# TAK Can App — Team Awareness Kit Client > Team Awareness Kit Client (iPhone/iPad app by Andre Couture.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tak-can-app/id6762517940 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Andre Couture](https://appshunter.io/developer/1421131837) - Category: Navigation - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.6 · 98 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-04-24 - Data updated: 2026-07-30 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tak-can-app/id6762517940/reviews.md ## What is TAK Can App? TAK Can — Situational Awareness No server required. Works right out of the box. TAK Can is a full-featured situational awareness app for iOS. Drop it on your phone and you're immediately monitoring emergency alerts, tracking wildfires, watching road incidents, and coordinating with your team — all without creating an account or touching a server. Live Data Feeds (standalone, no server needed) • Alert Ready — national emergency alerts: Amber alerts, severe weather, evacuations • Wildfire tracking — active fire hotspots from Natural Resources Canada • 511 road incidents — closures, construction, and hazards for ON, QC, BC, and AB • Earthquakes — USGS worldwide M2.5+ events in the past 24 hours • Hurricanes — NOAA active tropical storm tracking (Atlantic & Pacific) • Severe weather — NWS tornado and severe thunderstorm alerts (USA) • Tsunamis — NOAA Pacific and global tsunami warnings Powerful Map • Multiple base maps including satellite, topo, nautical, and street • Custom map sources and offline tile packages • Overlay manager for stacking feeds and custom layers • Search addresses and coordinates — map centres and zooms automatically • Info bubbles show last-seen age at a glance (e.g. "3m", "1h") • MGRS, UTM, Decimal Degrees, DMS coordinate display • Marine & nautical charts — high-resolution depth (CHS NONNA, Canada), US charts (NOAA ENC), and global seamarks, with offline caching • Identify plants, animals & objects with the camera — on-device Apple Vision, works offline, photos never leave your phone • Full iPad support, including Split View multitasking Connect Your Team (optional) When you're ready to go further, TAK Can connects to any TAK server: • TCP, UDP, and TLS server connections • Certificate enrollment and mTLS (mutual TLS) support • Channels, chat, and geo-chat • Import and export data packages • Share your live position with the team Mesh Networking (no internet required) • Device-to-device mesh via Apple Multipeer Connectivity • Bluetooth LE fallback for background mesh when screen is off • Chat and position sharing across the mesh Apple Watch • Live compass, speed, and altitude on your wrist • Heart rate and battery broadcast to the team • Emergency beacon and silent call from the watch • Chat notifications and quick reply Live Data Subscription (optional) TAK Can Live Data is an optional auto-renewable subscription: • Monthly plan — billed monthly, cancel anytime • Annual plan — billed once per year, includes a free trial period Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Built on TAK Aware TAK Can is based on the open-source TAK Aware project. TAK (Team Awareness Kit) is the same technology used by first responders and emergency management teams worldwide. Privacy Policy: https://takaware.ca/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Live Data Monthly | $1.99 | per month | | Live Data Yearly | $14.99 | per year | ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2.0 — 2026-07-26 Marine & nautical charts • Optional chart overlay with high-resolution depth (CHS NONNA, Canada), US charts (NOAA ENC), and global seamarks (OpenSeaMap). Adjustable opacity and offline caching, under Map Options. Live feeds & hazards • Live hurricane feed from the US National Hurricane Center. • Earthquakes, tsunamis, weather, and Québec wildfires (SOPFEU) each show a distinct map icon. • Feeds load automatically on launch, and stale markers are cleared automatically. AI plant & object identification • A camera button on the map uses on-device Apple Vision to identify plants, animals, and objects and drops a marker at your position. Works offline — photos never leave the phone. Data packages & layers • Import data packages by scanning a QR code, or open .zip / .kml / .kmz overlays from Files, Mail, Safari, or AirDrop. • New Data Layers screen: a toggle for every imported overlay, an info view (filename, import date, SHA-256), centre-on-layer, and sharing of exported packages. Apple Watch • Record submersion water depth and pressure on Apple Watch Ultra as a Cursor-on-Target vital. Installs cleanly on watchOS 26. iPad • Fills the screen (fixed letterboxing after rotation) and supports Split View multitasking. 3D map • Navigate with one finger in 3D, with an optional gyroscope look mode. Security & reliability • Every TAK server connection uses mutual-TLS with certificate pinning; a changed server certificate is refused with a re-trust prompt. • When connected to more than one server, each server's data is kept isolated on the device. • Reliable certificate enrollment with self-signed OpenTAKServer and FreeTAKServer; the connection resumes cleanly after enrollment. • Additional stability fixes. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-05-24 LIVE DATA SUBSCRIPTION ADS-B aircraft tracking, AIS vessel tracking, weather radar, and traffic cameras are now available with a free trial — cancel anytime from the App Store. PREVIEW LOCKED FEATURES Locked Live Data feeds are now visible in the menu so you can see exactly what the subscription unlocks before subscribing. INTERNATIONAL HAZARD FEEDS (FREE) • NOTAM / TFR — aviation notices and Temporary Flight Restrictions plotted near your location • Australia fires, USA wildfires, New Zealand earthquakes, and worldwide disaster events • USGS worldwide earthquakes — M2.5+ events globally, past 7 days NOTIFICATION INBOX (FREE) Searchable in-app history for every alert. Filter by Feed, Chat, Emergency, Geofence, or Server. GO TO LOCATION (FREE) Jump to any point by address, decimal degrees, DMS, DDM, or MGRS. Drop a point marker directly from the panel. SMARTER GPS & BATTERY Full precision in the foreground; automatically steps down when backgrounded with no active TAK connection. FIXES & RELIABILITY Faster aircraft and vessel marker updates, automatic feed retry on spotty connections, and improvements to certificate handling, thread safety, and input validation. ### 1.0 — 2026-04-24 No release notes. ## More apps by Andre Couture - [Map Telemetry](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/map-telemetry/id6760446001) All apps by Andre Couture: https://appshunter.io/developer/1421131837 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-30.*