Free
£0
One person, one site
- Edit one site — fully featured, nothing held back
- Per-page publishing with approval
- Typed forms, Markdown & MDX, snippets, images
- Live preview and version history
Simple, one-time pricing
Free for a single site. Pay once to manage as many as you like — no subscription, no lock-in.
Pro
£29 once
One person, unlimited sites
- Manage unlimited sites — yours or your clients'
- Use it on 2 computers — say, a laptop and a desktop
- One payment, no subscription
- Free updates for all of 1.x
- Never expires; you're never locked out of a site
- Works with every site generator Orbit supports
- Orbit Extras — ready-made Orbit sites to start from
Team
from £129 once
Everything in Pro, for each person
- 5 seats — £129
- 10 seats — £249
- 25 seats — £549
- One key for the team — one computer per seat
- A seat moves to someone new when the old holder removes the licence
- For organisations where more than five people edit
Compare features
Every feature is in Free — you only pay to manage more than one site, or for a team.
| Free | Pro | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Editing | |||
| Typed content form?Orbit reads your content schema and builds the fields for you — dropdowns for enums, date pickers, image pickers, reorderable lists. No raw YAML. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Markdown & MDX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MDX components?Insert the components a developer declares, from a small form — not raw JSX. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reusable snippets?Drop in shared blocks of text by name ([[name]] placeholders) — edit the block once, everywhere updates. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Editable data files?Edit declared JSON files (nav lists, config) through a form inferred from the shape. Only files you list are editable. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Images & upload?Browse existing images or upload new ones; Orbit inserts the correct reference for you. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live preview?See your Markdown formatted and images loaded as you type, next to the text; components show as labelled cards. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publishing | |||
| Per-page publishing?Every page shows whether it's live. Saving puts changes on your preview site; editors ask to publish and approvers publish. Who can publish is set on GitHub. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Get latest & undo?Plain-language buttons instead of git commands — pull the latest, or undo a change. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Version history?Browse past versions of a page and restore one — it becomes a normal edit you can save. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Conflict resolver?If two people edit the same page, a friendly side-by-side view sorts it out — no merge conflicts. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Editor & Dev modes?Editors get a simplified surface; developers see branch controls and settings. It's the interface that changes — push access stays with git. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sites & platform | |||
| Sites you can manage?A site is one connected repository. Your first is free; more need Pro or a Team seat. | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| People?Pro is one person on up to 2 computers. Team is one key for the team, used on one computer per seat; a seat moves to someone new when the old holder removes the licence. | 1 | 1 | 5, 10 or 25 |
| Orbit Extras?A private GitHub repository of ready-made sites set up for Orbit, organised by site generator (Astro, Gatsby, Next.js and Nuxt today). | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Every site generator?One licence, one app, for every site generator Orbit works with — Astro, Gatsby, Next.js and Nuxt today. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Platforms?A macOS app today; Windows and Linux are on the way. | macOS | macOS | macOS |
| Source available?The full source is public under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1). Read it, learn from it, build your own site setups — it converts to the Apache-2.0 open-source licence two years after each release. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free updates?Every 1.x update is free. If there's ever a version 2, owners get a discounted upgrade — and 1.x keeps working forever. | ✓ | All of 1.x | All of 1.x |
| Coming soon | |||
| Sign in with GitHub?Sign in and see just the repos you're allowed to edit — permissions straight from GitHub. Not shipped yet. | Soon | Soon | Soon |
| Bundled git — nothing else to install?Git bundled inside Orbit so there's nothing else to set up beyond the app itself. Today Orbit uses the git already on the machine. | Soon | Soon | Soon |
| Full live site preview?Run your real Astro site in a window and see it update as you edit. Today's preview renders Markdown and images; components show as cards. | Soon | Soon | Soon |
| Price | £0 | £29 once | from £129 once |
Orbit MD is source-available and free for a single site. Pro and Team areone-time payments that keep development going — no subscriptions, no lock-in. Each licence is for one person, on their own computers, and covers every 1.x update. If more than five people in your organisation edit with Orbit MD, we ask you to buy a Team pack for them; a client editing their own site on Free is always fine. See theterms and the FAQ. Questions about buying, team licences or invoices? Email sales@orbitmarkdown.com.