Click a name. It's all there.

Every mailbox thinks in folders. You think in people.

On the left, the timeline: all messages from all accounts in chronological order, like any mailbox. On the right, the same messages sorted by people. Both are Orbita; you switch with ⌘1 and ⌘2.

When a VIP writes to you, they move to the top. Newsletters and invoices don't disappear, they are just one line in the list instead of twenty in your inbox.

You know who. Not where.

One message from Katrin Hofmann sits in your work account, the next one in the other, and the rest somewhere in between. You know exactly who sent it, and you still search.

In Orbita you click the name. Orbita sorts your mail by people, not by folders and accounts. Click a name and you see every message from and to that address in one timeline, across all your accounts. Your sent replies sit in between, where they belong. Reply chains sit with the person as one conversation, even when the messages came through different accounts. Separate private and work with one switch.

The PDF was in some email.

You need the logo Katrin sent. You no longer know which message, which subject, which account.

Every person has their history, conversations and attachments side by side. You don't hunt for the email with the PDF anymore: click the name, then Attachments. Logo, homepage draft, reference list: three files, one view.

And if you can't remember who sent it: under Attachments, every file from all accounts is in one place. Identical attachments are grouped, with a jump to every email they came in. Filter by type and date range on the Mac.

Work through now: one person at a time, down to zero.

You scroll, open, close, and in the evening the same counter is still there.

Work through now walks you through everything unread, one person at a time. One decision per person: done, snooze, delete or next. You see how far you are, and at the end you get a completion screen with your tally.

On the Mac, start with ⌘G. D for done, S to snooze, X to delete, right arrow for the next person.

And if Orbita is gone in three years?

Anyone switching from Apple Mail rightly asks what happens if the new client disappears. Postbox, OnMail and Skiff were discontinued. Notion Mail shuts down on 22 September 2026.¹

Your mail lives in a database on your Mac and iPhone, your credentials in the keychain. There is no Orbita server your mail passes through. If Orbita ever shuts down, you lose nothing: your mail stays with your provider and on your device. Reading and searching work without a connection because your mail is on the device. Attachments are fetched on demand.

Remote images and detected tracking pixels stay out until you allow them. Even for trusted senders, pixels stay blocked. Orbita fetches profile pictures so that Gravatar and logo services never see your address or IP. Only a hash or the domain goes to an Orbita service (api.orbita.email) you can switch off in Settings.

¹ Sources on /en/sources.html.

Your accounts. Your Mac. Your iPhone.

Works with Gmail, Microsoft 365 and Outlook.com, iCloud (with an app-specific password) and IMAP. As many accounts as you like. Switching from Apple Mail is not a migration: you add your account, Orbita loads your mail in the background, your provider stays the source.

On the iPhone too: people, timeline and Work through now, with a swipe to the next person and attachments straight into the share sheet. One purchase covers Mac and iPhone.

On the Mac, new mail arrives immediately. On the iPhone, Orbita fetches in the background. Real push would need a server that stores your credentials. We are not building one.

Feels like a Mac.

Orbita is a Mac app: menu bar, Dock badge, menu bar icon with unread count, keyboard shortcuts.

On the Mac: ⌘K, type a name, Enter, and you are on that person. Quick search finds people, messages and attachments across all accounts.

The essentials run from the keyboard: ⌘K search, ⌘1 to ⌘7 sections, R, A, F, E in an open email, D, S, X in the focus session. Overview with ⌘/.

What else is in there

• Answer calendar invitations right inside the email: accept, tentative, decline. On the Mac, Orbita hands the event to your calendar app.
• Cleanup groups newsletters from all accounts by sender. Unsubscribe sender by sender, or send everything from them to the trash with one click.
• Mark important people as VIP. The mark applies to the person across all accounts, and if you want, Orbita only notifies you for VIPs.
• Rich-text editor, a signature per account, a reminder when you write “attached” without attaching. On the Mac, drag-and-drop attachments and a separate window for new mail. Drafts also land in your provider's Drafts folder.
• Trash, Spam, Snoozed, Drafts, Attachments and Cleanup are still there, plus your server folders for looking things up.

Questions before you buy

Built in Lower Bavaria.

Orbita is made by One Pixel Ahead UG (haftungsbeschränkt) in Lalling, Germany. No account with us, no subscription, no ads. The App Store handles purchase and updates.

Questions before you buy? Write to admin@one-pixel-ahead.com.