New

• Rewind: Connect Rewind in Settings and search your existing Rewind captures directly in Orbit.
• Unified search: Rewind results now appear alongside Orbit captures in one timeline.
• Search filters: Searches can use app and title filters with connected Rewind data.

Improved

• Peek: The calendar now has a Latest button, avoids future dates, and loads more smoothly.
• Timeline: Mouse and trackpad scrolling through frames is more reliable.
• App matching: App names are resolved more reliably for search and exclusion behavior.

Fixed

• Time picker: Improved the slow time picker path that could show up after Rewind data was available.

New

• Regular window mode: Choose whether Orbit stays open as a regular window with standard controls and a Dock icon. You can enable it from General settings.

Improved

• Clearer import cleanup: Failed imports now use clear deletion language and warn when an action cannot be undone.

Fixed

• Display selection: Orbit more reliably records the display under your pointer after monitors are connected or rearranged.
• Update checks: Network changes no longer cause unnecessary update-check errors.
• Window focus: Reopening Orbit no longer leaves controls focused or shows an unwanted focus ring.

Orbit 1.0.0 is a full rewrite from the ground up — a new capture engine, a restructured database, a lighter UI, and a real-time capture feed.

New

• Real-Time Capture Feed: Captures now appear in the app the moment they're taken. Previously there was a delay before screen captures showed up; now each one is available instantly.
• Instant-On UI: Open the app and your latest captures are already on screen. The timeline is ready the moment you land in it.

Improved

• Capture Engine: Completely redesigned to be smarter about what it captures and how. Redundant content is deduplicated on the fly, which reduces disk usage, lowers CPU and memory pressure and improves battery life.
• Search & Database: The underlying database structure has been refined to support more powerful queries across both metadata and indexed screen content. Search, scrubbing and moving through the timeline are noticeably faster and smoother as a result.
• Data Mobility: The data layer is now structured to make it easier to store all or part of your data on an external drive and to import and export data in future releases.

Notes

• With this rewrite, not all features from the previous version have been ported yet. Missing functionality will return in subsequent releases.

Improved

• Smooth scrolling and playback: Browsing your timeline and scrubbing through recordings is now noticeably snappier. The app now holds a steady 60 FP. Jank frames dropped by 96% and CPU usage during playback fell by 80% as a result.

• Lighter on your Mac while recording: Orbit's background capture process now skips processing frames where nothing on screen has changed, and scales down high-resolution displays before running text recognition. Combined, this cuts background CPU usage by 82%, RAM usage by 37%, and energy impact by 85%.

New

• Data Export: You can now export your screen recordings and metadata month-by-month from Settings. Choose between different export formats. Each export includes a manifest and simple instructions to help you use your data outside of Orbit.

Improved

• App Filtering: Use @AppName in your search queries to filter results by application. Type something like @Slack Michael to find everything you did in Slack that's related to Michael.
• Deep Links: Open Orbit directly from various deep links. Jump straight to search, settings, or the timeline without opening the app first.

Fixed

• Search Stability: Cleaned up how search handles special characters like periods and slashes, preventing errors when searching for file paths, URLs, or technical terms.
• Timezones: Standardized the date display across timezones and fixed related issues with invalid hours in the time picker.

New

• Website Exclusions: Take control of what gets captured. Block specific websites by domain and automatically skip private browsing windows across Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Arc.

Improved

• Timeline Access: Open the timeline directly from the menu bar and get there faster with a new search hint.
• Timeline Navigation: Scrolling through your timeline now feels more natural. Regular scrolling moves through time, while holding Cmd and scrolling lets you zoom in and out.

New

• Accent Color Customization: Orbit now lets you change the accent color throughout the app, so you can make it feel more personal.

• Timeline Hotkey: Open your screen history timeline instantly with a keyboard shortcut. Defaults to Alt+Shift+T

• Time Picker: Jump to a particular time of day when choosing a date in the timeline view.

Improved

• Offline Authentication: Orbit now works better when your internet connection drops. You can keep using the app without getting kicked out or losing access to your data.

• Permission Change Detection: If you revoke or change permissions after setup, Orbit now picks up on that and guides you through fixing it.

Fixed

• Screen Capture Errors: Resolved an issue causing screen capture errors on certain configurations. Orbit should now run more reliably without unexpected crashes.

New

• Launch at Startup: You can now have Orbit automatically launch when you log in to your Mac. Simply enable the new "Launch at startup" option in Settings → General. Orbit is set to launch at startup by default, but you can change this at any time.

Improved

• Better Keyboard Navigation: Browse your recordings like you would in Finder. Use arrow keys to select screenshots, Space to preview them, and Enter to open the detail view. Click once to select a frame, double-click to open it.

• Session Switching: If you use Fast User Switching on your Mac or log out while Orbit is running, recording automatically pauses and resumes when you return to your session. Your recordings stay associated with the correct user account.

• Keyboard Shortcuts: Recording keyboard shortcuts now works properly across different keyboard layouts. If you use an international keyboard, shortcuts will display with the correct symbols for your layout.

• Empty States: When your search doesn't return any results, you'll now see a helpful empty state instead of a blank screen.

Fixed

• Screen Playback: Fixed an issue where some screenshots could appear corrupted or display incorrectly during playback.

New

• Quick Preview in search results: Press Space on a selected frame to instantly preview it.

Improved

• Customizable hotkeys: Tailor key commands to match your workflow and muscle memory.
• Adjustable scrub speed: Change how fast you move through the timeline (with easy controls and a reset), making both precise scrubbing and fast scanning more comfortable.

Fixed

• Sign-in from Settings: The Settings sign-in flow is now more reliable and smoother to use.

New

• Telemetry consent prompt so you can control whether crash data is shared.
• In-app survey integration to make it easier to give feedback at the right moment.

Improved

• More helpful recorder error messages, making it clearer what went wrong when the recording crashes.

Fixed

• Frequent sign-outs by investigating the underlying cause and improving session stability.