A library for the places the internet doesn't reach
Load it at home, where the internet is fast. Then carry it past the last cell tower: a medical encyclopedia, 13 Bibles, kids' lessons and a phrasebook, on a laptop that needs no signal.
Get the download $49.50 a year, half price during Early Access. Nothing charges on its own.
What goes with you
All of it works with no internet: in a village, on a river, or at a station a day's drive from town.
Medical reference at the end of the road
WikiMed holds Wikipedia's medical articles. CDC Travelers' Health covers travel vaccines, malaria, and safe food and water. FDA labels for 103,202 medicines give the dosage, warnings and interactions as the maker filed them.
It's reference text, not advice, and the labels are for medicines sold in the US. Wilson is never a doctor.
Thirteen Bibles
Twelve English translations: King James, World English, American Standard, Young's Literal, Douay-Rheims, Darby, Geneva 1599 and five more. In Spanish, the Reina-Valera 1909.
The World English Bible is in modern English. The Bible in Basic English uses about 1,000 simple words, a help for readers who are new to English.
Words when you don't share a language
The phrasebook has lines for medical help, water, food, shelter and directions in 16 languages, with how to say each one and a sheet to print. Haitian Creole, Tagalog, Hindi, Arabic, French and Brazilian Portuguese are among them.
The translator turns Spanish into English with no internet, and more languages add in one click while you're online.
Also on board for a mission
| Teaching children | The Learn tab has picture books from Book Dash, African Storybook and StoryWeaver, and PhET science and math simulations. Khan Academy and CK-12 are free add-ons that one click downloads from their own makers. |
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| Textbooks | OpenStax textbooks in biology, chemistry, physics, anatomy, algebra, statistics and economics. |
| Water and building | Appropedia's guides to clean water, sanitation and low-tech builds, and classic farming books. |
| Where you're going | Wikivoyage travel guides and The World Factbook, 2020 edition. |
| Maps | Street maps of every US state come with it. The rest of the world is one more download, about 140 GB. |
| A room of readers | On Linux Mint, the laptop makes its own Wi-Fi with no internet, and phones and tablets nearby read the library in their web browser. On Windows, phones on the same Wi-Fi do the same. |
| A donated laptop | It installs on Linux Mint, a free system that runs well on older computers. Our Make a Linux USB program gets you there. |
| Private papers | Important Papers keeps copies of passports, visas and prescriptions encrypted with your passphrase, and its USB backup is locked too. Nobody opens it without the passphrase, us included. |
| Coded messages | Lock a short message with a key phrase. It comes back as letters to write down or send in a text, and only someone with World Without Web and the same key phrase can read it. |
| Power | A battery and solar calculator tells you how long a battery will run what you plug in. |
| No AI, if you'd rather | The no-AI download has no AI in its installer. It keeps the library, the maps and the phrasebook. |
Before you go
- Set it up before you leave, where the internet is fast: the library is about 220 GB. After that it needs no connection.
- Today we take orders from buyers in the US who are 18 or older. Serving abroad? Buy it and load the computer here, then carry it with you, under our terms of sale and the export rule below.
- It includes encryption, so US export law applies: it can't go to a country or a person the US government restricts. Our terms of sale have the wording. Some countries limit encryption too, so check the rules where you're going.
- The library is in English, with a Spanish Bible, a 16-language phrasebook and a translator.
- It needs Windows 10 or 11, or Linux Mint, with 8 GB of memory. A Mac version is coming soon.
- The app has no account and sends nothing about you.
Get World Without Web
Both downloads are for Windows or Linux Mint. You pay for a year at a time, and nothing ever charges on its own.
Early Access: both downloads are half price through December 3. From December 4 they're $99 and $49.99 a year.
The download, with Wilson
The library, the maps, the tools and Wilson, the AI. You get a year of updates, and it keeps working as installed if you don't renew.
$49.50a year
Order the downloadThe download with no AI
The same library, maps and tools from an installer that has no AI in it. Wilson, voice and the translator are left out, and its updates never add them.
$24.99a year
Order it with no AIOne order covers the computers your own household owns. Sending a team, or loading laptops for a church? Write to support@worldwithoutweb.com and tell us how many computers.
If it won't run on your computer and we can't fix it together, you get a full refund within 30 days. See how it compares.