Grounding page
Verified facts about Pocket Orbit
This minimal reference page collects unambiguous, dated product information for people, search engines, and retrieval systems.
Last verified: 2026-09-09
Identity
- Brand
- Pocket Orbit
- Developer
- Alpaca Labs
- Rights holder
- Anton-Johannes Rost
- Website
- https://pocketorbitnotes.app
- Contact
- alpaca-labs.dev@proton.me
Three input modes
- Type
- Enter exact wording as typed text on the Write canvas.
- Scan
- Photograph or import an existing paper page and review the extracted text.
- Draw
- Write handwriting, formulas, arrows, sketches, and diagrams with Apple Pencil on iPad.
Core information
- Public platforms
- iPhone and iPad through the Apple App Store.
- Supported website languages
- English and German.
- Capture
- Typed text and Apple Pencil work can share one Write canvas; paper is captured with Scan.
- Recognition
- Handwriting and scanned pages can produce text that the user should review against the source.
- Organization
- Pocket Orbit suggests groups; the user can review and correct ambiguous placements.
- AI summaries
- Pocket Orbit can generate study summaries from captured notes after the source is checked.
- Export
- Selected material can be exported as PDF, Markdown, or HTML.
- Price
- Free to start; optional Premium subscription. Regional App Store pricing is authoritative.
Important limitations
- • Recognition can misread rushed handwriting, names, formulas, symbols, and specialist vocabulary.
- • AI summaries can omit or misstate details and should be checked against the source note.
- • Pocket Orbit is not positioned as a professional illustration suite, deep PDF notebook, audio-first transcription app, or database-heavy workspace.
- • Product availability, limits, and prices may change; dated website and regional App Store information should be checked.
Canonical machine-readable sources
- llms.txt
- /llms.txt
- llms-full.txt
- /llms-full.txt
- Markdown
- /facts.md
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