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Your agent sessions,
one keystroke away.

Orb is a native macOS menu-bar app. Press a hot key and a Liquid-Glass dock slides in: a live terminal on the left, your running agent sessions on the right. Each one runs on your Mac or inside its own container.

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Requires macOS 26 (Tahoe), with an iPhone companion in beta.

The Orb dock on macOS: a live Claude Code session beside a column of session bubbles
Orb Mobile on iPhone, paired with the Mac: the same session list with live status, ready to open any terminal
orbv1.27.1 · macOS 26 (Tahoe)
freeFree to download and useno account, no sign in
lightA tiny native appOrb.dmg 5 MB
instantOne keystroke to your sessions⌃⌥Space
privateYour code stays on your Macno telemetry
readyRuns the Claude Code or Codex you already haveno lock-in
An Orb session running inside an isolated container on macOS
snapshotisolation

Isolated by design.

Run any session inside Apple's native container runtime, isolated from your Mac. Set it up once, then Save Snapshot to freeze that filesystem as the profile's baseline. New sessions boot from the snapshot with zero setup, and copy-on-write clones let several run in parallel without stepping on each other. A risky command stays inside the box.

Free to download. No account, no setup, one keystroke.

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A live agent pane with a Terminal pane one toggle away
livespeed

Instant, everywhere.

Click a bubble and its live pane swaps in instantly. Sessions are only hidden and shown, never restarted, so nothing loses its place. Your list follows you to every Space and display, a Terminal pane is one toggle away, and the whole dock answers to one global hot key: press ⌃⌥Space anywhere.⌃⌥Space⌘↑⌘↓
Orb Mobile on iPhone showing the same session list, paired with the Mac
pairedcompanion

In your pocket.

Pair Orb Mobile with your Mac and the same sessions show up on your iPhone. Watch the live terminal, answer a prompt, and approve a step from anywhere. Meet Orb Mobile.

Choose your agent

Each profile runs Claude Code or OpenAI Codex with its own command, model, and permissions. Orb uses the CLI already on your Mac.

Liquid Glass, natively

Real NSGlassEffectView surfaces that adapt to light, dark, and Increase Contrast.

One hot key, zero permissions

⌃⌥Space uses the system hot key API, so no Accessibility access is required.

Nothing leaves your Mac

No backend, no sign-in, no tracking. See how Orb handles security.

stepshow it works

Three keystrokes to a running session.

Summon the dock

Press ⌃⌥Space or click the glass tab on the right edge of any screen.

Start a session

Hit +, type your prompt, pick a folder, and press Return to launch your agent.

Keep them close

Switch with ⌘↑ / ⌘↓, collapse to keep sessions running in the background, and reopen right where you left off.

Bring your sessions to the surface.

Install Orb, press the hot key, and take your sessions with you, right down to your iPhone.

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