About Orbities
Built in Queensland, for Australian families, around one rule: never show a location without saying how much to believe it.
The problem we started with
Every family tracker shows a dot on a map. None of them tells you what the dot means. A parent looking at a stationary dot at 10pm cannot tell the difference between a teenager who is exactly where the map says, a phone that ran out of battery forty minutes ago, and an operating system that quietly stopped the app to save power.
Those three situations call for completely different responses, and the product renders them identically. That is not a missing feature — it is the central failure of the category, and it teaches people either to panic at nothing or to stop believing the app at all.
The rule everything follows from
No surface shows a location without also showing how old it is, how accurate it is, and how confident we were. Every card, every pin, every widget. There is no screen in Orbities that renders a position alone.
Almost everything else about the product falls out of that rule. Location Health exists because if we are going to say a phone stopped reporting, we should say why. The audit log exists because a product that asks families to trust it should show who looked. Showing accuracy is not a feature we added; it is the thing we refused to leave out, and the rest followed.
Who builds it
Orbities is made by 180 Degrees IT Solutions Pty Ltd, a small team in Queensland. Your data is stored in Brisbane, Queensland and is not replicated overseas.
Being small is why staff cannot read your family's location — not as a policy, but because the database role support connects with has no grant on those tables. A team this size cannot police an internal tool that can see everything, so we did not build one.
How we make money
Subscriptions. That is the whole model. There is no advertising product, no data-broker relationship, and no analytics partner with access to location.
It matters that this is structural rather than a promise: selling location data would require building something we have not built. We never sell your data →
Where we are up to
Orbities is in closed beta. It is a real product on real infrastructure with real families using it, and it is not finished. Some features named in the app are not built yet, and where that is true we say so on the screen rather than showing a button that leads nowhere.
If you are evaluating it, the status page and the security page are the two most honest things here — including the part of the security page that lists what we have not done.