V1.0 · OFFLINE-FIRST

Your household's resilience inventory.

hardtack catalogs your reserves — water, food, first-aid, energy — computes your real days of self-sufficiency and warns you before anything expires. No cloud, no account, no tracker.

One-time purchase Zero subscription Zero telemetry
The hardtack inventory screen: item list with category, storage location, calories and days left before expiry.
Inventory
The hardtack dashboard: days of self-sufficiency left, limiting factor and breakdown by category.
Dashboard
The hardtack barcode scanning screen, with an EAN-13 viewfinder and manual entry as a fallback.
Barcode scan
11
categories, from water to documents
8
preset kits, from the 72-hour bag to EDC
4
languages · EN / ES / FR / DE
0
account, cloud or tracker. Ever.
01 / Self-sufficiency Multi-axis engine

How many days could you last?

hardtack doesn't count boxes — it computes your real self-sufficiency. The engine cross-references your stock with your household's needs across three critical axes, then derives an overall score.

Days of water

Liters in stock ÷ daily need × household members.

Days of calories

Food energy intake measured against the rations needed.

Days of medication

Chronic treatments and first-aid kit tracked by dosage.

+ household profiles · adults / children / pets, personalized needs.

Self-sufficiency 19 days · target 30
Critical 0–9 d Watch 10–17 d Operational 18 d+

The gauge fills from red to green as your reserves grow.

02 / Features hardtack v1.0

Everything you need to manage a serious stockpile.

Inventory

Add, edit and delete items — quantity, unit, cost, notes. 11 categories and multiple storage locations (pantry, garage, vehicle, cellar…).

11 categories

Scan & lookup

UPC / EAN / QR barcode scanning. Cascading lookup Open Food Facts → USDA → UPCitemdb → manual entry, with popular products pre-loaded offline.

UPC · EAN · QR

Expiry & alerts

Multi-batch expiry dates — several batches per item. Min / max restocking thresholds and local notifications 30, 15, 7 and 1 days ahead.

D-30 / 15 / 7 / 1

Self-sufficiency score

Multi-axis engine: days of water, calories and medication, aggregated into an overall score. Household profiles with personalized needs.

Multi-axis

Kits

8 preset templates (72-hour bag, vehicle, earthquake, blackout, EDC, infant, pets, first-aid) with visual completion progress as a percentage.

8 templates

Rotation & consumption

First-in-first-out “use first” view to avoid waste. Consumption mode: stock is decremented automatically when you scan an item out.

FIFO

Budget

Total stock value in real time. Optional monthly budget with a per-category breakdown to steer your purchases.

Stock value

Data & backup

CSV / JSON export at any time. Local file backup and restore — your data stays on your device, under your control.

CSV · JSON

Offline, everywhere

Offline-first: every core feature works in the cellar, up a mountain or during a network outage. Available in French, English, German and Spanish.

Offline-first
03 / Screens Guided tour

Seven screens, in the order you'll meet them.

The hardtack dashboard: days of self-sufficiency left, limiting factor and per-category breakdown.
Dashboard
01 · Self-sufficiency

How many days would you last?

The engine cross-checks your stock against your household's real needs on three axes: water, calories, medication. It returns a number of days and names the limiting factor, the one capping everything else.

Multi-axisLimiting factorAdjustable target
The hardtack inventory screen: item list with category, storage location, calories and days left before expiry.
Inventory
02 · Stock

Your whole stock, laid flat.

Every item carries its category, its location, its quantity and the days left before expiry. Filter by category, by location, by urgency. Instant search, offline included.

11 categoriesFiltersSearch
The item edit form in hardtack: storage location, nutrition values, net weight, expiry and notes.
Item record · editing
03 · Item record

One item, all its batches.

Nutrition values filled in automatically on scan, net weight, Nutri-Score, unit cost. Several batches per item, each with its own expiry date.

Multi-batchNutritionUnit cost
The hardtack barcode scanning screen, with EAN-13 viewfinder and manual entry as a fallback.
Barcode scan
04 · Scan

The barcode does the work.

EAN-13 viewfinder, cascading lookup through Open Food Facts, then USDA, then UPCitemdb, with popular products preloaded so it keeps working without a network. Manual entry as a fallback, always.

EAN-13CascadeOffline
The manual item form in hardtack: category, name, quantity and unit.
Manual item entry
05 · Manual entry

Thirty seconds per item.

Eleven categories, six units, three measurement systems. The restock threshold is set item by item and feeds straight into the shopping list.

11 categories6 unitsRestock threshold
The first setup screen of hardtack, introducing local-only data and outdoor readability.
Setup · step 1 of 5
06 · Setup

Ready in five screens.

Household make-up, storage locations, self-sufficiency target. No account to create, no email address asked. Replayable at any time from settings.

5 stepsNo accountReplayable
The hardtack inventory screen, shown in the selected theme and accent colour.
Inventory
07 · Appearance

Tuned to your ground.

Three themes: Sand for broad daylight, Field for the night watch, Night-Op in red light to preserve night vision. Three accents, three measurement systems, four languages. Change the theme or the accent below, the screenshot follows.

3 themes3 accents4 languages
Theme
Accent
04 / Privacy OPSEC

Your reserves are nobody's business but yours.

Operational security isn't a paid add-on. hardtack is designed so that nobody — not a server, not a snoop, not us — knows what you store.

Biometric lock

Face ID, Touch ID or a PIN on launch.

Name obfuscation

Hide the real label of your items in one tap.

Decoy mode

A decoy inventory appears under a second code.

Encrypted P2P sharing

Local transfer via encrypted QR, without going through the cloud.

Zero cloudZero telemetry Zero ad trackingNo account required
05 / Kits 8 templates · % progress

Start from a template, track your completion.

72-hour bag
Evacuation bag
26 / 3086%
Car
Vehicle
14 / 2264%
Earthquake
Home
11 / 2642%
Blackout
Power outage
18 / 2378%
EDC
Every-day carry
9 / 9100%
Infant
Baby & child
12 / 2255%
Pets
Dog · cat
7 / 1070%
First-aid
Trauma & care
13 / 2748%
06 / Pricing One payment. Period.

Pay once. Keep it for life.

No subscription, no “premium” tier, no feature behind a paywall. hardtack costs the price of a water jug — and it's yours.

  • Every v1.0 feature, no exceptions.
  • v1.x updates included.
  • 4 languages · core features work without a connection.
  • Your data stays on your device.
v1.0
One-time
One-time purchase · iOS & Android
07 / FAQ Frequently asked questions
Q1Does hardtack really work without a connection?
Yes. hardtack is offline-first: inventory, scanning, self-sufficiency calculations and alerts all work without a network. Popular product databases are pre-loaded; online lookup is only used as a complement when a connection is available.
Q2Where is my data stored?
Exclusively on your device. No account, no server, no cloud sync. You can export to CSV / JSON and back up to a local file whenever you like, and share locally via peer-to-peer encrypted QR.
Q3Which platforms are supported?
iOS and Android, with Face ID / Touch ID / PIN lock. The interface offers three themes — Sand (day), Field (dark) and Night (red light, to preserve night vision).
Q4How is the self-sufficiency score calculated?
The engine cross-references your stock with your household's needs (adults, children, pets) across three axes: days of water, calories and medication. It derives an overall score and flags the “weak point” — the axis that limits your self-sufficiency.
Q5Is it a subscription?
No. hardtack is a one-time purchase. No subscription, no paid premium feature, no ads. v1.x updates are included.
Q6What exactly does the inventory handle?
11 categories (water, food, first-aid, tools, hygiene, energy, documents, clothing, pets…), plus an optional category disabled by default, multiple storage locations, batches with distinct expiry dates, min / max thresholds and a FIFO consumption mode when you scan an item out.
Q7I’m switching phones — do I get everything back?
Your purchase restores automatically through the App Store or Google Play (“Restore purchases”), with no account to recreate. Your data, however, stays on your device: before switching, make a backup or export (CSV or JSON) from the old phone, then re-import it on the new one.