Changelog
What's new in Orbit Marketing
Every Orbit Marketing release, in one place. New features, improvements and fixes for local-first marketing: social posting, sale pages, email campaigns and AI visibility.
The biggest release so far
If you are coming from 0.4.1, everything below is new to you.
Orbit now knows what kind of thing you are. Setup asks whether you are a business, an organisation (masjid, surau, persatuan, kelab, sekolah, NGO) or a personal brand, and the menu follows. Nothing is removed and nothing is billed differently. Every module is in your licence, and Settings has a switch for each one with a plain reason for why it is hidden.
WhatsApp, using your own number. Link it by scanning a QR, the way WhatsApp Web works. No Business API, no per-message fee, no approval queue. You get an Inbox with a needs-reply queue, contacts and lists and a pipeline with your own stage names, saved messages, Auto Reply rules, an AI assistant that is off until you turn it on, sequences that send by WhatsApp and not only email, and group member extraction with an honest count of who was hidden.
Broadcasts pace themselves: random gaps, quiet hours, a per-person cooldown, and a warm-up ramp for a new number. This lowers the chance of a block. It does not remove it, and Orbit will never tell you otherwise.
Programmes and attendance. For anyone running a class, a kursus or a weekly session. A programme holds dated sessions, and attendance is recorded three ways: ticked at the door, a check-in code, or an online sign-up. Walk-ins become contacts. Signed up and turned up are different numbers and are never added together, because somebody who registered and did not come is a no-show, not a head. Analytics shows the turn-up trend and who has stopped coming. You can print an A4 poster for any session with a QR that signs people up when they scan it.
Telegram. Connect a bot and Orbit records who joins or posts in your group, imports them to Contacts, and broadcasts to anyone who has started the bot. Telegram does not let a bot list a group’s members, so Orbit shows what it actually knows beside the real total: "23 of 412 recorded". A bare "23 members" would be a lie. Telegram never gives a bot a phone number either, and a bot cannot message somebody who has not started it. All three limits are on the screen rather than hidden.
Posting as yourself. Threads and LinkedIn now post from your own profile, beside Facebook and Instagram. One draft renders per platform with that platform’s character limit. TikTok and X are prepared for you to post by hand and say so, rather than pretending to publish.
Writing that sounds like you. A page where you describe how you write, plus named instructions you switch on and off, which every AI feature in Orbit reads. Drafts keep their versions instead of overwriting. An idea feed pulls from public sources and from the comments on your own posts. Interview mode asks you questions and writes the post from your answers. Carousels, saved references and a profile review with named checks, not an invented score.
Comments and reach. Comments on your posts come back into one queue instead of being scattered across apps. Reach analytics shows followers, engagement rate, when to post and what has been working. Where a platform will not report a number, Orbit shows nothing and names the reason rather than inventing one.
Partnerships. Brand deals with deliverables and a due date, and a media kit you can send. Money earned and money merely committed are kept apart on purpose.
Exports. Contacts and any attendance roster export to a spreadsheet. The file carries a byte-order mark so Excel stops mangling Malay names, and a contact name starting with "=" stays text instead of becoming a formula.
Settings is now a directory of sections rather than one long page.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. One universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Back up before you install. This release upgrades your database and there is no way back to 0.4.1 afterwards. Use Settings, then Data, then Backup first.
Two fixes worth naming
Neither of these is new in this release. Both were already in the app, and both are worth naming plainly.
Your export now carries one business, not all of them. If you keep more than one business in Orbit, "Export all" was writing every business into the same folder, so one company's customer list ended up in another company's export. It now exports only the business you are currently in. If you have exported before and shared that folder with anyone, it is worth checking what was in it.
Scheduled posts now go out for every business. Orbit keeps working when it is closed, but that was only true for whichever business you opened last. A second business's scheduled posts, email sequences and blog-to-email quietly never ran until you opened that business again. Every business now gets its turn on each check, and Orbit puts you back where you were. Anything that was sitting unsent will go out on the next check.
Restoring a backup from a newer Orbit is now refused. An older copy of Orbit has no way to understand newer data, and no way back. It used to accept the file anyway. It now stops and tells you to update first. Backups from the same version or older restore exactly as before.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. One universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
One calendar, and your own photos
Owners kept telling us the same thing: Autopilot, Content Studio and the calendar felt like three names for one job. They were right. Content now lives in one place, and you can finally post your own photos and videos instead of only the ones Orbit draws.
One place for content. Autopilot and Content Studio are gone as separate screens. Click any day on the Content Calendar and one composer opens: write the post yourself, let Orbit write it, or pick something you saved earlier. Attach a photo, set it to repeat, done. Ads autopilot and the weekly review moved to Ad Campaigns, next to your budgets, where they belong.
Repeat any post. Set a post to go out every week or every month, with an optional end date. The next one is only created after the current one really posts, so a channel that stops working stops the series instead of stacking up a month of posts nobody will see.
Your own photos and videos. Add pictures and clips from your Mac and attach them to any post. They stay on your device as real files and show in the preview before anything goes out. Video is stored, previewed and reminded about; Orbit does not post video for you, and it says so on the post rather than letting you find out on the day.
Nothing goes public early. Your photo is put on a public web address only at the moment a post using it goes out. A picture you tried and deleted was never online for a second. Backups now carry your photos alongside your data, and a restore that is missing them warns you first.
Use your own image API. Orbit still draws pictures with no key needed. But if you already pay for Google Gemini or OpenAI, paste your key in Settings and Orbit uses your account instead. If the engine you pick has no key, Orbit tells you rather than quietly using a different one and billing the wrong account.
Two fixes worth naming. Facebook was posting text only when your picture was not reachable yet, and reporting it as a success; it now refuses and tells you why. And images Orbit had just drawn could not be seen inside the app; they now display properly, with nothing loosened in the app's security.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. One universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
It actually posts now
Until this release, Orbit planned your marketing beautifully and then stopped at the moment something had to leave your Mac. Posts were marked published without going anywhere. Broadcasts said sent without sending. That is over.
Posting is real. A scheduled post now goes to your Facebook Page or Instagram, and the calendar links to the actual post. A post is only ever marked published when the platform hands back a real post id, so the calendar stops telling you about posts that do not exist. When something cannot go out, it says exactly why: the permission that is missing, the image Instagram needs, or the platform Orbit cannot post to yet.
WhatsApp broadcasts really send. WhatsApp only delivers pre-approved templates to people who have not messaged you recently, so the composer is now a template picker rather than a text box that would quietly fail for most of your list. Test run is still there, as a button you press on purpose.
It keeps working when Orbit is closed. Turn on background work in Settings and your scheduled posts, email sequences and blog-to-email keep going with the app quit. It reports the last time it actually ran, not a promise that it is running.
You can see what worked. Sale pages count real views and a real conversion rate. New trackable links show which post or channel actually sent people to you. Numbers that cannot be measured are left blank with the reason, never filled in with a zero.
The CRM became a workflow. Put a follow-up date on a contact and overdue ones surface on your dashboard. Saved audiences now work for both email and WhatsApp, so one list means one thing everywhere.
New: Reviews and Link in bio. Ask customers for a Google review by WhatsApp or a printed QR, and draft replies to reviews you paste in. Publish a one-page list of buttons for your Instagram bio, on your own address instead of someone else's.
Coupons you can attach to a sale page, priced correctly before the buyer ever sees the checkout.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. One universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Published pages now capture leads
A fix worth explaining plainly, because it affected something the app promised.
A sale page you published sent its form to an address that only existed on your own Mac. When you tested the page yourself it worked, because your Mac was right there. When a customer opened the same page on their phone, the form had nowhere to go and the lead was lost.
Publishing a page now sets up a small collector on the page's own address, and Orbit picks up new leads every minute while it is open. Set it up once in Business details, Publishing, then publish your pages again.
- Nothing is lost quietly any more. If lead capture is not set up, a published page shows your WhatsApp button and no form, instead of a form that swallows what people type.
- Page views are counted too, so conversion rate on the Conversion screen becomes a real number rather than an estimate.
- Unsubscribe links are checked on your own machine, so nobody can unsubscribe someone else by guessing a link.
If you have published a sale page before today, please publish it again so the live version can collect.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. One universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Blog to email, and a look of its own
Your blog can now write your newsletter, and the email module reports on itself honestly.
- Blog to email. Point Orbit Marketing at your blog or podcast feed and every new post becomes an email campaign. Existing posts are never emailed, only what you publish from now on, so adding a feed can never blast your archive at your list. Drafts by default; automatic sending is opt-in.
- Sending over time. A month-by-month view of what actually went out, alongside how your list grew.
- List health score. A single number out of 100, built only from things that can be measured. If your email connection cannot report opens, opens are left out of the score and the page says so rather than showing you a zero.
- Its own colours. Orbit Marketing now wears its own coral and magenta instead of borrowing Orbit Finance's blue.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. One universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
First public release
The first public build of Orbit Marketing, for a Malaysian small business running its own marketing.
- Validate an idea before you build it: AI demand research that cites real sources, a waitlist teaser page, and a go/no-go scoreboard counted from real signups.
- Persona Generator builds customer personas from your business profile.
- Autopilot plans, writes and schedules a week of social posts on its own.
- Content Studio and Calendar generate on-brand copy and visuals, then auto-publish to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Threads and WhatsApp.
- Sale Pages you can publish live, converting to WhatsApp, a lead form or a payment, with leads landing in your CRM.
- Email campaigns with a block composer, reusable templates, automated sequences and list health.
- CRM, Pipeline and Broadcasts for the contacts those pages bring in.
- Ad Campaigns for Meta, Google and TikTok, with approval-gated spend and hard budget caps.
- SEO Studio, AI Visibility and AI Brand Check to get found by search and named by AI assistants.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. One universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
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