An encyclopedia in your pocket.
Carry medical guides, survival manuals, and full Wikipedia snapshots with you everywhere. Access the answers you need, even when the internet goes down.
OPEN SOURCE · ZERO TRACKING · WORKS 100% OFFLINE · NO ACCOUNTS
Knowledge, connection, and community that never goes dark.
A connectivity-agnostic toolkit combining offline encyclopedias, peer-to-peer mesh radio, local mutual-aid markets, and ad-free community feeds. Built to keep you informed, connected, and self-reliant — even when the grid goes down.
Native SwiftUI app. Engineered for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
Works 100% OfflineNo Cell Towers NeededPocket EncyclopediaMilitary-Grade Privacy
Core Capabilities
Four Pillars of Resilience
Engineered from the ground up for peace of mind, mutual aid, and continuous learning — online or completely off the grid.
Off-Grid Communication
Stay connected anywhere.
Peer-to-peer messaging that works without cell towers.
Keep in touch with family and neighbors even when the power grid or internet goes dark. Messages hop securely from device to device with Signal-grade encryption and zero dependence on central servers.
Signal Double RatchetLoRa Packet RadioBLE DiscoveryNostr RelaysMulti-Hop Mesh
Infinite Knowledge
Human knowledge, always offline.
Medical guides, encyclopedias, and courses on your device.
Never lose access to essential answers. Carry full offline copies of Wikipedia, emergency survival handbooks, interactive science labs, and vocational courses right on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
Kiwix ZIM EngineFull Wikipedia & MDWikiPhET Simulations60+ Course DisciplinesProject Gutenberg
Local Abundance
Build a resilient neighborhood.
Local food markets, mutual aid, and offline transit maps.
Know where to find clean water, fresh produce, seed banks, and tool libraries in your area. Coordinate community events and navigate passenger rail routes without cellular service.
3D Offline Globe21 Provision CategoriesMutual Aid ExchangesPassenger Rail TransitOffline GPS
Open Social
Social feeds that respect you.
Your favorite open networks in one calm, chronological stream.
Follow people and discussions across Mastodon, Bluesky, Lemmy, and Nostr without algorithmic manipulation, ad tracking, or corporate walled gardens.
ActivityPub (Mastodon)AT Protocol (Bluesky)Lemmy CommunitiesNostr Notes16 Channels
Designed for Real Life
Everything you need when it matters most
Built from the ground up for peace of mind, off-grid freedom, and effortless community connection.
Truly private conversations.
Chat securely without ever providing a phone number or email. Every message is locked with Signal-grade encryption, ensuring your data belongs only to you.
Find essentials, locally.
Instantly map and filter local providers for food staples, textiles, timber, and produce. Discover exactly what you need from your community at a glance.
Navigate without a signal.
Get step-by-step transit and walking directions with zero cellular service. National and regional routes are cached right on your device so you never lose your way.
Immersive, intelligent audio.
Experience studio-quality Spatial Audio that syncs perfectly with live educational transcripts. Toggle between video and audio instantly to save battery while learning.
Lifesaving alerts on your wrist.
Keep your phone safely tucked away. Receive critical emergency alerts, glance at survival guides, and control your playback right from your Apple Watch.
Total data sovereignty.
No accounts, no tracking, and zero analytics. Your maps, keys, and personal data stay strictly locked and encrypted on your own hardware.
One app. Every network.
Break free from walled gardens. Seamlessly follow and message friends across diverse social networks and off-grid radio meshes without ever switching apps.
How It Works
From high-speed fiber to completely off-grid
A resilient, adaptive topology that gracefully degrades as network infrastructure disconnects.
01
Your library, always with you.
Download medical guides, survival manuals, and transit maps once. Keep them forever on your device.
- Offline medical handbooks & full encyclopedias
- National passenger rail & multimodal transit routes
- Interactive STEM labs and vocational trade guides
02
Stay in touch without cell towers.
Seamlessly switch to nearby Bluetooth and long-range radio hops the moment signals go dark.
- Automatic Bluetooth discovery with nearby peers
- Long-range packet radio transceivers for multi-mile reach
- Signal-grade encryption locked to your device
03
Strengthen your neighborhood.
Share food resources, seed swaps, and mutual aid tools directly with your local community.
- 21 provision categories (Timber, Produce, Citrus, etc.)
- Neighborhood event planning & tool sharing clinics
- Zero central servers or account dependencies
Technical Specs & Integrity
Built natively for Apple silicon and open standards
No web wrappers or Electron bloat. Orchard is written in native Swift 6 for unmatched memory efficiency, battery life, and instantaneous offline responsiveness.
100% Free & Open Source (FOSS)
Architecture
100% Swift 6 & SwiftUI
Platforms
iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS
Mesh Protocols
Bluetooth Low Energy, LoRa (Meshtastic)
Cryptography
LibSignalClient Double Ratchet (secp256k1)
Fediverse Support
ActivityPub, ATProto (Bluesky), Lemmy
Decentralized Dispatches
Nostr (NIP-01, NIP-04, NIP-44), RSS
Offline Storage
Encrypted Sandboxed SQLite & FlatFiles
Licensing & Telemetry
100% Free / Libre FOSS · Zero Analytics
Voices of Resilience
What the community says
Empowering organizers, educators, homesteaders, and radio operators worldwide.
“When storms knocked out power and cell towers, our neighborhood mesh kept emergency coordination and welfare check-ins alive for days without missing a beat.”
“Having full offline Wikipedia, MDWiki, and PhET simulations on my iPad has completely transformed how I teach in rural, disconnected classrooms.”
“The 21-category provision map made it effortless to organize our neighborhood seed bank, tool library, and local citrus exchange.”
“Signal Double Ratchet over LoRa packet radio is the gold standard for off-grid communication. Having it native in SwiftUI is incredible.”
Building Resilience: Why Offline-First Software is the Future of Human Knowledge
When internet connectivity cuts out, access to critical medical guides, encyclopedias, and educational courses shouldn't vanish. Here is how Orchard stores human knowledge on-device.
Elena Rostova · · 6 min read
How LoRa and Bluetooth Mesh Keep Communities Connected When the Grid Goes Down
Cell towers fail. Decentralized peer-to-peer radio meshes don't. Learn how Orchard combines Signal Double Ratchet encryption with packet radio and BLE.
Tariq Vance · · 7 min read
Unifying the Fediverse: Mastodon, Bluesky, Lemmy, and Nostr in One Stream
Stop fragmenting your social experience across incompatible silos. Orchard unifies decentralized protocols into 16 categorized, chronological channels.
Siddharth Nair · · 5 min read
100% Free & Open Source
Keep the orchard of human knowledge and community alive.
Carry resilient communications, massive offline libraries, and neighborhood mutual-aid in your pocket.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Orchard's offline architecture and mesh network.