A home that works with your body, not against it.

My name is Brandi. I’m a real person, with real experience in circadian & mitochondrial health, and a real desire to help humans practice old ways in modern times. Much of that means aligning more closely with the natural signals humans evolved under, like sunlight, living water, getting offline, and touching the Earth, without having to completely abandon modern life or society. (Even if I often wish we would all become feral, nomadic, hunter-gatherers again. I’m doing my best.)

In any case, what gives me the credibility to offer this tool—and to know which settings truly help protect your health? For 3.5 years (2022–2026), I worked as a business partner to Carrie Bennett, a circadian and quantum health educator and clinician. During that time, circadian practices and tools completely changed my own health. I also had the privilege of watching those same practices change the lives of hundreds—perhaps thousands—of people while working alongside Carrie.

Now, I run my own business, Teach Me, Nature, where I teach “old ways” to modern adults—everything from circadian health and fermentation to ancestral and primitive skills.

No. RadioDark isn't something you download from the App Store. It's built entirely on Apple's own Shortcuts app, already set up and configured for you.

Building this as an actual native app would take serious development investment, the kind that usually needs outside funding, so a Shortcuts-based system lets me deliver the same result without one. (Though if you happen to be an investor, feel free to reach out.)

You could—but only partly. Airplane Mode shuts down your cellular connection, but Bluetooth may remain active, and your iPhone can remember Wi‑Fi or Bluetooth settings you previously re-enabled while in Airplane Mode. So the airplane icon alone doesn’t guarantee every wireless radio is off. It also does nothing about blue light, brightness, or flicker. RadioDark handles all of these settings in a single tap, without requiring you to check and adjust each one manually.

You could! Shortcuts is available to anyone with a new enough iPhone, and I encourage you to do what works for you. But building something like this means building all the Shortcuts' action logic from scratch, knowing which settings truly support your health, and discovering any non-obvious platform quirks for your specific device that most people wouldn't think to check for. That’s real time and effort. I’ve already done that work; all that's left for you is a short, one-time setup.

No, it doesn't cost money, and there's no trick.

RadioDark is fully a gift I'm offering to anyone who wants it, with no charge and no paywall. I do ask for your email so I can send you the setup guide, a couple of reminders to help you finish, and a few invitations to keep learning with me. If I make significant updates that are worth reinstalling for, I'll email you about those too, so stay on the list if you want to hear about them. No sales sequence, and you can unsubscribe anytime.

If you'd like to drop me a tip in gratitude, you can do that here.

No. RadioDark is built entirely on Apple's native Shortcuts app, which doesn't exist on Android. Bringing this to Android wouldn't be a simple port; it would mean building a completely separate product from scratch, using different tools entirely. More likely, it would require investment funding to hire an app developer. Again, if you’re an investor who cares about circadian and mitochondrial health (or know one), and would like to see this happen, please reach out.

RadioDark is guaranteed to work on iPhone 8 or newer, running a current iOS version. It's been directly tested on iPhone 8 through iPhone 16 Pro Max, the range of devices used in beta testing. Older models, from iPhone 6s to iPhone 8, are expected to work based on the Shortcuts app's own minimum requirements, but haven't been personally verified.

Not officially, at least not yet. I know for certain some features don't work correctly on Apple Watch, and I haven't tested Mac computers at all. iPad is looking good—it works on mine—but I'm not promising cross-device functionality at launch until I've tested it more broadly. So right now, RadioDark is only guaranteed to work on iPhone 8 or newer.

No, not after you’ve run the “Go RadioDark” shortcut, specifically, and that's intentional.

RadioDark is built to fully cut wireless signals, not just reduce them. Running “Go RadioDark” fully cuts Wi-Fi and Bluetooth completely, including calls and texts.

If you need to be reachable, just tap “Go Online” from whatever trigger method you've set up, and your cellular connection, calls, texts, and internet come back immediately. I can't confirm how Apple's satellite-based emergency features behave when cellular is cut off, so if that matters to you, it's worth checking directly on your own device.

Reality check, though: You wouldn’t be reachable if you were in Apple’s own “Airplane Mode,” either.

Or if you’d simply lost cell, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth service naturally, like out in the wilderness or mountains. The one difference: with RadioDark, your phone also isn't emitting harmful radiation at you while you're unreachable.

Choosing when and how to use RadioDark, including during any emergency, is entirely your responsibility.

Not reliably. Apple's “Find My” offline finding feature locates a phone using Bluetooth signals broadcasting to nearby Apple devices, even without Wi-Fi or cellular.

Since Go RadioDark cuts Bluetooth along with cellular and Wi-Fi, that offline-finding network won't work either.

But this is the same limitation you'd have if you'd manually put your phone in Airplane Mode yourself, or if it were simply out of range of any signal at all.

So if your phone is lost or stolen while fully disconnected, I can't guarantee it'll be locatable. Restoring your connection with Go Online, Wi-Fi On, or Bluetooth On may help, but only if you still have access to the phone to do so.

Yes. But after using and closely examining the existing options, I realized I wanted something different: settings configured to meet my standards (particularly ones involving circadian health), and features I couldn’t find in the products I tried. As a user myself, I decided to build the tool I wanted to exist—for myself, for my friends and family, for everyone I knew in the circadian-health world, and for anyone else looking for the same thing.