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A free, offline-first rights and documentation tool for the communities you protect.

Anchor helps people stay safe, know their rights, and document threatening situations in high-stress moments. It works offline, supports English and Spanish, and is designed with clear privacy and safety boundaries.

Free. Offline-first. Bilingual. Privacy-first.

I am exercising my right to remain silent. I want a lawyer.

Estoy ejerciendo mi derecho a guardar silencio. Quiero un abogado.

Am I being detained?

¿Estoy detenido/a?

Am I under arrest?

¿Estoy bajo arresto?

Am I free to leave?

¿Estoy libre para irme?

Free to useWorks offlineEnglish + SpanishNo legal adviceNo evasion or public spottingNo intake obligation for partners

Who it's for

Legal Aid & Advocacy Groups

Equip your clients to assert their rights.

Give people a secure, offline-first way to document incidents, preserve evidence, and connect to trusted counsel in both English and Spanish. Anchor can extend your know-your-rights education without creating intake obligations or accessing user data.

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Legal Observers & Documentation Teams

Capture and preserve evidence in the field.

Whether monitoring protests or documenting rights violations, Anchor records high-stress situations, encrypts them immediately on-device, and lets observers notify trusted team members even with poor connectivity. You control what's shared; Anchor cannot decrypt recordings.

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Community Outreach & Rapid Response Teams

Empower rapid response efforts.

Field teams can share Anchor with community members so they can document interactions, access bilingual rights scripts, and alert chosen contacts quickly. The app works offline and respects privacy, so your team isn't burdened by data access or intake requirements.

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Built to support the work organizations are already doing

Designed to complement your work, not add new obligations to it.

Many organizations already help people prepare for high-stress situations through know-your-rights education, legal referrals, safety planning, and community support. Anchor is designed to complement that work, not replace it.

It gives individuals a simple, privacy-first tool they can use in the moment: to document what happened, preserve evidence, access rights guidance, and alert trusted people quickly. For organizations, that means a resource that can extend preparedness without creating a new intake burden or requiring access to user data.

In the moment

What people can do with Anchor

Document quickly

Start recording in seconds with a panic-first flow designed for high-stress moments.

Know what to say

Access clear rights scripts in English and Spanish, including during a threatening situation.

Protect what happened

Recordings are encrypted on device, and optional encrypted vault backup can begin while recording when a connection is available.

Reach trusted people and legal help

Users can alert trusted contacts and access an offline legal help directory without relying on perfect connectivity.

Low friction for you

Why it can fit alongside know-your-rights and legal-aid work

Anchor is designed to be practical for at-risk communities and low-friction for organizations.

Free and offline-first

People can use core functionality without reliable internet access or a paid plan.

Bilingual where it matters

Core screens and rights content are available in English and Spanish.

No intake obligation

Organizations do not need to monitor incidents, receive alerts, or run a response workflow to share Anchor as a resource.

User-controlled sharing

The individual decides who their trusted people are. Anchor is designed to support personal preparedness, not organization-managed case intake.

Aligned with rights education, not evasion

Anchor focuses on lawful self-advocacy, documentation, and connection to legal help. It does not provide evasion guidance or public spotting features.

Privacy by design, not data collection

Anchor is designed so sensitive recordings and contact data stay protected.

  • Encrypted on device

    Recordings are encrypted before storage, using keys held in the phone's secure storage.

  • We cannot decrypt recordings

    By design, Anchor does not have the key needed to read a user's recordings.

  • No third-party analytics or ad tech

    Anchor is not built around tracking, advertising, or surveillance.

  • Minimal data exposure

    The product is designed to minimize what the server can see or produce under compulsion.

  • Clear limits, honest claims

    Vault backup is best-effort and depends on connectivity. Anchor does not overpromise evidence preservation in every scenario.

We can only produce what we have. By design, that does not include plaintext recordings or plaintext contact lists.

Clear boundaries matter.

Anchor is designed for lawful self-advocacy, rights education, and evidence preservation. It is not designed to replace emergency response, legal counsel, or organization-led case handling.

  • Not legal advice. Anchor provides general information only.
  • Not emergency services. In an emergency, call 911 or the appropriate local emergency number.
  • No evasion guidance. Anchor does not provide content that helps users evade law enforcement.
  • No public spotting or crowdsourced alerts. Sharing is private, not public.
  • No organization data access by default. Recommending Anchor does not give an organization access to user recordings or contact lists.

Practical ways to collaborate

We are most interested in collaboration that strengthens access, trust, and usefulness for the communities you serve.

Distribution

Include Anchor in know-your-rights materials, community resource lists, or preparedness guides.

Legal help directory collaboration

Discuss inclusion criteria, update process, and attribution for legal-aid or hotline entries in the offline directory.

Content review

Review rights or warrant guidance for clarity and accuracy, with clear disclaimers and editorial boundaries.

Mission-aligned partnership conversations

Talk about how Anchor may fit alongside existing education, outreach, and community-protection work.

What we are not asking from partners

  • No 24/7 intake or response obligation
  • No legal endorsement
  • No access to user data
  • No need to manage alerts or incidents
  • No custom workflow required to start a conversation

Anchor is meant to be low-friction for organizations to evaluate and, where appropriate, share. We are not asking organizations to take over response operations or act as a proxy for legal counsel.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Anchor for?

Anchor is built for people in the U.S. who may face sudden questioning by immigration or other law enforcement, or other threatening situations where documenting what happened and preserving evidence matters.

Does Anchor work without internet?

Yes. Core features are designed to work offline, including recording, rights scripts, and legal help access. Optional vault backup and alert delivery depend on connectivity when available.

Does Anchor give legal advice?

No. Anchor provides general information only and is designed to connect people to legal help, not replace licensed counsel.

Does Anchor help people evade law enforcement?

No. Anchor supports lawful self-advocacy, rights education, and documentation only.

Would recommending Anchor create work for our organization?

Not by default. Anchor is designed so organizations can share it as a resource without taking on intake, monitoring, or alert-response obligations.

Can Anchor access user recordings?

No. Recordings are encrypted on device, and the system is designed so Anchor cannot decrypt them.

What stays free?

Rights scripts, local recording, alerts, basic warrant guidance, and the offline legal help list are intended to remain free. Paid features, where applicable, are about optional cloud infrastructure, not rights.

Interested in sharing Anchor with your community?

We're opening access in waves and are looking to speak with legal aid, immigrant-rights, civil-liberties, and community organizations that want to explore distribution, directory collaboration, or content review.

General information only. Not legal advice. Not emergency services.