Field Watch
An offline Android companion for independent providers and people managing difficult circumstances. Next steps, resource cards, travel arithmetic, private notes and optional phone checks, kept together on your phone.
The basics
- No account, no subscription, no ads.
- No server. Nothing is uploaded or sent automatically.
- Your records are encrypted on the phone and open with your phone’s own unlock.
- The essential safety tools stay free.
What it does
Home
Pick what you need right now: food or water, rest, medication, transport, phone or power, housing, safety, or human contact. Keep your own next step, a heading-out checklist, and a check-in message you send yourself through the share sheet. The travel calculator works out a latest start time. It is arithmetic, not an alarm or a live transit feed.
Resources
Cards for places and services: phone numbers, web, address, hours, eligibility and the date you last checked. Search works offline. Share a card as text or a QR code, choosing which fields go with it, or import cards from a file or pasted text after reviewing every one.
Notes
Quick capture or full incident notes, with search and a follow-up filter. When you share a note you pick each part and see the exact text first.
Sweep and Watch (optional)
Checks you start yourself: nearby Bluetooth trackers, devices on the Wi-Fi you joined, phone settings that monitoring apps rely on, a magnetic meter, a lens finder and a high-tone listen.
What it can’t tell you
Every tool reports only what the phone can observe. A quiet result never means nothing is there.
- Watch shows whether it is running and, separately, whether it is actually receiving signals. Coverage reads Confirmed only when the watch has evidence that signals are arriving.
- It can’t see trackers that only use the mobile network, devices that aren’t transmitting, or anything while Bluetooth or the watch is off.
- It doesn’t call or message anyone for you, and it doesn’t contact emergency services.
Where it’s at
Release candidate 1.0.0-rc4. It has been built and checked on Android emulators. Testing on real phones is what the beta is for.