Readiness you can measure
Modern Guardian keeps your gear, ammunition, medical kit and training in one private place, shows how ready you and your people really are, and names the one next step that moves you forward.
Who it's for
Anyone who has decided to be ready for the people around them.
Our mission
Being ready to protect the people you love is less about owning gear and more about knowing what you have, keeping it in working order, and practicing until it is routine. Modern Guardian turns that into a steady habit: an honest inventory, plain numbers on what would last, a clear next step, and a log of every drill and course.
It is a tracker, not a teacher. It never instructs on weapon handling, tactics, medicine or law. It points you to certified training, keeps you honest about practicing, and keeps every record private.
What it does
Most people who carry gear cannot say how many rounds they have per caliber, when the hemostatic gauze expires, or when they last ran a land navigation course. Modern Guardian answers those questions in plain numbers.
One inventory by caliber, category and container. Firearms are recorded by type and caliber, never by serial number. Bins and bags get QR labels, so a scan opens what is inside.
Rounds and magazines per caliber against your own baselines, and days of water, food and medication for the whole team, with the shortest supply called out.
Every gap is ranked by how much it moves you forward and what it costs. Set a monthly budget and it picks the purchases that matter most.
Lay out a loadout on a figure, slot by slot: belt, vest and pack. It checks what fits where, weighs the whole load against your body weight, and counts the rounds you would carry.
Log dry fire, tourniquet drills, ruck marches, land navigation and comms checks with a timer and a score. Record each course and license with its date.
No account, no ads, no tracking. Records stay on your devices, sync through your own iCloud only if you switch it on, and back up to a file you can encrypt.
The ranks
A long gear list overwhelms. A ladder tells you what comes next. Each rank adds a little: a piece of kit, a drill logged, a plan written. Every five ranks a new gate opens new loadouts, plans and skills, from the first carried tourniquet to leading a neighborhood plan.
Marksman, rank six, opens the second gate: a pistol type with a retention holster and two magazines, dry fire logged, and a written range-day plan. Minuteman, rank twenty-five, is everything on the body, the belt and the ruck, in place and drilled.
A week with Modern Guardian
Follow one small team: Dan, call sign Hatchet; his wife Kate; their neighbor Winston, call sign Anvil, a patrol officer; and Fable, a working dog in training.
Sunday evening · 20 minutes
Dan adds the three of them and the dog, then the gear already in the safe and the hall closet: a pistol and a carbine by type and caliber, the ammunition, the magazines, a half-built first aid kit.
What the app doesRanks them at Marksman, shows weapons and medical as the domains to work on, and names the next step: lockable storage and a cleaning kit.
The first of the month · 2 minutes
They set aside $150 a month. Instead of an accessory nobody needs, the plan puts the first aid kit and the range bag first, because those move the ring the most.
What the app doesRanks every gap by impact per dollar and builds a shopping plan that fits the month, with the rest waiting for next month.
Saturday · one errand
Kate finishes the first aid kit: a second tourniquet, hemostatic gauze, chest seals, a pressure bandage. She books the Stop the Bleed class for the next weekend.
What the app doesTracks every item against public Stop the Bleed and CoTCCC recommendations, scales consumables to the team, and reminds her before anything expires.
Thursday evening · 25 minutes
Dan lays out his patrol loadout piece by piece: the pistol on the belt, the carbine slung, the first aid kit on the vest where either hand can reach it. Then he photographs his own gear, so the drawn stand-ins become the real thing.
What the app doesChecks each piece fits its slot, totals the weight against 30 and 45 percent of body weight, counts the rounds carried, and shows which loadout checklist items the build already covers.
Tuesday night · 15 minutes
Dan runs a dry-fire session with an empty pistol, no ammunition in the room and a safe backstop, then a tourniquet drill on the timer. Two entries, thirty seconds each to log.
What the app doesKeeps the timer, the score and the history, counts the session toward the weekly challenge, and never grades technique. That is what instructors are for.
Wednesday after dinner · 20 minutes
Around the table they write the rally points, the out-of-area contact and a PACE plan: phones, then the radios on a set channel, then a note on the board, then the brother in Tulsa by six.
What the app doesTurns the plan into a card everyone carries and a one-tap emergency call, and counts it toward the Sentinel rank.
Friday night · a walk-through
Winston walks the house with them after dark: which doors are weak, where the light switches are, who goes to the safe room with the phone, and what to say to the dispatcher.
What the app doesHolds the plan as Before, During and After steps they can check off, logs the walk-through as practice, and keeps the emphasis on locks, distance and calling for help.
Back from the range · 2 minutes
Two hundred rounds of 9mm went downrange. Dan updates the count and moves the range bag back to the truck. The hearing protection Winston borrowed is marked lent, with his name.
What the app doesRecomputes rounds per caliber against the baseline, flags what is low, and keeps a history of every move and change.
Any time · no internet needed
What goes in a first line versus a second. What PACE stands for. How FRS, GMRS and amateur radio differ. What armor ratings mean. Thirty-six short articles, all on the phone.
What the app doesSummarizes public concepts in plain language, names every source, and sends you to certified training for the rest.
Three months in
A little each week added up. The kits are nearly full, the plans are written and walked, and every drill the first twenty ranks ask for is in the log.
What the app doesRanks them at Shieldbearer, rank twenty, the end of the fourth gate, with Ranger and fieldcraft next.
Make it yours
Pick the colors that suit you or your team in Settings. The theme stays on that device, and a backup brings it to the next one.
Ranger green, sage and gold. The original.
Red, white and blue.
Subdued camo: olive drab, coyote and khaki.
Law-enforcement navy with badge gold.
Red, black and white.
Built on public guidance
Every checklist and article draws on public sources: Stop the Bleed from the American College of Surgeons, the public CoTCCC recommendations, NAEMT's TECC course descriptions, FCC Parts 95 and 97, the NIJ ballistic resistance standard, public US Army foot-march guidance and FEMA's Ready.gov. Nothing is a guess, and nothing is sold to you.
Privacy
An inventory of firearms, ammunition and armor is exactly the information that should never sit on someone else's server. So it doesn't.
Open the app and start. There is nothing to sign up for.
No analytics, no ads, no tracking, and no serial numbers stored anywhere.
Records stay on the device. Sync across your iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own private iCloud, only if you switch it on.
Export everything to one file, encrypted with a passphrase if you like. Lock the app with Face ID.
Modern Guardian is coming to the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Fifty ranks, eighteen loadouts, sixteen plans and ninety-six skills, drills and courses in the first version, with more to come.
Questions
No. It tracks what you have and what you have practiced. Drill cards name published standards and safety rules, and the score you log is yours alone. Technique belongs with a certified instructor.
No. It is educational and summarized from public sources. You are responsible for the law where you live on weapons, armor, radios, self-defense and medical care. Learn it from qualified sources, and take the courses.
No. Firearms are recorded by type and caliber only, and there is no field for a serial number, permit or license number.
They are starting points the app proposes, per weapon type plus a training reserve, and you can change every number in Settings. The rank ladder asks for fixed amounts at each step.
No. Everything, including the articles, works offline. The internet is used only if you switch on iCloud sync or the optional product lookup for packaged consumables.
No. Medical, navigation, communications, fieldcraft, home defense and close-quarters skills are their own domains, and the first ranks start with awareness, everyday carry and first aid.
What you can plan for
Each plan has Before, During and After steps you can check off and practice. They open a few at a time as you move up the ranks, starting with the home and personal safety.
