⛰ Field-tested for the backcountry

The trail forks.
You don't have to guess.

Out of Range is the pocket handbook for the moment you're on your own out there — adaptive packing lists, knots you learn by feel, plant look-alikes you actually verify, and a compass that gets you home.

Essential knots to master10
Deadly look-alike pairsPlants & berries
Navigation, no signal neededCompass + sun + stars
Runs onZero connectivity
⛭ Core toolkit

Everything a route demands, nothing it doesn't

Tell the app about your trip and it tunes every tab — packing, food, water, gas, even which knots show up first.

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Adaptive Packing

Describe the trip — forest trek, mountain route, winter weekend, canoe run — plus who's coming and for how long. Swipe items into your bag and watch it fill.

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Trace the Rope

Ten essential knots, from the bowline to the prusik. Drag the glowing end loop by loop, over and under, then pull outward and feel it cinch — with a stopwatch for your best time.

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Deadly Twins

Wild garlic or lily of the valley? Bilberry or nightshade? Slide the divider between look-alikes and tick off every sign before anything is called edible.

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The Way Back

Turn the ring to your bearing and follow it home. No compass? Use your watch and the sun, a stick and its shadow, or the pointer stars to Polaris.

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Food, Water, Gas

Calories for every adult, teen and child, grams per meal, litres for the longest dry stretch, and how many gas canisters to bring — packs get lighter every morning.

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Your Trail Log

A calendar of knots practised, plants spotted, saved walks to retrace, and past trips with what you left behind — so it makes the bag next time.

✅ Try it — this ring actually works

Set a bearing. Mark the turn.

This is the same logic behind The Way Back: rotate the ring until your bearing lines up with the fixed marker, then log the turn the way you would on an actual dead-reckoning leg back to camp.

Drag anywhere on the dial with your mouse or finger. The readout updates live, and every marked turn drops into the little trail log on the right — exactly how the real app keeps score of the walk you're retracing.

On the trail: your steps and direction add up to a straight line home. No signal required.

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Bearing 000°

Dead-Reckoning Log

  1. No turns marked yet — rotate the dial and mark one.
🏔 Who we are

About Us

⛰We're a small crew of hikers, scout leaders and bushcraft tinkerers who got tired of watching good trips go sideways over things a phone should've solved years ago — a forgotten stove, a guessed-at berry, a fork in the trail with no plan for it. Out of Range is what we built for ourselves first.
🏔Our mission is simple: put a calm, capable handbook in every pocket heading past the last cell tower. Not a feed, not a subscription treadmill — a tool that tunes itself to your actual trip and then gets out of the way while you walk it.
🧭The app gives you a packing list that adapts to your route and party, knots you learn with your hands instead of your eyes, a plant guide that makes you prove a plant is edible before it says so, and a compass system that works with or without a needle. All of it runs offline, because that's exactly when you need it.
🌿It matters because the backcountry doesn't negotiate with a dead phone or a half-remembered knot. Out of Range exists so the hard part of the trip is the trail — not the packing, not the panic, not the guessing.
Know the way. Even when you're out of range.
🔒 Trust, in writing

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: March 1, 2026

Out of Range: Hiking Guide is built to work where signal doesn't reach — which means it's built to work without ever needing your data. This policy explains, plainly, what that means in practice.

  1. Information We Collect

    We collect nothing. Out of Range does not gather your name, location, contacts, photos, device identifiers, or any personal information, whether you're planning a trip, tying a knot, or logging a walk.

  2. How We Use Information

    Because none is collected, none is used. We do not analyze your habits, build a profile of your trips, or sell or share anything with advertisers, data brokers, or anyone else.

  3. Data Storage

    Your trip plans, packing lists, knot practice history, plant sightings, saved walks and trail log all live only on your own device. Nothing is uploaded to a server or cloud, because we don't operate one for your data.

  4. Third-Party Services

    Out of Range contains no analytics software development kits, no advertising networks, and no tracking pixels. The app is designed to run fully offline, and no third party receives information from your use of it.

  5. Data Security

    Since your information never leaves your device, there is no transmission to intercept and no remote database to breach. Security is simply a matter of the safety of your own phone or tablet.

  6. Children's Privacy

    Out of Range does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children under 13. Because the app requires no account and no personal data of any kind, it is inherently unable to identify or target any user by age.

  7. Your Control

    There are no accounts to manage and no servers holding your history. If you want to remove your data entirely, deleting the app removes every trip plan, log entry and saved walk along with it.

  8. Changes to This Policy

    If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be included in a future app update with a revised effective date above. Continued use of the app after an update means you accept the revised terms.

  9. Contact

    Questions about this policy can be sent to privacy@outofrangeapp.com.

💬 Say hello

Contact Us

📍 Stuck on a feature, spotted a bug on the trail, or want to talk partnerships? Drop us a line — a real person reads every message.

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General Inquiries

Questions, feedback, trip stories.

hello@outofrangeapp.com
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Technical Support

Bugs, syncing, packing list issues.

helpdesk@outofrangeapp.com
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Business & Partnerships

Collaborations, press, outfitters.

partners@outofrangeapp.com

⏰ We typically reply within 24-48 hours — even from off the grid.