Every Google account in its own room on your Mac, fully isolated. Each one is the real Gmail web UI, with Calendar, Drive, Meet, and Gemini. No server, no subscription: pay once ($19 launch price, $89 after). Switch with ⌘1-9. Native Swift, a 12 MB app. 14-day free trial, no card needed.
Hey hunters 👋
I run 9 Gmail accounts: work, personal, per-project, client support. I hit a wall juggling them on a Mac. Chrome profiles meant 9 identical icons in the Dock, and one afternoon I nearly replied to a client from my personal address. The multi-account browsers meant a bundled copy of Chromium, plus sessions that route through the vendor's servers, so when their backend changes, all 9 accounts log out at once.
So I built Orbit around one idea: your accounts should stay yours.
🪐 Each account is the real Gmail web UI. Your labels, filters, layout, even Gmail's built-in Gemini, all untouched. Calendar, Drive, and Meet included.
🔒 Each account lives in its own room on your Mac: separate cookies, separate login, fully isolated. No server, no sync layer, no shared session. Privacy people: your mail never touches my infrastructure, because there is no infrastructure.
⌨️ ⌘1-9 to switch. Every room is already loaded, so there is no reload and no waiting. Native notifications, per-account unread badges, one quiet window.
🍎 Native Swift on macOS's own WebKit engine. A 12 MB app, not a bundled browser.
Launch deal: it's $19 right now to celebrate the launch. Regular price is $89, one time, yours forever, with a year of free updates. There's a 14-day free trial, no card needed.
The honest trade-offs of having no server: you sign in once per Mac, and there is no cross-device sync. Passkey-only and Advanced Protection accounts can't sign in at all (a macOS WebKit limitation, it's in the FAQ). I still think local-first is the right trade: sessions that live on your Mac beat sync I would have to charge you monthly for.
AMA. And tell me straight: what would make this a buy for you?
The multi-account tax is real and weirdly under-discussed. I've got a personal Google account, a project one, and a dev one, and Chrome profile-switching is where a chunk of my focus quietly leaks out every day. Two things I'm curious about: does Orbit keep each account fully sandboxed (separate cookies/sessions the way distinct Chrome profiles do), or is it more of a unified layer on top? And is it Gmail-first for now, or does it also pull Calendar/Drive per account? Clean-looking launch.
Since each room is the real Gmail web UI in WebKit, what happens the day Google changes something on their end — do you have to ship an app update, or does it just keep working?
Looks amazing! Any plans to support other Google Apps such as Maps and/or Business?
The productivity and attention fix i didn't know i needed. With the number of chromium windows i've had open just to view multiple inboxes, i almost feel embarrassed i didn't try to seek out a solution like this sooner. Well done and hope you can keep up with version control for any GMail updates.
a 12MB native Swift app pulling this off instead of another Electron wrapper is the detail that sold me, most multi-account tools are 200MB+ and still route your session through their servers like you mentioned. one-time payment for something this narrowly useful also feels right, this isn't a tool that needs a subscription to justify ongoing dev cost
Native Swift at 12 MB and no server dependency, that's real respect for the Mac platform. Love that you kept the actual Gmail web UI intact instead of rebuilding it poorly.
the ⌘1–9 switching between isolated Google accounts feels so much faster than juggling browser profiles, and 12 MB native Swift is genuinely impressive for something running the full Gmail UI
The no-server trade-off is good product honesty. For multi-account work on a Mac, isolation is usually more valuable than clever sync, especially when support/client mail can leak across contexts. The detail I would want next is per-room notification rules and a clear recovery path when Google changes a WebKit login edge case.
Rare to see a launch post that spells out what the app can't do (passkey-only accounts, no cross-device sync) right in the pitch. Very decent, well done and great product!
The "nearly replied from my personal address" moment is the real hook here, that near-miss is universal for anyone running several accounts. One thing that'd make it a stronger buy for me: carry the account's color or identity into the compose and reply window itself, not just the app chrome. The wrong-account send happens the instant you hit send, so, the reminder needs to be right there while you're typing, not one glance away.
A great idea, and something I badly need, but the app keeps crashing when I press the “Add Account” button.
love the no-infrastructure framing, that's a rare thing to see actually followed through on rather than just marketing copy. one thing I'm curious about long term: since each account renders through system WebKit instead of a Chromium build you control, what happens when Google ships one of their periodic Gmail UI overhauls? Chromium-based tools get patched by the browser vendor on their own timeline, but WebKit compatibility with Gmail's web app specifically feels like something only you can fix, and only after it breaks for users first. is that something you're watching for or has it not been an issue yet
About Orbit for Mac on Product Hunt
“Every Google account, in a single window”
Orbit for Mac launched on Product Hunt on July 8th, 2026 and earned 127 upvotes and 34 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Every Google account in its own room on your Mac, fully isolated. Each one is the real Gmail web UI, with Calendar, Drive, Meet, and Gemini. No server, no subscription: pay once ($19 launch price, $89 after). Switch with ⌘1-9. Native Swift, a 12 MB app. 14-day free trial, no card needed.
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