Orbit vs Met?

Discover the people whose paths crossed yours. Orbit brings shared places, photo memories and conversations together, helping everyday crossings become new connections. DISCOVER SHARED PATHS See approximate crossings with other Orbit users and revisit the places and moments you have in common. Send a wave to start a connection. A crossing suggests you were near the same place; it does not confirm that you met. CHAT WITH FRIENDS Keep the conversation going with your mutual connections. Share messages, photos, voice messages and places in your chats. YOUR PHOTOS, ON A MAP Explore your photo library with Gallery Map. Revisit memories by place, month and year, and discover shared moments with friends. This feature uses the dates and location information available in your photos. Library photos stay on your device unless you choose to share them. SHARE A MOMENT WITH PHOTO MAP Discover temporary photo posts on the map and add your own. Choose who can see your post and how long it stays visible. Posting limits apply. CONNECT THROUGH MUSIC Share a song from Apple Music to Orbit using the iOS Share menu. Discover music crossings connected to nearby shares of the same song or artist. START FREE, EXPLORE MORE WITH ORBIT PLUS Use core features for free, including connections, chats with friends and your Gallery Map. Optional Orbit Plus offers more daily waves, additional Photo Map posting capacity and more discovery history, subject to availability and retention limits. YOU CONTROL WHAT YOU SHARE Manage location and photo permissions, profile discoverability and shared content. Blocking, reporting and account deletion are available in the app. Location-based features require permission and available data. Orbit is for adults aged 18 and over. Orbit Plus is available as a monthly or annual auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://joinorbit.web.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://joinorbit.web.app/privacy.html

Have your paths crossed before? You may have shared a place with a friend, a partner, or someone you just met — long before you knew each other. met finds out. HOW IT WORKS Your photos already carry two labels: when they were taken, and where. met reads those two labels, and nothing else, to build a private picture of where you've been. Compare it with someone who agrees to compare with you, and you'll see where your pasts overlapped. FOUR KINDS OF CROSSING Same moment — the same small area, within two hours of each other. Same day — the same area on the same day, hours apart. Maybe you arrived as they left. Same week — the same neighbourhood, a few days apart. Same period — the same city, the same month. AND THE ONES YOU MISSED met also shows near misses: the afternoon you were in the same place four hours apart. Often that's the better story. PRIVACY IS THE PRODUCT, NOT A SETTING met does not open, display or upload your photos. It reads their date and location labels, then reduces them on your device before anything is compared: an exact coordinate becomes an area of roughly 150 metres, and a time becomes a one-hour slot. Your exact coordinates are never uploaded. You don't have to take our word for it. "What do I share?" in Settings asks our server what it holds for you and prints the rows back, unedited. met never asks for Location Services and never tracks where you are now. Everything it knows comes from photos you already took. YOUR OWN HISTORY, FIRST Even alone, met is worth opening: the places you returned to most, how much ground you covered month by month, the span of years your library reaches back. All of it worked out on your device. PEOPLE YOU KNOW Add someone by username. There is no directory to browse and no name search — you can only be added by someone you gave your username to. A report takes two agreements from each side: first you both accept the connection, then you both approve the report. It shows only the places you were both in. Anywhere just one of you has been is never shown to the other. CROSSED PATHS — OPTIONAL, AND 18+ If you want, you can meet people whose paths already crossed yours. It is a separate profile you have to create deliberately; your normal account never becomes discoverable on its own, and you can skip this part forever without losing anything else. Before a mutual like, someone sees your first name, your age, one photo, a 32-character line, how many areas you crossed in and roughly how close in time you were. Never where. Never when. The places open up only when you have both chosen each other — for both of you, at the same moment. A one-sided like unlocks nothing and is never announced. WHAT MET DOESN'T DO No live location and no map of people nearby. No random or anonymous chat. No messages from strangers — a conversation only opens after you have both chosen each other. No public ratings, no leaderboards. Report and block are on every profile and every conversation. EVERYTHING IS FREE No subscriptions, no purchases, no locked features, no paid likes. Everything met can do, it does for everyone. ONE HONEST NOTE A crossing means two coarse histories overlapped in the same area within a time window. It is not proof that two people saw each other, or that either was at a particular address. met says "may have" throughout, and always will. Photos without a location label can't be used, so if your camera had location turned off, there may be little to find. That isn't a fault — it's the same honesty the rest of the app is built on.