FAQ
Answers about PeerMesh, Shared Awareness, Groups, Nearby Rooms, maps, trails, connectivity, privacy, and plans.
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These three concepts explain how PeerMesh helps people coordinate in the real world.
PeerMesh is a group coordination app for people moving through the real world. It combines group messaging, shared maps, location sharing, trails, and shared awareness so groups can communicate and understand what is happening around them.
Most messaging apps focus on conversations. PeerMesh connects conversations to places, movement, observations, and shared maps. It helps groups build a shared understanding of the real world, not just exchange messages.
Shared Awareness is the common understanding a group builds from locations, markers, areas, observations, notes, trails, and movement history. It helps group members know what is happening, where it is happening, and how it changes over time.
PeerMesh is designed for hiking groups, outdoor activities, travel groups, event groups, volunteer teams, and people who need to coordinate together in real-world environments.
No. PeerMesh is not designed as a public social network. It focuses on practical group coordination, nearby discovery, and shared awareness.
A Group is a private, persistent space for people who coordinate together over time. Groups support messaging, shared maps, markers, areas, trails, and shared awareness.
A Nearby Room is a temporary BLE-first space for people physically near each other. It is designed for short local coordination and discovery. Nearby Rooms do not require a passphrase and expire automatically.
Groups are private, invited, and long-term. Nearby Rooms are open to nearby people, temporary, and designed for local discovery. Use Groups for trusted coordination. Use Nearby Rooms to communicate with people around you for a short period of time.
Yes. If you meet someone in a Nearby Room and want to coordinate long term, you can send them a Group invitation. PeerMesh does not need private direct messages for this flow.
No. Nearby Rooms are designed to be open to people physically nearby. Room owners can close the room or remove disruptive participants.
Markers are points on the map that highlight important places such as checkpoints, meeting points, hazards, water sources, campsites, or notes from the group.
Areas are shapes drawn on the map to represent zones such as safe areas, restricted areas, activity zones, search areas, or places that require group attention.
Awareness Capacity is the amount of shared map knowledge a group can actively maintain. Markers and Areas use capacity. Free users have a smaller capacity, while paid plans support larger groups and more shared awareness.
Shared Trails let group members share movement paths so the group can understand routes, movement, and where people have been during real-world activities.
Trail Replay helps review movement history after an activity. It makes it easier to understand where the group moved, how routes unfolded, and what happened during the activity.
Internet improves synchronization and reach, but PeerMesh is also designed with nearby communication in mind. Some features can work through local connectivity depending on device permissions, distance, and environment.
BLE-first means Nearby Rooms and nearby communication are designed to start from local Bluetooth Low Energy discovery instead of depending only on cloud servers.
PeerMesh is designed for real-world environments where connectivity may be inconsistent. It can use nearby communication and sync when connectivity becomes available, but it should not be treated as a guaranteed emergency communication service.
Android is the first supported platform. Early access builds will be available from the Download page.
iOS support is planned for a later phase after the Android version becomes more stable.
Your location is shared only with groups or rooms you choose to participate in. You should only share location with people and groups you trust.
No. Nearby Rooms are visible to people physically nearby. Do not share sensitive information in a Nearby Room. Use Private Groups for trusted coordination.
No. PeerMesh is designed as a privacy-conscious product and does not use advertising-driven data selling as its business model.
No. PeerMesh is not a guaranteed emergency service and should not be relied on as the only communication method in critical situations.
Yes. PeerMesh includes a useful Free plan so users can create groups, coordinate with others, use shared maps, join Nearby Rooms, and experience the core product.
Free users can create a limited number of groups, join groups, use group messaging, create Nearby Rooms, use shared maps, and maintain basic shared awareness with limited capacity.
Plus is designed for group leaders and advanced users who need more groups, larger groups, more awareness capacity, trail creation, longer history, and advanced movement tools.
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