Frequently Asked | Questions

Yes! Essential features — including menstrual cycle logging, symptom tracking, pregnancy week-by-week updates, menopause logs, and our conversational AI health assistant — are completely free. We will introduce an optional premium tier (around $2–3 / ₦3,000–₦4,500 per month) for users who want direct 1-on-1 tele-consultations with certified Nigerian gynaecologists.

Absolutely. Reproductive health is deeply private. Your logs, symptoms, and chat conversations are encrypted locally on your phone using AES-256 encryption. We never sell your data to third-party ad brokers or data aggregators. We strictly comply with the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA 2023).

Zahera is engineered with a decentralized, on-device architecture. Cycle prediction algorithms, pregnancy calculators, reminders, and historical logs execute directly on your phone's processor using an embedded SQLite engine with zero mobile data required.

Zahera natively supports five languages: English, Nigerian Pidgin, Hausa, Yorùbá, and Igbo. The entire interface, clinical symptom guides, and conversational AI speak and understand all five languages fluently.

Yes — voice accessibility was a core design priority. Users can tap the microphone button to speak their questions aloud in Hausa, Yorùbá, Igbo, Pidgin, or English, and Zahera reads the clinical guidance back in natural speech.

Yes. Our content and AI decision boundaries are co-developed and reviewed by Nigerian medical professionals, including our on-team gynaecologist, Dr. Surayya Zubair, in consultation with protocols from the Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria (SOGON) and Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital.