CicadaTAK

CicadaTAK turns your phone into a tactical team-awareness display for places

with no cell service and no internet — backcountry, disaster areas, large

properties, search grids, event perimeters. It is the companion app for CicadaTAK mesh nodes: open-source, sub-$200 radio

gateways you build yourself (full instructions at cicadatak.com). Nodes form a

self-healing 900 MHz HaLow mesh with miles of range, and every phone

connected to a node shares one live tactical picture.

LIVE TEAM MAP

• Every teammate's position updates live on the map, with callsigns, colors,

and breadcrumb trails

• Offline map layers — download street, topo, and aerial imagery to the mesh

and use them with zero internet

• Drop markers, draw geofence zones, measure distance and bearing

• Mesh health overlay shows every radio link, color-coded by live throughput

ENCRYPTED TEAM CHAT

• Text messaging across the mesh, end-to-end encrypted with your team

passphrase

• Share photos from camera or gallery — delivered over the mesh, never through

a server

• Delivery receipts: one check sent, two checks delivered

• Canned quick replies for one-tap messaging on the move

PUSH-TO-TALK VOICE

• Real-time PTT voice to the whole team — live streaming audio, not recorded

clips

• Works with the screen locked

• Optimized voice codec keeps audio clear even on marginal links

MESH AWARENESS

• Node list with signal strength, battery state, and per-node hardware status

• Animated topology view — your whole mesh drawn as a live map-oriented graph

• One-tap node ping with round-trip time and link quality

LONG-RANGE LoRa BRIDGE

• Nodes with LoRa hardware bridge to Meshtastic devices, extending reach to

inexpensive handheld radios

• Three privacy modes, from open interop to fully dark

WORKS WITH TAK

• Nodes can bridge positions to ATAK/TAK clients on the same network via

Cursor-on-Target

YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS

• No accounts, no sign-up, no cloud, no analytics

• Everything travels phone → your own radio hardware → teammates' phones

• We never see your location, messages, photos, or voice — there is no server

to see them

IMPORTANT

• Full functionality requires CicadaTAK node hardware. Without a node, the app

runs in Standalone Mode: your GPS position on the map, offline-map browsing,

and every screen navigable — mesh chat, PTT, and team positions activate when

you connect to a node.

• CicadaTAK nodes operate in the 902–928 MHz license-free ISM band, legal in

the US, Canada, and Mexico. No radio license required.

• Build your nodes at cicadatak.com — open-source hardware and firmware.