Open source · Free forever · No paid tiers

Issue tracking at the speed of typing.

Orbit is a free, realtime task manager for teams: issues, sprints, projects, and docs, synced to every open screen the instant anything changes, driven entirely from the keyboard.

Google, GitHub, passkey, or magic link. No password to invent. Or run the whole thing yourself.

ORB-101Features

Everything a team ships with.

Not a starter tier with the good parts held back. This is the whole thing.

  • Issues and boards

    Fast lists and drag-and-drop boards over the same issues, filtered to one person the moment you click their name.

  • Sprints

    Timebox the work into sprints and watch the current one fill, start, and ship.

  • Projects

    Group related work into projects that carry it from kickoff to done.

  • Docs

    A rich editor for specs, notes, and RFCs that lives next to the issues they describe.

  • Filters and saved views

    Slice any list by state, assignee, label, or priority, then save the view for the whole team.

  • GitHub and Slack

    Connect the repo and the channel so updates land where the team already looks.

  • Notifications

    A focused inbox for mentions, assignments, and everything that needs your eyes.

  • MCP server

    Orbit speaks MCP, so agents can read the board, file issues, and update work for you.

ORB-102Realtime

Change it once. It changes everywhere.

Every edit commits to Postgres, publishes to Redis, and fans out over WebSockets to every open tab. Boards reorder, counts tick, and docs update in front of you. Nobody refreshes, and nobody plans a sprint from a stale list.

postgres commitredis publishevery open screen

ORB-103Keyboard first

Your hands never leave the keys.

Everything in Orbit has a shortcut. Open the command palette with ⌘K, file an issue with C, jump to your queue with G then I. Press ? once and Orbit shows you all the rest.

  • ⌘KCommand palette
  • CNew issue
  • GIMy issues
  • ?Every shortcut

ORB-104Pricing

There is no pricing.

Orbit is free the way a calculator is free. No trials, no seats, no feature gates, no billing page hiding in settings. Everything on this page is the whole product, for every teammate, forever.

Everything

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  • Issues, boards, sprints, projects, docs
  • Realtime sync for every teammate
  • GitHub, Slack, and MCP included
  • Notifications, filters, saved views
  • No seat limits, no feature gates
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ORB-105Open source

Yours to keep.

Orbit is free because a task manager is infrastructure, and infrastructure should not cost eighteen dollars per person per month. The whole thing is on GitHub, so you are never one pricing change away from losing it.

Apache-2.0 licensed

Use it, change it, ship it, commercially or otherwise. The patent grant protects you, and nothing here expires.

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Self-host in an afternoon

One Next.js app, Postgres, Redis and a bucket. Every piece has a free tier, so a small team runs Orbit for nothing.

Self-hosting guide

Built in the open

Every issue, every review and every decision is public. Good first issues are scoped small with the file paths written down.

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Sponsored by Noveum AI, who pay for the hosting and the engineering time. There is no upsell.

Ready when you are.

Sign in with Google, GitHub, a passkey, or a magic link, and bring your team with you. Or clone the repository and run it on your own infrastructure.