Transforming the world’s health one click at a time
Virufy is a nonprofit organization that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to screen for COVID-19 from cough patterns, rapidly and at no cost through use of a smartphone.
Our supporters
How Virufy works
Record your cough and contribute to the global AI database.
Virufy is giving everyone across the world a chance to be part of the solution by sharing their unique coughs, which will be used to train the machine learning models. Donate your cough now!
AI can recognize respiratory disease signatures in cough sounds
COVID-19 damages the throat and lungs, causing microvariations in pitch, tone, and other audio signals, which machine learning can detect. Learn more in our research page.
A consortium of AI researchers will build the solutions.
Virufy is bringing together researchers from across the globe to expedite the solution by pooling together resources and knowledge. Please see our open data page.
Testimonials
We believe instant, universal, and early detection, which will allow society to pinpoint the locations of the virus, is the key to end the pandemic and necessity for lockdowns.
Virufy combines cutting-edge innovation with a passion for the needs of others. People around the world will be able to use Virufy to keep themselves and their communities healthy. Please consider contributing to this incredible mission!
Shahid
USA
I believe that the Virufy’s idea is a free, easy and quick way to contribute to the world. It only takes a few minutes to help a great cause.
Renato
Brazil
Detect COVID-19 in a fast, safe and free way is now the every brazilian’s dream. Donate my cough to Virufy is my way of thanking them for giving us that hope.
Andrea
Brazil
I believe that Virufy is developing an accurate, human-centric solution to a global crisis that affects all countries and industries. I encourage everyone to take a few seconds to help contribute to this noble and technically bleeding edge cause.
Akbar
India
I was very excited to help fight COVID in some way and Virufy helped me a lot. The app is super easy to move and always interacting with me and saying what to do, I loved it!
Roberta
Brazil
Want to collaborate with us?
We have achieved state-of-the-art accuracies in our COVID detection smartphone app and are ready to share it freely with hospital networks and public health departments open to collaboration on refinement and tuning of our algorithm to local conditions. Additionally, our organization relies on pro bono partner companies for support in key areas such as development and data privacy. Please contact us if your company can support our cause in some way.
