Quick read
Orbit Haven is a private companion for plans you might cancel and moments where you feel stuck. It helps you name what is coming, pick a small goal, choose a discreet support tool, and reflect afterward so the next hard plan feels less blank.
Use Haven for preparation and self-guided reflection. Do not use it as therapy, medical care, crisis support, or a way to monitor danger. If you are in immediate danger or might harm yourself or someone else, leave the app and use live emergency or crisis resources.
Problems Haven solves
The plan you keep avoiding
Haven gives the plan a shape: what it is, when it happens, what you want to do, and which tiny support tool you can use if the room gets loud inside your head.
The blank moment before action
When you are stalled, Haven starts from situations instead of an empty page. Pick the closest fit, use one starter tool, and move to the next small step.
The reset you need in public
Haven's tools are designed to be quiet: breathing, grounding, body-based resets, and short prompts that do not announce what you are doing.
The pattern you only see afterward
Short reflections help you notice what helped, what was hard, and whether a tool is worth using again. The app organizes your notes; you decide what they mean.
How to use Haven
- Start with one real situation. Choose the dinner, meeting, appointment, call, transition, or stuck moment that is actually in front of you.
- Name a small goal. Keep it concrete: arrive, stay for 20 minutes, ask one question, send the first message, or take the next step.
- Choose one support tool. Pick the tool you can actually use in the moment. A boring usable tool beats a perfect plan you will never touch.
- Use the discreet reset when needed. Open the tool, follow the short instruction, and return to the situation when you can.
- Reflect afterward. Record what happened, what helped, what did not, and whether the next plan needs a different approach.
Situation toolkits
Haven is organized around common situations, not labels about what is wrong with you. A toolkit is a small set of practical options for a type of moment.
Hard plan
Use when you are tempted to cancel something you still want, value, or need to attend. Best first move: name the smallest version of showing up.
Task paralysis
Use when the task has become too large or too foggy. Best first move: identify the next physical action, not the whole project.
Decision overload
Use when every option feels noisy. Best first move: narrow to two choices and decide what information would actually change the answer.
Transition
Use when moving from one state to another is the hard part. Best first move: create a short bridge ritual, timer, or environmental cue.
Public reset
Use when you need to regulate without making a scene. Best first move: choose a tool that looks like normal phone use.
Afterward
Use when the plan is done but your body has not caught up. Best first move: write two lines about what happened and what helped.
Privacy model
Haven is local-first. Events, situation notes, tool choices, and reflections are designed to live on your device, without an OrbitsWell account and without hidden behavioral tracking.
That privacy model has a tradeoff: OrbitsWell cannot restore a private cloud copy it never held. Use the app's export and device backup options deliberately if you need your records preserved.
What Haven cannot do
- It cannot provide therapy, diagnosis, treatment, medical advice, or crisis response.
- It cannot tell you whether a situation is safe, whether another person is safe, or whether you should stay or leave.
- It cannot monitor you in the background, contact help for you, or replace a trusted person, clinician, advocate, or emergency service.
- It cannot guarantee your records survive if your device, local data, or backups are lost.
If there is immediate danger, call local emergency services. In the United States, call 911. If you are in suicidal crisis or emotional distress in the U.S., call or text 988 or use 988 chat.
Sources checked
These sources informed the safety, privacy, and product-boundary language above. OrbitsWell is not affiliated with these organizations.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration, "General Wellness: Policy for Low Risk Devices". Used for the distinction between low-risk wellness tools and products intended for diagnosis, cure, mitigation, prevention, or treatment.
- Federal Trade Commission, "Mobile Health App Developers: FTC Best Practices". Used for privacy and security design expectations such as data minimization and clear communication.
- National Institute of Mental Health, "Psychotherapies". Used for the boundary between self-guided app support and psychotherapy.
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, "Get Help". Used for U.S. crisis-support routing.