Marine · Hardware2025 – hoy

The app that steers a boat autopilot, from design to Bluetooth

We designed and built Searebbel's app: heading, routes, navigation modes and alerts, connected over Bluetooth to the on-board autopilot.

What we did: UX/UI · Native app · Native BLE module · Back-end
Timeline: Ongoing
Stack: React Native · Expo · Nitro Modules · Swift · Kotlin · BLE
Client: Searebbel

Searebbel: The app that steers a boat autopilot, from design to Bluetooth

The product

Searebbel makes a smart autopilot that holds any boat's heading and track. The app is the remote: see the heading, nudge ±1° or ±5°, draw or follow a route, set up the boat and get alerts.

Designed for the sea

High contrast, large targets and zero ambiguity: it's used in the sun, with gloves, on a moving boat. Every phase is validated with real sailors.

Technology

What Searebbel is built with

React NativeOne codebase for the iOS and Android app.
ExpoBuilds, OTA updates and store releases.
Nitro ModulesHigh-performance native bridge between JavaScript and Swift/Kotlin.
SwiftNative iOS modules where React Native can't reach.
KotlinThe native Android side of those same modules.
BLEBluetooth Low Energy link to the hardware.

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