Detailed answers about how fasting timers, nutrition logging, habits, the journal, the Vitality Score, Lux and Quies Pro subscriptions work.
It is gifted access, separate from a paid subscription. A lifetime Founder gift has no subscription fee, no card requirement and no expiry date. Daily AI limits and the usual adult-only, consent and personal-use rules still apply. Your private welcome sign-in link can be used once and expires after a short time, but your gift does not expire. If the link has expired, select Reset your password on the sign-in page using your invited email address. The owner sees the gift beside your billing status, so free billing is not mistaken for limited access.
Select the Quies logo or Back to return to the main home page. On a phone the logo is above the form; in a desktop browser it is in the panel beside it. The logo on the password reset request form also returns home.
In a wide desktop browser, sign in and sign up have a Quies panel beside the form. On the home page, Sign in opens the existing-account form and Start free trial opens Create Account. Select Sign up below the form to create an account, or Sign in to return to an existing account. Select the Quies logo or Back to return home. Phone and installed-app pages are unchanged. The same password checks, adult-only declaration, Terms and Privacy acceptance and health information consent still apply. Shorter windows scroll so every notice stays available.
Use the email form labelled "Join the Waitlist" at the bottom of the home page. Complete the bot check before submitting. The form allows five submissions per IP address per hour. Each email address is sent at most one waitlist confirmation; submitting again does not send another. If the check is unavailable, try later. You can unsubscribe from Quies news at any time.
We occasionally pause Quies for a few minutes to make improvements or fix something. Your diary entries are safe and running fasts keep counting. The screen checks again every minute and opens Quies as soon as we are back. Privacy, Terms, Refunds and the Disclaimer stay readable during a pause. Only the owner can change the pause setting; the owner sees the saved On or Off status straight away.
Quies is a personal record-keeping and reflection app for adults 18+. You log your fasts, meals, habits, sleep, mood and journal entries, and the app shows that data back to you in summaries, charts, and reflections. It is not a medical device, not a clinical service, and not a substitute for advice from a qualified health practitioner.
No. Quies is a diary: it records what you choose to log and shows it back to you. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent anything, and it is not a substitute for advice from a qualified health practitioner. If you have a health condition, are pregnant, or are under medical care, talk to your doctor before changing how you eat or fast.
To keep your diary safe from people guessing passwords, Quies adds a short pause if a password is typed wrong several times in an hour: 30 seconds after the 5th try, 5 minutes after the 8th, and 15 minutes from the 10th. A few typos never lock you out. During a pause you can tap "Reset your password" or continue with Google straight away. Signing in successfully clears the count.
Go to the Today page and tap the "Start" button on the orbital timer. Choose your fasting protocol (e.g. 16:8, 18:6, 20:4) and the timer will show how long you have been fasting.
Quies supports all common intermittent fasting protocols including 16:8, 18:6, 20:4, OMAD (23:1), and custom durations. You can set your preferred protocol from the timer screen.
Tap "Me" in the bottom navigation, then go to Profile. You can set your personal details (age, height, weight, sex), activity level, diet mode, calorie goals, and target weight.
Yes. The same diary works on phones and tablets. Use the navigation at the bottom to move between Today, Nutrition, Habits, Journal and Me. Some records can be saved offline and sync when you reconnect; features that need an online service still require a connection. Offline entries belong to the account that made them and only sync back to that account. If you sign out while some have not synced yet, Quies asks first: stay signed in to keep them, or sign out anyway to delete them from this device.
Some diary entries may still be saved only on this device. The warning tells you how many have not reached your account yet. Choose Stay signed in to keep them, or Sign out anyway to remove those entries from this device. The warning uses “entry” for one and “entries” for more than one.
Yes, when it has been saved to your account. Sign in to the same account on another connected device and Quies reads your running fast from your diary. A fast ended elsewhere is cleared when Quies next checks your account. A fast started offline stays on that device until it can be saved online; another device cannot see it yet. Signing out removes the timer copy from that device. Fasts left running for more than seven days are closed as zero hours and are not shown.
The zones are a general timeline of how many hours you have fasted, based on commonly published averages. Everyone's body is different — the zones are not a measurement of what is happening in yours. The timeline on Today simply shows how far into your fast you are.
Yes! While a fast is active, tap the start time displayed below the timer to adjust it. This is useful if you forgot to start the timer at the actual time you began fasting.
When you end a fast, the app logs the session with your actual fasting hours and asks you to log your mood. Completed fasts contribute to your streak, insights, and weekly report card.
The "Since Last Fast" counter shows how long it has been since your last completed fast ended. It helps you plan when to start your next fasting window.
Tap Nutrition (the fork and knife at the bottom), then the round + next to Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner or Snack. Type a food, pick it, enter the grams, check the numbers and tap "Save to diary". Every figure is stored per 100 g and scaled to the grams you enter — for example, 150 g of a food with 200 kcal per 100 g records 300 kcal. Lux can walk you through these steps if you ask.
You can change your daily calorie number at any time under Profile → Adjust Calories/day. Quies keeps a record of what you log against whatever number you choose for yourself — it never prescribes diets, works out deficits, or tells you what to eat.
Quies supports Balanced, Low-Carb, High-Protein, Keto, and custom macro splits. Change your diet mode from Profile → Adjust Macronutrients.
Tap the Water quick-log button on the Today page to add 250ml per tap. You can customise your daily water goal in Profile → Water Habits.
Daily Wins on the Nutrition page track your water glasses, vegetable servings, and fruit servings. Tap an empty slot to add one, or tap a filled slot to undo it. The goals reset each day.
Yes! Simply tap on any filled water glass, veggie, or fruit slot and it will remove the last entry. This works for all three categories.
Whole foods come from the FSANZ Australian Food Composition Database, so the names and numbers match Australian food. Packaged items come from Open Food Facts, a public product database. You can also add your own foods from the packet, and we check whether the calories on the packet line up with the carbs, protein, fat and fibre you typed in.
Yes, on the paid plan. Tap the camera button on the Add Food sheet and take or choose a photo. The photo is read once to guess what is on the plate and roughly how much, then it is thrown away — we never store your meal photos. It is a guess from a picture, not a measurement, so nothing is saved until you check the items and amounts and tap save. Photo scans are limited to 15 a day.
Treat it as a starting point, not a fact. Reading calories off a photo is rough for every app that does it — portion size especially. That is why the app always shows you the items and grams first and asks you to correct them before anything goes in your diary.
Go to the Habits tab to create custom habits with daily or weekly targets. Mark them complete each day and track streaks and completion rates over time in Habit Analytics.
The Vitality Score (0–100) shows how consistently you logged over the past week. It reflects your records, not your health. It counts the days in the last week you logged fasting, food, water, sleep, activity and mood — it never checks whether the numbers were "good".
You can log your mood via the quick-log strip on the Today page, or after completing a fast. The app tracks mood trends over time and correlates them with your fasting and nutrition patterns.
Yes. Log your sleep duration and quality score from the Me page. The app reflects sleep patterns alongside your fasting and mood logs so you can spot connections in your own data.
Yes. Go to Me → Health Sync and tap Connect. You are taken to Oura to sign in and approve it, then brought straight back. Once connected, the sleep, readiness and activity figures Oura works out are copied into your diary each day and shown on the Vitals page.
Oura has stopped letting Quies read your figures, usually because the permission ran out or was removed in Oura. Tap Reconnect on the Health Sync page, approve it again at Oura, and the warning clears. Nothing already in your diary is lost.
You can upload a JPG, PNG or WebP photo up to 2 MB in Profile. Your uploaded photo stays after you reload and appears in Profile and the profile menu. If you choose a preset picture instead, Quies removes your uploaded photo and uses the preset. If neither is set, it shows your initial. The character on Today uses your chosen preset, not your uploaded photo.
Daily sleep, readiness and activity summaries, and heart-rate figures if you leave that permission ticked at the Oura screen. Nothing is written back to Oura, and Quies never sees your Oura password.
They are Oura’s own estimates from its sensors, not medical measurements, and Quies simply records and shows them back to you. Do not use them to make decisions about your health — speak to a qualified health practitioner for that.
No. Connecting an Oura Ring costs nothing extra on top of your Quies plan. You need your own Oura account and ring, which Oura charges for separately.
Me → Health Sync → Disconnect. Quies withdraws its access at Oura and deletes the keys it held for you. Any ring days already copied into your diary are removed with them, and nothing new is fetched.
Not yet — Oura is the only device Quies connects to today. You can still type sleep, weight and activity in by hand on the Me page.
Add tags to any entry by typing #yourtag (e.g. #energized, #cravings, #headache). Tags are clickable and the Tag Explorer aggregates stats per tag — average mood, fasting hours, and hydration — so you can spot patterns in your own data.
Wrap any phrase in double brackets, e.g. [[best fast]] or [[low energy]], to create a link. Other entries that mention the same phrase are connected automatically and appear in the Backlinks panel of that entry.
When viewing an entry, the Backlinks panel shows every other journal entry that links to it. This helps you trace recurring themes — like every reflection that connects back to "[[late dinner]]".
Each day, Quies can auto-create a journal entry pre-filled with your live health snapshot — fasting hours, water intake, mood, and sleep. It removes the blank-page problem so you only have to add a quick reflection.
The Tag Explorer lists every tag you have used and shows aggregate insights — e.g. entries tagged #headache average 1.2L water and 5.8h sleep. It turns your journal into a personal health detective.
The Knowledge Graph (Pro plan) is a visual, force-directed map of all your journal entries and how they connect via tags and wiki-links. It is your personal health story — a constellation of your reflections over time.
Yes. When you create or auto-generate an entry, Quies captures a health snapshot (fast hours, hydration, mood, sleep) at that moment. This powers tag analytics and pattern detection over time.
If you mention pregnancy, breastfeeding, diabetes, insulin, blood sugar concerns or a glucose-lowering medicine, Lux starts its reply with: ‘Fasting can affect you differently, so it's worth talking to your GP before you fast.’ This line appears at most once in that conversation. Lux does not discuss fasting lengths, schedules, skipping meals or eating less for the rest of the conversation. It can still help with your diary, water, mood, sleep or using Quies. The check recognises whole words and phrases, including Australian medicine names such as metformin, Diamicron, Jardiance, Forxiga, Ozempic and Mounjaro. It is not a diagnosis or a medicine check.
Lux is the in-app reflection companion in Quies. Lux mirrors back what you have logged — fasts, meals, sleep, mood, habits, journal entries — and asks gentle, open questions. Lux is not a coach, dietitian, nutritionist, psychologist or clinician, and never gives medical, dietary or mental-health advice.
Lux follows a dignity-first safety doctrine: never shaming, never urgent, never crash-diet language. Behind the scenes Lux privately calibrates tone using your logged height/weight (a body-context hint that is never shown to you and never quoted as a number). If your stated goal conflicts with that range — for example "lose weight" while in an underweight range, or "gain weight" while in an obese range — Lux will gently suggest you speak with an Australian GP or an Accredited Practising Dietitian rather than validating the direction.
Lux can summarise your fasting patterns, surface trends across sleep or mood logs, reflect on recent journal entries, and help you find features in the app. Every AI-generated surface in Quies ships with a visible disclaimer reminding you it is reflective only and not medical advice.
Yes. Ask Lux where to log a meal or how the numbers are worked out and it will explain, step by step. If you have logged an activity or finished a fast but no meals, Lux may mention — once, and only as an option — where meals go. Lux never tells you what or how much to eat, never sets or changes your calorie target, and never praises or criticises an amount. If you sound worried about food or your body, Lux points you to the Butterfly Foundation (1800 33 4673) and Lifeline (13 11 14) instead.
After you finish a fast or log an activity, a small card on Today and Journal may invite you to note one thing you are glad about. It appears at most once a day, never if you have already written one, and "Not today" hides it until tomorrow. It is worked out on your phone — nothing is sent anywhere unless you write an entry. Switch it off in Notification Settings → Gratitude prompts.
Tap the "Ambient sounds" card on Today to choose from a selection of calming sounds, such as gentle rain, forest or a singing bowl. Each sound downloads once the first time you play it, then works offline. It keeps playing while you move around the app, a small bar lets you stop it, and an optional sleep timer (15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes) fades it out gently. The sounds are for comfort only — we make no claim that they improve sleep, focus or health.
For your first three visits, a slim "New in Quies" card may appear on Today. Tap it to read more, or tap ✕ and it will never show again. The full list always sits quietly in Me → "What's new in Quies". It is worked out on your phone — nothing is tracked or sent anywhere.
Yes — Lux chat is available to all users with a daily message limit. Quies Pro unlocks unlimited habits, barcode food scanning, advanced analytics, the Vitality Score, the Knowledge Graph view of your journal, and AI weekly reflections.
Tap the orange chat bubble to open Lux. You can move the bubble and pick a category (Fasting, Nutrition, Movement, Sleep, Reflection, App help) to see suggested questions. In a desktop browser you can also move the open chat and change its height. Phone and installed-app layouts are unchanged. Output is generated text and can be wrong — never rely on it for any decision that matters. Read the full disclaimer at /disclaimer.
In a desktop browser, drag the coloured heading to move Lux. Drag the small bar at the top upwards to make the chat taller, or downwards to make it shorter. The expand button makes it as tall as your window; press it again to restore the previous size. Your computer remembers the position and size when you close or reload Quies. These controls do not move or resize the chat on a phone or in the installed app.
Lux will pause normal reflection and surface support immediately: Butterfly Foundation 1800 33 4673 (eating disorders, free), Lifeline 13 11 14 (24/7 crisis), Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 (mental health), 13YARN 13 92 76 (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander). In an emergency, call 000.
No. If no money was paid, that purchase is not sent to our accounting system and is not treated as a payment failure. This does not change your trial, subscription, cancellation or refund rights.
No. Quies is an online diary, so checkout does not ask for a shipping address. Stripe still requires your billing address, and you must confirm that you live in Australia. Prices, trials, cancellations and refunds are unchanged.
Quies Pro unlocks unlimited habits, barcode food scanning, advanced analytics, the Vitality Score, the Knowledge Graph view of your journal, and AI weekly reflections.
The Founding Member plan costs A$59/year for the first 499 paid Founder places. The rate stays A$59 at renewal while your subscription remains active and uninterrupted. The standard Quies Pro plan costs A$99/year. Both include the same features. A complimentary Founder gift is separate from these paid plans.
AI features (Lux chat, meal ideas, weekly reflections, daily quote) have generous daily limits under a fair-use policy to keep the service sustainable for everyone. Pro members get high daily caps that comfortably cover normal use. If you ever hit a limit you will see a clear in-app message telling you when it resets (midnight local time). Limits exist to prevent abuse and runaway costs — see clause 6A of our Terms at /terms for the full policy.
After 7 days you will be charged the annual rate of $99 AUD unless you cancel before the trial ends. The Founding Member offer ($59 AUD/year) is a direct paid checkout and does not include a free trial. We email you 3 days before your trial ends, and 14 days before each yearly renewal, with the date and the amount.
Quies sells annual plans only: Quies Pro (A$99/year) and Founding Member (A$59/year). There is no monthly plan. To change plans, email support@quies.dev.
Three taps, about ten seconds. 1) Open Profile. 2) Tap "Manage Subscription". 3) Tap "Cancel Subscription" and confirm. That is it — no email to write, no phone call, no chat with a salesperson. You will see a message straight away confirming the date your plan ends.
Nothing switches off on the spot. You keep every Pro feature until the last day you have already paid for — that date is shown on the Manage Subscription screen. On that day your account quietly moves back to the free version of Quies. Your card is never charged again, and all your fasts, meals, journal entries, habits and stats stay in your account exactly as they are.
No. Cancelling switches off the automatic renewal, so the next payment simply never happens. You are not paying for anything beyond the time you have already bought.
Easy. Go back to Profile → Manage Subscription and tap "Resume subscription" any time before your end date. Everything carries on as if you never cancelled, and you are billed as normal at the next renewal.
No. Cancelling only stops the payments. Every fast, meal, weight entry, habit and journal note stays safe in your account. Some Pro only screens are locked, but nothing is deleted — if you come back later, it is all still there. Deleting your account is a separate action you have to choose yourself.
Go to Profile → Notification Settings and tap "Enable Push Notifications". Your browser will ask permission — tap Allow. If you previously blocked notifications, you'll need to enable them in your device/browser settings first.
This means your browser or device has previously denied notification permission for Quies. Go to your browser settings → Site Settings → Notifications, find Quies, and change it to Allow. Then return to the app and try again.
Reminders you switch on — fast start and end times, habit check-ins and occasional product updates.
The encouraging message at the top of Today shows once a day for your account, the first time you open Quies that day. If you see it on your computer, it will not show again on your phone that day. The daily quote card also shows once a day. Water reminders only arrive while Quies is open, at the gap you choose in Notification settings (every 60 minutes unless you change it). The gratitude card shows at most once a day, after you finish a fast or log an activity.
Your data is stored on managed infrastructure provided by Supabase, with the underlying database physically hosted in Tokyo, Japan (AWS region ap-northeast-1). It is NOT stored in Australia. We remain accountable for how our overseas providers handle your data (Privacy Act s 16C). Full details are in Section 5 of our Privacy Policy at /privacy.
Quies is built on Supabase (managed Postgres + auth + storage), and our project was provisioned in the Tokyo region for performance and availability reasons. Migrating to a Sydney region is not currently supported on our plan. Under s 16C of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Quies remains accountable for how our overseas providers handle your data, even though it lives outside Australia.
No. We never sell your personal or health information. The only third parties that receive your data are the providers listed in Section 5 of our Privacy Policy: Supabase/AWS (hosting in Tokyo), Stripe (payments in AUD), Google Gemini via the Lovable AI Gateway (AI reflections — not used for training), Resend (emails), Cloudflare (bot check), ipwho.is and ipapi.co (IP-address country lookup), Telegram (contact-form alerts to the owner), Oura (only if you connect a ring) and Registrum (our accounting system — payment details only, no health information). We use no third-party analytics or tracking services, and fonts are served from our own site.
Go to Profile → Change Email or Change Password. You'll receive a verification email for email changes.
When your account is signed in from a device or country we haven't seen in the last 90 days, we email you the device, browser, approximate location and time (Melbourne time) so you can check it was you. If it was you, there's nothing to do. If it wasn't, open quies.dev/security to sign out of all devices, then change your password from Profile. Quies will never ask for your password, card details or health information by email.
Creating an account always needs a successful bot check. When signing in, a failed check or an unfinished check still blocks the attempt. If the check cannot load or its service is unavailable, you can still try your email and password; sign-in limits still apply. We keep a small outage record, without your password or diary entries, so we can investigate.
No. A gift does not become a paid subscription. For a gift with an end date, we attempt one email notice during the last seven days, with the end date and a link to the plans page. Choosing a paid plan is a separate decision. Gifts without an end date have no ending notice.
Yes, and it takes about ten seconds. Go to Profile, scroll to the red "Danger Zone", tap "Delete my account", type DELETE and confirm. Everything you have tracked is erased, your sign-in is removed, any paid plan is cancelled straight away so your card is never charged again, and connected devices are disconnected. It cannot be undone, so tap "Export my data" first if you want a copy. If you only want the payments to stop, cancel instead — cancelling keeps your history.
Cancel any time in Profile → Manage Subscription, or email support@quies.dev. You keep access until the end date shown on your subscription screen. Both annual plans have a 30-day money-back guarantee. Quies Pro (A$99/year) has a 7-day free trial; if you cancel within 30 days of your first paid charge, you get a full refund. Founding Member (A$59/year) has no free trial; if you cancel within 30 days of payment, you get a full refund, and the Founder spot is released to someone else. To ask, email support@quies.dev. Refunds go back to the original card. This is in addition to your rights under the Australian Consumer Law; see /refunds.
Yes — your entries are encrypted while they travel between your phone and our servers, and encrypted while they are stored. Only your own account can read your records. To be straight with you about the limit: Quies is not "end-to-end encrypted", because the app has to be able to read your entries to draw your charts and write your reflections. We also do not hold ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification, and no app can honestly promise it will never have a security flaw. If a serious breach ever happens, we will tell you and the OAIC, as the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme requires.
The owner must complete two-step sign-in before opening Admin or using its tools. If no authenticator is set up, Quies asks the owner to set one up first; otherwise it asks for the six-digit code. This is required, not a reminder that can be dismissed. The same requirement protects admin actions and records, not just the screen. Test accounts, including Smoky, can never have admin access. Admin record dates show day/month/year; times use a 24-hour clock in Melbourne, including daylight saving. Date-entry controls and downloads keep their original formats.
Quies is for adults 18 and over only, so we ask your date of birth once at sign-up to check you are eligible. We keep it, and a note of the day you made that declaration, for one reason: if an account later turns out to belong to someone under 18, we can show the age check ran and that the answer we were given was untrue. We never use it for advertising, profiling or anything else, and it is deleted along with everything else the moment you delete your account. We do not ask for photo ID, a face scan, or any document.
Yes. Go to Profile and tap "Export my data" — it downloads everything we hold about you as a file. Most people do this just before deleting their account.
Tap "Contact" at the bottom of the quies.dev home page, pick a topic (General question, Billing and subscription, Account or sign-in help, Privacy or my data, or Partnerships), and send your message. A phone number is optional. You will see a "Message received" screen with a reference number — quote it if you write again. You can also email support@quies.dev directly. Privacy requests are flagged so we see them first, and we reply within 30 days as the Privacy Act requires.
Yes. Tap the small round sun button at the top of the app. Each tap moves between Day (bright), Paper (a warm, softer paper colour that is easier on the eyes in daylight) and Night (dark). Your choice is remembered on that device.
Every Quies news email has an Unsubscribe link at the bottom. One click takes you off the list, with no need to sign in. Members can also turn on "Unsubscribe from Quies news" in Notification settings. Emails about your account, like receipts, password resets and renewal reminders, still arrive.
When we release a new version while you have Quies open, your copy may ask for a part of the app that has just been replaced. Quies now notices this, clears the old saved copy and reloads once into the new version. Your diary is kept. If the help chat ever fails to open, only the chat button disappears and the rest of the page keeps working.
No. A saved copy of your diary on one device was missing some lists, which made two Today cards stop. Quies now fills any missing list in as empty, so Today shows normally even if you have not logged anything for a while. Your records stay in your account.
A fast that was saved twice by mistake months ago was still marked as running. Quies now treats any fast left running for more than 7 days as left behind: it closes it as zero hours, so it adds nothing to your history, and it never shows on the timer. If ending a fast cannot be saved, Quies now tells you so you can try again.
Your browser or password manager thought the boxes wanted your username. The boxes now take numbers only, are labelled "Enter your code", and tell password managers to leave them alone. Each box has a clear border and the numbers show in dark, larger type. Type the 6 numbers from your authenticator app.
Tap Me, then Security. There you can turn two-step sign-in off and switch it on again with a new QR code. On the setup screen, Copy key copies the setup key if you cannot scan the code. Each time setup opens it makes a new key, so delete the old Quies entry in your authenticator app and use the new one.
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