HACKER Q&A
📣 traverseda

What apps would you install if there was an extended internet outage?


Here are a few of mine, for android since that's what I have.

* F-Droid

This is an obvious one, F-droid is an open source app store, it can also work peer-to-peer, so you can use this to install all the other apps on other peoples phones with no internet.

* Kiwix

Offline wikipedia reader, lets you download wikipedia

* Osmand

Offline mapping, lets you download maps

* Briar project

P2p "store and forward" messaging. Messages are encrypted and people can carry a message between communities.

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Are there any apps you'd want to have available if there was a very long term internet outage? I imagine if that happened apps wouldn't be a very high priority, but it's something simple that can be done pretty easily.


  👤 skydhash Accepted Answer ✓
Living in a country with poor internet access, my methodology has been:

Offline Wikipedia

HTTrack for any wiki I found useful.

Calibre (for the l*gen files)

A dictionary software.

A backup full of the software programs I normally use (VLC, Office, Linux ISOs, Firefox, ...)

At the time, that was pretty much it. I did not have any phone, and only a few apps are useful online. Maps being one because of the smaller form factor and the GPS module. I went to Cuba once, and the only use I got out of mine was maps, camera, and Spanish dictionary.


👤 nichos
Depending on my surrounding population density, briar and disaster radio: https://disaster.radio/

👤 mtmail
https://organicmaps.app/ as alternative to Osmand.