Orbit 1.0.31

Orbit 1.0.31: plays on every device

Builds on 1.0.30's iPhone sound fix and makes every video and photo Orbit saves or shares open everywhere.

Videos

• Unusual sound sample rates (like 96 kHz) are changed to 48 kHz. iPhones and many chat apps only accept sound up to 48 kHz.
• 4K and bigger videos are shared as 1080p, which every phone plays smoothly. The 4K original stays in your library.
• Portrait videos keep their full size when converted or made smaller. A "smaller copy" of a portrait video is now 720×1280, not 405×720.
• Converted downloads always get a .mp4 name. Before, a converted .webm/.mov could keep its old name, and some devices refused it.

Photos

• WebP, AVIF and HEIC photos are saved as JPEG (Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Instagram and others), so they open on any phone, PC or app. Animated WebP stays animated.

Orbit 1.0.30

Orbit 1.0.30: videos now play with sound on iPhones

Fixed

• No sound for iPhone viewers. Some sites (TikTok HD and others) use a compressed kind of sound (HE-AAC) that plays on Android but goes silent for many iPhone users and in some chat apps. Orbit now changes it to plain stereo AAC, which plays everywhere.
• Videos that wouldn't play on other phones. YouTube "best" and Shorts come as VP9/AV1, and TikTok HD as HEVC, which iPhones and many apps can't play. Orbit now saves these as H.264 (up to 1080p, portrait included) using the phone's hardware encoder.
• Sharing always sends a file that plays. Whatever app you share to (WhatsApp, Telegram, the share sheet…), Orbit checks the video first and sends an H.264 + AAC copy if needed. Videos you downloaded with older versions are fixed the same way when you share them. The originals in your library stay untouched.
• 4K and above stay 4K in your library and are converted only when shared.

Orbit 1.0.29

Orbit 1.0.29

New

• Douyin (抖音 / Chinese TikTok): paste or share any Douyin link (including v.douyin.com short links) to download the video without the watermark, in the best H.264 quality. Photo posts save every picture.
• WeChat article videos: share an mp.weixin.qq.com article link and Orbit downloads the video in it.
• Save to Orbit for chat videos: in WeChat (or WhatsApp, Telegram…) open a video or photo → Share → Save to Orbit. It's copied to your Orbit library and gallery.

Notes

• WeChat Channels (视频号) videos have no public link, so they can't be downloaded from a link. Use Share → Save to Orbit where WeChat allows it.

Orbit v1.0.28 - Sound in every share, faster conversions, share to any app

Important: uninstall the old Orbit first

This version is signed with a different key, so Android can't update the old app in place.
Uninstall Orbit, then install Orbit.apk below. Your saved videos and photos stay in your gallery
(Movies/Orbit, Pictures/Orbit, Music/Orbit); only Orbit's download list starts fresh.

Sound in every share

• Downloads always get AAC sound, so videos you share keep their sound in WhatsApp and every other app.
• Older downloads with silent-when-shared sound are fixed automatically when you share them, or all at once from Settings → Fix sound in old downloads.

Full quality

• "Best" really is the highest resolution (4K and 8K stay 4K and 8K); H.264 is chosen only when it's the same resolution.
• Each quality shows its file size before you download, e.g. "1080p · ~171 MB".
• Faster downloads with 8 parallel connections.

Share to any app

• New Send to screen: WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, TikTok, WeChat or any other app.
• Each app gets a version it plays: H.264 copies for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Messenger, and an optional smaller copy when a video is over an app's usual size.
• Copies are made with the phone's hardware encoder, many times faster than before.
• Download & share and Share when done: the video goes to the app you picked as soon as it's saved.

More

• Paste several links at once and download them all.
• Wi-Fi only downloads, MP3 or M4A audio, optional subtitles, title and artist saved inside files.
• Clear error messages that say what to do (for example, which site to sign in to).
• Facebook videos download as video again; links shared into Orbit get their real titles.
• Professional notifications with thumbnail, speed and time left, plus Pause, Retry, Play and Share buttons.
• New animations, ripples, snackbars, and swipe-to-dismiss.