Seabirds detects feeding flocks on the horizon and projects a GPS waypoint for you. Tap once, send to your Garmin. On-device AI — no servers, no subscriptions to start.
Captured on a 6.9" iPhone running Seabirds v1.0 — no mockups, no marketing renders. The HUD chrome you see is the HUD chrome you get.
Live HUD on the deck. Bearing, FPS, AI status — and a real bird in the frame. Bottom sheet for sensitivity, range, and the two actions: Send to GPS, Save.
Your saved detections live here, on-device, forever. GPX export to a chartplotter, replay on the chart, no servers in the loop.
First-launch disclaimer. We tell you what it does and what it isn't, before you ever see the camera. Honest expectations, by design.
Six things Seabirds does, written the way a captain would describe them to another captain.
An AI model running on your phone's Neural Engine scans every camera frame for feeding-bird flocks. The boxes only commit when the tracker has held a target across multiple frames — no chasing false positives.
When you tap Save, Seabirds projects the flock's lat/long from your phone's compass, GPS fix, and your range estimate. Coordinates render in monospaced tabular digits — readable at a glance from a moving deck.
When the flock analyzer sees diving behavior — birds on the water, taking off, diving again — Seabirds throws an amber alert with a haptic pulse. You'll feel it through gloves while you're holding the wheel.
Seabirds writes standard GPX 1.1. Tap Send to GPS and route the file through AirDrop, Files, or Garmin Connect. Works with Garmin, Lowrance, Raymarine, Navionics, Aqua Map, and anything else that reads GPX.
Seabirds prefers your phone's virtual triple/dual camera, so pinching the viewfinder rolls smoothly across all three lenses — the same continuous range the native Camera app gives you.
The app opens no outbound connections. Camera frames are processed and discarded in the same instant. Your saved spots live in a local SwiftData store — yours to delete, yours to export, yours alone.
Seabirds is one screen, three actions, no menus to dig through. The entire flow is designed to run one-handed while you're holding a rod or a wheel.
Open Seabirds and point your phone at the horizon. The screen edges glow Sonar Teal when the AI sees something — a peripheral cue you'll catch through sunglasses, on a moving deck.
When the tracker confirms the flock across multiple frames, the glow brightens to Marine Cyan and a bounding box drops in. If birds start diving, the cue swaps to Beacon Amber with a haptic pulse.
Tap Send to GPS. Seabirds projects the flock to a coordinate from your bearing and range, packages it as a GPX 1.1 waypoint, and hands it to the iOS share sheet — Garmin Connect, Files, AirDrop, your call.
Seabirds is a spotting aid. Coordinates are estimates from your phone's compass and GPS — real-world position errors of hundreds of meters are normal and expected. Always verify visually. Maintain a proper lookout. Don't read the screen while operating the boat.
See the full Terms of Use for the complete safety statement and limitations of liability.
Seabirds is shipping to the App Store soon. Drop your support email a note if you want early TestFlight access or just to know when it's live.