Your contacts stay in your cloud — not ours.
Most relationship tools store your contacts on their servers, indefinitely. Orbit works differently: your contact data lives in your own cloud storage — Google Drive today, with Dropbox and iCloud coming. We never see it, never store it, never sell it.
- You can export or delete your data at any time, with no questions asked.
- There is no lock-in: your data is in standard formats you can open anywhere.
- No advertising, no data mining, no third-party sharing — ever.
Set a budget. Orbit fits your relationships into it.
Most people lose touch not because they don't care, but because life gets in the way. Orbit lets you set a daily relationship budget — say, 30 minutes — and automatically schedules your touchpoints to stay within it, no matter how many people are in your orbit.
- You budget in minutes per day, not an arbitrary number of contacts per week.
- Each type of interaction — a coffee, a call, a quick text — is counted at its actual time cost.
- New people are slotted into the first open window, so your queue never grows faster than you can handle.
You decide who's in your orbit, and how close.
Strong relationships aren't accidental — they're built through repeated, consistent contact over time. Orbit gives you a dashboard that shows exactly who you should reach out to today, based on the cadences you've chosen for each person in your life.
- You set the rhythm for each person: weekly for close friends, monthly for colleagues, quarterly for loose ties.
- Your dashboard surfaces who is overdue, who is due today, and who is coming up — so you never have to wonder.
- Every time you log a touchpoint, the clock resets and the next due date is calculated automatically.
Life gets busy. Orbit adjusts so you don't have to.
Even with the best intentions, sometimes you miss a catch-up. Orbit notices when you keep pushing someone back and quietly stretches their cadence — moving them to a less frequent slot rather than letting them pile up as overdue forever. The moment you reconnect, everything snaps back to normal.
- Each missed catch-up gently widens the gap to the next one, reducing pressure without dropping anyone.
- The stretch is capped at four times the base cadence — so no one ever quietly disappears from your orbit.
- When you do reconnect, your original rhythm is restored automatically.