Orbit MD

Download Orbit

One app for every site generator. Free for one site; Pro or Team for more.

Download for macOSApple siliconWindows Soon10 & 11 — coming soon · get in touchLinux SoonAppImage — coming soon · get in touch

Want to see what you'd be editing first? Visit the demo site ↗, then open it in Orbit from Help ▸ Open the Demo Site.

Download the app for your computer and open your site’s repository. You’ll need git installed and access to the repository. (Bundled git and one-click GitHub sign-in — so there’s nothing else to set up — are on the way.)

Installing

Open the downloaded file and drag Orbit MD into Applications, then open it. Orbit checks for new versions when it opens and tells you when one is ready.

On a new Mac, Orbit first asks to install Apple’s free developer tools (which include git) — one click and a few minutes, once. To open a private site, the Mac needs to be signed in to GitHub once: how.

Works with

One app for every site generator. Astro needs no setup; the others need a short content map.

Astro

Works

Works with no setup — Orbit reads your content collections and their schemas.

Gatsby

Works

Works with a short content map — tell Orbit where your Markdown is and which template renders it.

Next.js

Works

Works with a short content map — tell Orbit where your Markdown posts are and which route renders them.

Nuxt

Works

Works with a short content map — for Nuxt Content and Docus sites, whose pages are Markdown files in content/.

Hugo

Not yet tested

Should work with a content map, for YAML front matter — not yet tested.

Eleventy

Not yet tested

Eleventy sites should work with a content map — not yet tested.

Jekyll

Not yet tested

Should work with a content map for editing — not yet tested.