# Orbits > Orbits is a household assistant app for iOS and Android with an AI called Bit. It manages family calendars, lists, meals, chores and home upkeep, reads household email, and can place phone calls and build Instacart carts. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.md (~5,300 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.min.md (~1,380 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - Updated: 2026-10-13 ## Overview **Grade F · 15.6/100 · rank #997 of 1010 · #33 in Personal assistants · not agent-ready · confidence medium** ## Assessment Orbits is a family household app whose assistant, Bit, runs shared calendars, lists and meals, reads household email and places restaurant calls after approval, with iOS releases every week or two. No outside agent can call it, prices appear only as App Store in-app purchases, and no status page, security contact or named subprocessors were found. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | Nemus AI, Inc. (https://tryorbits.com) | | Kind | Platform | | Category | Personal assistants (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/personal-assistants) | | Auth | OAuth or key · An account in the Orbits app, with a Home that family members join by invite code. Apple iCloud, Google and Microsoft accounts can be connected, and texting Bit works only from registered phone numbers (https://tryorbits.com and https://tryorbits.com/privacy). | | Pricing | Paid (Paid) · The app is "Free to download" (https://tryorbits.com/install), and the App Store says the assistant needs an Orbits subscription. The App Store lists Orbits Membership in-app purchases at $3.99, $9.99 and $89.99, with no period shown (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orbits-your-home-handled/id6751995632, checked 14 October 2026). The terms say prices and any free trial are shown at purchase and vary by region and platform (https://tryorbits.com/tos). | | x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 found on tryorbits.com, llms.txt or the terms, checked 14 October 2026. | | Licence | Closed service under the Orbits Terms of Service (Nemus AI, Inc.). | | llms.txt | https://tryorbits.com/llms.txt | | Last release | 2026-10-13 | | Surface listed | The Orbits app and Bit, read from tryorbits.com, llms.txt, the install page, terms and privacy policy on 14 October 2026. No account was created. | | Where it runs | A cloud service. Subprocessors are named only by category, including large-language-model providers (https://tryorbits.com/privacy). | | What it acts on | Family calendars, tasks, lists, chores, meals and grocery carts handed to Instacart, household email, restaurant calls and service requests (https://tryorbits.com and https://tryorbits.com/llms.txt). | | Outside agent access | None. llms.txt says Orbits has no public agent API. | | Company | Nemus AI, Inc. Founders Nomaan Ahmed (CEO) and Erik Tillberg (CTO). Contact contact@tryorbits.com (https://tryorbits.com/tos and https://tryorbits.com/llms.txt). | | Eligibility | 18 or the legal age in the user's jurisdiction (https://tryorbits.com/tos). | | Capabilities | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, calendar.write, mailbox.read, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, voice.calls, commerce.checkout, tasks.create, memory.user, notify.push | | Tags | hosted, official, closed-source, paid, ios, android, llms-txt | | JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orbits.json | ## Score breakdown (methodology v0.4, October 2026 research run) Assessed 2026-10-14 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: medium. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. "This run" is each category's share of the 100 points. | Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% | 20 | 15 | 3.0 | | Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Schema & documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 10 | 1.6 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 0 | 0.0 | | Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 0 | 0.0 | | Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 20 | 2.5 | | Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 54 | 4.7 | | Transparency & trust (editorial 35, provenance 51) | 7% | 8.8 | 43 | 3.8 | | Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 | | **Total** | | | | **15.6 → F** | ### Why each score - Reliability 15: Read with the hosted lines. No status page found, and status.tryorbits.com has no DNS record (0). No readable incident history (5). No limits published, and no interface for an outside agent (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA (0). On the App Store since 5 January 2026 and not labelled beta (10). - Performance: Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes. - Schema & documentation 10: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. Orbits has no API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an agent, so the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). That is a statement about agent access, not about the service for people. tryorbits.com/llms.txt describes the product and says no public agent API is offered (10). It also tells agents how to direct users, which we read as data. The versioning and changelog line versions an agent interface, and with none there is nothing to version, so it scores nothing (0 of 15), the reading the 12 October audit applied to every listing without an agent interface. - Agent ergonomics 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. Orbits has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the service for people. - Security & auth 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for Orbits, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the service does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. For the record, Bit places a restaurant call only after the owner approves the restaurant, party size, date, time and name, and texting Bit works only from registered numbers. tryorbits.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact, disclosure policy, bug bounty, certification or advisories were found (0 of 20). - Payments & pricing 20: Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). tryorbits.com publishes no price, but the App Store lists Orbits Membership in-app purchases at $3.99, $9.99 and $89.99 with no period shown, and the terms say prices vary by region and platform. The Tomo dossier took App Store prices as public plan-only pricing (10). The app is free to download, but the App Store page says what it describes needs an Orbits subscription, and any trial is shown only at purchase, a free option hedged the way the Muse dossier's was (10 of 20). A person signs up in the app (0). - Task success: Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored. - Maintenance & community 54: Read for a closed service. Orbits 1.0.81 on 13 October 2026 (30). Nine iOS versions from 23 July to 13 October (20). No changelog, and contact@tryorbits.com, which we didn't test (4 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0). - Transparency & trust 43: Closed service under the Orbits Terms of Service naming Nemus AI, Inc., with no date found (15). The privacy policy, also undated, says connected-account content doesn't train general-purpose or foundation models and that model subprocessors are contractually barred from training on customer content. No retention periods were found (15 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). Subprocessors by category only, large-language-model providers included, with no names or regions, the Instinct dossier's 3 (3 of 20). Fix list for a coding agent, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (14 items): https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/orbits.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/orbits.json) ### What we couldn't check - Which period each App Store membership price covers, and whether a trial needs a card. - Dates of the terms and privacy policy. - Which model providers process data. ### Sources - llms.txt: (seen 2026-10-14) - privacy policy: (seen 2026-10-14) - App Store listing and version history: (seen 2026-10-14) - terms (per the lister's read): (seen 2026-10-14) - homepage (per the lister's read): (seen 2026-10-14) - status subdomain DNS lookup: (seen 2026-10-14) - install page: (seen 2026-10-14) - blog feed: (seen 2026-10-14) ## Who's behind it (provenance 51/100, checked 2026-10-14) | Check | Finding | Points | | --- | --- | --- | | Legal entity named | Nemus AI, Inc. | 20/20 | | Domain age | tryorbits.com, registered 2025-08-30 (1 year) | 3/15 | | Endpoint on the vendor's domain | no hosted endpoint | n/a | | Terms of service | published | 10/10 | | Privacy policy | published | 10/10 | | Status page | not found | 0/10 | | Changelog | not found | 0/10 | | security.txt | not found | 0/10 | No date was found on the terms or the privacy policy. tryorbits.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog was found. No X account is linked from the pages read. RDAP gives a registration date of 2025-08-30 for tryorbits.com. ### Terms and privacy, as read A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice. **Terms of service** (https://tryorbits.com/tos), not read yet. **Privacy policy** (https://tryorbits.com/privacy), not read yet. ## Probe metrics Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score. ## Strengths - Bit places a restaurant call only after the owner approves the restaurant, party size, date, time and name. - Nine iOS releases between 23 July and 13 October 2026. - Connected-account content doesn't train foundation models, per the privacy policy. ## Weaknesses - No public agent API, as llms.txt states. - No price on tryorbits.com. The assistant needs a subscription, priced only as App Store in-app purchases with no period shown. - Terms and privacy policy carry no dates. - No status page, security.txt or named subprocessors. ## Before you call it (notes for agents) 1. Don't plan to call Orbits from another agent. llms.txt says no public agent API is offered. 2. Tell the owner the assistant needs an Orbits subscription bought in the app, and that any trial appears only at purchase. ## Similar tools Ranked by shared capabilities, then score. 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Desk reviews, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. For a desk review, the outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material: success, partial or failure. How reviews work: https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviews/how-it-works.md ## Notable - Families chat with Bit in the app, text it directly or add it to the family group chat (source: ) - Bit can place a restaurant reservation call after the owner approves the restaurant, party size, date, time and name, and reports the outcome in chat (source: ) - Supported accounts are Apple Calendar and Mail through iCloud, Google Calendar and Gmail, and Microsoft Outlook (source: ) - llms.txt says "No public agent API is currently offered" (source: ) - The privacy policy says connected-account content is not used to train general-purpose or foundation models, and that model subprocessors are contractually restricted from training on customer content (source: ) - Orbits says it is backed by a16z's Speedrun fund, N49P and Garage Capital, with a pre-seed round of $2.6 million CAD (source: ) - #33 of 42 in Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - 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