Orbit
Dock previews, volume mixer & window switcher for Mac
Details
- External ID
- 1259541
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Orbit
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Rest the pointer on any app in the Dock and Orbit shows its windows — and for a browser, its tabs too. Click one to go straight to it. It's the newest of five tools Orbit puts behind a single menu bar icon: a per-app volume mixer (boost to 2x, route each app to its own output device), a window switcher in three styles, unlimited clipboard history with per-item expiry, screen capture with a full annotation editor, and a system monitor. Native Swift, no accounts, no telemetry. macOS 14.4+.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- window manager and dock utility for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Developing per-app audio routing, CoreAudio driver virtual devices, and low-level macOS WindowServer/Accessibility APIs requires deep native Swift/Objective-C/C++ systems engineering.
What it would actually take: Requires native macOS development in Swift and Objective-C leveraging low-level macOS APIs: CoreAudio and HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) audio drivers for per-app volume interception and device re-routing, plus the macOS Accessibility API (AXUIElement) and undocumented SkyLight/CGSSpaces private APIs for window docking previews and space management. Extracting browser tabs requires AppleScript automation or native browser extension communication. This demands specialized knowledge of macOS security entitlements, permissions, kernel/driver-level audio architecture, and system internals.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 308 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #181 of 309 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
- utuvo-orbit · github · 2026-09-16 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- docklayout · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ExposeIcons — Mission Control · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Superdock · ph · 2026-09-25 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- RedialMenu · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Raybeam · ph · 2026-05-16 · 209 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center? · hn · 2026-01-17 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- SpinWin · hn · 2026-07-25 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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