FAQ
Questions, answered calmly.
What SurvivalKnife is, how it handles your information, and what to expect at launch.
SurvivalKnife works online when you have a signal — for sync, updates, AI planning, and richer features — and stays usable when you don't. Your plans, Family Profile, Offline Field Guide, and downloaded map packages live on the device. We say offline-ready rather than "fully offline" because the app happily uses connectivity when it's there.
No. SurvivalKnife is a household preparedness and educational reference companion. It is not an emergency device, a 911 substitute, or a replacement for professional training or qualified medical care. In any actual emergency, call 911 or your local emergency number.
There's a free core experience — the Offline Field Guide, starter Emergency Plans, Inventory & Score, the calculators, and your Family Profile. Field Edition ($29.99/yr) adds offline maps with turn-by-turn routing, Saved Materials, the Survival Quiz, the encrypted Personal Vault, camera-assisted supply intake, and AI-generated plans. Family Edition ($49.99/yr) adds up to 5 family members with shared plans, contacts, and family quiz streaks, plus child-safe/teen views. Subscriptions are billed yearly through the App Store. SurvivalKnife is in beta, so pricing is still being finalized.
Maps is a Field Edition feature. Download map packs by state (all 50 + D.C.) and you get offline turn-by-turn navigation and automatic rerouting, plus map layers for hazards, facilities, and infrastructure. Hazard and infrastructure layers are advisory and modeled — useful for planning, not a guarantee of conditions at a specific spot.
Field Edition includes advisory hazard-awareness layers — wildfire activity, severe-weather alerts, and FEMA flood-zone advisories — alongside layers for facilities, cell coverage, power, and evacuation routes, so you can plan with more awareness. These layers are advisory and modeled, not a guarantee of conditions on the ground, and they're no substitute for official guidance — always follow instructions from local authorities.
No. The Field Guide is general preparedness information, not professional medical, legal, or safety advice. High-consequence topics — CPR/AED, medication, tourniquets, edible plants, firearms — carry a clear 'consult a professional / trained source' note. In any actual emergency, call 911 or your local emergency number.
Core Field Guide content is drawn from recognized public sources and cited in-app — including FEMA, CDC, EPA, NWS/NOAA, and U.S. Army field guidance. Map data comes from public datasets; "emergency services" reflect mapped facility/place data, not a verified live emergency-services feed.
The most useful preparedness data is the most personal, so privacy is the default. Your plans and household data are designed to live on your device, not our cloud. The encrypted Personal Vault is kept out of general search and AI, and we don't sell data or track you.
The Personal Vault (Field Edition) is a private, encrypted, on-device place for the records you'd otherwise scramble for: IDs, insurance, prescriptions, and medical notes. It's kept out of AI and general search, with an optional PIN lock.
Family Edition lets you add up to 5 additional family members and prepare together — sharing plans, key contacts, inventory, routes, and materials, plus family-level Survival Quiz streaks, with child-safe and teen views. Each person's Personal Vault stays private. In the current beta, the household is set up on-device; cloud accounts, remote invites, and cross-device sync are planned for a later release.
SurvivalKnife is coming to iOS and Android. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the day it's available on the App Store and Google Play.
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