# CicadaTAK

> A TAK App for CicadaTak Radios

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6763765541](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6763765541)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6763765541`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Merbella Studios Inc
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2.30 (47)
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-17
- **First published:** 2026-06-17
- **Size:** 29 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cicadatak/id6763765541)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://cicadatak.com/privacy/](https://cicadatak.com/privacy/)

## Description

CicadaTAK turns your phone into a live tactical display for places with no
  cell service and no internet — backcountry, disaster response, large
  properties, search grids, event perimeters.

  It is the companion app for CicadaTAK mesh nodes: 900 MHz radio gateways you
  build yourself from a fully documented hardware recipe (parts list and
  instructions at cicadatak.com). Nodes form a self-healing mesh that reaches
  over a mile per hop and relays through every teammate, so coverage grows as
  the team spreads out. Your phone joins a node's WiFi and the radios do the
  rest.

  WORKS WITH ATAK AND iTAK
  • Nodes speak Cursor-on-Target in both directions — positions, chat and
  markers pass between this app and ATAK or iTAK devices on the same node
  • No TAK server, no data plan, no setup beyond joining the node's WiFi
  • Run this app, run ATAK, or run both side by side on one team

  LIVE TEAM MAP
  • Teammates update live with callsigns, colors and breadcrumb trails
  • A position that stops being current turns grey and shows its age instead of
  vanishing, so you always know how old the picture is
  • Offline maps — download aerial, topo and street layers onto the node and use
  them with zero internet
  • Drop markers, draw geofence zones, measure distance and bearing, save routes

  ENCRYPTED TEAM CHAT
  • End-to-end encrypted with your team passphrase — the key never leaves your
  team
  • Share photos from camera or gallery, carried over the radio, never through a
  server
  • Delivery receipts, canned quick replies, and roll call for fast
  accountability
  
  PUSH-TO-TALK VOICE
  • Live streaming PTT to the whole team — real voice traffic, not recorded
  clips
  • Tuned to stay intelligible on marginal links

  LONG-RANGE LoRa BRIDGE
  • Nodes fitted with LoRa hardware bridge to Meshtastic radios, carrying
  positions and text far beyond the main mesh
  • Three privacy modes, from open interoperability to fully dark

  RUN THE NETWORK FROM YOUR POCKET
  • Set up a new node from the app — no laptop, no terminal
  • Live topology graph of every radio link, colored by measured throughput
  • Node list with signal, battery and hardware status; one-tap ping for
  round-trip time
  • Trade speed for range across the whole team at once, with automatic revert
  if a node doesn't come back
  • Update node firmware over the air

  YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
  • No accounts, no sign-up, no cloud, no analytics
  • Everything travels phone to your own radio to your teammates' phones
  • There is no server in the path, so there is nothing for us to see

  IMPORTANT
  • Full functionality requires CicadaTAK node hardware. Without a node the app
  runs in Standalone Mode: your own GPS on the map, offline map browsing, and
  every screen navigable — mesh chat, PTT and team positions activate when you
  connect to a node.
  • Nodes operate in the 902–928 MHz license-free ISM band on the United States
  channel plan, which is also licence-exempt in Canada,Mexico, and Australia. No radio
  license required.
  • Build your nodes at cicadatak.com — an open, fully documented hardware build
  on an open-source radio and mesh foundation.

## Rankings

- #843,191 — Overall

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