Roots: Offline Homestead

About Roots: Offline Homestead

Your whole homestead — library, know-how, AI — works with the bars at zero.

Roots puts a 575-book self-sufficiency library, an on-device AI that answers with real citations, camera ID for plants, creatures and mushrooms, and 31 homesteading tools in your pocket. It all runs on your device after a one-time download. No account, no ads, no tracking. Built for the back forty, the barn, or the cabin off the grid.

ASK ANYTHING, GET CITED ANSWERS
When do I start tomatoes? How much do I feed laying hens? How do I treat mites in a hive? Ask by voice or text and get a straight answer built ONLY from real homesteading, gardening, canning and livestock books, with tap-able citations to the exact pages. It knows your frost date, animals and recent harvests. English & Spanish.

A LIBRARY FROM WHEN THIS WAS ORDINARY
Every one is public domain or a US government work, checked before each release with the source recorded per book. Most were written when a smallholding had no electricity and no store to run to, which is why they still work: The Dollar Hen on laying flocks, Comstock's How to Keep Bees, Practical Angora Goat Raising. Alongside them sit federal and Navy trade manuals for the things nobody writes about any more — fencing, barns, wells, concrete, wiring an outbuilding.

POINT THE CAMERA — ID IN SECONDS
• Plant ID — name what's growing in your beds and pasture.
• Creature ID — identify critters with clear venomous / hazard warnings.
• Mushroom ID — on-device fungus identification with safety cautions.
• Diagnose a Plant — snap the sick leaf, get likely causes and fixes.
• Use My Harvest — say what you picked, get ways to cook and preserve it.

YOUR FLOCK & HERD
My Animals keeps a record for every bird and beast — breed, age, photo, notes. Log a breeding or set eggs and the due or hatch date fills itself in per species. Record a treatment and Roots warns you in the Egg Log before you eat or sell during the withdrawal period. Link feed, vet bills and sales to an animal to see whether she pays for herself. Beekeepers get a hive log.

SEED TO HARVEST
Plantings follows every crop from sowing to pull-out — variety, bed, transplant date — and rolls harvest totals up per planting, so next winter you know which tomato actually produced.

31 HOMESTEAD TOOLS
Planting Calendar · Canning Guide + altitude Timer · Succession Planner · Companion Planting · Crop Guides · Chicken Feed · Brooder & Incubation with candling light · Livestock Health · Seed & Row Guide · Fermentation Brine · Recipe Vault · Foraging Calendar · Compost · Rainwater · Gestation · Soil Amendment · Firewood · Bed Planner · Spray Mixes · Sun & Shade Mapper · Moon Phase · Day Length · level, ruler, protractor and magnifier.

JOURNALS THAT REMEMBER
Grow Journal (with photos), Harvest Log, Egg Log, Rain & Water Log, Canning Log, Money Log and a Seed & Pantry Inventory with low-stock alerts. A Season Report totals your year automatically — eggs collected, jars put up, harvest by crop, rain. Export any journal as CSV, or back everything up, photos included.

COMPANION MODE
Planting reminders, frost alerts the evening before a freeze, a barometer that warns of a storm with no signal at all, a 12-month almanac, a "this week" dashboard, and a widget with your frost alert, next planting action, moon phase and egg counts.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Photos, questions and journals never leave your phone. No account, no analytics, no tracking. Roots goes online only for the one-time library download and, if you use it, the weather forecast for the spot you choose.

YEARLY OR YOURS FOREVER
Start with a 7-day free trial, then keep everything for $12.99/year — or own it forever with a single $29.99 lifetime unlock. No account either way. The download is about 3.4 GB (Wi-Fi recommended), then it runs fully offline.

Off the grid · Offline AI Companion. The homesteading, canning, chicken-keeping and foraging companion that keeps working when nothing else does.