wildPal
When you step off the trail and watch the signal bars on your phone drop to zero, your most powerful tool usually turns into a useless glass brick.
Core trick
Runs Gemma on-device for offline survival triage and switches to Gemini Live, streaming camera and mic, when a connection exists.
Description
When you step off the trail and watch the signal bars on your phone drop to zero, your most powerful tool usually turns into a useless glass brick. WildPal changes that narrative. It is an offline-first, tactical multi-tool that transforms your smartphone into a fully autonomous survival instrument, guaranteeing safety and intelligence even when you are hundreds of miles from the nearest cell tower.
It relies on 6 core features to keep you alive and on track:
1. Live Vision AI
Features a Live Mode that streams your camera feed and microphone audio directly to the AI, allowing it to act as a second pair of eyes to analyze terrain, identify tracks, or guide you through emergency repairs in real-time.
2. On-Device Intelligence
Runs the advanced Gemma LLM natively on the phone's hardware to provide instant, off-grid survival advice and triage protocols—all without relying on a server connection.
3. Tactical Maps
Pre-loaded, interactive terrain maps for route tracking, distance estimation, and waypoint dropping when GPS is the only signal you have left.
4. Live Telemetry
A central dashboard utilizing device hardware to provide real-time coordinates, movement speed, and environmental conditions at a glance.
5. Advanced Sensors
Harnesses the device's built-in hardware to provide a highly accurate digital compass and barometric pressure reader to help you predict incoming weather changes.
6. Emergency Hub (Ghost Signal)
A fully offline survival library combined with an autonomous background protocol that constantly monitors for fleeting cellular signals to automatically dispatch SOS coordinates if you are incapacitated.
README excerpt
# WildPal
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<strong>The wilderness companion that stays useful when the signal dies.</strong><br />
Gemini Live online. Gemma 4 offline. One mission ledger. One survival surface.
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<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/React-19-blue.svg" alt="React 19" />
<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/TypeScript-6.0-3178C6.svg" alt="TypeScript 6.0" />
<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Vite-8.0-646CFF.svg" alt="Vite 8.0" />
<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Tailwind-3.4-38B2AC.svg" alt="Tailwind 3.4" />
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<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Mode-Online_/_Offline-5dd97c" alt="Mode Online / Offline" />
<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Maps-Leaflet-5da9e3" alt="Maps Leaflet" />
<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Sensors-GPS_+_Compass_+_Battery-e8b04b" alt="Sensors" />
<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Emergency-SOS-e35d5d" alt="Emergency" />
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WildPal is the Apex Survival build: an offline-first wilderness companion for Android that blends live multimodal AI, local fallback, tactical maps, live sensors, and emergency tooling into one field-ready app.
## Why It Exists
WildPal is built to prove two things at once:
- **Gemini Live online** for real-time hands-free camera + voice guidance.
- **Gemma 4 offline** for context-aware, local-first survival chat when the network disappears.
The app has one surface and two brains. Signal state decides which bra