Orbit
Volume mixer, window switcher & clipboard in one menu bar
Details
- External ID
- 1251897
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Orbit
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:41 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:41 a.m.
Description
Orbit puts the tools you reach for all day behind one menu bar icon on your Mac. A per-app volume mixer: boost any app up to 2x and route each one to its own output device. A window switcher with three styles that covers every desktop. Unlimited clipboard history with starring and per-item expiry. Plus a system monitor with per-process CPU, GPU and battery, and screen capture with a full annotation editor. Native Swift, no accounts, no telemetry. Free tier + Pro with a 14-day trial. macOS 14.4+.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- menu bar system utility for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Deep native macOS system programming is required, specifically building an audio virtual device/driver (CoreAudio AudioServerPlugIn) to intercept and control per-app volume.
What it would actually take: A real implementation requires native Swift/Objective-C and C++ code interfacing with macOS CoreAudio HAL and writing a virtual audio driver or AudioServerPlugIn to achieve per-process audio capture and gain adjustment. Additionally, it must leverage low-level macOS Accessibility APIs, CoreGraphics private APIs (CGSWindow), and SkyLight frameworks for multi-desktop window switching, requiring code signing, notarization, and system extension entitlements. This requires specialized systems-level macOS engineers with deep knowledge of CoreAudio internals.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 316 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #193 of 317 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Dynamic Menu Bar · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Angler · ph · 2026-09-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- TapTick · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center? · hn · 2026-01-17 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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