A digital toolkit for autonomous survivalists with a digital compatible lifestyle, using resilient technologies and offline alternatives.
This is a Survival Manual which is fully working offline (which is important to survive in a case of some extreme situation).
Name is pretty self explainatory
Worth mentioning : https://github.com/ShouldHaveSeenThat/awesome-survival
SAS Survival Guide
An Android app which uses your phone's sensors to assist with wilderness treks or survival situations. Works as general offline multitool.
A toolkit for outdoor activities
Learn knots for fishing, climbing, boating, scouting and other applications of rope work. Knots 3D has been on the App Store since 2011 and is the original 3D knot-tying app with dozens of new knots and features added over the past decade.
Have a offline database on knots, with 3D tutorials
Worth mentioning :
Animated Knots Free website, Paid app
Get outside, and observe an individual organism. Pick something wild and take a clear, full frame photo. If you already have a photo of something wild, add it now. You can also use the iNaturalist mobile apps to record observations.
Identification of the plants
Worth mentioning :
Pl@ntNet
PictureThis
Navigation app with offline and online OSM maps, turn-by-turn voice guidance, cycling and driving modes, GPX tracking, POI search, and monthly updates.
Downloading offline maps with tons of customizations Help by contributing to
OpenStreetMap ! Using
StreetComplete gamify contributions.
For a simpler Maps experience try
Organic Maps or
CoMaps
Offers offline access to Wikipedia and other web content using ZIM format, with full text search, export options, multi-language support, and platform compatibility.
Downloading offline copies of
Wikipedia and other useful stuff. The whole backup with texts and images in english is about 109GB, that's the largest one. French and German the next more complete language are both well below 64GB.
Search engine of shadow libraries: books, papers, comics, magazines. Z-Library, Library Genesis, Sci-Hub. Fully resilient through open source code and data. Spread the word: everyone is welcome here!.
Get almost every book you want in digital formats
Worth mentioning :
Library Genesis
Openlib Android app to browse, download and read
Sci-Hub Science papers
Internet Archive https://www.survivorlibrary.com/ Library for survivors
Look at https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit or https://alternativeto.net/software/canirun-ai/about/ to see what LLM to run on your computer.
Open-source offline AI chat software supporting local LLMs, cloud model connections, custom assistant creation, OpenAI-compatible API, and broad hardware support.
Download offline LLMs on your local machine
Worth mentioning :
Goose OSS Windows + Linux + Mac
oMLX For Apple macOS devices
Osaurus For Apple macOS devices
apfel Use an 3B LLM model already included in macOS Tahoe
Ensu Windows + Linux + Mac + iOS + Android
MLC LLM Windows + Linux + Mac + iOS + Android
fullmoon For Apple devices
Alpaca - Ollama Client Linux + Mac
Maid (AI) Windows + Linux + Mac + Android
The Swiss Army Knife of offline AI. Chat, speak, and generate images. Privacy first, zero internet. Download an LLM and use it on your mobile device. No data ever leaves your phone.
Ratspeak is a native desktop and mobile client for E2EE conversations over Reticulum, a new type of mesh networking. Ratspeak gives you messaging, file/image sharing, voice calls (experimental), LoRa capability, WiFi, BLE, TCP, offline messaging, turn-based games, and more.
A mesh network chat app powered by Reticulum Network which is a cryptographic, peer-to-peer networking stack designed for resilient, infrastructure-free communication over any medium, not only Wi-Fi and it does not depend on TCP/IP !
Works on multiple OS and can be flashed on some LoRa hardware.
Worth mentioning:
Columba Messenger
A mesh network chat app powered by Reticulum Network which is a cryptographic, peer-to-peer networking stack designed for resilient, infrastructure-free communication over any medium, not only Wi-Fi and it does not depend on TCP/IP !
Meshtastic is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and open source!
Decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app offering secure Bluetooth mesh communication, end-to-end encryption, channel-based chats, and privacy-first design.
A bluetooth meshnetwork based messenger for offline censorship and disaster resistant communitcations.
Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in.
A p2p messenger app that can use bluetooth to communicate
Worth mentioning :
Meshenger
LibreMesh is a set of modules extending the OpenWrt router distribution to create self-configuring wireless and wired mesh networks.
Share an internet bandwidth over a mesh network
Language Transfer is a labour of love, creating the most effective but kind, exciting yet reassuring, simple yet profound language courses out there... and what's more, LT puts them out there for free!
A free thinking-based language learning audio method. You can either download the files from SoundCloud or in the app.
Courses are mostly in english!
Anki is a program that makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying or greatly increase the amount you learn.
You can download community-made flashcard to learn vocabulary and sentences offline.
On Android:
AnkiDroid
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions. Instead, these tasks are managed collectively by the nodes of the network.
Be your own bank ! Free quality learning ressources :
- https://planb.network MULTILINGUAL
- https://learnmeabitcoin.com/
- Everything made by Andreas Antonopoulos, videos or books, this aged well!
Worth mentioning :
Monero for easier (and sometimes cheaper) onchain privacy
Great Hardware wallets worth considering (there is no perfect hww, only different trade-offs) :
- BitBox02
- SpecterDIY
- Trezor Safe 5 and 7
- Ledger (avoid Ledger app, it's trash)
- OneKey
Software Wallet worth the check :
Desktop
Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet Great to combine with hww
Liana For more complexe multisig and/or miniscript setup. Great for inheritance planning or safetynets within communities
Mobile
Blockstream App (Green) Has a desktop version
BlueWallet
Ashigaru
Cake Wallet Has altcoins (and shitcoins) but great privacy features (has a desktop version)
The phone running BitMesh acts as transport, not as a wallet: it relays signed transactions through the mesh to peers that have internet access, who in turn submit them to the Bitcoin Network.
Broadcast Bitcoin TX over Meshtastic without internet access.
Comments
thank you for this list! ^_^
Hi, I would recommend you to take a look at Sideband and Meshchat as alternatives to Meshtastic.
Sorry I didn't saw the notification of this comment ! Very interesting to see people building on Reticulum indeed !