Orb

Orb Forge Inc.

About this app

From the creators of Speedtest and Downdetector, Orb shows your true internet experience and is a free platform that runs without disrupting your connection or device. It measures Responsiveness, Reliability, and Speed using lightweight, continuous tests, and provides easy-to-understand scores as well as the technical details for nerds.

Ratings and reviews

Still trying to work some bugs out, trying to get all my home devices "talking" to each other. When I get to that point, it will stop the dozen or more error messages showing one of the devices has been disconnected. It is a great concept for a a lot of reasons. But still has some maturation as a viable app to go. NOTE: Wish there was a way to open/assign a specific port on the app for network connection

installed this on a Galaxy S23 Ultra. First issue I ran into was just trying to set up an account. the app tried to send me a verification code to my email and just trying to switch to me email app it brings the whole app back to the first page so you have to start over again and get another code. had to open the app in split screen after the 3rd time just to make sure it wouldn't do that again. I couldn't get past the set up because it gave me a spinning wheel of death trying to set location

Gives a pretty neat dashboard that monitors latency and packet loss, and provides different speed tests to run and observe your connection. I wish there was a bit more explanation or detail on how the measurements are performed (i.e., how does it differentiate latency between device -> router vs router -> ISP?). I suspect that the metrics might be reflecting my router's SQM configuration in some of the reported latency, but maybe the methodology is aware in some other way.

What’s new

Bug fixes and optimizations