Prepared Scout: Field Guide

Prepared Scout is your offline-first field companion for the outdoors — a complete survival manual, on-device species identification, real navigation without signal, and badge-and-rank prep, all in one pack you can carry into the backcountry.

Built for scouts, hikers, campers, and anyone who wants to be ready when the trail gets real. No connection required for the core reference — it lives on your device.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

• Read a full survival manual, offline
Original outdoor-skills chapters covering survival basics, first aid, fire, shelter, water, navigation, knots, weather, and outdoor ethics. Quick-reference cards for the Ten Essentials, Leave No Trace, the STOP method, survival priorities, tool and fire safety, first-aid patient checks, and using a compass.

• Identify what you find — on your device, offline
Point your camera at the wild and get a best-guess ID that runs entirely on your phone, no signal needed:
- Plants — matched against 2,000 common North American species, with edible-parts and toxicity notes
- Insects — ~950 common species, with edibility and danger flags
- Fungi & Lichens — high-accuracy on-device model, with deadly look-alike warnings
- Animals — fish, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds
- Clouds — name the sky and read the weather it brings
- Rocks & Minerals — answer a few field-test questions (hardness, streak, acid) to narrow the match

• Navigate with no signal
Offline map, compass, and bearings to the nearest water, trail, road, and high ground. Download offline map packs over Wi-Fi before you go. Drop waypoints, record a breadcrumb track, and find your way back to the start. Maps © OpenStreetMap.

• Get intel tuned to where you are
Field Intel gives you location-aware guidance: climate and live weather, the most abundant edible plants, what to avoid, and dangerous wildlife for your region and environment. Live Local Intel shows species actually recorded near you, and the Wildlife Map plots animals, birds, and plants observed in your area — drawn from iNaturalist and GBIF records. Live weather from Open-Meteo. Your coordinates stay on your device.

• Prep for badges and ranks
Track your progress toward outdoor badges and ranks, check off skills as you practice them, and jump straight into the guide for what's next.

• Study and remember it
Flashcards, fill-in-the-blank drills, and mastery tracking for survival fundamentals. Search the entire manual in seconds and bookmark any section for one-tap access.

FREE & PRO

The full survival manual is free forever, along with Cloud ID and Rock & Mineral ID. A one-time Pro unlock adds the study tools, manual search, bookmarks, Field Intel, and the plant, insect, and fungi identifiers. No subscription — buy once, keep it.

WHY OFFLINE MATTERS

The backcountry is where you most need this and where you're least likely to have a signal. The manual, the identifiers, and offline navigation all work with no connection. Live weather and nearby-species features use data when you have it, and fall back gracefully when you don't.

A NOTE ON SAFETY

Prepared Scout is an independent reference and preparation tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any scouting organization, and badge and rank references are for study only. Photo identification can be wrong — never eat a wild plant, fungus, insect, or animal based on an app alone. Confirm with a qualified local expert first, follow local rules, and seek professional help in an emergency. Do not rely solely on this app.

Pack it. Learn it. Head out prepared.

Recent changes:
On tablets, the buttons along the bottom of the offline map pack screen now sit above the taskbar, so every tap reaches them.

We now ask for a rating only after you have used the app on a few different days, and only with the standard system prompt.