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When there's no signal, there's still an answer.

On a trail or at home: answers, supplies, and a plan on the phone you already carry. Ask is optional.

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NoSignal Home on iPhone, charcoal palette. The line When there is no signal, there is still an answer. Four doors: I'm lost, Power is out, Someone is hurt, I need water. Local only. Library, 101 guides. The same NoSignal Home in the cream sunlight palette.
Home · Four doors

Home

When there is no signal, answers, supplies, and a plan stay on this phone.

Home opens on four doors. Short physical steps first, then the full guide. Quiet facts only when they exist: days of water after you add water, last known after you mark one, your plan after you save one. No dashboard of missing things.

  • Trail

    I'm lost

    Stop. Do not start a new walk.

    Then the lost sequence in Field. Stop. Mark. Stay. Signal. Each step keeps the time you marked it.

  • Home

    Power is out

    Light, food, and do not heat with the oven.

    Then the At home shelf: the first hour, the first night, the first week. Generator and carbon monoxide. Food when the fridge is off.

  • Trail or home

    Someone is hurt

    You first. Then bleeding. Then the guide.

    Then the first-aid shelf: injury, bleeding, and wilderness medicine. Thirteen guides.

  • Trail or home

    I need water

    Boil if you can. Clear is not clean.

    Then Water: find, filter, and make it safe. At home, water when the tap fails.

01 · Library

101 sourced guides. Search works with no signal.

This is what you have the day you install. Every guide carries a Sources line: CDC, FEMA, Red Cross, WHO, USDA, NFPA, USGS, NWS, land agencies. Open a chapter, or search. Results open at the matching section, and the reader resumes where you stopped.

Start here Power Outage at Home · Wilderness First Aid Basics · Water Purification Methods

NoSignal Library. 101 guides, this device. Start here: Power Outage at Home, Wilderness First Aid Basics, Water Purification Methods. Contents: First aid, Water, Fire, Shelter, At home, Food.
Library · 101 guides · this device
Guides
101
Pack 1.2.0. Median 1,800 words
Words
223,585
Shortest 1,070. Longest 6,460
Printed
~750
Pages as a paperback
Reading
16 h
End to end

Eleven topics

  • First aid
  • Water
  • Fire
  • Shelter
  • At home
  • Food
  • Navigate
  • Signal
  • Hazards
  • Fieldcraft
  • Gear

First aid, Water, Fire, Shelter, and At home are pinned first. Trail hazards in this pack include wildfire on the trail and flash floods in canyons and washes.

The reader

Text size stepper. Outline. Jump to quick reference. Continue where you left off, by section, not by guide.

At home · twelve guides

The half of the line that says or at home.

  1. Power outage: first hour, first night, first week
  2. Generator and carbon monoxide
  3. Food safety when the fridge is off
  4. Water when the tap fails
  5. Heating and cooling without power
  6. Sanitation without running water
  7. Medications and medical devices in an outage
  8. Evacuate or stay, and the go-bag
  9. Wildfire: smoke, evacuation, defensible space
  10. Earthquake
  11. Winter storm at home
  12. Children, older adults, and pets

02 · Field

Before you go. And if you are lost.

Leave a card: where you are going, when to worry, and a Text button that prefills Messages. Mark last known. Compass, light and signal, radio reference. If you are lost, the sequence is on the screen. Stop. Mark. Stay. Signal. Call, only if a number still works.

  • Leave a card
  • Routes
  • Compass
  • Light and signal
  • Last known
NoSignal Field. Compass, light, a route, and a card if you go out. If you are lost: Stop. Mark. Stay. Signal. Leave a card, routes, compass, light and signal, last known.

02 · Field · Routes

Plan the way out while you have signal. Read it when you don't.

With signal, once, the app fetches directions from Apple Maps and saves them as a text card: steps, distances, coordinates, time, an optional Plan B. With no signal the card still reads, and from a marked last known it shows the bearing and distance to the next step. No map is drawn.

  • Plan once, with signal
  • Saved as a card
  • Plan B
  • Bearing to the next step

Roads can change. This is a plan, not live directions.

NoSignal route card. Camp to the ranger station. Bearing to step 1 from last known, then numbered steps with distances and coordinates.

03 · Ask · Optional

Type what is happening. The answer cites a guide on this phone.

Ask runs a model on the phone and writes only from the library. One plain lead sentence, then What to do, numbered, with the source marked on every step. Open the guide lands on the cited section. Plan this situation writes first minutes, first hour, first day for your house and keeps it on Home as Your plan. With no model installed, Ask says so and the library still answers.

  • Someone is hurt
  • The water isn't safe
  • No GPS
  • Plan this situation
  • Local only

One-time unlock, planned at $19.99. Not a subscription. Not on sale yet.

03 · Ask · How it works

Ask. An answer written on this phone, from these guides.

Ask is a model that runs on the phone. It does not answer from memory. It reads the library you already have, writes from what it finds, and marks the source on every step. If the guides do not cover it, it says so instead of guessing. Questions to Ask never leave this device.

  1. 01

    Your question stays here

    Type it, or tap a door. Nothing is sent. There is no account to sign in to and no server to reach. The model is a file on the phone.

  2. 02

    It reads the library

    Retrieval pulls the passages that match from the 101 guides. Instructions, not caveats. The same guides you can open and read yourself.

  3. 03

    It writes, and marks the source

    One plain lead sentence, then What to do, numbered. The [S2] on a step opens that guide at that section. No match in the library, no answer.

On a bad night A cloud assistant Ask, on this phone
Needs a tower Yes. No signal, no answer. No. The model and the library are on the phone.
Answers from The internet, from memory. The 101 guides on this phone, with the source marked.
Your question goes To a server. Nowhere. It stays on this device.
When it does not know It guesses, confidently. It says the library does not cover it.

A fair test

Switch on Airplane Mode. Ask again. Same answer, same sources. Nothing about Ask needs signal once the model is on the phone.

Turning it on

One tap over Wi-Fi. Compact or Recommended pack. One-time unlock, planned at $19.99. Not a subscription. Not on sale yet. Without a model, Ask says so and the library still answers.

Also on this phone

Quiet until you need it.

  • Supplies

    Days of water, food, and meds for your household, and which runs out first. Under Settings until you have a shelf. Empty is an invitation, not a count of zero.

  • Plan this situation

    Pick the event, the people, the place, the risks. Ask writes first minutes, first hour, first day. Save it, and Home shows it as Your plan.

  • Leave a card

    Return-time chips. Share. Text a contact with Messages prefilled. If you are late, Home says Card overdue, with I'm back.

  • Light and signal

    Flashlight. Three flashes or SOS in Morse. A phone without a torch flashes the whole screen white, with a Stop button.

  • Radio reference

    Channels for North America, Europe / UK, Australia / NZ. Marine 16 and aviation 121.5 everywhere. A MAYDAY script that fills in your position. The phone is not a transmitter.

  • Last known

    Paste a coordinate pair and it splits. Fixes older than six hours say how old they are. One GPS fix when you ask for it. Never tracking.

  • Signal awareness

    Home says whether the phone has a network path right now. Two jobs need signal once: install the model, save a route. Nothing else does.

  • Your data, your call

    Backup export. Delete everything on this device, in Settings. The built-in library stays. Sunlight and field palettes for the screen you are holding.

Two things it is. Two it is not.

What it is. What it is not.

What ships

Library, Field, and Supplies work the day you install. Ask works once a model is on the phone.

Local only

No account. No analytics. No cloud answers. Questions, supplies, contacts, and routes stay on this phone.

Reference, not care

Guides and answers are sourced reference for people without help on the way. They are not a clinician, and they do not replace one when you can reach one.

Not a map

No tiles. No live navigation. Routes are directions you saved while you had signal, kept as text. Roads can change. This is a plan, not live directions.

Get NoSignal

Coming to the App Store. Free.

Library, Field, and Supplies work the day you install. Ask is a one-time unlock, planned at $19.99. Not a subscription. It is not on sale yet, so there is no buy button here.

Model install, when you want Ask: one tap over Wi-Fi. Compact or Recommended pack.

Questions

Plain answers.

Does it need internet?

No. Once the app and the optional model are on the phone, everything runs on the device. Airplane mode is a fair test.

What does it cost?

The app will be free. Library, Field, and Supplies work without paying. Ask, with the on-device model, is planned as a one-time unlock at $19.99. Not a subscription. It is not on sale yet.

What if I do not install a model?

Ask is disabled and says so. Library, Field, and Supplies work anyway. There is no cloud fallback, so nothing is presented as offline that is not.

Is it a map?

No. Routes are directions you saved while you had signal, kept as text. Roads can change. This is a plan, not live directions.

Is this medical care?

No. Guides and answers are sourced reference for people without help on the way. They are not a clinician, and they do not replace one when you can reach one.

What touches the network?

Three things you start: downloading a model, planning a route with Apple Maps, and sharing a card or plan to another app. No analytics, no crash reporting, no account. This website uses analytics. Privacy.

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