72-hour kit

Build your 72-hour emergency kit. Keep it ready.

FEMA recommends every household keep 72 hours of supplies — water, food, first aid, documents — ready to go. Most people intend to build one. GoBagPlus makes maintaining one practical.

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What's inside

  • Vetted kit templates — pre-built kits based on FEMA, Red Cross, and Ready.gov guidance, scaled for households of 1–6.
  • Barcode scanning — add items with your iPhone camera. Open Food Facts provides expiry and nutritional metadata automatically.
  • Expiry reminders — push notifications at 30, 7, and 1 day before anything in your kit needs replacing.
  • Readiness score — a single percentage showing how complete and current your kit is, computed on-device.
  • Works offline — because your phone may be your only resource when the grid is down.

How GoBagPlus helps

A go bag fails when it falls out of sync with reality. Food expires. Batteries drain on the shelf. Kids grow out of clothes packed three years ago. GoBagPlus keeps every item dated, scored, and reminded — so the kit you build in October is still the kit you'd want in March.

Frequently asked

What's a "72-hour kit"? A go bag stocked for 72 hours of self-sufficiency — the window FEMA recommends so emergency services can respond and infrastructure can stabilise. GoBagPlus ships templates that match this baseline.

How long does setup take? About 10 minutes from a template. Adding existing items via barcode scan is 1–2 seconds per item.

Is the data on Apple's servers? No. Your inventory lives in your private CloudKit container — never on our servers. Read more on the About page.

See also: the full 72-hour kit checklist on Field Notes, or the bug-out bag checklist if you're packing for evacuation rather than shelter-in-place.

Free for the basics

One Go Bag and expiry reminders are free, forever.

Premium ($4.99/month or $34.99/year, one-month free trial) unlocks unlimited bags, household reserve, family planner, the full curated library, and PDF exports.

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