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You mean like a table of Chinese radicals?
Traditional https://www.archchinese.com/traditional_chinese_radicals.html
Simplified https://www.archchinese.com/arch_chinese_radicals.html
Or even Japanese kanji radicals, which are similar to traditional Chinese:
https://www.nihongomaster.com/kanji-radicals
Just save the websites in their entirety, and open the html file with a browser. They don't take up much space.
edit: Or save the websites to .pdf Same difference.
I highly recommend the Outlier Dictionary, an addon for Pleco. It covers about 4000 characters, so won't include very rare ones like 忻. Pleco itself will show basic decompositions like 忻 = 忄+ 斤.
There used to be an offline mobile app for HanziCraft, but the app seems to be gone now (a little annoying, since I'm pretty sure I paid for it).
I can't read Chinese, so not speaking from personal familiarity, but my guess is that any etymology is going to be spotty in coverage. My understanding is that millennia-old written Chinese is still readable by someone who knows contemporary Chinese, which is going to mean that the origins of characters are going to extend back to a period where one is going to have limited records and preserved written works.
