An assistant you keep on your own machine, and reshape by talking to it.
Orb answers out loud, triages your inbox, runs your calendar, keeps your notes, and does the research — all locally, so nothing leaves your hardware.
Your API key, your Google account, your files. Nothing routes through a server we run.
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Say it out loud, and it's handled.
No dashboard, no prompt-wrangling. You talk; Orb uses your real accounts to do the thing and tells you when it's done. A few minutes from a real session:
Put a call with Sam on my calendar Thursday at 2, an hour, and remind me the morning of.
Added "Call with Sam" — Thursday 2:00 to 3:00. Reminder set for 8am Thursday.
Anything in my inbox that actually needs me today?
Three. Your landlord wants a decision by Friday, a client is asking for the revised deck, and your accountant needs last month's statement. The rest is newsletters. I can draft the first two — want me to?
Draft them. And what did I decide about the pricing tiers?
Drafts are in your Gmail, not sent. On pricing — from your notes two weeks ago: one flat price, no tiers. You wrote that tiers "make people hesitate." There's a follow-up about a founder discount for the first 20.
Morning. Quiet inbox overnight. One thing worth a look: the hosting invoice renews tomorrow at a higher rate than last year. → I've drafted a reply asking why. Not sent.
A whole assistant, working on day one.
Everything here is set up by the installer and runs on your own accounts. No add-ons to buy from us.
Voice
EverydayTalks out loud and listens hands-free through a small ring window. Text chat and a CLI are there too.
Gmail
EverydayReads and triages your inbox, summarizes threads, writes replies. It drafts — it never sends without asking.
Calendar
EverydayReads your week, creates and moves Google Calendar events, sets reminders.
Notes vault
KnowledgeAn Obsidian folder Orb reads and writes — daily logs, decisions, anything you tell it to keep.
Recall
KnowledgeSearches across every note and document you point it at and answers from them, with the source.
Memory
KnowledgeLearns your preferences and recurring facts over time and rewrites its own notes clean each day.
Research
Always onRuns live web searches, reads the pages, and gives you the answer with links — not ten tabs.
Check-ins
Always onQuiet read-only scans while the app is closed. They leave you a briefing or a draft — nothing goes out.
Turn on if you want them: Telegram (talk to Orb from your phone) · screen control · Amazon cart (it fills the cart; you check out) · social posting. All off by default.
Things people actually ask Orb.
Real requests, grouped by the part of the day they belong to. Every one of them runs on your machine.
Start the day already briefed.
you say
“What's first tomorrow, and do I have the notes from last time?”
you say
“Read me my schedule while I make coffee.”
you say
“Anything urgent land in my inbox overnight?”
you say
“Summarize the news I actually follow, out loud.”
Every skill is one small file.
Orb isn't a locked app. Each thing it can do — check Gmail, add a calendar event, search your notes — is a single file in a folder called orb/tools/.
You don't read the code. You open the folder in Claude Code and say what you want: "add a tool that logs my workouts to a spreadsheet," "make the morning brief include the weather," "text me if a package is out for delivery."
A file called CLAUDE.md ships with it — a map that tells the AI exactly how Orb is built, so it changes the right thing and leaves the rest alone.
It's the anti-SaaS deal: you own the copy, you hold the keys, and there's nothing to renew.
"make the morning brief include the weather"
from orb.tools import Tool def make_weather_tool(config): # read-only: no confirm gate needed def weather(city: str): data = config.http.get(f"https://api.weather.dev/{city}") return f"{data['temp']}C, {data['summary']}" return Tool( "weather", "Current conditions for a city. Read-only.", {"city": {"type": "string", "required": True}}, run=weather, category="info", )It has your accounts. Here's what holds it back.
These aren't settings buried three menus deep — they're built into the loop every action runs through.
Never moves money: Any tool that would spend or transfer funds is refused outright — even if you tell it to. Orb fills an Amazon cart; you place the order yourself.
Confirmation gate: Anything that sends a message or changes something outside your machine asks first. You choose how much it checks: nothing, only outbound, or everything.
Pause kill-switch: One switch halts every turn and every tool immediately — mid-task if you need it.
Read-only background: The check-ins that run while the app is closed can look but not touch. They produce briefings and drafts, nothing that leaves.
Full audit log: Every action and what it cost is written to a local log in plain text. It's your file — read it, grep it, keep it.
A Windows PC and one API key. That's the floor.
Windows 10 or 11
Orb runs locally on Windows. Mac and Linux aren't supported yet — the voice input and the always-on background mode lean on Windows.
An Anthropic API key
Orb thinks with Claude, on your account — pay-as-you-go, billed by the word, no subscription. Normal use runs about $3–10/month and you set a hard cap. This is the only key that's required.
ElevenLabs
optionalFor the spoken voice — their Creator plan is $22/month. Skip it and Orb still works; it just answers in text instead of out loud.
A Google account
optionalConnect it once to give Orb your Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Drive. One approval screen, revocable from your Google settings any time.
Rough monthly cost
≈ $2–4 / month to run
Claude usage on your own key (Sonnet-tier, ~a cent a turn) plus the quiet background check-ins. You set a hard cap in your Anthropic console.
Running in about 15 minutes.
You unzip it, get one key, and double-click a file. That file installs everything else and opens Orb.
Download & unzip
Your purchase email has the download link. Right-click the .zip, choose Extract All, and open the folder.
Get your Anthropic key
Sign up at console.anthropic.com, add about $10 of credit, create a key, and copy it.
Double-click START-HERE.bat
It installs Python, writes your config, asks for your key, builds everything, and launches Orb.
Talk to it, and it talks back — through whatever you choose.
Orb's interface is voice-first, but the speech layer is yours to connect. Out of the box it types and reads like a chat app. If you want hands-free "hey orb" conversations, you plug in a speech-to-text and text-to-speech provider.
Local / private
Whisper runs on your own GPU for speech-to-text, and Piper or another local TTS gives you a spoken reply. Nothing voice-related leaves your network.
Cloud / easiest
Use OpenAI Whisper API for transcription and ElevenLabs for the spoken voice. Orb's config file just needs the two API keys; the rest is wired already.
No provider is bundled. That keeps the base price a one-time purchase and lets you decide whether voice runs locally or in the cloud.
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# orb/config.yamlvoice: stt: provider: whisper-local # or whisper-api model: base tts: provider: elevenlabs # or piper-local voice: "Josh" wake_word: "hey orb"Straight answers.
Yes. Orb runs on your computer. It talks to Claude, and to whichever services you connect — your Gmail, your calendar — using keys you hold. There's no Orb account, no server in the middle, nothing of yours passing through us. If your PC is off, Orb does nothing.
Just the Claude API usage, on your own account — pay-as-you-go, billed by the word in and out, no subscription. One exchange (you ask, Orb checks your inbox or calendar, replies) is roughly a cent on Claude's mid-tier model, and less once the repeated parts of each request are cached. A normal day — 20 to 40 of those plus the quiet background check-ins — comes to about $3–10 a month. A light day is $2–4; long research sessions on the top-tier model can take a month past $20. You set a hard monthly limit in your Anthropic console — when it's reached, calls just stop — and Orb keeps its own running cost log you can open any time. ElevenLabs for the spoken voice is $22/month if you want it; Gmail, Calendar, Telegram and the watcher are all free.
No. Setup is a double-click. To change what Orb does, you open the folder in Claude Code and describe what you want in plain English — the included CLAUDE.md is written so the AI makes the change in the right place. You're directing, not programming. Claude Code access is separate: Claude Pro is $20/month, with Max plans at $100–200/month for heavier use.
Not yet — Orb is Windows 10 and 11 only right now. The voice input, the ring window, and the always-on background mode all depend on Windows. If that changes, it'll be a free update.
Reply to your purchase email. The installer is deliberately small — one file does the work — and the folder includes a full written SETUP.md and a recovery guide. Most snags are a missing API key or a spend cap set to zero.
No. It's licensed to you for your own use — personal or your own business. Every copy is watermarked to the buyer, so a shared or resold one is traceable back to the account it came from. If you need it for a team or for clients, get in touch and we'll sort out a licence.
Own it, don't rent it.
Orb is a one-time purchase. ChatGPT Plus and Copilot are recurring subscriptions priced by their makers.
One payment. No subscription to us.
$325 USD
One-time · yours forever
Claude API usage is billed separately by Anthropic — typically $3–10/month for normal use.
- The complete assistant — voice, inbox triage, calendar, notes vault, recall, research, and background check-ins
- CLAUDE.md — the map that lets you rebuild any part of Orb by asking
- The one-double-click installer, a backup system, and a written recovery guide
- Free updates to the starter — your copy pulls them in
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