Food sovereignty
Give neighbors a direct way to share harvests, trade seeds, and coordinate what's grown locally — without a corporate platform sitting between the grower and the table.
Off-Grid Community Mesh
TrueRoots
Food sovereignty and a resilient neighborhood that keeps talking, trading, and looking out for each other — even with no internet, no cell service, and no servers.
Why TrueRoots
Rooted in your community, not the cloud
The tools we rely on to feed and organize our communities all assume one thing: a working connection to the internet. When the grid goes down, the towers go quiet, or you simply live where coverage doesn't reach, those tools disappear. TrueRoots is built the other way around — it works first, and connects opportunistically.
Community self-reliance
Coordinate work, requests, and resources across the people around you. Every phone is a node, so the network grows stronger with each neighbor who joins.
Resilient when it matters
Storms, outages, and dead zones don't stop the mesh. Radios relay messages peer-to-peer, so your community stays reachable when centralized infrastructure fails.
Privacy by design
No accounts on a central server, no data broker in the loop. Communications stay on your local mesh, and direct messages are end-to-end encrypted between devices.
How it works
A mesh network your community owns
TrueRoots runs over Meshtastic, an open long-range radio protocol built on inexpensive LoRa radios. Instead of routing your messages through the internet or a phone company, each radio simply passes messages along to the next one in range — like a bucket brigade for data. No SIM card, no monthly bill, no company that can switch it off.
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Pair a LoRa radio
Connect an affordable Meshtastic radio to your Android or iOS phone over Bluetooth (BLE) — or USB on Android. The radio is the antenna; the app is the interface.
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Radios relay for each other
Every node forwards messages for its neighbors, hop by hop. A message can travel far beyond any single radio's range by riding across the mesh.
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Send even when nobody's home
If a recipient is out of range, your message is held in an offline queue and auto-retries when they reappear — with delivery receipts so you know it landed.
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Grow the coverage
Add a solar repeater or more neighbors, and the network gets more reliable and reaches farther — owned and maintained entirely by the community.
No internet · No cell towers · No central servers — the network is the radios in your community.
Everything on the mesh
Built for real off-grid life
Every feature is designed to work fully offline first, then sync opportunistically when nodes come into range.
Off-grid mesh messaging
Text your community over Meshtastic LoRa with no internet, cell service, or servers involved.
Encrypted 1:1 messages
End-to-end encrypted direct messages with a store-and-forward queue that auto-retries, plus delivery receipts: queued, sent, delivered, or failed.
Group & broadcast chat
Reach every nearby node at once for announcements, coordination, and community-wide conversation.
Food & seed marketplace
Post local food and seed listings, message a seller directly over the mesh, broadcast a listing to nearby nodes, and let listings sync between neighbors — all offline.
Offline maps & node map
Cache map tiles for use with no signal, share and import maps, and see mesh nodes placed on the map around you.
SOS emergency broadcast
Send an urgent alert across the mesh that repeats for reachable nodes — a lifeline when every other network is down.
Seed vault
Catalog and preserve the seeds your community saves, and share entries across the mesh to keep varieties alive locally.
Multi-language
Use TrueRoots in English, Spanish (Español), or French (Français), with instant in-app language switching.
Privacy-first, no servers
No central accounts and no cloud dependency. Your community's conversations and data stay on the local mesh.
See the app
Designed for clarity in the field
A calm, earthy interface that stays readable outdoors and works entirely offline. Below are two representative screens — the home dashboard and mesh chat with delivery receipts.
Illustrative mockups — not real device screenshots. Actual screens may differ.
Food sovereignty & community
The technology serves the neighborhood
TrueRoots isn't a social network — it's infrastructure for the people already around you. The goal is simple: make it easier for a community to feed itself and stay connected on its own terms.
- Growers reach eaters directly, keeping food and seeds circulating locally.
- Neighbors coordinate labor, tools, and resources without a middleman.
- The mesh keeps working through outages, so mutual aid never depends on the grid.
- Communities own and expand their own network, one radio at a time.
Get started
Help seed the network
TrueRoots connects to your Meshtastic radio over Bluetooth (BLE) on both Android and iOS. We're onboarding early communities now — join the waiting list to get set up and help bring the mesh to your area.
Android — available now
Distributed as a sideloaded APK. Not on the Google Play Store yet. Request access to get the APK and setup guidance.
iOS — coming soon
The BLE-based iOS app is in preparation — not yet released. There is no App Store listing or TestFlight build available yet; join early access to be notified when it's ready.
No download links or app-store listings are published yet; beware of any that claim to be.