Apps Ideal For Survival and Preparedness
As every good prepper knows, prepping goes far beyond packing a bugout bag, gaining knowledge, and learning skills.
Sometimes, you need to think out of the box and other times you need to see what’s right in front of you … literally … right on your mobile device. That’s because the apps you put on your phone could help save your life during a disaster.
Emergency apps on your cell phone can be a great source for preppers fighting for survival. While there are an exorbitant number of these apps, you can’t possibly keep all of them on your phone. Narrow it down to five or ten essential smartphone apps that will offer you the most help during a natural disaster, emergency, or catastrophic event.
The Importance of Apps for Preppers
In your prepper storage area, you most likely have a food supply, water filtration system, battery-operated radio, first aid kit, compass, solar lantern, and much more. The apps on your phone can be as valuable as any tool in your prepper stockpile. Apps offer critical time-sensitive information from communication, weather alerts, and navigation, to first aid and survival methods. Essential prepper apps on your smart device provide a convenient companion and expert resource to help when facing a crisis.
How to Select Your Prepper Apps
I suggest you add prepper apps gradually to your phone so you can do your research and get recommendations from others in your prepper group.
Take some time to analyze the areas that would concern you the most during an emergency. Do you rely on a weather app during a hurricane, tornado watch, or during a flood watch? Are you navigationally challenged and rely on the GPS navigation app on your cell phone? Perhaps you are not fluent in first aid and would rely on a medical app to help you treat injuries or perform CPR.
Your cell phone probably already has Googe Maps, The Weather Channel, local news, a compass, a calculator, and many more standard apps. As part of your prepping efforts, explore and select additional apps that can help in an emergency..
Here are 5 informative survival apps to get you started.
1. The Prepper App
2. SAS Survival Guide App
3. First Aid: American Red Cross App
4. Police Scanner App/Live Radio
5. Disaster Alert App
There’s a good chance that you’ll find these apps helpful, handy, and accessible.
>> The Prepper App
Available both IOS and Android
Cost: Free with a fee associated for app upgrades/enhanced prepper features
The Prepper App is a comprehensive all-in-one survival and emergency preparedness tool. It guides users with detailed prepper steps to be prepared for natural disasters, unexpected emergencies, social unrest, power outages, or when faced with a situation requiring safety measures and self-defense. Preppers will appreciate the personalized strategies and tools to face emergencies with confidence.
The Prepper App users can select from various situations to receive personalized plans tailored to their needs. Learn how to monitor prepper supplies helping to ensure preparedness. Preppers will use this app for its wealth of survival information, even when internet connections are unavailable. An AI survival assistant provides advice and answers to up to 100 prepper-related questions and comments. Take quizzes and skill assessments to gauge your preparedness.
>> SAS Survival Guide App
Available both IOS and Android
App Cost: Free for the Lite SAS Survival Guide/$5.99 for Full SAS Survival Guide
For more than two decades, the SAS Survival Guide has been the prepper’s go-to book for survival help. This app is based on that million-copy bestselling book, written by former SAS soldier and instructor, John “Lofty” Wiseman. Preppers will appreciate the elite training techniques of Britain’s toughest fighting force, learning world-class survival skills, morse code, and taking a valuable 100+ question quiz to test if you have what it takes to survive.
A survival checklist, sun compass, sections on surviving extreme weather, and a comprehensive first aid section makes this an important prepper app. Get the latest training on self-defense and the law, handling fire and chemical hazards, and using power tools and equipment. If experiencing a bugout situation, you’ll find galleries of animal tracks, edible, medicinal, and poisonous plants, and other helpful illustrations like knot making instructions.
App users will certainly appreciate the 16 videos about survival tips by the author. Note that this app doesn’t require an internet connection, but videos would need to be downloaded ahead of time with active internet.
>> First Aid: American Red Cross App
Available both IOS and Android
App Cost: Free
The American Red Cross First Aid app offers expert advice for a variety of emergencies. Preppers will appreciate the user-friendly, step-by-step instructions guiding them through first aid scenarios from basic to serious. This app is fully integrated with 9-1-1 so a prepper can call EMS from the app when needed. The app also offers a hospital finder to find an emergency center in your location. Of course, in a catastrophic emergency, professional medical intervention may be unavailable. However, with the app, you will have first aid instructions at your disposal.
Don’t worry about not having Internet connection or reception, the app offers preloaded content with instant access to all safety information at any time. This app can be a real lifesaver if a prepper finds themselves in an emergency scenario when called upon to treat injuries or illnesses. Whether aiding cuts and burns to performing CPR, this app is looked upon as a must-have app by preppers.
>> Police Scanner App – Live Radio
Available both IOS and Android
App Cost: Free
The Police Scanner App – Live Radio offers users live audio of breaking news, major events, public safety, wildfire alarms, riots, protests, crime waves, and other emergencies happening in and around your vicinity. The police scanner app includes police scanners, public safety alerts, fire alarms, wildfires map and info, railroad radios, NOAA weather radio stations, hurricane, marine, aircraft, emergency news, and amateur radio.
Users have the option to save favorite live feeds in a specific location, turn on notifications, and monitor fire radios, local news, emergency events, and public safety affairs. The app can determine scanners located nearby via the network or GPS.
Preppers always want to be aware of what is happening nearby, especially when determining the need to bug in at home, bug out to an undisclosed location, or evacuate to a local shelter during a natural disaster. The Police Scanner App – Live Radio can keep you informed in real time, and that could make it a life-saving tool for you and your loved ones.
>> Disaster Alert App
Available both IOS and Android
App Cost: Free
While The Police Scanner App offers more crime and fire-related information, the Disaster Alert app can offer preppers critical natural disaster hazard alerts and weather information. In fact, preppers can get real-time updates regarding 18 types of natural disasters and other hazards as they’re happening around the world.
When you get the Disaster Alert app, you have the option of customizing early warning alerts, view reports of the estimated impact, and access hazard data. Rest assured, the app’s continuous stream of new information is automatically generated from reliable, scientifically verified sources.
Automatic real time alerts will be made available to app users for floods, wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, tropical cyclones, typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanos, and winter storms. There are also manually processed alerts for manmade incidents, marine hazards, storms, and droughts.
Important: Add Battery Power Backup Sources to Your Prepper Supply
Your cell phone and the prepper apps you select will only be readily available during a disaster scenario if the battery is charged. So, prepping for a situation that involves a power outage or a bug out situation, you’ll want to have reliable backup power sources like a solar generator in your pepper gear. A battery power source will ensure that your cell phone continually remains charged so you can access your essential prepper apps when you need them the most.
Using Apps in Survival Scenarios Can Save Lives
All of the aforementioned apps provide an invaluable wealth of information whether you’re a beginner or advanced prepper. And while no one can predict unexpected emergencies, getting these apps now is a smart step to prepping. That way, you can take some time to get familiar with the app before a disaster forces you to turn to these apps during a fight for survival.
