100% Free & Open Source. Built for Sovereignty.
Orchard has no paywalls, locked features, advertisements, or venture-capital surveillance. Every tool is freely accessible to everyone on Earth.
Individual & Community
The complete, uncompromised Orchard super-app across the Apple ecosystem.
- Full Kiwix ZIM Super-Library (Wikipedia, MDWiki, Project Gutenberg)
- P2P LoRa & Bluetooth Low Energy mesh chat (Signal Double Ratchet)
- 21-Category food, spring water & mutual-aid market directory
- 3D offline connection globe & passenger rail transit routing
- Unified Fediverse stream (Mastodon, Bluesky, Lemmy, Nostr, RSS)
- Lossless Spatial Audio player with live synced transcripts
- Apple Watch (watchOS) emergency alerts & companion
- Zero telemetry, zero accounts, zero tracking servers
- Permissive Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) licensing
Community Supporter
Support full-time open-source development, ZIM archive seeding, and research.
- Everything in Community (all features are always free for all users)
- Directly sustain independent, open-source Swift 6 development
- Supporter flair across community Lemmy and Mastodon forums
- Early access to TestFlight beta builds and protocol experiments
- Community roadmap voting on new course disciplines & tools
- Fund public seeding of large Kiwix ZIM knowledge archives
- Warm satisfaction of empowering off-grid human resilience
Resilience Hub & Deployments
Hardware blueprints, school server caching setups, and local disaster readiness kits.
- Everything in Community
- DIY LoRa packet radio hardware assembly guides (Meshtastic nodes)
- Solar repeater & off-grid battery enclosure blueprints
- School & library offline local Wi-Fi ZIM mirror deployment docs
- Community food forest & seed bank mapping coordination templates
- Emergency disaster drill simulation checklists & communication plans
- Dedicated community forum for local mesh operators & educators
Zero telemetry. No ads. Uncompromised privacy.
Orchard will never sell user data, inject tracking scripts, or place educational resources behind paywalls. All software is peer-auditable and distributed under permissive open licenses for the benefit of humanity.
Compare features across tiers
Every single core feature is included free of charge for all users.
| Feature | Community ($0) | Supporter | Resilience Hubs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge & Education | |||
| Kiwix ZIM Engine (Wikipedia, MDWiki, Gutenberg) | |||
| 60+ Course disciplines across 7 subject areas | |||
| Interactive PhET science simulations | |||
| High-fidelity Lossless & Spatial Audio with transcripts | |||
| Local ZIM seeding & library caching server docs | — | ||
| Mesh Communications & Privacy | |||
| Signal Double Ratchet E2E Encryption (secp256k1) | |||
| Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) proximity mesh hops | |||
| LoRa packet radio integration (Meshtastic serial) | |||
| Zero accounts, zero telemetry, sandboxed local SQLite | |||
| DIY solar mesh repeater hardware blueprints | — | ||
| Community & Mutual Aid | |||
| 21-Category provision map (Timber, Produce, Citrus, etc.) | |||
| 3D offline globe & passenger rail navigation | |||
| Unified Fediverse Hub (Mastodon, Bluesky, Lemmy, Nostr) | |||
| watchOS emergency mesh alerts & survival tips | |||
| Neighborhood seed bank & tool library coordination guides | — | ||
Frequently asked questions
Questions about our public goods philosophy, mesh hardware, and deployment.
Carry human knowledge and mesh power everywhere
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