Orbit Home User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience31.1% of reviews
Neutral12.3% of reviews
Negative experience56.6% of reviews

~ Based on 106 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Orbit Home Safe?

Orbit Home has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Orbit Home is 53/100.

This assessment is based on 64 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.4/5.

Safety Analysis

29.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
7.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
62.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 64 App Store ratings for Orbit Home.

Is Orbit Home Legit?

Orbit Home appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Orbit Home is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Stopped working

***HACKED*** Their website and software has been hacked.
They either don't keep up with iPhone software updates of their software developers are sleepy. The app has been useless for a week.

Cant open door. Notifications work.

When I open the garage door from the button I get a notification on phone. Can’t open or close the door from app. Reinstalled the app, still not working.

Not working

Garage door app does not work, not sure what happened

Need fixes and updates

Opening door often just refuses to open&close through the app, need to use a remote. Notifications are often hours late. Interface is very dated.

Not impressed

App will not open door, worked for one day, only shows alerts that door is open or closed when using remote

Not working

After your last update the app will not open the garage door. Touching the garage door icon does not work.

App shows door is closed when open

After the latest update, the app shows the door as closed even though it’s open. It also doesn’t show when the door is being opened or closed.

UPDATE: app is working properly now. Shows when the door is open and closed.

Not at all useful

Not even sure I can rate the app at 1 star. Trying to register and can’t even get past the verification code. App just stalls and does nothing.

Do better developer. Come on.

Alerts come late, becomes unresponsive a lot of time

Alerts are received hours after opening or closing giving panic attacks.
What’s worse is, after a delayed alert, it then becomes unresponsive and won’t open or close.

After these issues can be addressed, it would also be nice to get notification or be able to schedule auto closing if not closed in a certain amount of time.
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iOS 26.6 not compatible

I recently updated my phone to iOS 26.6 and since then the Orbit app is not opening or closing my garage doors. However, I am still receiving open/close notifications when the doors are opened or closed via other methods.

Terrible customer service

App does not function properly. After most recent app update it will not operate my garage door. Skylink customer service has sent me 2 different WiFi adapters- apparently that is all they know to do for the app

App stopped working

Not very happy with this stopped working garage door no use having out something that doesn’t work

Absolute rubbish

Wouldn’t buy this garage opener again. The app is so hit and miss and is constantly playing up. Save yourself the money and get a different opener!!!

What happened?

This app has been working great for 5 years or so. Updated last week and now neither garage door functions with the app. Way to go. Hope you fix it soon.

Needs more features

I wish there was an option to alert if the garage door was left open for a period of time or after a certain hour of the night.

May/03 update has issue now

The app can’t show correctly current situation of door is opening or closed after updating.

Bad App

I hope the opener works better than this app. It freezes up every time I try entering the emailed verification code.

Doesn't function, terrible design and infrastructure

Awful app. Doesn't work, glitches, not updated, list goes on. Makes me want to return my opener.

Bare bones

Opens and closes the door very well.

There are “light on” and “light off” buttons. You can’t tell if the light is on or off. A single toggle indicating which is true at the moment would be better.

I wish there was an option to notify me if the garage has been open for a certain length of time in case it’s forgotten about.

Apple HomeKit integration would be nice.
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Does not work

Times out