UK prep & bushcraft app
Calm, practical help to get your household ready for power cuts, floods and storms, and to stay safe outdoors. Everything works with no signal.
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What's in the bag
PREPARE · FULL KIT
Tick-off checklists that show you exactly what to get and do. Your household readiness score goes up as you go.
STORES · FULL KIT
Log your water, tins, batteries and medicine. Tap minus when you use one. Grab Bag shows how many days your water would last and reminds you a month before anything goes out of date.
EMERGENCY · FREE
Sixteen step-by-step cards, including CPR, bleeding, choking (adult and baby), stroke, burns and hypothermia, plus a screen torch that flashes SOS and the UK numbers you'll need.
WHERE AM I? · GRID REFERENCE FREE
GPS works without phone signal. Grab Bag turns it into a proper OS grid reference you can read to Mountain Rescue letter by letter, with a compass and a one-tap "send my location".
NEARBY · FULL KIT
Download your area while you have signal and keep it for when you don't. Drinking water taps, springs and streams, high ground, mountain huts and shelters, defibrillators and A&E, each with a live arrow pointing the way.
WILD FOOD ID · FULL KIT
Real photos of UK wild food in season, side by side with the poisonous plants they get mistaken for: wild garlic and lords-and-ladies, sweet chestnuts and conkers. Plus the deadly ones everyone should know.
GUIDES · FULL KIT
Purifying water, lighting a fire properly, cooking without power, flooding, long power outages, when the taps stop, staying warm, getting found and more. Written for UK homes and UK weather.
The 72-hour rule
UK advice is to be able to look after yourselves for at least three days. Here's what that means for your home.
drinking water for the family, about 14 × 2-litre bottles. Double it if you can, for cooking and washing.
no-cook meals, plus snacks.
toddler-sized meals, about half portions, plus snacks.
nappies, plus wipes.
jars or pouches of baby food if they've started solids, plus 3 days of ready-to-feed formula or milk.
Pets
water for your dog. About 1 litre a day each for a medium dog; more for big dogs.
dog meals of their usual food, 2 a day.
water for your cat. About 250 ml a day each.
cat meals of their usual food, 2 a day.
Adults and children: 3 litres of water and three meals a day. Toddlers: about half. All for three days. The app keeps these numbers for your household and counts your stores against them.
Proper planning, without the panic.
Grab Bag is made by Fleming and Kin, founded by a UK forces veteran.
In the forces you learn that being ready isn't about kit piled in a cupboard. It's about knowing what you've got, knowing the plan, and making sure everyone knows where to meet. Grab Bag takes those habits and makes them simple for families at home.
No doom and no bunkers. Just UK advice, UK numbers and UK weather, in an app that still works when the signal doesn't.
The first aid and safety content follows NHS, St John Ambulance, Met Office and Environment Agency guidance.
Proper planning prevents poor performance. Every squaddie knows the rest.
Pricing
999, first aid and your grid reference are free, for good. The Full Kit unlocks the rest for £4.99 a year, less than 10p a week.
Free
£4.99a year
Start with a 3-day free trial
New packs and member discounts are included while you're a member. Cancel any time in your Apple ID settings.
No account, no tracking, no ads. Your plan, stores and checklists are saved only on your device. When you download your area in Nearby, an approximate location (to about 1 km) is used to fetch free OpenStreetMap data, and nothing else leaves your phone.
Support
Yes. The guides, checklists, first aid cards, stores and plan are all saved on your phone. GPS works without phone signal, so your grid reference and compass work anywhere. Nearby needs signal once to download your area, then works offline.
No. Grab Bag is a quick reminder based on NHS and St John Ambulance guidance. A first aid course is the best thing you can do. In an emergency, always call 999.
£4.99 a year, after a 3-day free trial. It renews once a year and you can cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. New packs and member discounts are included. The free emergency features (999, SOS light, first aid and your grid reference) never need paying for.
Grab Bag is coming to iPhone first. Android will follow if there's demand. Email us below and we'll let you know when it launches.
Use it to learn, never as the only reason to eat something. Every page shows the features to check and the poisonous lookalikes. If you're not 100% sure, leave it. Grab Bag never helps you pick mushrooms to eat.
Please tell us. We read every message, and fixes go into future updates.
