Features

A complete preparedness system, organized for real households.

Five areas that work together — and keep working when the network doesn't. Start free; upgrade for offline maps, your encrypted vault, and AI-assisted planning.

Home screen
Home — household coverage & priority gaps
Home

Your readiness, at a glance.

Readiness dashboard

Free

Setup progress, household food and water coverage, and the priority gaps for the scenario you're preparing for.

Search SurvivalKnife

Free

One search box across the offline Field Guide and your saved materials, with results you can open directly.

Knowledge screen
Offline Field Guide — an article card
Knowledge

Learn the concepts that matter — calmly, in advance.

Offline Field Guide

Free

Searchable, curated guidance that works with no connection — first aid basics, shelter, water, food, weather, navigation, and regional hazards. Core content is drawn from public sources, cited in-app (FEMA, CDC, EPA, NWS/NOAA, U.S. Army field guidance).

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.

Saved Materials

Field

Build your own offline knowledgebase by sharing articles, documents, images, routes, and notes into the app from your browser and other apps — organized and searchable.

Survival Quiz screen
Survival Quiz — calm mini-lessons & quick checks
Survival Quiz

A few minutes a day builds lasting knowledge.

A short daily lesson

Field

Calm mini-lessons followed by quick checks — family-safe, illustrated, and written for a few spare minutes, not a study session.

Streaks, skill points & bonus questions

Field

Habits that stick: daily streaks, skill points across preparedness categories, and bonus questions when you want to keep going.

Family quiz streaks

Family

With Family Edition, the whole household plays together toward shared, family-level quiz streaks — with child-safe and teen views.

Prepare screen
Inventory & Score — Have vs. Need
Prepare

Turn intention into a working, scored plan.

Emergency Plans

Free

Start from scenario-based starter plans, then customize editable checklists, notes, photos, and supply lists.

AI-generated personalized plans are a Field Edition feature.

Inventory & Score

Free

Track what you Have and what you Need, with an animated readiness score and an estimated gap budget for your scenario.

Field Edition adds camera-assisted intake: snap a photo of a shelf or your gear laid out, and SurvivalKnife auto-recognizes the items and adds them to your inventory — like magic.

Ration Calculator

Free

Estimate how many days your current supplies cover, with USDA-cited calorie data.

Food & Water Calculator

Free

Size up calorie and drinking/sanitation water targets for your whole household.

Maps screen
Maps — offline routing, layers & saved places
Maps

Navigate and stay oriented — even with no signal.

Offline maps for every U.S. state

Field

Download map packs by state (all 50 + D.C.) so areas stay viewable with no connection.

Turn-by-turn navigation, offline

Field

Full offline turn-by-turn routing and automatic rerouting once an area is downloaded — plus Explore mode to search any destination and plan ahead.

Hazard-awareness layers for planning

Field

Plan routes with awareness of advisory layers — wildfire activity, severe-weather alerts, and FEMA flood-zone advisories — alongside layers for facilities, cell coverage, power, and evacuation routes.

Save routes, meeting places & key locations

Field

Keep hospitals, shelters, meeting places, and key spots ready for when service is out; hospitals and shelters are available nationwide without a download.

Hazard, facility, and infrastructure layers are advisory and modeled — useful for planning awareness, not a guarantee of conditions at a specific place or along a route. Facility and services markers come from mapped place data, not a verified live feed.

Your household screen
Personal Vault — encrypted, private by default
Your household

The people and records that make plans useful.

Family Profile

Free

Household members, pets, ages, medical and mobility notes, key contacts, addresses and meeting places — all stored on device.

Personal Vault

Field

A private, encrypted place for sensitive records — IDs, insurance, prescriptions, medical — kept out of AI and general search, with an optional PIN lock.

Family Edition

Family

Add up to 5 additional family members to share plans, key contacts, inventory, routes, materials, and family-level quiz streaks together — with child-safe and teen views. In beta, the household is set up on-device (cloud accounts and cross-device sync are planned).

Field Edition AI planning that you start, and you approve.

Field Edition
  • Generate personalized plans from plain-language input — tailored to your household, not a one-size template.
  • Answer a few questions up front; the plan builds in the background while you keep using the app, and notifies you when it's ready.
  • Fill-in-the-blanks fields write back into your real Family data — plans are editable, savable, and printable.
  • Explicit and user-initiated — the everyday Field Guide stays available offline and your Personal Vault is kept out of AI and search.

Tools that keep working when the network doesn't.

Offline-first · Private by design
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Build your household's system — calmly, in advance.

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