# Meshbell

> Utilities

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6794157366](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6794157366)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6794157366`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** craig merry
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Version:** 1.0.5
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-27
- **First published:** 2026-08-20
- **Size:** 8.23 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meshbell/id6794157366)
- **Website:** [https://meshbell.com](https://meshbell.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://meshbell.com/privacy](https://meshbell.com/privacy)

## Description

Meshbell is a neighborhood emergency-alert app built for the moment the network fails. Floods, fires, and outages take cell towers and home internet with them — exactly when a neighborhood most needs to talk to itself. Meshbell doesn't depend on either.

WORKS WHEN THE NETWORK DOESN'T
Meshbell carries small, signed emergency bulletins over a local long-range radio mesh (LoRa). A warning can enter the mesh anywhere and hop radio-to-radio across the neighborhood — no tower, no router, no account. Your phone receives it and checks it, offline.

VERIFIED, NOT VIRAL
Most apps show you a claim and let the styling imply it is true. Meshbell keeps two facts separate and visible: who is speaking, and whether it could be checked. An unconfirmed neighbor report is shown as exactly that. Only a message that clears a real cryptographic bar can ever carry an instruction — and even a relayed official alert is not treated as official unless it proves it. This is built into the app, not a policy it remembers to follow.

FOLLOW THE PLACES YOU CARE ABOUT
Add your home, or a family member's street. Meshbell tells you about hazards that touch a place you watch, on your lock screen if they are serious enough — and stays quiet about the rest. Official warnings come from the National Weather Service, and a neighborhood bridge can add FEMA IPAWS in the United States or MeteoAlarm across Europe, in the issuing service's own words.

REACH NEIGHBORS WITHOUT A RADIO
One prepared neighbor can bootstrap the block. Set up a small Wi-Fi bridge on a Raspberry Pi (the installer ships inside the app), and anyone nearby with just a browser can read the mesh — nothing to install, and a neighbor's signed report is still checked on their own device.

BUILT FOR THE WORST HOUR
No cell, no Wi-Fi, an old phone, a nearly dead battery — Meshbell still works, and it tells you plainly what it can and cannot do. When data is stale, it says so, with its age, rather than showing a confident blank.

A PUBLIC GOOD, NOT A PRODUCT
Meshbell is built as a nonprofit, in the spirit of Watch Duty: the core alerting is free and always will be. We will never sell your emergency or turn your neighborhood into a mailing list. Your keys and your watched places stay on your device.

Meshbell is an early release and is not a substitute for official emergency services or alerts. Keep your existing emergency notifications turned on.

## Rankings

- #1,047,756 — Overall

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6794157366)