How to display Stripe revenue on your Mac desktop

If you run a SaaS on Stripe, you already know the pull of that dashboard. You open a tab to "just check," and the number is a browser refresh away all day long. This page is about a quieter option: putting your Stripe revenue directly on your Mac desktop, where a glance is enough and there's no tab to babysit.

Orbl is a macOS app (14+, Apple Silicon) that turns your wallpaper into a calm live dashboard. One of its widgets connects to Stripe and renders your revenue right on the desktop, behind your windows. Clear your screen and the report is already there.

What shows on your wallpaper

Orbl pulls three Stripe figures onto the desktop, each as its own widget:

• Today's revenue — gross volume so far today, formatted cleanly.
• New customers — how many signed up today.
• MRR — your recurring revenue at a glance.

Size each one S / M / L and place it where you like — MRR large if it motivates you, today's count small in a corner. They sit alongside your other widgets: a clock, GitHub stars, your focus timer. For the full picture, the revenue dashboard page shows how these combine into a single glanceable surface.

How to connect Stripe

Setup is deliberately boring, which is the point:

1. In Stripe, create a restricted, read-only API key — Orbl only ever reads, so the key can't move money or change anything.
2. Open Orbl → Settings → Integrations and paste the key.
3. Your numbers appear on the wallpaper within seconds.

The key is stored in your macOS Keychain, and Orbl calls Stripe directly from your Mac. Nothing routes through an Orbl server, because there isn't one — no account, no analytics, no middle layer. Your revenue data never touches anyone else's infrastructure. The full walkthrough lives on the Stripe integration page.

Why ambient beats refreshing the dashboard

Opening Stripe on demand feels productive, but it rarely is. Every visit pulls you out of the work and into a financial headspace, and daily revenue is lumpy — a flat morning means nothing, yet staring at it invites worry. The slower things move, the more the anxious founder refreshes, which is exactly backwards.

Putting the number on your wallpaper flips the relationship. It's always present but never demanding: you absorb it in half a second when you tab to an empty space, the way you read a wall clock, and then you get back to building. The number doesn't change less — your compulsion to check it does. If you want the deeper argument for this behavioral shift, we wrote it up in track your Stripe MRR without opening the dashboard; this page is the how, that one is the why.

Keep it to the numbers that matter

More metrics is not better — a crammed wallpaper becomes the dashboard you were trying to escape. Start with current MRR as your headline, add today's revenue for a pulse, and leave the rest of the desktop for non-financial widgets so revenue stays one calm element among many.

If your billing lives partly outside Stripe, Orbl Premium also connects ChartMogul, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad, Polar, Dodo and TrustMRR, so every revenue source can share the same surface.

Pay once, not every month

The core app is free. Displaying Stripe on your desktop is part of Orbl Premium — a one-time license, lifetime, no subscription. That's a deliberate contrast with most revenue trackers, which charge every month to show you your own numbers. Early adopters get it for $19 (first 50 licenses), then it's $49.

See the pricing and download Orbl, connect your read-only key, and let your Stripe revenue live where you'll see it every time you close a window.