About Orbit

Orbit is a private social app for the people who matter.

Most social apps are built to maximize your attention, algorithms that decide what you see, ads that follow you across the web, engagement metrics that reward outrage. Orbit is the opposite.

How it works

You create an orbit, a private circle of people you actually know. Family, close friends, a chosen few. Inside each orbit, you share moments (photos, videos), thoughts (text), and pulses (ephemeral messages that disappear after one view).

You can be in multiple orbits, one for family, one for college friends, one for a creative group. They never mix. What happens in an orbit stays in that orbit.

What's different

• No algorithm. Posts appear chronologically, from the people in your orbit, in the order they were shared.
• No ads. Ever.
• No tracking. We don't run analytics SDKs, third-party trackers, or sell data to anyone.
• Private by design. Membership in an orbit is mutual and invite-only. Row-level security gates every read and write at the database level, not just in the app.
• You own your data. Delete a post, and it's gone. Leave Orbit, and everything goes with you.

Who built it

Orbit is built by a small team that wanted a calmer place to keep up with the people they love. We use Orbit ourselves, every day.

If you'd like to reach us: hello@social-orbit.app

Orbit is a product of Orbit Social.