Kegelia · Is the app private?
Is the Kegelia app private? It's built to be discreet.
Pelvic floor training is personal, and Kegelia is designed so it stays that way. In Secret Mode the timers, counts and text all disappear, leaving just the jellyfish drifting on screen. To anyone glancing over, you're watching something calm, or meditating, not training your pelvic floor. Here's exactly how that works.
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An exercise you can do anywhere.
No equipment, no visible movement. The guidance for a Kegel has you practicing lying down, sitting or standing, and fitting a set in at your desk or while waiting in line, which tells you how much there is to see. You can do a full session on the bus, in a meeting or on the sofa. We won't promise you are invisible, because we cannot see the room you are in; what we do is keep the app quiet, and in Secret Mode leave nothing on screen but the jellyfish.
Follow it by feel, not by staring at your phone.
The guidance is led by gentle haptics, so you don't have to watch the screen to know what to do.
The jellyfish sets the rhythm, and a gentle buzz marks the lift, so you can follow the whole session by feel. Eyes anywhere, phone face down.
No sound is needed. Nothing chimes and nothing announces a session, so it works just as well on mute, in a quiet room, or in company.
In Secret Mode the timers, counts and labels vanish, leaving only the jellyfish. A glance at your phone reads as calm or meditative, not as a pelvic floor session.
Secret Mode: just the jellyfish.
Most pelvic floor trainers fill the screen with the fact of what you're doing: bold labels, rep counters, progress bars, a title that announces itself the moment someone glances over. Kegelia's Secret Mode does the opposite. It hides the controls, the timers, the counts and the text, and leaves only the jellyfish on a screen that stays on. You still see the movement, the bell drawing up and in on every lift and opening on the release, and feel the haptic on each lift, but there's nothing on display to explain. To anyone nearby it looks like you're watching something soothing, or taking a quiet minute to yourself, which, as far as they need to know, you are.
It shows the movement. It doesn't measure.
This is the part people are most surprised by, and it matters for privacy. Kegelia is a guide, not a sensor. It shows the squeeze and the release, the lift going up and in, and marks each lift with a haptic. It is not biofeedback, and it does not measure, track or record what your muscles are doing. There are no measurements of your body to collect, because the app never takes any. If you want the reasoning behind showing rather than measuring, it's in how it works.
Your data, in full.
The ones that come up.
Can people tell I am doing Kegel exercises?
Not from the app. Guidance for the exercise itself has you doing it lying down, sitting or standing, and fitting a set in at your desk or while waiting in line, which tells you how much there is to see. The Kegelia app is built to keep it that way: nothing chimes, nothing announces a session, and each lift arrives as a quiet buzz you feel rather than watch. We will not promise you are invisible, because we cannot see the room you are in. What a Kegel exercise actually is
Does the Kegelia app need the sound on?
No. The Kegelia app runs fully on silent, and the guidance is a quiet buzz on the lift rather than a chime, so a whole session works with the phone face down and the volume off. The buzz marks each lift, so you can follow the session without looking. Whether the rep itself is a lift and not a push is a separate question, and one worth checking. Signs you are doing it right
Does the Kegelia app measure or track my pelvic floor?
No. The Kegelia app shows the exercise with a jellyfish and marks each lift with a haptic. It is not biofeedback, it does not measure, track or record what your muscles are doing, and it does not check your technique either, which is the honest version of the same sentence. There is no intimate body data to collect, because the app never takes any. Why it shows instead of measuring
What does the Kegelia app show on screen in Secret Mode?
In the Kegelia app's Secret Mode, just the jellyfish. The timers, the rep counts and the text are hidden, so a glance at the phone reads as something calm you are watching, and you can follow the whole session by feel without looking at all. Most pelvic floor apps do the opposite and put the fact of what you are doing in large type, which is one of the things worth checking before you install anything. How to judge any Kegel exercise app
Where can I read the Kegelia privacy policy?
On the privacy policy page, which sets out exactly what the app and this site do and do not collect, and what happens to any of it. It is written to be read rather than scrolled past, and if a line in it is not clear, support will answer a direct question about it. The privacy policy in full
When should I not use a Kegel exercise app?
When strengthening is not the work your pelvic floor needs, and the same goes for the Kegelia app, which is built for strengthening. If you have pelvic pain, a feeling of heaviness or a bulge, or you struggle to let the muscles go again after a squeeze, get assessed before you start: a pelvic floor that does not relax is its own condition, it shows up as pain and trouble with the bathroom rather than as weakness, and the usual answer is an early referral to pelvic floor physical therapy. General guidance is that these exercises are not a good option for everyone, so check with a clinician first. Reverse Kegel exercises: the release, not the squeeze
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