Orbit for Mac

This was a nice surprise today. I haven't been here for a while and battled my Gmail/Suite accounts today. Then this pops up. Serendipity. So far so good.

The "nearly replied to a client from my personal address" line is exactly the failure mode I live in daily. I run a few different businesses through separate Google accounts and the Chrome-profile juggling is a constant source of small, dumb mistakes. Isolated windows instead of identical dock icons is such an obvious fix in hindsight. Congrats on the launch.

The multi-account tax is real and weirdly under-discussed. I've got a personal Google account, a project one, and a dev one, and Chrome profile-switching is where a chunk of my focus quietly leaks out every day. Two things I'm curious about: does Orbit keep each account fully sandboxed (separate cookies/sessions the way distinct Chrome profiles do), or is it more of a unified layer on top? And is it Gmail-first for now, or does it also pull Calendar/Drive per account? Clean-looking launch.

Since each room is the real Gmail web UI in WebKit, what happens the day Google changes something on their end — do you have to ship an app update, or does it just keep working?

Looks amazing! Any plans to support other Google Apps such as Maps and/or Business?

The productivity and attention fix i didn't know i needed. With the number of chromium windows i've had open just to view multiple inboxes, i almost feel embarrassed i didn't try to seek out a solution like this sooner.Well done and hope you can keep up with version control for any GMail updates.

a 12MB native Swift app pulling this off instead of another Electron wrapper is the detail that sold me, most multi-account tools are 200MB+ and still route your session through their servers like you mentioned. one-time payment for something this narrowly useful also feels right, this isn't a tool that needs a subscription to justify ongoing dev cost

Native Swift at 12 MB and no server dependency, that's real respect for the Mac platform. Love that you kept the actual Gmail web UI intact instead of rebuilding it poorly.

the ⌘1–9 switching between isolated Google accounts feels so much faster than juggling browser profiles, and 12 MB native Swift is genuinely impressive for something running the full Gmail UI

The no-server trade-off is good product honesty. For multi-account work on a Mac, isolation is usually more valuable than clever sync, especially when support/client mail can leak across contexts. The detail I would want next is per-room notification rules and a clear recovery path when Google changes a WebKit login edge case.

Rare to see a launch post that spells out what the app can't do (passkey-only accounts, no cross-device sync) right in the pitch. Very decent, well done and great product!

The "nearly replied from my personal address" moment is the real hook here, that near-miss is universal for anyone running several accounts. One thing that'd make it a stronger buy for me: carry the account's color or identity into the compose and reply window itself, not just the app chrome. The wrong-account send happens the instant you hit send, so, the reminder needs to be right there while you're typing, not one glance away.

A great idea, and something I badly need, but the app keeps crashing when I press the “Add Account” button.

love the no-infrastructure framing, that's a rare thing to see actually followed through on rather than just marketing copy. one thing I'm curious about long term: since each account renders through system WebKit instead of a Chromium build you control, what happens when Google ships one of their periodic Gmail UI overhauls? Chromium-based tools get patched by the browser vendor on their own timeline, but WebKit compatibility with Gmail's web app specifically feels like something only you can fix, and only after it breaks for users first. is that something you're watching for or has it not been an issue yet

this makes the accounts much clearer, good idea