Your phone as a
status pad for your coding agents.

No. Orbtile doesn’t need Options+; it drives the keypad over USB by itself. If Options+ is installed, it stays installed and keeps updating; Orbtile never modifies it. Switch between Orbtile and Options+ at any time from the menu bar, or hold both page buttons on the keypad for 1.5 seconds. When you quit Orbtile, the keypad goes back to Options+.

It adds optional plugins or hooks for supported agents. Review each integration before enabling it. Session files and task databases are read for display; databases are opened read-only. Turn agents off or remove their integrations in Settings. Remote hooks are installed only on SSH hosts you choose. See the files, reads and removal steps.

The supported agents can share the keypad, with a colour you choose for each. Supported approvals and questions can be answered on the keypad. See the integration guide for support details, or connect another agent through the Adapter API.

For supported agents, pick numbered options, including multiple choices when allowed, then hold Send for 0.6 seconds. The question stays on screen. Support varies by agent; typed answers are entered on screen. See the key map and gestures.

Frosted, the glowing orbs shown on this page. Tool motion follows the kind of tool. Other themes return in a later release.

The Logitech MX Creative Keypad (its nine LCD keys and the two page buttons). Other devices come when enough owners ask: vote for yours.

Orbtile checks a signed beta status file at orbtile.com and sends a small usage summary at most hourly in 0.2.6 (every two hours in earlier versions) while it runs, only when it changed: counts and minutes (app starts, sessions per agent, AI model names, features used) under a pseudonymous machine ID. The server keeps daily totals and changes by UTC hour of report receipt per pseudonymous Mac. Automatic reports never send prompts, transcripts, file paths or names. Chosen remote hosts send display events over SSH. Local agent events travel over a private Unix-domain socket that only your user account can open, and stay on your Mac. Feedback messages contain what you type and are stored as submitted; please leave out secrets, personal information and private task text. The beta needs no licence key and no account. Signing in is optional and only used for encrypted settings sync and the phone pad. Read the privacy notice for details.

The beta is signed with Orbtile’s own certificate and is not notarised by Apple. First open steps:

1. Open Orbtile from Applications. When macOS shows Orbtile Not Opened, click Done (never Move to Trash).
2. Open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, and click Open Anyway next to “Orbtile was blocked to protect your Mac”.
3. Confirm with Touch ID or your password.
4. Open Orbtile again and click Open.

Open Anyway is available for about an hour after the blocked launch; if the button is gone, run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Orbtile.app, which removes the app’s quarantine flag, in Terminal, then open Orbtile again.

Find steps and checksums on the download page.

Orbtile 0.2 is free during the beta. Beta builds stop working when 1.0 ships, with at least 30 days' notice. Orbtile 1.0 is pay what you want from EUR 19 for up to 5 Macs, with a 14-day trial. Read the pricing details.

Not for the Logitech MX Creative Keypad: it works without one. Orbtile Mobile needs one: sign in with Google or email, with the same account on your Mac and your phone. Sign in on the Mac also for encrypted settings sync. Orbtile 1.0 will need an account, because it holds your licence.

An Apple silicon Mac with macOS 14 Sonoma or later, a supported agent, and an Android phone (Android 8.0+) with Orbtile Mobile, or a Logitech MX Creative Keypad.

Existing sessions can appear from local files. If your agent loads hooks only at launch, restart its sessions after installing or updating the integration. See the setup guide for your agent.