The toolkit is the part of Seenary that travels with you. Everything below is saved on the phone before the trip, so a tunnel, a valley or a foreign SIM that never worked does not take it away. Planning the trip is free; the toolkit is unlocked by a Trip Pass or a Plus or Pro plan (the plans).
An offline map with road directions for your trip
When a plan is ready, Seenary cuts a map pack for that trip's corridor: the area around each place you sleep and the roads between them, with every stop of the plan as a numbered pin and the map's own named places searchable while you type. A pack is usually 20 to 45 MB. Download it once in the Offline toolkit, and the map opens with no signal.
Directions run on Seenary's own road data, on the phone: written turns, a moving position dot, rerouting when you leave the route, and the next stop in your plan when you arrive. Measured against Google's no-traffic times on a Goa trip, 88% of drives were within 25% of Google's estimate. The directions say "estimates without traffic" because that is what they are.
Emergency radar
The nearest hospitals, pharmacies, police stations, fuel stations, ATMs, transit points and embassies around your destination are saved on the phone from OpenStreetMap, each with a call button and directions. The toolkit says when they were saved and from where, warns when the list is over a month old, and tells you how far you are from the place they were saved for. The country's own emergency numbers are listed for 66 countries; where a country is not on that list the toolkit shows 112, which reaches emergency services on most mobile networks.
Also on the phone: an SOS message with your position to copy and send, a document vault, a Medical ID card, and a phrasebook the phone's own voices can read aloud.
Sign scanner
Point the camera at a sign in Devanagari (Marathi, Konkani, Hindi, Nepali) and the toolkit reads it. With no signal it still recognises the curated safety words (closed, danger, no entry, speed limits), the names of your own trip's places, and a word-by-word sign dictionary; whole boards are translated by Seenary's server when there is a signal, or on the phone once a language's model (about 30 MB) has been downloaded.
Voice translator
A two-way conversation screen in 43 languages: you speak, the other person reads and hears it in their language, and answers back. The phone does the listening and the speaking; only the words go to Seenary's server for translation, so this one needs a connection. No recording leaves the phone.
Trip checks before you go
Two days before a trip, and monthly before that, Seenary re-reads every stop of the plan against its map data (closed, no longer listed, outside opening hours), the government's own alert feeds and the UK and US travel advice for the country, and emails you only when something new needs checking. The toolkit shows the same findings, with the official source to confirm them against.
What it does not do
- It cannot save an area in Google Maps or Apple Maps for you. No app can start another app's offline download; the toolkit opens the right area and tells you the two taps to save it there.
- The map pack and a sign language need a connection once, to download. Save them at the hotel, not at the trailhead.
- Emergency places are saved for a few kilometres around the destination, not the whole corridor; the radar says how far away you are from them.
- Directions have no live traffic and no spoken navigation in the background: the screen stays on while you follow a route.
Questions
Does Seenary work without internet?
The map, the road directions, the saved emergency places, the phrasebook and the sign scanner's safety words work with no signal once the trip's pack has been downloaded in the app. Planning a trip, the voice translator and whole-board sign translation need a connection.
How big is an offline map pack?
Usually 20 to 45 MB for one trip: the area around each place you sleep and the roads between them. A sign language model for on-phone translation is about 30 MB more.
Can Seenary download the area in Google Maps or Apple Maps for me?
No app can start another app's offline download. The toolkit opens the trip's area in your Maps app and shows the two taps that save it there.
Which countries have emergency numbers in the toolkit?
66 countries have their own police, ambulance and fire numbers listed. Anywhere else the toolkit shows 112, which reaches emergency services on most mobile networks.
Which languages does the sign scanner read?
Signs in Devanagari: Marathi, Konkani, Hindi and Nepali. Boards can be read into any of the voice translator's 43 languages.
Is the toolkit free?
Planning a trip is free. The in-trip toolkit is unlocked by a Trip Pass for one trip, or a Plus or Pro plan.