Show HN: Orbit – native Mac app for many Google accounts, isolated, no server

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Orbit for Mac - Many Google accounts. One quiet window.

Many Google accounts.

One quiet window.

Stop switching. Start working.

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Free for 14 daysNo card needed

Every account, in its own room

01<br>Switch in an instant

⌘1–9 jumps between work, personal, and client accounts with muscle<br>memory. Every room is already loaded, so there's no reload and no waiting.

02<br>Each account, sealed off

In a browser, your accounts share one sign-in, so one security<br>re-check can knock them all out at once. In Orbit, each account<br>lives in its own sealed room. Nothing that happens in one can<br>touch another.

03<br>Real Gmail, not a copy

The actual Gmail you already know, for each account. Your labels, your<br>filters, your layout, even Gemini. Not a rebuilt lookalike that flattens<br>every account into the same inbox.

Its own sign-in

Never logs Emma out

Own labels &middot; Clients, Invoices

Its own sign-in

Never logs Northwind out

Own labels &middot; Travel, Receipts

Gmail<br>Calendar<br>Drive<br>Meet<br>Docs<br>Sheets<br>Slides<br>Gemini

Built for how you actually work

Isolation<br>Never the wrong sender

Work, personal, and client accounts stay strangers, so a reply<br>always leaves from the right address.

Work

Personal

Client

Native & light<br>A real Mac app, not a browser

A 12 MB app that opens instantly. Built with Apple's own tools, so<br>there is no second browser hiding inside. No Chromium, no Electron.

Orbit &middot; Swift

Web wrappers &middot; Electron

All of Workspace<br>Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Gemini

Not just mail. Every Google surface opens in the right account context.

Gmail<br>Calendar<br>Drive<br>Meet<br>Docs<br>Sheets<br>Slides<br>Gemini

No server<br>Your login stays on your Mac

There is no Orbit account to create and no cloud in the middle. Your<br>sign-ins live on this Mac, so nobody's server outage can sign you out.

No sync server

No mail relay

Keys on this Mac

Private by architecture, not by promise

You<br>&rarr;<br>Cloud server<br>&rarr;<br>Mail

Your session lives on someone else's backend.

You<br>&harr;<br>This Mac

Nothing to breach, nothing to leak, nothing to sell.

The only one you buy once

Feature

Orbit

Shift

Mimestream

Kiwi

Chrome

Accounts stay separate<br>Yes<br>Multiple accounts<br>Optional unified inbox<br>Partial<br>One window per account

Accounts you can add<br>Unlimited<br>Plan-based<br>Unlimited<br>Up to 9<br>Unlimited

Price<br>$89 once<br>$199/yr<br>$50/yr<br>$60/yr<br>Free

You pay<br>One time<br>Every year<br>Every year<br>Every year<br>Nothing

Private &middot; data stays on your Mac<br>Yes<br>Shift account/sync<br>Yes<br>Yes<br>Synced to Google

Full Workspace<br>Calendar, Drive, Meet<br>Yes<br>Yes<br>Gmail only<br>Partial<br>In tabs

Free built-in AI (Gemini)<br>Yes<br>Paid tier only<br>No AI<br>No AI<br>Yes

Built for Mac, not a wrapped browser<br>Yes<br>Electron<br>Yes<br>Yes<br>It's the browser

Kiwi ended its lifetime licenses in 2026. Orbit never will. You<br>buy it once. Competitor prices as published, July 2026.

Pay once. It's yours.

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$89<br>$19<br>Save $70

Every feature, no limits

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1 year of free updates

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Use on 3 Macs

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Requires macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon.<br>Your license never expires. Updates are free for the first year, optional after. Terms.

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