Ash: Local Survival AI

Ash is an offline survival assistant that runs its AI model entirely on your iPhone. Ask a question by typing, speaking, or pointing your camera at something, and Ash answers using 56 built-in emergency-response knowledge packs covering first aid, severe bleeding, CPR, hypothermia, flash floods, and dozens of other field situations — with inline citations you can tap to read the exact source passage. Once the model is downloaded, Ash needs no signal for typed or camera questions. Turn on Airplane Mode and it keeps working: no cell service, no Wi-Fi, no cloud calls for chat, image, or knowledge-pack lookups. Voice is the one exception — Apple's Speech Recognition may need network access to transcribe speech if you haven't downloaded an on-device language pack, so type or use the camera to test fully offline. This makes it a genuinely useful companion in the backcountry, during a power…