Built by a rider, in the Peak District
BridleNav speaks your route out loud, turn by turn, so your phone stays in your pocket and your hands stay where they belong.
“In two hundred yards, through the gate on your right.”
Coming spring 2027 · one email, from me, the day it goes live
Here is one of our routes, and the words BridleNav says as you set off. Press play and it will read them to you, the way it would from your pocket.
“Welcome to BridleNav. Starting the Totley Moor loop, an eleven and a half mile ride over the Peak District moors from Fox Lane. There are three busy road crossings and possibly cattle, so take care — but the canter tracks and views are superb. Follow the green line and enjoy the ride.”
Your hands stay on the reins. Your eyes stay on the track.
Why it exists
Reins in both hands. Gloves on. A horse who won’t stand still, on a track where stopping isn’t sensible anyway. Every other navigation app quietly assumes you can look at a screen.
So BridleNav doesn’t ask you to. It tells you what’s coming while there’s still time to do something about it, says “now” at the turn itself, and keeps talking with the screen off and the phone in your pocket.
If you have to look at it, it hasn’t worked.
What you get
A warning while there’s still room to react, then “Now, turn left” at the turn. A UK voice you can change in Settings.
Download the map before you box up. Riders have completed whole loops on BridleNav with no phone signal at all.
Where to park, with a postcode and a what3words square — plus height and length restrictions before you tow somewhere you can’t turn round.
Road crossings, gates, boggy stretches, and the two houses where the dogs come at the fence. The things a local would tell you.
What it will cost
Your first complete ride is free, with everything switched on — voice, offline maps, the lot. After that there’s a seven-day trial before you pay anything.
Cancel any time. Good for a season.
Works out at £8.33 a month — close to three months free against paying monthly.
BridleNav is not on sale yet — these are the prices it will launch at. Prices include VAT. Available in the United Kingdom. Subscriptions are managed through the App Store or Google Play, and you can cancel there at any time.
More about BridleNav
Voice directions, offline maps, horsebox parking, hazards called out.
Forty-one to begin with, each badged by how well we know it.
SOS sends your exact location and a tappable map link to your emergency contact.
The things riders ask before they download it.
Built at a farm in Holmesfield, not in an office.
