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Orbit
A native macOS workspace for moving between apps: one central working window with its neighbours in view, custom docks, a notch panel and built-in productivity tools.
- Status
- Experimental
- Started
- For
- App · Mac users · Runs on your own devices
- Runs on
- macOS 26
- Built with
- Swift, SwiftUI, AppKit, Liquid Glass, Accessibility APIs
Not released yet. This page follows it as it's built.
The project
About Orbit
Orbit asks how far a Mac app can go in letting you use other apps' real windows from one place. An experimental desktop mirrors native windows with typing, clicks, scrolling and resizing, verified so far with test apps, TextEdit and Calculator. Around it sit window overview and switching, saved workspaces, docks and themes, notes, tasks, mind maps and an on-device assistant. It is unreleased, and screenshots will follow.
window workspace · custom docks · notch panel · productivity tools
Learning by building
Questions it’s working on
- Whether original app windows can be used inside another app with only public macOS APIs.
- Docks, a notch panel and a menu bar in AppKit, alongside a SwiftUI workspace.
- Measuring smoothness and energy use before claiming either.
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