The offline survival kit for your phone: maps with offline navigation, emergency services nearby, first aid, Wikipedia and on-device AI that keep working when the internet goes down. iOS & Android, open source. Inspired by Project NOMAD.
https://franlindebl.github.io/nomad-pocket/ β// readme
Set it up today while youβre online; tomorrow it works with no internet, no signal and no power.
CarPlay navigation, nearby hospitals, an emergency guide, Wikipedia, courses and an AI that lives on your phone. Free and open source.
What if the internet goes down tomorrow?
On 28 April 2025, Spain and Portugal lost power for hours. 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 (in July 2024 a single faulty update knocked out millions of computers worldwide) 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 donβt last long. Your maps, guides and plan stay on your phone.
- Internet outage or cyberattack: your carrier or a big cloud service fails. Nothing you carry depends on them.
- Storm or flood: when the weather takes the network down, you know where the shelter, water or hospital is.
- No signal: mountains, sea, a remoteβ¦