Women’s wellness, privacy by design

Women’s health, in a space that respects who you are.

ShifaaTech is a wellbeing companion built for Muslim women: nutrition, cycles, mood and spiritual balance in one private, caring app. Now in private beta, built in Dubai.

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The problem

Three gaps, one silence.

Across many Muslim communities, women’s health is wrapped in taboo. Mainstream health apps weren’t designed with these women in mind. And the data involved is among the most sensitive a person can share.

  1. The taboo

    Cycles, menopause and mental load are rarely discussed, even with doctors. Silence has a health cost.

  2. Not designed for her

    In mainstream health apps, prayer, fasting and modesty are afterthoughts at best. Her context is treated as an edge case.

  3. Data as confidence

    Menstrual cycles, mood, religious practice: handing this to an app should never be an act of blind trust.

ShifaaTech was built to close all three gaps at once: a companion that speaks the culture, and treats every data point as the confidence it is. It accompanies. It never diagnoses, never prescribes. When health calls for it, it points to real practitioners.

The need

The women we build for.

The numbers behind the silence. None of them are ours. They are why we build.

  • 1.2 billion women will be in menopause or post-menopause by 2030 (WHO)
  • 80% of women experience menopause symptoms, and most navigate them without support (The Lancet)
  • 2× women live with depression at nearly twice the rate of men (WHO)
  • 2× women are twice as likely as men to develop irritable bowel syndrome (NIDDK, NIH)
  • 1% of health research funding goes to female-specific conditions beyond cancer (McKinsey, 2021)
  • 4 years later than men, on average, before a woman receives a diagnosis for the same disease (Nature Communications, 2019)

Sources: WHO, The Lancet Global Health, McKinsey Health Institute, Nature Communications, NIDDK (NIH)

The four pillars

Four lenses. One engine.

Morning and evening, a gentle check-in captures a few simple signals. The ShifaaTech engine reads them through four lenses of women’s health and orients the journey it proposes. This is the heart of the product, refined with medical practitioners as we move toward launch.

Gut health

Digestion, microbiome, inflammation: how you nourish yourself shapes everything else.

Signals it reads

  • Meals
  • Digestion
  • Energy

The engine connects what you eat to how you feel, and gently reorients its daily suggestions.

Mental wellbeing

Stress, mood, sleep, emotional load: tended to without judgement.

Signals it reads

  • Mood
  • Sleep
  • Daily load

When the load gets heavy, the journey slows down: softer check-ins, calmer suggestions.

Healthy ageing

Energy, strength, recovery: ageing well starts long before old age.

Signals it reads

  • Activity
  • Recovery
  • Energy

Small, steady habits: the engine favours consistency over intensity, at every age.

Peri & menopause

Hormonal transitions, cycles, symptoms: supported at every stage, never treated as a taboo.

Signals it reads

  • Cycle
  • Symptoms
  • Sleep

The whole app adapts to your reproductive state. Nothing ever assumes a textbook cycle.

ShifaaTech offers orientation and daily support. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat any condition.

The product

One companion. Every conversation.

Meet Shifaa

A warm AI companion, by text or voice, in English, French or Arabic. Every conversation runs behind consent checks and built-in crisis safeguards.

Nutrition, with care

Snap a photo, get your meal logged. Shifaa is designed to never praise under-eating, a safeguard we encode and test in our codebase.

Cycle-aware by design

8 reproductive states, from first cycles to post-menopause. The app adapts; no woman is an edge case.

Daily check-ins & monthly review

A gentle morning and evening ritual, and a monthly picture of how you’re really doing.

Spiritual balance, your way

Prayer times, qibla, duas and meditation: entirely optional, tuned to your own rhythm, never tracked as a score.

A vault for your health papers

Medical documents stored in a biometric-locked vault, readable when you need them.

Privacy & ethics

Privacy is the product.

The data a woman shares here, her cycle, her mood, her practice, deserves more than a checkbox. So we built consent the hard way:

Granular consent, per data type

More than 20 separate permissions: menstrual tracking, mood, food photos, voice, religious practice and more. Each one off by default, each one revocable, each change kept in an audit trail.

Your data, truly yours

Export everything from inside the app. Delete your account with a 30-day grace period, then automated erasure.

Encrypted at rest

Sensitive data is protected by hardware-backed encryption on your device (iOS Keychain / Android Keystore) and encrypted server storage.

Photos that forget

Meal photos are stripped of location metadata, and photos and voice notes are automatically deleted after 90 days.

A say on automation

AI-assisted suggestions run under their own separate consent: decline it, and they stay off.

Built to GDPR standards, including explicit consent for special-category data, with UAE data-protection requirements in scope.

Sharia-aligned by design, formal attestation in progress. No dark patterns, no engagement traps, no selling of attention. Accessibility is a feature: screen-reader support built in and checked in our CI, and an interface that works in Arabic right-to-left.

Read the full privacy policy →

Where we are

An honest trajectory.

ShifaaTech is in private beta on iOS (TestFlight), built in Dubai. Our first launch focus is the Gulf region, with English, French and Arabic supported from day one. We are seeking grant support to carry the product from beta to public launch.

  1. Design & build: product, privacy architecture, AI safeguards
  2. Private beta: iOS TestFlight, in progress Private beta
  3. Public launch: planned, Gulf region first

Let’s talk.

Questions from grant committees and partners are welcome.

Get in touch

contact@shifaatech.com

ShifaaTech, Dubai, United Arab Emirates