Orbit is free — no account, no licence key, no card, every tool unlocked
The $249 licence, the Stripe checkout, the activation key and every entitlement check are gone from the extension. There is no account to make and nothing to enter: download the .mcpb, double-click it, and every tool works. The only thing that can still gate a tool is a credential for a platform you own — your own Braze key, your own Stripo token — sent only to that platform. The licence server the extension used to call on startup no longer exists, and neither does the code that called it. If you are on an older build, update: it will keep asking for a key nothing issues any more.
What shipped
•No licence gate. server/activation.js is deleted, not disabled — there is no key check, no entitlement lookup, and no call home for authorisation anywhere in the extension. Every tool runs for everyone, first launch, offline.
•No account. Downloads no longer sit behind a sign-up wall. The guides, the courses, the completion badges and the free web apps were already open; now the extension is too.
•Third-party credentials are the only remaining gate, and they are yours. A Braze or Stripo tool still needs your own API key, entered in the extension settings and sent only to that platform. Tools that need one say so instead of failing — and, as of this release, that refusal is recorded as a failure rather than a success, so we can actually see how often a fresh install can't get started.
•The startup update check is now disclosed and separately switchable. Orbit asks yourorbit.team once a day whether a newer version exists — no identifiers, nothing about you, cached for 24 hours. README and PRIVACY.md previously said telemetry was the only call the extension made on its own behalf; that was wrong by one request, and it's now documented with its own ORBIT_UPDATE_CHECK=0 opt-out alongside the existing telemetry toggle.
•The update notice works. It never had: the check reported an available update in one field and the notice looked for another, so no installed copy has ever been told a new version shipped. Fixed and tested. It's the only channel that reaches an install already on your machine.
•A debug trace you can actually find. ORBIT_DEBUG_TRACE existed but was documented nowhere — it's now a checkbox in the extension settings, writing one line per tool call to ~/Orbit/logs/orbit-trace.jsonl with the tool, duration, outcome and a hash of the arguments. Never the arguments, your content or your credentials. There's a bug-report template that asks for it.
•Honest install copy. The extension directory listing claimed native HubSpot and PostHog integration. There is no HubSpot or PostHog client in the codebase; the description now names only the platforms that have one — Braze, Iterable, Customer.io, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Stripo, Figma and Gemini.
•Widgets read correctly in dark mode and without colour vision. The lifecycle-flow diagram now writes each step's type — entry, decision, wait, exit — on the node instead of encoding it only in a 4px stripe colour, and the push preview's 'clipped on iOS' warning no longer renders dark-mode red on a light notification card.
•Releases now run the test suite before they ship. They previously did not.