Roadmap

First the roots. Then what grows.

The app comes first: make the everyday BOAR excellent, and let the people who carry it tell us where it falls short. Then it grows outward, into packs of knowledge that people make, share and take with them.

A direction, not a schedule. It will change as people use the app.

  1. RootsShipped
  2. First shootsHere today
  3. BranchesAfter that
  4. GroveFurther out

  1. Phase 1 · Shipped

    Roots

    The part that already works, in v1.0.0 for Android. All of it runs on the phone, with no account and no network after the first setup, and it is measured on a real device.

    • Shipped

      Local offline engine

      Ask with no signal and BOAR finds the right passages in its library, by keyword and by meaning, then a model on your phone writes the answer.

      How it’s built

    • Shipped

      Your own knowledge base

      Bring your own notes, manuals and data (.txt, .md, .csv, .json or .pdf) and BOAR learns them on the phone, in collections you switch on and off.

      How importing works

    • Shipped

      Model browser

      Pick another model from the curated list, or search Hugging Face for a GGUF model and download it without leaving the app.

      Finding more models

    • Shipped

      Portable collections

      Export a collection as a plain JSON pack and hand it to someone; their phone rebuilds it locally, so it works on any device.

      About knowledge packs

  2. Phase 2 · Here today

    First shoots

    Making the app itself better: on more phones, for more ways of asking, with the right model for each question, and ready before you leave home.

    • In progress

      iOS

      The same offline pipeline on iPhone, so BOAR goes with you whatever phone you carry. It already builds; now we’re getting it running well on real iPhones.

    • Testing

      Packs for places

      Before a trip, download a pack for where you’re going, say Rome: places to eat and drink from OpenStreetMap and Wikivoyage, found by distance and diet, each with its source. The first ten regions are in testing; getting around comes next.

    • Testing

      The right model for each task

      A quick answer straight from the sources when that’s enough, the model you picked for most questions, and a bigger one when you ask to go deeper, all in the same conversation.

    • In progress

      Offline voice

      You can already ask out loud: speech recognition runs on the phone and audio never leaves it. Next, a voice that reads the answer back, for when your hands are busy.

  3. Phase 3 · After that

    Branches

    Once the app is solid, packs become something people make, share and trust: a community library, verified essentials, and a private memory that stays yours.

    • Later

      A shared pack library

      Build a pack from your own notes, export it and hand it on, or browse, preview and download packs and specialised models the community curates, from a directory built to work offline first.

    • Later

      Private memory

      Choose to encrypt your personal notes, the private documents you import and your conversation history, so only you can read what’s stored on your phone.

    • First pack testing

      Essentials library

      Checked offline bundles for first aid, evacuation, survival, disaster response, homesteading and growing food. The first, Emergency and preparedness, is in testing: 1,754 documents, each with its source and license.

  4. Phase 4 · Further out

    Grove

    Where it could grow: more places to build and read your library, and ways to pass knowledge on without the internet at all.

    • Further out

      Desktop app

      BOAR on Mac and Windows, for people who build and look after large libraries and then carry them on the phone.

    • Exploring

      Sharing nearby

      Pass a pack from one BOAR phone to another over Bluetooth or local Wi-Fi, with no internet in between.

Beyond the phases

Further ideas

  • Idea

    Peer-to-peer inference

    Phones nearby share the work of one answer, so a group of BOAR phones can run a bigger model together, with no internet and no server.

  • Idea

    Barter and trade guides

    Reference guides and tables for trading face to face when payments and networks are down: what things are worth, how to measure them, how to agree a fair swap.

A game · About two minutes

Play the roadmap

Run BOAR through the four phases. Collect knowledge scrolls, grab packages while you are online, and keep going when the signal drops. Every gate is a real item from the roadmap above.

The game needs JavaScript. The whole roadmap is right above.

BOAR mascot, a boar in a pith helmet

Help shape what grows next.

Tell us what you’d want in your pocket when the signal drops. Ideas, pack requests and bug reports all go in GitHub issues, and the code is MIT, open to anyone who wants to build.

Open an issue See the repo

Browse the open issues · Get v1.0.0 for Android · Back to BOAR