What's new in Orb
Every version, with notes. Orb checks for updates on its own. When a new version is ready, a banner slides in at the bottom of the dock and updates in one click.
Chat polish and large prompts
Fixes across the chat layer and the Ask composer.
Release notes →Orb 1.29: answer questions right in chat
Claude can now ask you a question or show you a plan, and you answer it right in chat instead of hunting for the terminal.
Release notes →Orb 1.28: your sessions, as a conversation
Orb now reads your agent sessions as a real conversation, on the Mac and on your phone.
Release notes →Orb 1.27.1
A denied pairing request now always delivers its final handshake message before the connection closes, so a refusal on the Mac shows up on the phone as a clear denial instead of looking like a…
Release notes →Orb 1.27.0: your look, light or dark
The terminal now follows the system appearance. In light mode it gets a bright, paper-like field with dark text; in dark mode it keeps the familiar deep field. Switching appearance mid-session…
Release notes →Orb 1.26.1
A small polish release for onboarding and the best-practices guide.
Release notes →Orb 1.26.0: the composer keeps up and keeps your draft
Typing in the Ask Claude composer stays instant, even with very long pasted prompts. A keystroke used to redraw the whole dock; now it touches only the field itself.
Release notes →Orb 1.25.0: your first session sets up Claude Code right
Your first session now does more than say hello. When your agent is Claude Code, onboarding starts a session that fetches our best-practices guide and reviews your setup with you: what belongs in…
Release notes →Orb 1.24.0: group drops that glide, groups from a single session
Dragging a session into or out of a group used to end with a visible jump: the row snapped to its indent, and a dissolving group header shoved everything below it in a single frame.
Release notes →Orb 1.23.0: notifications clear when you read them on your phone
Reading a session on your iPhone now tells your Mac about it. The orange attention cue clears everywhere the moment you open the session, on every paired device, instead of stubbornly glowing until…
Release notes →Orb 1.22.2: a more clickable Agent/Terminal switch
A small fix for the switch at the top of the dock.
Release notes →Orb 1.22.1
Fixes and polish for the iPhone companion connection.
Release notes →Orb 1.22.0: pair your iPhone
Your sessions, now in your pocket. This release adds everything the Mac needs to pair with Orb Mobile, the new iOS companion app (in beta on TestFlight).
Release notes →Session Groups
Organize your dock sessions into named groups.
Release notes →Set up in a minute: the new onboarding wizard, plus a security hardening pass
Onboarding became a five step wizard that actually configures Orb: pick your agent (Claude Code or Codex), pick the folder you work in, learn the shortcuts, and finish inside a live first session…
Release notes →Onboarding for every agent, and no more dead-end dock
The first run setup check no longer demands a Claude Code sign in. It passes as soon as one agent is ready: Claude Code (signed in via its OAuth token) or OpenAI Codex (signed in via codex login)…
Release notes →Choose your agent: Codex joins Claude Code
Every profile now picks the agent it runs: Claude Code or OpenAI Codex. The profile page has a new Agent switch, styled like the dock's own pane switcher, with separate settings for each agent…
Release notes →Orb 1.17: session titles you can actually read
Session titles now run the full width of their tile. The profile badge moved below the title, next to the task snippet, so it no longer squeezes the name down to a few characters.
Release notes →Orb 1.16: select, spot, and sort your sessions
Select text in the terminal again, see each session's profile at a glance, and drag your sessions into any order.
Release notes →Make Orb yours
Orb now looks the way you want, and the dock resizes right under your mouse.
Release notes →Sessions that never lose work
The whole app now honors one promise: nothing you started ever stops or disappears unless you trash it.
Release notes →Orb 1.13: your work keeps running
Close Orb, reopen it, and everything is exactly where you left it. Sessions now live outside the app itself: quitting, relaunching, or even a crash no longer stops the shell or the Claude task…
Release notes →Orb 1.12: a mark of its own
Orb finally has a face. The refractive meniscus bead you already know from inside the app is now the app's own icon, the installer window, and the mark across the website, so everything reads as one…
Release notes →Orb 1.11: buttons that breathe
The living Aurora Indigo glaze, the cue that marks your selected session, now marks the primary action too. One visual language, across the app and the site.
Release notes →Polished wording everywhere
A small copy polish across the app and the release notes. No behavior changes.
Release notes →Aurora selection glaze
The selected session gets a whole new look, and the menu bar gets simpler.
Release notes →Orb 1.9.1: attention hardening
A small security-hardening follow-up to 1.9, from an adversarial review of the new attention/notification feature. No change to how Orb looks or behaves.
Release notes →Orb 1.9: know when Claude needs you
Know the moment a session needs you, without babysitting it.
Release notes →Orb 1.8: one loading language
The grey system spinners are gone. Everywhere Orb shows progress, it now draws the same Aurora comet you know from a working session: one motion across the whole app.
Release notes →Orb 1.7: see what's working
See when Claude is working: a session that's actively thinking or generating shows a slow comet of Aurora light drifting around its row, calm and unmistakable, gone the moment it goes idle.
Release notes →Orb 1.6: session rows you can read
Sessions are rows you can actually read: every session in the dock now shows its title and a subtitle at a glance. The column is wider and tuned for the new layout.
Release notes →Orb 1.5: updates that just work
Checking for updates is reliable now. It works on the first click and always tells you what happened.
Release notes →Orb 1.4: never lose a session
Your container sessions now stick around, and you can find every one of them.
Release notes →Orb 1.3: a guided first run
Orb now welcomes you the first time you launch it, and makes setting up a container clearer along the way.
Release notes →Orb 1.2: run agents in containers
Orb runs each agent session inside its own container, with snapshots that stand in for git worktrees and let you fan one task out across parallel sessions.
Release notes →Orb 1.1: automatic updates
Orb now updates itself: a quiet banner appears in the dock when a new version is ready, and installs in one click.
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