Your Mac desktop,
a live dashboard.
Orbl turns your Mac desktop into a calm, live dashboard — clock, weather, focus, your Mac's vitals and your business metrics, right on the wallpaper. Free on macOS.
Chrome extension · Coming soon
The actual Orbl wallpaper on a real Mac. Every section is a widget you can turn on, off, reorder, or resize.
Free to use
Every built-in widget works without paying. Download, install, and make your desktop alive.
100% local
No servers, no accounts, no tracking. Your data never leaves your Mac.
Orbl Premium
One-time upgrade for every integration. Stripe, GitHub, revenue stats, custom APIs, and more.
See it live
Watch your desktop come alive.
No screenshots, no mockups — this is Orbl running on a real Mac. A calm wallpaper that quietly mirrors your day.
Feature packed
Everything your day needs, at a glance.
Pick exactly what you want to see. Every widget can be always-on, hidden behind the reveal shortcut, or off.
Time & place
Clock & date
A beautiful, quiet timepiece that anchors your desktop.
Weather & sunset
Current conditions plus a countdown to golden hour.
Air quality
Live AQI for your location, right on the wallpaper.
Focus & flow
Deep work
See how long you've been in flow without a single app switch.
Your rhythm
App switches, keystrokes, cursor travel, and screen time, framed calmly.
Where time went
The apps you lived in today, ranked at a glance.
Calendar & tasks
Meetings & calendar
Your next event with a gentle countdown. Titles optional for privacy.
Apple Reminders
Today's reminders surface where you'll actually see them.
Event countdowns
Launch day, a birthday, a deadline — counted down daily.
Your Mac
Machine stats
CPU, memory, disk, and Wi-Fi health as tidy little chips.
Device batteries
AirPods, keyboards, mice, even non-Apple earbuds.
Month & year progress
Slim progress bars that keep time tangible.
Desktop tidiness
A gentle nudge when your desktop starts collecting clutter.
Little moments
Quote of the day
One thoughtful line each morning, with offline fallbacks.
On this day
A little history every day, from open archives.
The ISS
The space station's live altitude and speed overhead.
Sticky notes
A note that lives on your wallpaper. Edit, check off, restyle.
Integrations
Your business, on your wallpaper.
Add a read-only API key and your numbers just appear. Requires Orbl Premium. Formatted beautifully, refreshed quietly, stored in your Keychain.
Revenue & payments
Stripe
Today's revenue, new customers, and MRR.
ChartMogul
MRR, ARR, paid customers, and trials.
Lemon Squeezy
Store revenue and subscriptions.
Dodo Payments
Revenue and customers, straight from Dodo.
Gumroad
Today's sales and revenue.
Polar
MRR, revenue, and active subscriptions.
TrustMRR
Verified startup MRR & revenue.
SEO
Ahrefs
Domain Rating, at a glance.
Developer
GitHub
Stars, followers, and open PRs.
RSS / Atom
Latest headlines from any feed.
Any API
Paste a cURL, pick the values, name them. Done.
Audience & social
Your karma and followers.
Bluesky
Followers, following, and posts.
Product Hunt
Your follower count.
Hacker News
Karma for any username.
Markets & money
Crypto
Coin price and 24h change.
Exchange rate
Live FX between any two currencies.
Integrations require Orbl Premium. Keys are read-only, stored in the macOS Keychain, and only ever sent directly to the provider.
Developer favorite
Your GitHub years, on your wallpaper.
Connect a read-only token and Orbl paints your contribution graph onto your desktop — one year, or several stacked to flex your streak across the years.
GitHub · Contributions
8,951 contributions over the last 4 years
Pick your range
Last 3 or 6 months, a full year, or up to 4 years stacked.
Private repos too
A token also unlocks your private-repo stars and counts.
Show what you want
Toggle the graph, the stats, or both — your call.
Made yours
A layout that thinks for itself.
Orbl arranges itself like a fluid grid. Add ten widgets or two — it adapts to your screen without ever cramping or shrinking your content.
Fluid auto-grid
Widgets flow top-to-bottom into columns and expand across your screen as you add more. Like a flex grid, but native and buttery smooth — nothing ever overlaps.
Reorder to taste
Prefer your own order? Switch to Custom and drag widgets up or down. Orbl re-flows them instantly while the clock stays anchored bottom-left.
Three sizes per widget
Set any widget to small, medium, or large independently. Your clock can be huge while your stats stay subtle.
Your colors
Let the palette follow the time of day, or pick your own background color and watch the whole theme adapt.
Always or on reveal
Keep essentials always visible, and tuck the rest behind ⌃⌥⌘A for an instant deep-dive that fades away when you're done.
In motion
Tune every detail, watch it react.
Colors, integrations, what shows and what hides — every change lands instantly on your wallpaper.
Your colors
Paint it your mood.
Let the palette drift with the time of day, or pick a background color and watch the entire theme — text, accents, every widget — adapt in real time.
Integrations
Your numbers, live.
Paste a read-only API key and your revenue, followers, and stats appear on the wallpaper — refreshed quietly, stored in your Keychain, never through a server.
Show & hide
Only what you want.
Flip any widget between always-on, reveal-only, or off — and resize it small, medium, or large. Build the exact desktop you want to wake up to.
A look inside
Set it up in seconds.
A calm settings panel. Choose what to show, connect your tools, make it yours — then forget it's there.
What to show
Every widget, your call.
Switch any widget to always-on, hide it behind the reveal shortcut, or turn it off — and set it small, medium, or large. Build the exact dashboard you want to wake up to.
Integrations
Connect in one paste.
Add a read-only API key and your numbers appear on the wallpaper. Keys live in the macOS Keychain and calls go straight from your Mac to the provider — never through a server.
General
Tuned to your taste.
Background and palette, launch-at-login, the reveal shortcut, number formatting — the quiet controls that make Orbl feel like it was always part of your Mac.
Inside Settings
Every control, explained.
Open Orbl from the menu bar, then Settings. Here's what each tab does — so you can shape your desktop in minutes.
General
Your reveal shortcut, open-at-login, background color & presets, meeting-title privacy, number format, and event countdowns.
What to Show
Flip any widget to always-on, reveal-only, or off — and size it small, medium, or large. Neatly grouped by category.
Visual Layout
Let Orbl auto-flow to fit your screen, or switch to Custom and drag widgets into your own order. The clock stays pinned bottom-left.
Integrations
Connect read-only API keys for revenue, GitHub, feeds, followers, and markets. Everything is stored in your macOS Keychain.
License Key
Orbl is free forever. Paste a one-time license key to unlock every premium widget and integration.
Permissions
Grant only what you actually use — calendar, reminders, location — asked lazily the moment you turn a feature on.
Featherweight
So light, you'll forget it's running.
A live wallpaper that respects your battery. Orbl was engineered to be invisible to your Activity Monitor.
~0%
CPU at rest
Sampling is essentially free. Staggered timers, no polling storms.
<100 MB
memory
A fraction of a single browser tab.
8–12 fps
adaptive ambience
12fps plugged in, 8fps on battery, fully paused when idle.
0
servers
Everything is computed on your Mac. Nothing phones home.
Sampling is staggered so nothing wakes your CPU at once. The ambient background slows itself on battery and pauses when you step away. When your screen sleeps, Orbl sleeps too.
Private by design
What happens on your Mac,
stays on your Mac.
No account. No server. No analytics. Orbl doesn't even know you exist.
API keys live in the macOS Keychain and talk directly to providers.
Permissions are asked for lazily, only when you turn a feature on.
Up and running
Three steps, then forget it.
No account, no setup wizard, no menu-bar babysitting. Download, install, open once — Orbl takes it from there.
Download
Grab the free DMG for macOS (Apple Silicon). No account, no email, no card.
Install
Open the DMG and drag Orbl into your Applications folder. Then eject the disk image.
Open once
Launch Orbl from Applications and accept the quick welcome. Your wallpaper comes alive instantly.
That's it. Orbl lives quietly in your menu bar and reopens automatically at login — so your desktop stays alive across every reboot. Updates arrive in-app, one click to install.
Download & pricing
Free app. Orbl Premium.
Download Orbl for free with every built-in widget. Upgrade to Orbl Premium for every integration on your desktop.
Orbl app
Free
Download · Forever · No account
Version 1.7 · macOS (Apple Silicon)
- ✓Live wallpaper + built-in widgets
- ✓Clock, weather, sunset & air quality
- ✓Focus, rhythm & deep work
- ✓Machine stats, batteries & sticky notes
- ✓Quote of the day & on-this-day
- ✓All future app updates — free forever
Orbl Premium
First 50$19
$49
One-time · Lifetime · Every integration
- ✓
Everything in the free plan — live wallpaper, widgets, rhythm, weather & more
- ✓
Revenue on your desktop
Stripe · ChartMogul · Lemon Squeezy · Dodo · Gumroad · Polar · TrustMRR
Sales, MRR, customers & trials — live on your wallpaper
- ✓
Meetings & tasks
Calendar · Reminders · Countdowns
Your next meeting, what's due, and the days until launch
- ✓
Developer
GitHub · RSS · Any API
Stars & PRs, feed headlines, or any GET endpoint
- ✓
SEO
Ahrefs
Domain Rating, right on your wallpaper
- ✓
Audience & markets
Reddit · Bluesky · Product Hunt · Hacker News · Crypto · FX
Follower counts, karma, coin prices, and currency rates
- ✓
Focus & space
App usage ranking · ISS location
Your most-used apps ranked by time, and the space station overhead right now
- ✓
All future integrations included forever
Read-only keys in Keychain · Calls go direct to providers · Nothing through our servers
Get Orbl Premium · $19Launch price · $49 after first 50
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Is Orbl really free?+
Yes. Download Orbl for free and use every built-in widget: clock, weather, focus & rhythm, machine stats, sticky notes, progress bars, the daily quote, and on-this-day. Orbl Premium adds app-usage ranking, the ISS, meetings & tasks, and every integration.
Is my data really private?+
Yes. Orbl is 100% local. Your activity never leaves your Mac, API keys live in the macOS Keychain, and integrations call providers directly from your machine. No account, no server, no analytics.
Will it slow down my Mac or drain battery?+
No. Orbl idles near 0% CPU and uses under 100 MB of memory. The ambient background adapts its frame rate to your power state and pauses when you step away.
What is Orbl Premium?+
Orbl Premium is a one-time upgrade that unlocks meetings & tasks plus every integration — revenue (Stripe, ChartMogul, Lemon Squeezy, Dodo, Gumroad, Polar, TrustMRR), developer (GitHub, RSS, custom APIs), SEO (Ahrefs), and audience & markets (Reddit, Bluesky, Product Hunt, Hacker News, crypto, currency). Pay once, keep it forever, including future integrations.
Is $19 really lifetime?+
Yes. Pay once for Orbl Premium and keep every integration forever, including updates. The $19 price is limited to the first 50 buyers; after that it becomes $49 (still one-time, still lifetime).
Does it ask for a bunch of permissions?+
Only when needed. Permissions are requested lazily. Calendar access only if you enable meetings, accessibility only for typing rhythm, Keychain only when you add an API key or license.
Give your desktop a pulse.
Download free today. Upgrade to Orbl Premium when you want every integration on your desktop.