Ready for the week the grid stays down
The power is out, the towers are quiet and no search engine answers. World Without Web keeps a library, street maps and Wilson, an AI, on your own computer, so you can still look things up.
Get the download $49.50 a year, half price during Early Access. Nothing charges on its own.
What it does when nothing else works
Every part of this runs on the computer itself. Keep it charged and it keeps working.
Ask a question, get the page it came from
Ask Wilson how to make water safe to drink and the first thing on screen is the Army survival manual's own words, with the page beside each line. Type the question or say it out loud.
Wilson names its pages and marks anything that didn't come from the library, so you can check every answer. It is never a doctor.
Find your way with no signal
Street maps of every state are stored on the computer. Drop pins for water, meeting spots and caches. Plug in a USB GPS and a dot shows where you are.
Pick two places and it draws the route and lists the turns with the miles and the time. Print it and put the paper in the glove box.
Hear the weather and reach your family
A USB radio stick (an RTL-SDR) keeps a NOAA weather channel on watch, so an alert for your county pops up on screen. Meshtastic radios you own carry family texts with no cell towers and no internet.
The radio log and the frequency book keep track of who checked in and where.
A family code nobody else can read
Agree on a key phrase at the kitchen table. After that, type a message and it comes back as groups of five letters to leave on paper, send in a text, flash in Morse or pass over a mesh radio.
Whoever has World Without Web and the same key phrase types the letters in and reads it. To anyone else it's only letters. There's no master key, so we can't read one either.
On board for a long outage
| Water, food and power | Calculators for water, food, solar and fuel, and a supply list that stays on your computer. Ask Wilson how much water you have and you get your real count. |
|---|---|
| A plan on paper | A family emergency plan card, and go-bag and first aid checklists, ready to print. |
| Medicine | WikiMed, the Army's first aid manual, and FDA labels for 103,202 medicines. It's reference text, not advice. |
| A nuclear emergency | Nuclear War Survival Skills and Ready.gov's guidance are in the library. |
| Important Papers | Copies of IDs, insurance and deeds, encrypted with your passphrase. The USB backup is locked too. |
| Kids | Lessons, story books and science simulations for the days school is closed. |
| Signals and sky | A Morse code card that lights the path to each letter, 7 days of tide times near the coast, and sunrise, sunset and moon times for your spot. |
| A spare laptop | It installs on Linux Mint, so the old laptop in the closet can be the backup. On Linux Mint, one switch turns off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. |
| No AI, if you'd rather | Turn Wilson off with one switch, or get the download with no AI in it. |
Before you buy
- It needs Windows 10 or 11, or Linux Mint, with 8 GB of memory. A Mac version is coming soon.
- The library is about 220 GB. Get it while the internet works.
- It works as long as you can keep the computer charged.
- The FCC doesn't allow coded messages on ham bands or GMRS. The app says so on screen.
- One order covers every computer your household owns.
- 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 AIIf 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.