For minds that move
Orbit is a routine app built for ADHD brains. Build a morning, evening or focus routine in a minute, tap start, and an ambient orb walks you through it one step at a time — on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Streak freezes keep your progress alive when life happens.
How it works
Most routine apps hand you an empty list and wish you luck. Orbit is a routine builder, which means it does the assembling, the ordering and the running — so the only thing left for you is to show up.
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Pick one of 14 ready-made routines — a sunlight morning, a deep-work block, box breathing, an evening wind-down — and edit the steps you care about, or build your own. Building a routine from scratch is a task-initiation problem, so Orbit removes it. Most people are running their first routine inside a minute.
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Tap start and the orb takes over. It shows the current step, breathes through its duration, and hands you the next one. Steps can be timed, counted or simply ticked off, and timers adjust to how long a step really takes you. Transitions are where ADHD routines usually collapse, so Orbit owns them.
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The orb continues on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and in your Home Screen widget. You do not have to keep Orbit open, and you do not have to remember where you were — the current step is already on the screen you were going to look at anyway.
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Every five days in a row earns a streak freeze. Miss a day and nothing has to happen that day: when you come back, Orbit shows which streaks a freeze can still save and you pick one. That single design choice is why people come back after a bad week instead of deleting the app.
Features
Not a productivity app. A companion. Every feature exists to lower the friction of showing up — and to forgive you when you don't.
The Orb
A living metaball that shifts colour with the time of day, breathes when you're in a routine, and quietly celebrates when you finish. No badges. No progress bars. Just presence — the visual equivalent of someone sitting with you while you get started.
Routine sessions
Start a routine and the orb takes over — glowing, breathing, counting down each step in the background. You only ever see the step you are on, never the whole mountain. No giant timers shouting at you.
Live Activities & Widgets
Start a routine and the orb follows you to the Lock Screen, the Dynamic Island and your Home Screen widget — pulsing through each step in real time, so time blindness has less to work with.
Templates
Fourteen ready-made routines across mornings, focus, body, mind and evenings. Tap one, tweak it, you're done. The setup phase is the phase most routine apps die in.
Timers that learn
When a "five-minute" step keeps taking twelve, Orbit can adapt its timer to what the step really takes you, weighting recent days most — so the routine stops running late by design. Time optimism is an ADHD classic; this quietly corrects for it.
Friends, opt-in
Share a link or QR code with one friend or ten. See each other's streaks. It's body doubling in the smallest possible dose — no followers, no algorithm, no strangers.
Streak freezes
Conventional streak counters are perfectly tuned to make an ADHD brain quit: one missed day wipes months of evidence. Orbit gives you a freeze for every five days in a row, and lets you use them to rescue a streak when you come back. How streak freezes work.
Siri & Shortcuts
Start any routine or check your streak by voice, with no setup. The gap between intending to start and actually starting is where ADHD loses the most time, so Orbit makes it one sentence long.
Offline-first
Routines, timers, streaks and reminders all run on the iPhone itself, with no account and no server in the way. On a train, in a basement or in flight mode, the routine carries on; iCloud sync catches up later.
Designed for ADHD
Soft animations. No red. No 47-step setup. Forgiving defaults. The whole app is tuned for the days you barely have the energy to open it — because those are the days that decide whether a routine survives.
Routine templates
Every template is a starting point, not a rule: rename steps, change timings, drop what you don't need. Want more ideas? The routine library has step-by-step ADHD routines for showers, cleaning, leaving the house, work and more, each with a bad-day version.
Who it's for
The problem isn't motivation, it's that day nine has no scaffolding. Orbit keeps running the routine with you long after novelty wears off.
Usually right after a broken streak. Freezes exist so a missed day is a dent, not a demolition.
Not because the steps are hard, but because deciding the order is. A routine builder decides once, then replays it.
Orbit has no dashboards, no charts demanding interpretation, no configuration ritual. Open, tap, go.
Honest fit
One app will not fit everyone, and it is cheaper to find out here than after a trial.
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Design
Pure black backgrounds. Glass surfaces. Serif display type. A signature orb hand-crafted in SwiftUI Canvas. Orbit looks like nothing else on your home screen — and feels like the calmest thing on your phone.
Pricing
Every plan unlocks the full app — unlimited routines, every template, all orb styles, Live Activities, widgets and the friend leaderboard. Pick the cadence that fits.
Recommended
€2.99/week
$2.99/week in the US
3 days free, then weekly. Cancel anytime.
Best value
€44.95/year
$39.95/year in the US
1 week free, then ≈ €0.86 / week. Save 71% vs weekly.
Forever
€79.99once
$69.99 once in the US
One payment. Yours forever.
Prices from the App Store in euro and US dollar stores; other countries see their local price before buying. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Family Sharing is supported. Full details on the fact sheet.
Privacy
Everything you do in Orbit is stored locally via Apple's SwiftData. Your routines don't leave your phone unless you turn on iCloud sync.
Sync uses your private CloudKit container. We can't read it. It travels between your devices and nowhere else.
No ad networks, no advertising identifier, no data brokers, no sign-up. Orbit is paid for by subscriptions, so your attention isn't the product.
Friend leaderboards only activate when you generate an invite link and a friend accepts. You can leave any group with one tap.
Guides
Plain-language writing on routines, executive dysfunction and the mechanics of starting — free to read, no app required. New to the vocabulary? Start with the ADHD glossary.
FAQ
Orbit is an ADHD routine builder for iPhone, made by independent developer Aron de Groot in the Netherlands and released in August 2026. You build a routine as a short list of steps; when you start it, an ambient orb walks you through one step at a time on the screen, the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Streak freezes let a streak survive missed days.
An ADHD routine builder is an app that helps you assemble a repeatable sequence of steps and then walks you through it, one step at a time. Unlike a habit tracker, which mostly records whether you did something, a routine builder runs the routine with you — handling the order, the timing and the transitions, which is exactly where ADHD executive function tends to stall.
A habit tracker asks you to report. Orbit runs the routine. You start a routine and the ambient orb takes over: it shows the current step, counts it down, and moves you to the next one on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Tracking is a by-product, not the job.
Not if you have a freeze. You earn one streak freeze for every five days in a row, and unused ones stay available until the month ends. When you come back after missing scheduled days, Orbit shows which streaks your freezes can still save and you choose which one to protect — nothing has to happen on the day you missed.
Orbit is free to download, with a free trial. Orbit Pro unlocks the app: $2.99 per week with a 3-day free trial, $39.95 per year with a 1-week free trial, or $69.99 once for lifetime access in the US store. In euro stores it is €2.99 per week, €44.95 per year or €79.99 lifetime. There is no permanently free tier.
No. Orbit shows no ads, contains no ad networks and does not track you across other apps or websites, so it never asks for App Tracking Transparency permission. There is no account to create. Your routines are stored on your iPhone, and optional sync goes through your own private iCloud.
No. Orbit is designed around the way ADHD brains work — forgiving streaks, low-friction setup, calm visuals — but it is a routine app, not a medical device or a treatment. Anyone worn down by aggressive habit trackers tends to get on with it.
Orbit is an iPhone app and requires iOS 26 or later. There is no Android version, no native iPad or Mac version and no web app.
Yes. Orbit is offline-first. Routines, streaks, the orb and notifications all work with no network at all; iCloud sync catches up whenever a connection returns.
Yes. Say "Start my routine in Orbit", name one — "Start Evening Wind-Down in Orbit" — or ask "What's my streak in Orbit". These work without any setup, and the Home Screen widget shows what is up next.
Orbit is out now on the App Store. Free to download, with a free trial of Orbit Pro.