Everything Orbit does, in four short chapters
Orbit is a private messaging app for families of every shape. The tour below walks through how families set up an Orbit, the safety controls a parent has, what chatting actually feels like, and how Orbit keeps every message private end-to-end. Pick a chapter to dive in.
Family setup
How families come together on Orbit: sign-up, onboarding, inviting parents and grandparents, creating children's accounts, and the dashboard you'll see every day.
- Orbits: your family's private space
- Parent sign-up & email check
- Create or join via invite link / QR
- Child accounts (no email needed)
- Family members & external contacts
- Parent-approved logins
- Your Orbit dashboard
Parent controls & safety
The toggles a parent has on a per-child basis, including Mack, our on-phone AI safety guard that reads your child's chats with other children locally so we never have to.
- Per-child controls (shared across a child's adults)
- Three supervision levels: you decide, no age limits
- Mack: the on-phone AI safety guard Beta
- Watchlist (your own keywords)
- Chat-feature toggles (image, emoji…)
- Screen time & quiet hours
- The alerts feed
Chat experience
What it actually feels like to send a message, and the deliberate flow Orbit uses for chats that cross family lines.
- Modern messaging: typing, read receipts
- Offline delivery, per-device keys
- Cross-family chat with parent approval
- "I don't like this message": your child can report a message, quietly
- Chat protection backstops
- Avatars & five built-in themes
Privacy & plans
How end-to-end encryption works in Orbit, and the four plans we built because no two families are the same shape. Pick the one that fits, change it whenever life changes.
- End-to-end encryption explained
- Multi-device key handling
- Four plans: Starter, Orbit, Galaxy, Universe
- Capacity that scales with your family
- Safety is never paywalled
Location
See where your child's device is when you need to, and get a heads-up if they leave an expected place at the wrong time. Off by default, opt-in per child, and always visible to your child.
- Locate a device on request, with accuracy & timestamp
- Honest "last known" when a phone's unreachable
- Named places: home, school, grandparent's
- Expected-presence alerts ("left School early")
- Off by default, opt-in per child
- Always visible to your child, no silent tracking