Comparison

Ordo vs Orbit Dashboard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Ordo

This app intelligently schedules your tasks, classes, and practices into your available free time. It integrates with your existing calendars and can pause distracting apps during focus sessions. Connect with Apple Health or WHOOP for sleep and recovery insights.

Highlights
  • Automated task and class scheduling
  • Calendar integration (Google, Outlook)
  • Distracting app pausing
  • Focus timer with Lock Screen support
  • Apple Health/WHOOP integration
  • Chat-based scheduling assistance
Features
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Ordo plans your day for you. It reads your calendars, knows your classes and what is due, places your tasks and practices into the time you actually have, and pauses the apps that pull you away while you focus. Nothing keeps score: no points, no streaks, no percentages. Open Ordo and Today shows what is next, what is due and where your free time is. PLANNED FOR YOU Give Ordo a task with a due date, or a practice like reading or a walk, and it finds a place for it in your open time. YOUR CLASSES, TRACKED Add your classes once and Ordo keeps the term: when and where each class meets, what is due, and when the next exam is. If your classes are already in your calendar, Ordo recognizes them and shows each one once. EVERY CALENDAR ON ONE PAGE Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar connect directly, next to the calendars already on your iPhone. Share your calendar with a friend who uses Ordo, as busy times or in full detail. CHAT Ask Ordo to move something, find an hour, or work out when to leave. It answers from your real schedule, with travel times from Apple Maps. PRACTICES WITHOUT STREAKS Tend the small things you come back to. Miss a day and nothing resets. FOCUS, WITH YOUR APPS PAUSED Start a focus timer that stays on your Lock Screen. Choose the apps that pause while you work: during each work period they show a quiet screen with your task and the time your break starts, and they open again at the break. Two emergency releases a week, so you are never locked out. SLEEP AND RECOVERY Connect Apple Health or WHOOP to see your sleep and recovery next to your plans. Use Ordo without an account, or sign in to keep your iPhone and web.useordoapp.com in sync. No ads, no tracking, and your data is never sold.

About

Orbit Dashboard

Consolidate your life into a single, intelligent dashboard. Track calendar events, health metrics, finances, and more, with an AI assistant that surfaces what needs your attention. Organize anything instantly with a unified input system.

Highlights
  • Unified dashboard for calendar, health, money, and more
  • On-device AI for instant capture of tasks, notes, and ideas
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly views
  • Private, on-device AI assistant
  • Insights connecting different aspects of your life
  • Configurable widgets for home and lock screens
  • Works with Siri and Shortcuts
Features
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Orbit brings your whole life onto one dashboard. Instead of hopping between ten apps to see what matters, Orbit overlays your calendar, reminders, health, weather, people, money, and more onto a single Today screen — then surfaces what actually needs you. ONE DASHBOARD, EVERY HORIZON Switch between Today, This Week, This Month, and This Year to see what's coming — an appointment weeks out, a bill due, a birthday — across every area at once. CAPTURE ANYTHING, INSTANTLY One box. Type or dictate, and Orbit's on-device AI files it as a task, note, idea, quote, or person. No folders, no friction. ASK ORBIT A private, on-device assistant that answers from your own data, plus a daily summary of your day. ORBIT NOTICED Insights that connect two parts of your life no single app sees — a birthday during a busy week, poor sleep before a demanding day, a bill due while you're traveling. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE • Calendar & Reminders — your events and lists, with inline complete • Health — activity rings, steps, heart rate, and sleep • Weather — current conditions, forecast, and threshold alerts • People — birthdays, important dates, and who to reconnect with • Money — App Store sales, a stock watchlist, a retirement forecast, and bills • Projects, Content, Travel, Garage, Journal, Library, Email, Deliveries, and more WIDGETS EVERYWHERE One configurable Orbit widget in every size — Home Screen and Lock Screen. Pick what it shows, check off reminders and routines without opening the app, and it follows your theme in Light and Dark. WORKS WITH APPLE Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, Handoff, and interactive widgets — no setup. Just say "Hey Siri, capture in Orbit." BUILT FOR EVERY DEVICE iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, synced over your private iCloud. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There's no Orbit account and no Orbit server. What you create stays on your device and in your private iCloud. Capture cleanup and Ask Orbit run on-device with Apple Intelligence. Only a coarse location ever leaves your device — and only to fetch the weather. Available in English and Spanish. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ericrogerstechnology.com/Orbit/PRIVACY.html

Screenshots

Ordo4 screens
Orbit Dashboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ordo at none against Orbit Dashboard's 7. Ordo also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Orbit Dashboard's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks) and device support (5 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Orbit Dashboard sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Ordo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ordo against 5.0 for Orbit Dashboard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ordo ships an update every 6 weeks, Orbit Dashboard every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ordo versus Orbit Dashboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrdoOrbit Dashboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size285 MB42 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAung Thein SeinEric Rogers

Customer experience

Ordo

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Orbit Dashboard

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Ordo

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Orbit Dashboard

Subscriptions2
  • Orbit Plus — Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Orbit Plus — Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time5
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
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  • Generous Tip$19.99
  • Orbit Plus — Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Ordo free?
Ordo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orbit Dashboard free?
Orbit Dashboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ordo or Orbit Dashboard?
Ordo and Orbit Dashboard are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Ordo or Orbit Dashboard have ads?
Neither Ordo nor Orbit Dashboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ordo or Orbit Dashboard?
Ordo ships an update every 6 weeks, and Orbit Dashboard every 3 days. Most recently, Ordo was updated on November 10, 2026 and Orbit Dashboard on November 10, 2026.

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