Features

A complete preparedness system, organized for real households.

Five areas that work together — and keep working when the network doesn't. Everything below is included in both plans; household sharing is what Family adds.

Home screen
Home — household coverage & priority gaps
Home

Your readiness, at a glance.

Readiness dashboard

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

Search SurvivalKnife

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

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

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

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

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

Household quiz streaks

Family

With Family, the whole household plays together toward shared household streaks — and kids get Child View, locked with a guardian PIN.

Prepare screen
Inventory & Score — Have vs. Need
Prepare

Turn intention into a working, scored plan.

Emergency Plans

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

Seven ready-made plans work instantly and offline. Personalize any of them with AI to make it specific to your household.

Inventory & Score

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

Camera-assisted intake: snap a photo of a shelf or your gear laid out and SurvivalKnife recognizes the items and adds them for you. Supply photos are sent to our AI provider to be read; documents the app identifies as sensitive — IDs, insurance cards, medical records, bank statements — are never uploaded and are read on your device only. You can also add items by voice.

Ration Calculator

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

Food & Water Calculator

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

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

Turn-by-turn navigation, offline

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

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

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 — private by default, PIN-encrypted
Your household

The people and records that make plans useful.

Household Profile

Members, pets, ages, blood types, medical and mobility notes, key contacts, addresses with dwelling details, and vehicles — plus printable medical and contact wallet cards.

Personal Vault

A private place for sensitive records — IDs, insurance, prescriptions, medical. Kept out of AI and general search, and it never syncs: vault contents stay on your device, not shared with your household. Set a vault PIN to encrypt it all on-device.

Household sharing

Family

Up to 5 people total — you plus 4. Plans, saved materials, routes, inventory, and one household profile stay in sync on everyone's phone. Kids get Child View, a simplified version locked with a guardian PIN.

AI planning you direct, and you approve.

Included in both plans
  • Plans built from your household — members, medical and mobility needs, pets, dwelling type, vehicles, and the hazards where you live. Not a one-size template.
  • It asks instead of guessing. When something isn't on file, the plan leaves a blank for you to fill rather than inventing an answer.
  • Fill-in-the-blank fields write back into your real household records — plans are editable, savable, and printable.
  • Minimized, and yours to switch off. Family profiles are sent with first names only, and never with their phone numbers or email addresses. Your saved emergency contacts and addresses are sent in full so plans can reference them. The Field Guide stays offline, and your Personal Vault is never sent. AI is on by default and can be turned off any time in Settings → Privacy.

Tools that keep working when the network doesn't.

Offline-first · Private by design
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