BivouacNight app icon
BIVOUAC NIGHT
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Free · iPhone & iPad Works with no signal
BivouacNight app icon: a rally-raid service crew working on a car under floodlights

BIVOUACNIGHT

The race is won at night.

The service log for the crew that starts work when the stage ends. Open a session when the car comes in, log every card, time the work instead of guessing it — and hand the next shift a board they can read.

No account. No analytics. Everything you write stays on the phone.

24field notes, from symptom to bodge
32parts in the common crate list
9systems, four severities
0accounts, trackers or ads
21:40 → roll-out

A night in four moves

The app follows the way a service crew already works. Nothing here is invented at runtime — the vocabulary is the one on the awning wall.

01

Write the board down

Open a session when the car comes in, then log every card: the system, how bad it is, the time you book for it and the parts it needs.

Weld lower wishboneCRIT
Replace rear damperMAJOR
Air filter changeMINOR
02

Time it, do not guess it

Start a timer when the work starts. The app keeps your booked time against the real time, and later estimates carry that difference for you.

04:12
03

Close it honestly

Repaired, temporary or partial — with the parts it used and a note in your own words. That is what the next shift reads in the morning.

Repaired · nothing to revisit
Temporary · needs doing again
Partial · left part-finished
04

Ask, or photograph it

The assistant reads your own board, your crew and your crate, and can look at a photo of a part. Everything it says is a suggestion to verify on the car.

8 of 12 likely failures covered

What it holds

Everything the awning needs,
and nothing it does not

Flat surfaces, one accent, and colour used only where it carries meaning — because at three in the morning nobody reads a chart.

A board for the night

The event, the car, the conditions and the time it has to leave. Every card you log tonight files under that session, and closing it moves the whole thing to the log.

Timed, not guessed

One tap starts the clock on a card. Booked minutes sit against real minutes all night, and the gap between them is what the next estimate is built from.

Closed honestly

Repaired, temporary or partial, with the parts it consumed and a note in your own words — so the morning crew inherits the truth, not a tick.

The crate against the ground

Tell it what the next stage runs on and it checks your loadout against the failures that ground usually causes — with slots used and kilos carried.

A chief on the radio — or none

Ask it to order the board, say what to defer, check the crate or write the handover. Say no to the network and the on-device chief still triages, with no signal at all.

Twenty-four field notes

Symptom, cause, the proper bivouac fix, the honest bodge and how far that bodge gets you — for two dozen failures every raid crew learns the hard way.

Photo readings — one picture, one system, one answer Crew roster — trades, hours and who is on duty Night-shift reminder — scheduled by the device Plain-text export — paste it into any report Demo data — a worked example, removable in one tap Erase everything — and it is genuinely gone
Four tabs, one button

Board. Log. Kit. Chief.

The middle button changes with the night: it opens the session when there isn't one, and reaches for the camera once the work is running.

Boardtonight, in front of you
Stage 7 · Erg Chebbi DUST ×1.25
#304 T1+ · rolls out 05:00
Critical Weld lower wishbone running

Job cards carry a system, a severity, booked minutes, the parts they need and the crew on them. The header counts the window down against what you booked.

Logeverything written down
12Sessions
87Jobs closed
96hOn the tools
Stage 6 · closed 04:489 done
Stage 5 · closed 05:122 temporary

Sessions, job cards, free notes and photo inspections, all searchable, with an export that pastes straight into a report or an email.

Kitwhat the truck actually carries
28/40Items loaded
184 kgof 220 kg
Damper Cartridge2
Welding Rods5
Alternator Belt0

An inventory of what the team owns, a loadout for the next stage, and a coverage figure that tells you which likely failures you cannot fix tonight.

Chiefon air, or on the device
There is less time than work. What do I defer?
Start the wishbone — the car does not leave without it. Push the air filter behind the damper: dust ahead means you will want the spare element anyway.
Order the board What do I defer Check the crate Handover note

The channel stays shut until you read the notice and agree. Decline it and the offline chief still orders the board — every part of the app works with the radio off.

Kit · crate for the next stage

The ground decides the crate

Pick what tomorrow runs on and the app counts the failures that ground usually causes against what is actually in the truck.

Dunes

0%

0 of 0 of the common failures on this ground are covered by what is in the crate tonight.

Not covered
Reference · the field manual

Twenty-four ways a raid car breaks

Each one carries the symptom, the cause, the fix that holds, the bodge that does not — and how far the bodge gets you before it lets go.

Privacy

Nothing about you is collected

There is no sign-up, no login and no profile. No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising or attribution code — and it never asks for your contacts or your location.

Your log stays on this phone

Sessions, job cards, timers, notes, the parts inventory, the crew list and the photos you take live in the app's own private container on the device.

The assistant is the only network

The Chief tab stays shut until you read the notice and agree. After that, your question and a briefing built from your own log go out — and nothing else.

Erasing is genuinely erasing

We hold nothing, so there is nothing for us to delete. Settings wipes the log, the inventory, the photos and the threads in place; deleting the app takes the rest.

Read the full policy
Radio the workshop

Something broken,
or something missing?

Bug reports, feature requests and notes from actual bivouacs are all welcome — especially the last one. Write below, or mail jasonlawrence168@gmail.com directly.

Worth including
  • The version, from Settings → About.
  • What you were doing when it happened — which tab, which sheet.
  • Whether the radio was open or the chief was running offline.

Never send us your log: we have no way to read it and no wish to hold it.

✓ Message sent — thanks. We read every one.

BivouacNight app icon

The car leaves at five.

Open the session, log the board and let the clock do the arguing.