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GPS navigation and survival guides on your phone, even in a blackout.

Set it up today while you’re online; tomorrow it works with no internet, no signal and no power. With nearby hospitals, Wikipedia, courses and an AI that lives on your phone. Free and open source.

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Nomad Pocket home: call emergency services and preparedness status

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01 / Why

28·04·202512:33 · Spain and Portugal

What if the internet goes down tomorrow?

That Monday, Spain and Portugal lost power for hours. Without electricity, cell towers lasted as long as their batteries did, and many phones were left with no data and no signal: no maps, no search, no way to look up what to do.

A blackout, a cyberattack, a storm or a massive IT failure is enough to silence your phone right when you need it most. Nomad Pocket keeps the essentials on the phone itself, so it keeps working when everything else fails.

Blackout

Without power, cell towers don’t last long. Your maps, guides and plan stay on your phone.

Internet outage

Your carrier or a big cloud service fails. Nothing you carry depends on them.

Cyberattack

If the networks or services you use are attacked, what’s yours stays on your phone, intact.

Storm or flood

When the weather takes the network down, you know where the shelter, water or hospital is.

No signal

Mountains, sea, a remote road: routes and answers without a single bar of signal.

Travelling

Abroad with no roaming or local SIM, with the local map and emergency numbers.

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Any other phone

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The nearest hospitalWorksOffline
What to do in an emergencyWorksOffline
WikipediaWorksOffline
AI assistantWorksOffline

With Nomad Pocket

Maps and routesWorks
The nearest hospitalWorks
What to do in an emergencyWorks
WikipediaWorks
AI assistantWorks

Your maps, guides and answers live on your phone, not on a server: if the network goes down, they don’t depend on it.

02 / What’s in your pocket

A survival kit that fits on your phone

Everything you’d look up online in an emergency, downloaded in advance and ready to use with no network.

200+emergency cards

100+knowledge archives

14courses

$0no purchases, no ads

Maps and navigation

Maps that don’t switch off

Your whole country on your phone: every street, path and building. Get routes by car, on foot or by bike with no network, with spoken directions that keep guiding you with the screen locked.

Search any street or house number with no internet
Speed warning with each road’s limit
Compass, coordinates and UTM, saved places
Almost every country in the world, plus a built-in world map

Emergency

What you need, all around you

Hospitals, pharmacies, defibrillators, police, fire stations, drinking water and shelters, sorted by distance and direction. One tap and it takes you there.

Call your country’s emergency number
Share your exact position by message (coordinates and UTM)
GPS needs no data: you know where you are even with no signal

Nearby hospitals and emergency services, offline

Emergency guide

What to do, step by step

200+ cards from official sources: CPR, bleeding, burns, choking, fires, floods… In the app from the first minute, nothing to download.

Short texts, written to be read in a hurry
Every card cites its official source
Instant search inside the guide

First aid and medical information: on iPhone and iPad.

Offline assistant

An AI that doesn’t need the internet

Ask “how do I make water safe to drink?” in the middle of nowhere: it answers from your library and shows its sources. It runs on your phone, with Apple Intelligence or an open model you download.

Urgent questions are answered from the guide, even with no model
Dictate your questions: your voice is processed on the device
Neither your questions nor its answers leave your phone

AI assistant answering offline with sources

Library

All the knowledge, no network

The whole of Wikipedia or its essential articles, to fit your storage. 100+ archives on survival, water and food, farming, repairs and more, plus thousands from the Kiwix catalog.

Full-text search across all your books
14 courses to learn whatever you need
Read in dark or on a paper page

Offline library with Wikipedia and guides

Plan and bag

Your family knows what to do

Meeting points, contacts and everyone’s details, also as a printable PDF. And an emergency bag sized to your household, with expiry reminders.

Water, food and medication worked out for your home and the days you choose
Local reminders before anything expires
Your plan never leaves your phone unless you share it

Family plan with meeting points and contacts

03 / How it works

Ready in a minute

Set it up today, while you’re online. Tomorrow you won’t need to be.

01
Pick your country
The app proposes a kit sized for your country and your phone’s storage: map and routes, guides, Wikipedia and the assistant.
02
Download it on Wi‑Fi
Leave it downloading. Home tells you how prepared you are and what’s missing, so you can finish while the network is up.
03
Use it offline
In airplane mode, in a blackout or in the middle of nowhere. And when your maps have newer versions, it lets you know.

04 / Yours and nobody else’s

Nothing to track. Nothing to go down.

Private by design

We collect no data: your plan, your contacts, your location and your questions never leave your phone. And since Nomad Pocket doesn’t depend on any server of its own, there’s nothing to go down.

0accounts

0ads

0trackers

0servers of our own

Read the privacy policy

Truly open source

Nomad Pocket is free software (GPL‑3.0) inspired by Project N.O.M.A.D. You can read every line, suggest changes or build it yourself. It stands on open data:

OpenStreetMap
Wikipedia
Kiwix
Protomaps
Valhalla

See the code on GitHub

Nomad Pocket is not affiliated with these projects.

05 / FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Does it really work without internet?

Yes. You only need a connection to download the content (Wi‑Fi is best) and to check for updates. After that, maps, routes, street search, emergency points, the guide, the library and the assistant all work in airplane mode.

Does GPS work without data?

Yes. GPS receives signals from satellites, not from the internet, so the map finds you even with no signal. The first fix may take a little longer than with data.

How much space does it take?

You decide. The welcome wizard suggests a kit for your country and free space (map and navigation, essential guides, Wikipedia and the assistant) and you can switch off each piece. A country takes from a few tens of MB to several GB.

Does it work in my country?

There are maps, routes and emergency points for almost every country in the world, and a world map is built in from the first second. The app is in English and Spanish, and the library has content in many languages.

Is it free? What’s the catch?

No catch: it’s free, with no ads, no purchases and no subscriptions. It’s an open source project with no server of its own, so there’s nothing to charge for and no data to sell.

Which devices are supported?

iPhone and iPad with iOS 16.4 or later. Android 8.0 or later, coming soon to Google Play. The assistant uses Apple Intelligence where available; otherwise you download a model in the app (from about 500 MB; larger ones need more memory).

What about Android?

It’s in review on Google Play and coming soon, with maps, routes, emergency services, the library, the plan and the assistant. First aid and medical information are only on iPhone and iPad.

Do you collect my data?

No. No accounts, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. What you do in the app stays on your device. The details are in the privacy policy.

Does it replace the emergency services?

No. It helps when there’s no network, but the AI can make mistakes and medical information is no substitute for a professional. If you can, always call the emergency number.

Get ready today.
Tomorrow may be too late.

Free, open source and ready in a minute. It works when everything else fails.