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.
Full Technical Specifications & Architecture
Engineered for Complete Self-Reliance
Orchard converges massive offline encyclopedias, peer-to-peer radio meshes, local food resilience mapping, and decentralized Fediverse streams into one native Apple super-app.
Kiwix ZIM EngineSignal Double RatchetLoRa Packet Radio21 Provision CategoriesZero Telemetry
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.
Pillar 01 — Offline Knowledge Hub
Massive Human Knowledge Engine, Stored On-Device
Carry Wikipedia, medical textbooks, vocational training, and interactive STEM simulations anywhere on Earth—completely offline.
Kiwix ZIM Compressed Archive Engine
Sub-second indexing and full-text search across gigabytes of encyclopedia and textbook archives without internet.
Complete MDWiki & WikiMed Medical Guides
Field surgical guides, emergency pharmacology handbooks, first-aid protocols, and diagnostic references.
60+ Course Disciplines across 7 Subject Areas
Complete curricula spanning Engineering, Medicine, Sustainable Agriculture, Cryptography, Math, and Survival.
Interactive PhET Science Simulations
Touch-interactive physics, electronics, and chemistry models running directly on Apple Silicon GPUs.
Lossless Spatial Audio with Live Synced Transcripts
Follow word-for-word lecture transcripts with AirPods head tracking, or switch to audio-only to save battery.
Zero cloud dependencies • 100% local fast SQLite search • Instant startup
Pillar 02 — Mesh Communications
Decentralized P2P & LoRa Packet Radio Mesh
When cellular base stations and power grids go dark, Orchard hops encrypted messages device-to-device across miles of terrain.
Signal Double Ratchet End-to-End Encryption
Every dispatch is cryptographically locked with secp256k1 keys. Intermediate relay nodes cannot read content.
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Local Hops
Direct device-to-device communication around homes, buildings, or neighborhood blocks with zero extra hardware.
LoRa Packet Radio Integration (Meshtastic Standard)
Pair inexpensive, long-range 915MHz/868MHz/433MHz transceivers over Bluetooth for 1-to-10+ mile range.
Multi-Hop Packet Relaying
Messages automatically route and hop across neighboring nodes until reaching the recipient securely.
watchOS Emergency Survival Alerts
Receive emergency broadcast cards and send quick status responses directly from your wrist while on the move.
No cell towers needed • No SIM card required • Military-grade forward secrecy
Pillar 03 — Local Resilience & Mutual Aid
21-Category Resource Map & 3D Connection Globe
Know exactly where food forests, clean spring water, tool libraries, and medical provisions exist in your community.
21 Essential Provision Categories
Food Staples, Clean Water, Seed Banks, Produce, Timber, Tools, Solar Charging, Medical Supplies, and Livestock Feed.
3D Vector-Tiled Offline Globe
Render a fluid 3D globe with regional topology and offline transit paths without querying Google or Apple Maps servers.
Passenger Rail & Transit Navigation
Step-by-step navigation across national passenger rail networks, commuter train corridors, and ferry lines.
Peer-to-Peer Proximity Listing Sync
Broadcast available provisions, seed exchanges, and mutual-aid requests that synchronize when passing other Orchard users.
Community Resilience Checklists
Pre-built emergency preparedness workflows, water purification guides, and local coordination templates.
100% offline maps • Community sovereignty • Direct peer-to-peer bartering
Pillar 04 — Decentralized Social Stream
Unified Fediverse Hub: Mastodon, Bluesky, Lemmy & Nostr
All your decentralized communities in one chronological, calm stream—free from advertising algorithms and toxic outrage feeds.
ActivityPub (Mastodon) & AT Protocol (Bluesky)
Seamlessly follow accounts, browse hashtags, and publish updates across decentralized social networks.
Lemmy Community Discussion Forums
Participate in decentralized forum discussions, submit links, and upvote community field guides.
Nostr Protocol Relays with Encrypted DMs
Censorship-resistant global broadcasts with NIP-01 notes and NIP-04/NIP-44 end-to-end encrypted direct messaging.
Full Offline Reading & Automatic Caching
Orchard caches subscribed channels when connected to Wi-Fi so you can read articles and threads while off-grid.
16 Categorized Chronological Channels
Organized by interest without manipulative ranking algorithms, sponsored posts, or cross-site tracking pixels.
Zero algorithmic manipulation • Zero advertisements • 100% chronological
Pillar 05 — Sovereign Architecture
Zero Accounts. Zero Telemetry. 100% Sandboxed.
Your device is your castle. Orchard stores everything on physical flash memory, secured with mathematical cryptographic keys.
Cryptographic Identity (secp256k1 Keys)
Never hand over your phone number, email address, or government ID. You generate and hold your own private keys.
Encrypted Local SQLite Database
All bookmarks, chat histories, offline provisions, and downloaded archives live safely in sandboxed local storage.
Zero Telemetry & Zero Analytics Trackers
No Google Analytics, no Facebook SDKs, no tracking pixels. We never know what you search, read, or say.
Native Swift 6 & Metal Performance
Engineered specifically for Apple Silicon M-series and A-series chips for maximum battery life and speed.
Permissive Open Source Licensing
Every line of source code is open, inspectable, and auditable by the global security community on GitHub.
No cloud account lock-in • Auditable open source • Ultra-low battery drain
Engineering Architecture
Technical Specifications Matrix
| Programming Language | Swift 6 (Native SwiftUI & Swift Concurrency) |
| Supported Platforms | iOS 17+, iPadOS 17+, macOS 14+ (Sonoma/Sequoia), watchOS 10+ |
| Offline Archive Engine | Kiwix ZIM (Wikipedia, MDWiki, Gutenberg, PhET) |
| Mesh Encryption | Signal Protocol Double Ratchet (secp256k1 / AES-256-GCM) |
| Radio Protocols | Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) & LoRa (Meshtastic 915/868/433 MHz) |
| Upcoming Radio R&D | Wi-Fi HaLow (IEEE 802.11ah sub-GHz long-range) |
| Decentralized Social | ActivityPub (Mastodon), AT Protocol (Bluesky), Lemmy, Nostr (NIP-01/04/44) |
| Local Database | Sandboxed SQLite with WAL mode & AES encryption |
| Tracking & Telemetry | 0.0% (Zero analytics, zero trackers, zero phone numbers) |
| License | Permissive Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) |
Experience the complete Orchard super-app
Free, open source, and available natively for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Apple Watch.