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

Good idea, bad implementation. On Windows if I save it to taskbar so I can open easily it doesn't work, have to remove it and reopen from the program again every time. Even then it doesn't open quickly, every time insisting on checking for updates. On android if I attempt to rename it just says it's failed so Samsung devices have some weird name not the one people know them by. both Windows and Android ones don't then stay open kinda defeating the point in having a 1 and 24 hour option.

An interesting take on network and Internet performance, not just top download speed. It's particularly helpful when loaded on multiple devices within one's local network. And, for now at least, it's free and has no advertising.

What’s new

We've improved scoring, introduced configurability to content speed testing, updated Responsiveness and Reliability metrics with revamped card designs, and fixed a few bugs. Read the full details of this release in our change log: https://orb.net/the-forge/changelog