Every release of ORBIT, newest first. Each entry says what changed for the people using it; the technical notes underneath say how. Nothing here is back-dated, and where no record of a release survives the entry says so.
19 October 2026 — Tools that scroll to your result, and a clearer sign-in
When you run a tool, the page now brings the progress card into view and then takes you to the start of your result, and signing in asks you to agree to the Terms first.
Press run in Format Paper, Paper to Slides, Submission Letters, Find a Journal, Reference Check, Figure Builder, Literature Discovery or Dataset Discovery and the page glides to the progress card, then to the top of the result when it is ready. No more scrolling back up after a two-minute deck.
The sign-in window has a tick box for the Terms and Privacy Policy. Google and LinkedIn sign-in work once it is ticked.
The demo moved out of the sign-in window. It is still at /demo, with sample results and nothing sent anywhere.
Student discount applications from Plan & credits now go through. Until today they stopped with "not switched on yet".
If your account is erased, any plan on auto-renew is cancelled with Razorpay first, so a card is never charged for an account that no longer exists.
Switching between light and dark mode now spreads the new theme out from the button. Dashboard page titles and cards fade in, and your credit count counts up. Turn on Reduce motion in your system settings and all of this is skipped.
The Privacy Policy, Cookies page and Refund policy now describe plans and top-ups instead of credit packs, and the Privacy Policy names every service we use, including where the database is (Tokyo).
18 October 2026 — Three plans: Base, Starter and Ultra, and credits from ₹150
Base stays free every month. Starter and Ultra add more credits, more searches and your Library, monthly or yearly with 10% off, and a top-up credit now costs ₹150 instead of ₹1,000.
Base is free: 5 credits a month and 10 searches a month in each of Literature Discovery, Dataset Discovery and Journal Suggestion. Paging, filters and sorting do not count as a search, and Conference Deadlines has no limit.
Starter is ₹799 a month or ₹8,630 a year: 10 credits, 20 searches per free tool and your Library (500 papers in 10 collections, with weekly alerts).
Ultra is ₹1,499 a month or ₹16,190 a year: 25 credits, 50 searches per free tool, a Library of 2,000 papers in 50 collections, and priority support with a reply within 1 working day.
Paying in rupees, plans renew on their own by UPI Autopay or card, and you can turn auto-renew off at any time in Plan & credits; you keep what you paid for. Rather pay by hand? A 30-day pass does not renew. Outside India, plans are 30-day passes paid through PayPal.
Top-ups of 5, 10 or 15 credits cost ₹150 a credit on any plan. They do not expire while your account is active, and buying one also resets your free-tool searches.
Saving to the Library now needs Starter or Ultra. Anything you saved before stays in your Library to read, export or delete.
Prices in other currencies came down by the same amount: US$2.80 a credit, Starter US$15 and Ultra US$27, or US$1.60, US$8 and US$15 in lower-income countries.
Students get 50% off Starter and Ultra in rupees for a year: ₹399 or ₹749 a month, ₹4,310 or ₹8,090 a year. Apply in Plan & credits with a photo of your student ID; we check it by hand and delete the photo once we decide.
17 October 2026 — Paper to Slides, redesigned: a deck that reads like a talk
Narrated decks now plan the whole talk and draw each slide as a diagram, key result or table, with timed speaker notes, and both modes get a cleaner look.
Narrated plans the talk from your whole paper, then designs each slide as an editable flow diagram, cards, a big key result, a table with the important row highlighted, a comparison or short takeaways. It takes about two minutes.
Every number on a Narrated slide must appear in your paper. A point with a number that does not is dropped.
Speaker notes are timed, so you know how long each slide should take.
Tick Include backup slides (on by default) to add your full tables, unused figures and the references after the talk. Narrated also adds two questions a reviewer is likely to ask, answered from your own discussion.
Outline mode keeps your exact words and now uses the same modern slide frame: a section tag, a sentence title and a source line on every slide.
Talk lengths are Lightning (10 slides), Conference (15), Seminar (20) and Defence (25). Narrated is still 3 credits and Outline 1.
15 October 2026 — ORBIT in Spanish, and a lower price for lower-income countries
The main pages of ORBIT now read in Spanish, and researchers in lower-income countries pay US$10 a credit instead of US$18.
Eight pages are in Spanish at /es/: the home page, How it works, Pricing, Readiness Check, Templates, Reference Check, FAQ and About. Every line was read and signed by a native-speaking professor. (Since 17 October there is no switch: visitors get Spanish from their country and browser language.)
In countries the World Bank lists as low or lower-middle income, a credit costs US$10 instead of US$18, about what it costs in India. Packs there are US$20, US$40 and US$100. The pricing page says when this price applies to you.
Paid credits are described the same way everywhere: they do not expire while your account is active, as the Terms say.
7 October 2026 — Readiness Check: 122+ checks, two scores, free re-checks
The Readiness Check now runs 122+ checks in 12 categories and gives two scores: how well the paper fits the journal's stated rules, and how ready it is as a manuscript. Fix what it finds and check again: the same paper against the same journal within 24 hours is free.
Three new categories: File clean-up (tracked changes, comments and placeholders left in), Review-ready, and Statistics & numbers (a p-value that cannot follow from its test statistic is flagged).
Images are checked for 300 dpi at printed size, for fitting inside the margins and for stretching. Declarations, headings, and citations against the reference list are checked too.
Two scores. Journal fit counts only the journal's stated rules, as before. Manuscript checks counts good practice for any submission. A Fix these first list puts the failures that matter most at the top.
Re-checking the same paper against the same journal within 24 hours of a paid check is free, up to 3 times. The button says Run free re-check before anything is spent, and it works with no credits left. A paper with a new title is a new check.
Your file is now read before a credit is taken, so a file that cannot be read costs nothing.
Only your score, the journal name and a one-way fingerprint of the title are recorded. The fingerprint cannot be turned back into the title.
A new PDF report: your paper's title, both scores and the five things to fix on page one, then every check by category, set in the same type as the site. Fixes point to the ORBIT tool that does the job where there is one, such as Reference Check for restyling a reference list.
More rules read from each publisher's own pages: abstract length (IEEE, Springer LNCS, ACS), number of keywords (IEEE, Elsevier, ACM), page numbers (MLA, Chicago), line numbers and the required statements (Nature), conflict of interest declarations (Springer LNCS, JAMA, ICMJE) and funding statements (JAMA). The rule preview links every page a rule came from, and a journal never inherits a style's number its own guide does not state.
The rule preview now counts both kinds of check: the rules a journal states, and the 79 manuscript checks that run on every paper.
Format Paper: Elsevier is now one column and ragged right, as Elsevier's guide asks; APA, MLA and Chicago now have page numbers; Nature now has line numbers, as Nature asks.
The guide for AI assistants (/ai) is now version 1.4. Run the same install again to update.
6 October 2026 — Format Paper now has 21 templates
Format Paper applies 21 templates, up from 7. Nature, ACS, MDPI, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Frontiers, PLOS ONE, IOP Publishing, Cell Press, BMC, SAGE, Harvard, AMA and Vancouver join IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer, APA, MLA and Chicago.
The numbers for each new template were read from the publisher's own Word template or author page on 6 October 2026. The Templates page lists every value with a link to where it came from.
Where a publisher sets no layout at submission (Wiley, SAGE) or the style is a way of citing rather than a page layout (Harvard, Vancouver), the Templates page says the layout is ORBIT's own.
Templates whose publisher asks for them add line numbers in the margin, counting straight through the paper (PLOS ONE, Frontiers, BMC, MDPI, Cell Press, Wiley and Vancouver), and page numbers in the footer. If your paper already has a footer, yours is kept.
MDPI is set in Palatino Linotype, IOP Publishing in Cambria and Cell Press in Arial, as in their own templates. The rest use Times New Roman.
The template picker now groups publishers and style guides, so 21 options are quick to scan.
The guide for AI assistants (/ai) is now version 1.3 and lists all 21. Run the same install again to update.
6 October 2026 — Figure Builder draws diagrams from your text
Figure Builder now has two ways in: a table gives you a chart, and a paragraph gives you a diagram. Paste a methods paragraph, a list of themes, a project plan or your abstract and get one of 15 diagram types in your own words, from flowcharts and fishbones to a graphical abstract, or a PRISMA 2020 or CONSORT 2025 flow diagram drawn to the official template. Then edit it in place.
Choose From a table or From text at the top of Figure Builder. From text takes 15 to 1,500 words and draws a flowchart, sequence, cycle, mind map, timeline, tree, fishbone, pipeline, hypothesis model, comparison matrix, 2×2 matrix, Venn diagram or graphical abstract, or a PRISMA 2020 or CONSORT 2025 flow diagram, or picks the type that fits.
PRISMA 2020 and CONSORT 2025 follow the official templates box for box. A count your text does not give is shown as n = ?, never worked out for you, and you can type it in. Counts that do not add up are flagged with the sum, and the diagram is still drawn as you wrote it.
Hypothesis models label a path H1, H2 only if your text numbers its hypotheses, and show a moderator as an arrow onto the path it changes. Pipelines draw each stage your text names around its own blocks, across the page or one row per stage down it.
Edit the diagram in place: click a box to retype it, add or delete boxes, draw arrows, turn a box into a decision, and drag boxes where the layout allows. Undo, redo and reset are there too. Edits are free and stay on your page, and the note under the diagram says when a word or number is yours rather than your text's.
A graphical abstract takes your abstract and sets it as 3 or 4 panels (context, approach, finding, implication) in Elsevier's wide shape (1328 × 531 px) or Cell's square (1200 × 1200 px), with the panel headings on or off. A comparison matrix shows a dash where your text says nothing, never a guess, and a Venn diagram shows who shares what, not how many.
PDF exports from Figure Builder no longer fail on characters such as β, −, → or ≥. A character no font covers (Chinese, for example) is shown as ? in the PDF, and the page tells you which; the SVG and PNG keep it.
Every label is a phrase from your text. A number, date or title appears only if your text states it, and a diagram that would break that is not shown and not charged for.
1 credit per diagram. Switching layout (a tree to a mind map or a flowchart, a sequence to stairs, a fishbone to a tree), shortening the labels twice, going back to the original labels and every export are free. The same text again on the same day is free too.
Exports as SVG, PNG at 300, 600 or 1200 DPI, vector PDF with every label kept as text, or a PowerPoint slide (.pptx) that keeps the figure as a vector. Charts get the slide too. The page tells you the size your labels will print at.
Your text is sent to our AI to find its structure and is not stored.
The guide for AI assistants (/ai) is now version 1.2. It covers diagrams from text. Run the same install again to update.
2 October 2026 — Submission Letters, dataset cards, Hugging Face and where to deposit
Cover Letter is now Submission Letters and also writes resubmission and transfer letters. Every dataset has a card that shows who has used it, Dataset Discovery searches Hugging Face, and a new tab finds where to deposit your own data.
Cover Letter is now called Submission Letters. Pick New submission, Resubmission or Transfer at the top. The new-submission letter is the same as before.
A resubmission letter is written from your own list of changes and describes those and nothing else. It won't say every reviewer comment was addressed, name a reviewer, or mention a response document unless your list does. A missing manuscript ID or decision date stays a blank for you to fill.
A transfer letter names the journal the paper was first submitted to and whether its editor suggested the move. It never says why the paper left, and mentions the earlier reviews only if you say they come with it. Each letter still costs 1 credit and nothing you paste is stored.
Every dataset result has a Dataset card: what the licence lets you do, in plain words, its versions, size and formats, how often it has been cited, viewed and downloaded (with the source named), the paper it came from, and the papers that cite it, which open as a list in Literature Discovery. A button asks a second source for more links. Free.
Dataset Discovery can search Hugging Face. Each result shows its licence as tagged, its downloads over the last 30 days, and whether it is gated behind terms you must accept first.
A new "Where to deposit mine" tab: pick your field and see the repositories that take data in it, from a registry of about 3,500. Each says whether it gives a DOI, states a certificate, charges a fee, and who may deposit. You can limit it to Indian repositories. Free.
On a phone, the homepage's main button now fits on one line.
The guide for AI assistants (/ai) is now version 1.1. It covers the new letters, dataset cards, Hugging Face, Where to deposit and Journal history, plus the Library, ranking a map or collection, and demo mode. Run the same install again to update.
1 October 2026 — Journal history: any journal's record, year by year
Type a journal's name or ISSN in Find a Journal and see how many papers it published each year, who publishes there, what it charges, where it is listed and how it handles papers, from open data and free.
Find a Journal has a new Journal history tab. Start typing a journal's name or ISSN and pick it from the list, or tap "View this journal's history" on any suggested journal. No credit is taken.
Papers and citations per year, as two charts with a table view. The current year is drawn faded because it is not over.
Who publishes there: the countries of the authors of last year's papers, as counts ("90 of 114 papers had an author in India").
What it charges and how that changed, the year it went open access, and the year it joined DOAJ.
Where it is listed: DOAJ, MEDLINE, ERIH PLUS, SciELO, Latindex, the ABDC list, Finland's JUFO, the Norwegian Register and more, each with the body that keeps the list. ORBIT can't show Scopus or Web of Science status, which is licensed, so each journal links to Scopus to check.
How it handles papers: the share of its recent papers screened for plagiarism, with ORCID iDs, with reference lists and abstracts deposited, and linked to a corrections policy, plus its retracted papers.
A short "What stands out" list, built only from those numbers, such as a sudden jump in papers or a fee that rose. Facts, never a judgement about the journal.
27 September 2026 — New credit prices, clearer uploads, and recordings that hide your work
Credits now cost ₹1,000 each, a file ORBIT cannot read is now caught the moment you drop it, and page recordings keep the site's own words readable while everything of yours stays hidden.
Credits now cost ₹1,000 each (US$18 outside India, with every other currency doubled too), up from ₹500 ($9). Packs are ₹2,000, ₹4,000 and ₹10,000. The 5 free credits a month are unchanged, and credits you already bought still don't expire while your account is active.
Drop a file ORBIT cannot read, such as a Word template (.dotx) or an old .doc, and the upload box now says so straight away and tells you how to save it as .docx. Before, the file uploaded first and was refused after.
Page recordings (PostHog, EU) now show the site's own wording inside the dashboard too: headings, labels and buttons. Everything you type, your files' names, every result ORBIT gives you, your saved papers and history, and your name and email stay hidden. The Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy now say exactly this.
26 September 2026 — ORBIT for AI assistants, a faster site, and cleaner .bib files
Your AI assistant can now learn to use ORBIT properly, pages open faster, and every .bib ORBIT exports names authors and venues the way the papers do.
ORBIT for AI assistants: a free guide at /ai teaches Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other assistants to use ORBIT in your own signed-in browser. It covers every tool and what it costs, asks you before spending a credit or uploading your work, and checks ORBIT's output before you rely on it. Install it with one command or download it. Look for "For AI" in the header.
Pages load faster. A first visit downloads about a fifth less, the dashboard shows its layout straight away instead of a blank screen, and Back returns you to where you were on the page.
Every tool now has the same run button. It greys out when the tool cannot run yet and says what it is doing while it works.
The contact form now tells you when a message fails to send, instead of always saying it was sent.
Reference Check's .bib now names authors as the paper prints them. It used names from author profiles, which sometimes added a middle name ("Alex M Graves"), dropped an accent ("Gariepy") or named a different person with the same short name.
Reference Check no longer says "metadata disagrees" when you wrote the volume and pages straight after the journal, as in "Neuron, 110(3):544–557". On the 38-reference list that found this, ten false flags are now none.
Reference Check now reads citations with a curly apostrophe (O’Neill), a title ending in a question mark, or a closing "Published as …" note. bioRxiv preprints keep their year instead of showing "n.d.".
In every .bib ORBIT exports (Reference Check, Literature Discovery and the Library), conference papers are now @inproceedings, arXiv-only preprints are @misc with their arXiv id, and keys use the surname: lewis2020, not patrick2020.
24 September 2026 — Three fixes from a real submission
We ran a real paper through ORBIT from start to finish. Three tools got something wrong, and all three are fixed.
Find a Journal no longer shows a subscription journal's open-access price as the cost of publishing. Journals like Neural Networks now read "Free via subscription (paywalled)", with the open-access price on its own line, and they count as free when you filter for free journals or sort cheapest first. Filtering for open access still leaves them out.
Reference Check no longer reports a reference with the wrong title when the index has filed another paper's title under the right DOI. It asks the registry that issued the DOI instead.
Readiness Check no longer tells you to add author names or affiliations for a journal whose guidelines say review is double-blind.
When Readiness Check reads rules from a guidelines page you pasted and is unsure of them, a rule you miss is shown as something to confirm on the journal's page, not as a failure.
23 September 2026 — A cleaner look, faster pages, and a demo you can try without signing up
ORBIT looks calmer and opens faster, every tool has a short tutorial, and you can try every tool on sample data before making an account.
Try demo mode from the sign-in window: every tool shows a sample result, and nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
Format Paper, Reference Check, Find a Journal, Figure Builder, Literature Discovery and Dataset Discovery each have a Watch the tutorial button, on the tool's page and inside the dashboard. New accounts are offered a short tour of the dashboard.
A cleaner design across the site and dashboard: one style for buttons, fields and switches, quieter colours, and menus that are easier to read.
Pages open faster. The opening animation plays only on your first visit.
Signing in with Google no longer puts a sign-in token in the page address.
We now use one analytics tool, PostHog, hosted in the EU, to see where the site loses people. Everything you type, and everything in your dashboard's working area, is hidden before anything is sent. In the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland it stays off unless you press Accept. The Privacy and Cookie policies list exactly what is kept.
Your Google profile picture shows in the account menu again.
19 September 2026 — Submission Risk: what a similarity report will see
Readiness Check has a ninth section that shows what a similarity or AI-writing report will see in your file, so you can fix it before you submit. It never gives a score.
The new Submission Risk section reports how much of your paper is prose a detector would score, captions written as full sentences, numbered items that are still sentences, bold lead-ins standing in for a list, repeated sentences, openings that announce themselves, and hidden text or invisible characters. Every finding quotes the text it was made from.
It never shows a percentage, a likelihood or a verdict. Two of its checks are marked as readability only: they improve the writing, not the report.
Everything runs in your browser. Your file is not sent anywhere for this section, and it costs nothing extra.
Paper to Slides no longer adds empty section-divider slides. A small marker in the footer shows where you are instead, and the space goes back to your paper's content.
Paper to Slides now keeps text inside its box. Text that does not fit moves to the speaker notes instead of running off the slide.
18 September 2026 — Pay in your own currency, and richer slide decks
Credits can be bought in nine currencies, including by PayPal from outside India. Paper to Slides and Figure Builder handle more of what you give them.
Buy credits in Indian rupees, US dollars, euros, pounds, Australian, Canadian or Singapore dollars, UAE dirhams or Japanese yen. The currency for your country is picked for you, and you can change it.
From outside India you can pay with PayPal in the same checkout window.
Paper to Slides now picks from its full set of thirteen slide layouts. Until now every deck was built from the same five.
Narrated decks build faster. If the AI service is slow, you lose the speaker notes rather than the whole narration.
Figure Builder reads a table pasted from Markdown correctly, including numbers written with commas, and accepts a spreadsheet with an unlabelled column.
16 September 2026 — Four things your submission needs, checked or drafted
Readiness Check reads your manuscript for the mistakes a copy-editor catches, Reference Check hands your bibliography to a LaTeX editor, and Cover Letter can draft your highlights. Find a Journal also ranks better.
Readiness Check has a new Consistency section: an abbreviation used before you spell it out or spelled out twice, both spellings of the same word, figures or tables numbered out of order, and a unit written two ways. Every finding quotes the words it was made from. No extra cost.
Your reference list is left out of those checks, so a cited title that spells a word the other way is never counted against you.
Reference Check can download your checked list as a .bib file, or open it straight in Overleaf as a project. References we could not verify are still in the file, each with a note saying so.
Readiness Check has an optional switch, off unless you turn it on, that checks the funders named in your funding statement against the Crossref Funder Registry and any NCT number against ClinicalTrials.gov. Only those names and numbers are sent — never your file — and the report lists exactly what was sent.
Cover Letter can also draft three to five highlights and a plain-language summary from the abstract you pasted, on the same one credit. Every highlight shows its character count against the 85-character publisher limit.
Find a Journal orders results better: a journal that publishes your subject narrowly now beats a large journal that publishes a little of everything.
Format Paper shows its result on the page instead of in a pop-up, like the other eight tools, and a long file name no longer shrinks the Convert button.
15 September 2026 — Paper maps, a Library, and search by meaning
Literature Discovery can map the papers around any paper, keep the ones you save, and tell you each week when new work cites them. All of it is free.
Press Similar papers on any result to see up to 40 closely related papers three ways: around the paper, on a timeline, or as a list. Any paper on the map can become the new centre.
Save papers and datasets to your Library, in collections with your own notes. Export a collection as RIS or BibTeX, or map up to five saved papers together.
Turn on weekly alerts for a collection, and new papers that cite it appear in your notifications.
Paste your abstract and search by meaning to get the 50 or so papers closest to it, even when they use different words.
Retracted papers are labelled in results and on maps, and saved papers are checked again each time you open your Library.
The one-credit analysis can now read a map or a collection, up to 30 papers, against your abstract.
The dashboard opens faster: it shows your last numbers straight away and updates them as fresh ones arrive.
13 September 2026 — Fees in rupees, a paper's citations, and your own publication record
Find a Journal shows what publishing costs in rupees and can weigh your own publication history. Literature Discovery links more free PDFs and opens a paper's citations.
Journal fees are shown in rupees: exact where the journal states rupees, and marked ≈ with the rate date where converted. Set a rupee limit or sort cheapest first, and the page says how many journals had a fee to compare.
Rows now say when a journal offers a fee waiver, lists other charges, or states how many weeks publication takes, each as the journal told DOAJ.
Add your ORCID iD and your publication history can reorder journals that already match your abstract. Journals you have published in are marked. Nothing about you is kept.
Look up a journal by name or ISSN without pasting an abstract.
Literature Discovery suggests titles as you type, shows how many papers each filter leaves, and sorts by newest or by citation count if you choose it.
Under any result, open what cites it, what it cites, or related work, and get back to your results in one click.
More results carry a link to a legal free copy, found through Unpaywall.
12 September 2026 — Twice as many journal fees, and a sharper Reference Check
Find a Journal can state a fee for about twice as many journals, and Reference Check names two things it used to miss.
Fees, including which journals are free to publish, now also come from DOAJ. Journals with a stated fee went from 14,371 to 27,813.
Reference Check reports an expression of concern as its own finding, separate from a retraction.
A dataset DOI in your reference list is looked up at DataCite and labelled a dataset, instead of being reported as not found.
5 September 2026 — Its own domain, and a way to pay
ORBIT moved to orbit-research.app, and credits can now be bought directly instead of arranged by message.
The site lives at orbit-research.app. Search results and shared links stop carrying a hosting provider's name.
Credit packs can be bought with a card or UPI. There is still no subscription and no card kept on file — paid credits don't expire while your account is active.
Institution accounts: a department can hold one shared pool, set per-department caps, and invite named seats against it.
Every sale now issues a numbered invoice.
2 September 2026 — Figure Builder and Reference Check
The ninth and tenth tools went live, and one of them only charges when it finds something.
Figure Builder: drop in a table and get a publication-ready figure back, across 41 chart and diagram types.
Reference Check reads a reference list against the record and flags what is retracted, unresolvable, orphaned or uncited.
Reference Check charges at the check itself and only when it actually found something. A run where nothing is wrong is free — which is also the shape of a vendor outage.
Styling, the corrected list and every export are free after the check has run.
31 August 2026 — Every tool learned to report a failure
When something fails, it now says what failed instead of returning an empty frame.
A tool that cannot complete names the input it is missing, rather than showing a blank result.
Deleted work goes to a recycle bin first, so an accidental deletion is recoverable.
27 August 2026 — Paper to Slides, and a deadline board
The last stage of the pipeline arrived: turn the finished paper into something you can present.
Paper to Slides turns a finished .docx into a slide deck. Outline mode keeps your own words.
A conference deadline board, refreshed daily.
A notifications bell in the dashboard, so a guideline change on a journal you target reaches you.
26 August 2026 — Dataset Discovery, and a second way in
Find open data for a study, and sign in without a Google account.
Dataset Discovery searches Zenodo, figshare and Dryad by topic. Nothing on it is charged at any point.
Sign in with LinkedIn as well as Google.
25 August 2026 — Literature Discovery
Search the literature by topic and see which papers you can legally read for free.
Search roughly 250 million papers by topic, filter to what is legally free to read, and export the list — free.
One credit ranks the results against your own abstract.
24 August 2026 — Cover letter builder
Draft the submission letter from the title and abstract you already have.
Generate a journal cover letter from your manuscript's title and abstract.
It leaves blanks where it does not know something, rather than inventing an editor's name, a funder or a claim you never made.
21 August 2026 — The whole public surface, rebuilt
Every marketing page was rebuilt on one skeleton, and the cookie notice stopped saying things that were not true.
Every public page now shares one layout grammar, on the marketing side and inside the dashboard.
The cookie notice was rewritten. Three of the things it claimed were not accurate descriptions of what the site actually set.
Several inherited marketing claims were removed outright — a user count nobody had counted, and a conversion speed nobody had measured.
14 August 2026 — Privacy and Terms, rewritten for DPDP
The legal pages were rewritten against India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, and one product claim came off the whole site.
Privacy Policy and Terms of Service rewritten to the DPDP Act.
AI-drafting claims removed sitewide. They described something the product did not do.
A 12-month inactivity erasure promise — with a scheduled job that actually performs it, rather than a sentence saying it would.
10 August 2026 — The formatting engine, rebuilt
ORBIT stopped rebuilding your document and started editing the one you gave it.
Figures, tables, embedded equations, footnotes, numbering and inline formatting now survive a conversion unchanged.
Formatting is a deterministic transformation of your file. No language model is involved and your manuscript text is not sent to a third-party AI service.
9 August 2026 — Paper Readiness Check
Check a manuscript against a journal's own stated submission rules before you send it.
Pick a target journal, upload a manuscript, and get compliance checks across every category the journal states a rule for, each with a specific fix.
Where a journal publishes no rule for a check, the result reads 'not stated' and is excluded from the score. Silence is never counted as a pass.
Your manuscript is unzipped and analysed by JavaScript in your own browser. There is no upload step, because there is nothing to upload to — only the resulting score and the journal name are recorded.
7 August 2026 — The public API was withdrawn
The developer API shipped in April was taken back down, and pricing became a single flat number.
The public /api/v1 developer API was removed and its route archived. A public API is a compatibility promise, and it was a bigger one than this project could keep.
Pricing became flat: ₹500 per credit, bought in packs, with no subscription.
April 2026 — API keys, admin tooling and security
A developer API, an admin panel behind it, and the first real security pass.
Developer API keys, with live and test pairs. (Withdrawn again in August — see above.)
An admin panel for reviewing accounts and conversions in bulk.
A round of SEO work, image handling and licence terms.
March 2026 — Rebuilt as a real product
The single-tool formatter grew a dashboard, accounts, credits and a public site around it.
A dashboard with conversion history and a credit balance.
Accounts, sign-in and a free monthly allowance.
A public marketing site, pricing, dark mode and a cookie consent banner.
5 January 2026 — The first version
ORBIT went live as one tool that did one thing: format a paper.
A single formatter, no accounts and no dashboard. Everything on this page came after it.
ORBIT