Orbit is a free job application tracker built by a small product studio that got tired of watching good candidates lose offers to disorganisation. Here is who we are, why this exists, and how it stays free.
Every job search hits the same wall somewhere around the fifteenth application. A recruiter calls, names a company, and you cannot remember whether you applied for the senior role or the mid-level one, what salary you put on the form, or whether you already followed up. That fog is not a personal failing — it is the predictable result of running a multi-week project with dozens of moving parts entirely from memory.
The people we watched struggle with this were not disorganised people. They were engineers and designers who ran complex projects at work with proper tooling, then went home and tracked the most financially consequential project of their year in a notes app. Spreadsheets were the usual upgrade, and spreadsheets fail in a specific way: they are lists, but a job search is a flow, and a list never taps you on the shoulder to say the application you sent nine days ago has gone quiet.
So we built the thing we wanted: a pipeline you can see in three seconds, follow-up dates attached to every card, and interview prep where the interview is. Free, because a job search is the worst possible moment to ask someone for a subscription.
Orbit is made by Amcon Ceylon, a digital product studio founded in 2017 and based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. We design and build websites, web applications and AI-powered tools for clients around the world, and we have delivered more than 700 projects since we started freelancing in 2015. Everything we ship is built in-house — we do not outsource client work.
Orbit is a side project in the sense that no client is paying for it, and a serious one in the sense that we use it ourselves and maintain it properly. It also serves as an honest demonstration of how we work: if you like how Orbit is built, that is what hiring the studio gets you.
Orbit has no accounts, no login, and no database. Every application you add is written to your own browser's storage and never sent anywhere, because there is nowhere of ours for it to be sent. This was a deliberate architectural decision with real trade-offs — it means no cross-device sync, and it means clearing your browser wipes your board — but it also means a list of every company you are quietly interviewing with, and the salary you told them, exists in exactly one place: your machine.
A job search is sensitive. People track applications they have not told their current employer about. We decided the safest place for that information was somewhere we could not read it even if we wanted to, and we built accordingly. The same principle governs the Orbit Autofill extension: your profile is stored locally, and the extension makes no network requests of its own.
Two ways, both stated openly. First, this site carries advertising through Google AdSense. Second, we promote our own studio and freelance services in clearly-marked banners. There is no premium tier, no trial that expires, and no plan to start charging for the tracker. We would rather have a widely-used free tool that demonstrates our work than a small paid one.
What we will not do: sell data we do not have, put the core tracker behind a login, or write guides designed to sell you something. Our disclaimer states our commercial interests plainly, and our privacy policy details exactly what the advertising and analytics on this site collect.
Alongside the tool we publish practical guides on tracking applications, following up after interviews, answering common interview questions, negotiating offers, and handling rejection. They are written from experience and general professional practice, edited to be useful rather than long, and revised when we find errors. They are general information, not personalised career or legal advice.
Bug reports, feature requests, corrections to a guide, or a project you want built — all welcome through our contact page. Orbit gets better mostly because people tell us what is missing.