, a five-zone map of "What we saw on your tongue" and a "Pattern contribution" chart. The score card is stamped "Tongue photo" instead of "Pulse reading".
Inside the wellness report explains every section. Either report can be extended with the same add-on therapy reports (acupressure, acupuncture points for trained practitioners, seed therapy, auricular, mudra, pranayama, yoga and colour), which unlock once the Wellness PDF is ready and travel inside it, so sharing on WhatsApp or saving to the phone sends one merged PDF, generated in English or Kannada.
When to choose which
Choose the Nadi Pariksha Wellness Report when you have the device at hand. The pulse trace gives the report its pulse qualities and its five elements card, and the reading itself is the part that practitioners trained in Nadi Pariksha (pulse diagnosis) know best. It is the session to use in a clinic, a training room or at home once you own a sensor.
Choose the Tongue Wellness Report when there is no device nearby: a first try of the app, a family member in another city, or a practitioner on a home visit without the kit. As the app's welcome screen puts it, "No device? Start with your tongue."
Whichever you choose, the intake is the same, the findings are ranked the same way and the same therapy reports are available, so a member can start with a tongue session and move to pulse sessions later without changing anything else.
How you pay
The app uses simple pay-per-use pricing. There is no subscription: sessions and therapy reports are paid from a prepaid in-app wallet in Indian rupees, and you see the price before you pay. Top-ups come in fixed amounts with GST added, and are paid by UPI, card or net banking. The wallet balance can be used only for in-app purchases.
Before a session starts, the app checks that the wallet holds enough for it; if not, it asks you to recharge and continue. The Nadiswara device is bought separately. See the device page for how to get one and therapy reports for what each add-on contains.