ESCAPE THE SCREEN.
TOUCH
The brutalist edge AI engine designed to shut down your screen in 15 seconds. Run quantized open models on the trail with zero internet, track foliage peaks, and identify bird song without a single byte escaping your device.
WOOD THRUSH DETECTED
Inference latency: 42ms on Apple Silicon / Android NPU. Confidence: 98.4%. Habitat: Mature deciduous forest canopy with moist leaf litter.
THE OLD WAY
How closed-source corporate AI traps you behind glass while draining battery, cash, and privacy.
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✕4.8 Hours Daily Screen Addiction Algorithmic feeds and persistent chat interfaces designed to keep your eyeballs glued to OLED panels instead of sun and dirt.
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✕Cloud-Tethered Dead Zones Closed proprietary APIs require constant 5G towers. The moment you hike 2 miles into a canyon or national forest, your assistant dies.
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✕GPS Telemetry Surveillance Every secret foraging spot, private woodland trail, and biometric heart rate is logged on remote servers and monetized.
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✕$20/Month Rent-Seeking Paywalls Forced subscriptions for bloated frontier models that hallucinate simple local planting dates and sap battery life in 90 minutes.
THE TOUCH GRASS WAY
Open-source, edge-native, brutalist intelligence built for the sole purpose of sending you outside.
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✓15-Second Screen Lifetime Strict protocol: receive your turn prompt, leaf canopy route, or bird match in 80ms—then the screen forcibly locks.
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✓100% Offline Open Weights Runs SmolLM2, Whisper-tiny, and BirdNET ONNX locally on laptop or phone silicon. Works on airplane mode in remote backcountry.
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✓Air-Gapped Absolute Privacy Zero cloud pings. Your home address, wild mushroom foraging coordinates, and running splits never leave your device storage.
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✓Permissively Licensed & Free Forever Apache 2.0 open architecture. Swap models, fine-tune for local microclimates, and inspect every line of code without asking permission.
BUILT WITH OPEN PIECES AT ITS CORE
EDGE-NATIVE OPEN WEIGHTS INFERENCE
Quantized ONNX models running directly inside the client via WebGPU and WebAssembly. No API keys, zero external requests, and zero monthly server hosting overhead.
const session = await ort.InferenceSession.create('./weights/birdnet_q4.onnx');
const species = await session.run({ audio_fft: trailBuffer });
TRAIL ACOUSTIC BIO-IDENTIFIER
Identifies 140+ native avian songs directly from your phone mic. 40ms local FFT spectrogram analysis without cell signal.
SCREEN-TO-DIRT PROTOCOL
A hard mathematical ratio: every 1 second of screen lookup mandates 120 seconds of forest submersion. Auto-locks your screen.
LOCAL CANOPY & FOLIAGE ROUTE GENERATOR
Calculates maximum tree-canopy density, autumn leaf hue progression, and dirt-to-pavement ratio. Generates 3k, 5k, and 10k routes that prioritize forest trails over concrete.
HOW IT SHUTS DOWN YOUR SCREEN.
Most software wants your continuous engagement. Touch Grass uses open-source edge AI to optimize for its own prompt eviction.
INITIALIZE EDGE WEIGHTS
Load our quantized SmolLM2 or BirdNET model into your browser’s WebAssembly memory with a single click or terminal command. Once loaded, you can sever your Wi-Fi and mobile data completely.
RECEIVE 15-SEC EXPEDITION DIRECTIVE
Tap the specific outdoors problem you need: fall foliage trail routing, live bird call spectrography, or seasonal frost date sowing. The model computes your answer in 40 milliseconds.
LOCK THE DEVICE & TOUCH GRASS
The interface initiates a 15-second graceful black-out. Put the phone in your pocket, leave your laptop on your desk, and walk outside. The open-source model has done its duty.
TEST THE TOUCH GRASS ENGINE LIVE
No cloud servers. Every audio synthesis, route generator, and frost matrix runs directly in your local browser sandbox.
AIR-GAPPED BIOACOUSTIC SPECTROGRAM
Simulate bird calls or use your real microphone. Real-time Web Audio API FFT visualizer running without internet.
WOOD THRUSH
Flute-like 'ee-oh-lay' song. Nesting in dense hardwood canopies. Detected frequency range: 2.8kHz - 4.2kHz.
- Architecture: BirdNET Mobile ONNX
- Inference Time: 41.2 ms
- Cloud Server Calls: 0 (Air-Gapped)
- GPS Location Leakage: 0 bytes
"Look up 25-35ft into the white oak branch forks. Do not play recordings out loud."
FALL FOLIAGE RUN CLUB ROUTE SYNTHESIZER
Generate canopy-rich running & hiking loops that prioritize dirt trails, leaf color index, and tree shade.
- North trailhead past old stone weir (0.4km)
- Veer left onto Hemlock Ridge path (1.8km)
- Ascend Red Oak crest for 360° fall foliage (3.2km)
- Follow gravel creek bed back to start (5.1km)
Zero cloud GPS syncing needed. Copy coordinates or memorise the simple loop.
EDGE FROST-DATE & WILD SOWING ALMANAC
Offline horticultural rules engine. Tells you exactly what to plant or forage in your soil today.
PLANT HARDY GARLIC CLOVES
First frost is approximately 20 days away. Plant hardneck garlic cloves 2 inches deep, pointy end up, covered with 3 inches of straw mulch.
HEN OF THE WOODS & ROSE HIPS
Look at the base of mature dead or dying oak trees. Maitake fronds emerge following early October rains. High in bio-nutrients.
- ✔ Milkweed (Asclepias) cold sow
- ✔ Echinacea purpurea winter bed
- ✔ Winter Rye cover crop
15-SECOND POCKET LOCK
When you click Start, you have 15 seconds to finish reading your prompt, put your phone in your pocket, and step outside. Synthesizes gentle offline binaural forest wind and dims the display.
TESTED ON BACKCOUNTRY TRAILS
"I was 6 miles deep in Shenandoah National Park with zero cell reception. Touch Grass identified a nesting Cerulean Warbler in 40 milliseconds on airplane mode. Cloud AI is completely dead out here."
"Our run club was sick of members constantly checking Strava and staring at pace splits. We switch on Touch Grass, get our autumn foliage trail waypoint, and lock our phones. Screen time plummeted 90%."
"The frost date almanac saved my entire winter brassica bed. It calculated our local valley microclimate on my laptop without asking for a credit card or logging my GPS coordinates to big-tech servers."
SHUT DOWN THE SCREEN.
ENTER THE WILD.
Download the air-gapped ONNX trail models. Zero monthly fees, zero cloud telemetry, 100% open source.