Maps, radio and reference when the network is down
For county emergency managers, volunteer fire departments, search and rescue, CERT teams and ham radio groups. It runs on a laptop with no internet and no account. If your agency doesn't allow AI, there's a download with none in it.
Get the download $49.50 a year, half price during Early Access. Nothing charges on its own.
What it does in the field
Nothing here calls out to a server. It works in a truck, a shelter or a command post with the lines down.
Street maps of every state, on the laptop
Search a town or a street with no signal. Drop pins for shelters, water and staging areas. 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. The Print button makes a paper copy with a small overview map.
Weather alerts and a radio log
Plug in a USB radio stick (an RTL-SDR) and keep a NOAA weather channel on watch, so an alert for your county pops up on screen. Tune any channel or scan for voices.
The radio log and the frequency book keep track of who checked in and where.
Your repeater list, nearest first
Import a CHIRP file or a spreadsheet from a repeater directory. Sort it nearest first, save it for CHIRP, or print it.
The ham exam question pools are in the library for new volunteers.
Also on the laptop
| Texts with no towers | The Messages tab sends texts over Meshtastic radios you own. When a radio shares its spot, that person shows on your map. |
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| Coded messages | Lock a short message with a key phrase and it comes back as groups of five letters, to send by runner, text or mesh radio. Only someone with World Without Web and the same key phrase reads it. The FCC doesn't allow coded messages on ham bands or GMRS. |
| A locked folder | Important Papers keeps the files you add, such as call lists and site plans, encrypted with a passphrase. Its USB backup is locked too. |
| Medicines | FDA labels for 103,202 medicines: dosage, warnings and interactions as the maker filed them. Label text, not advice. |
| First aid and medical reference | WikiMed and the Army's first aid manual. |
| Guidance | Ready.gov, CDC and Nuclear War Survival Skills are in the library. |
| People who don't speak English | A phrasebook in 16 languages for medical help, water, food, shelter and directions, with how to say each line and a sheet to print. |
| Tides and daylight | Within 50 miles of one of 1,256 NOAA tide stations, 7 days of highs and lows (a prediction, not for navigation). First light, sunrise, sunset and last light for any spot and date. |
| Share with phones | On Linux Mint, the laptop makes its own Wi-Fi with no internet, and phones nearby read the library and the maps in their web browser. On Windows, phones on the same Wi-Fi do the same. |
| No AI, no account | The no-AI download has no AI in its installer and its updates never add one. The app has no account and sends nothing about you. |
| Updates when you say | One switch turns updates off, and it keeps working as installed. |
Before you buy
- It's a reference and a tool kit that works alongside your dispatch, mapping and radio systems.
- Bring your own gear: it works with RTL-SDR radio sticks, Meshtastic radios and a USB GPS.
- Wilson names the pages it used, so you can check every answer.
- It needs Windows 10 or 11, or Linux Mint, with 8 GB of memory. A Mac version is coming soon.
- The photos on this page are public domain or freely licensed. No agency endorses World Without Web.
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 one household owns. Buying for an agency, a department or a volunteer team? 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.