Orb is a simple radial contextual menu that appears slickly when a file or document is clicked and dragged in Finder, allowing you to then open the file in a particular app. In a crowded field of app launchers that pile features on top of features and ultimately complicate your user experience before improving it, Orb sets itself apart by keying in on an oft-repeated process and streamlining it with intuitive efficiency. Orb seems like a novelty app at first glance, but it almost immediately establishes itself as a key productivity app, especially for users who create and edit files consistently. And because it seems like a novelty app, Orb is one of those rare apps that is delightful and fun to use without sacrificing any of its serious usability. Different files call up different file-specific apps or actions to be launched or triggered, and you can even customize what gets called up if the suggestions do not already include what you are looking for. Perhaps Orb’s greatest asset is its active, responsive developer, who is dedicated to improving this promising new tool and helping users have the best possible experience with the app. Contextual menus have never been this exciting.
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