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Every Orbiq newsletter, in one place

Product updates and money-across-borders playbooks we send to subscribers. Pick one and read it right here — no signup needed.

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Welcome to Orbiq

Getting started·2 min read

One honest view of your money, wherever you live. Two plans, a 30-day free trial, and how bank sync and privacy work.

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See your money clearly

Dashboards & currency·2 min read

Drillable dashboards, a Currency Lens, FX captured per transaction, and easy migration from YNAB or Lunch Money.

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Organize every transaction

Organizing·1 min read

Split and spread transactions, auto-categorize with rules, and stay on track with budgets, goals, and tags.

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Catch what's draining you

Recurring & credit·2 min read

Spot recurring subscriptions, watch your credit utilization, and share accounts across your household.

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Money across borders, untangled

Cross-border·2 min read

Detect remittances, pair transfers automatically, ask in plain language, and get cross-border tax help.

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The budget that survives real life

Budgeting·2 min read

The 50/30/20 rule, why budgets fail on irregular bills, pay-yourself-first, and starting from your real average.

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The buffer between you and a bad week

Saving·2 min read

Why 3–6 months of essentials, the first $1,000, sinking funds, and why starting today beats saving more later.

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The small charges you stopped seeing

Recurring·2 min read

Monthly hides yearly, the free-trial trap, silent price hikes, and subscriptions that move with the exchange rate.

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The number lenders see before you do

Credit health·2 min read

The 30% utilization rule, statement-date timing, why payment history matters most, and keeping your oldest card.

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The fee that isn't called a fee

FX costs·2 min read

The exchange-rate spread, the mid-market benchmark, double conversion, and the yearly cost of small spreads.

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Two ways out of debt

Debt payoff·2 min read

Avalanche vs snowball, the minimum-payment trap, and aiming freed-up dollars at a payoff goal on purpose.

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The one number that matters

Net worth·2 min read

Own minus owe, why the trend beats the daily number, one honest total across currencies, and how paying debt counts.

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The raise that vanished

Lifestyle creep·2 min read

How spending rises to meet income, why fixed-cost creep hurts most, watching your savings rate, and banking the raise.

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The habit beats the timing

Investing·3 min read

Time in the market, dollar-cost averaging, how fees compound against you, and the deployment pace Orbiq can honestly track.

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Orbiq is on your iPhone now

iOS beta·2 min read

The native Orbiq iPhone app is open for public beta on TestFlight — widgets, OCR, haptics, and local bill reminders. Two steps to join.

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Founding 50 — CAD $5 a month, locked forever

Founding 50·3 min read

The first 50 subscribers lock Core at CAD $5/month forever — a trade, not a discount: your feedback for a lifetime price, a badge, and a roadmap vote.

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Budgeting, but it talks back now

The fun layer·2 min read

Confetti on goal milestones, Roast mode for Ask Orbiq, No-Spend Challenges scored by your real transactions — and a Money Wrapped teaser.

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Split the bill, keep the friendship

Household splits·2 min read

Split real transactions with your household, keep one honest running balance, settle up cleanly, and let budgets show your actual share.

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Your bills, under a microscope

Bill health·2 min read

Real mortgage amortization with payoff projection, a watchdog for subscription price creep, and the zombie charges you meant to cancel.

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Orbiq is live on the App Store, and your bank sync just went global

iOS + Global Sync·2 min read

The native iPhone app is officially live on the App Store, and bank auto-sync now reaches 40+ countries and 15 currencies, not just Canada and the US.

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Orbiq for Android is live — the app is now everywhere

Android launch·2 min read

The native Android app is officially on Google Play, matching iPhone feature-for-feature — widgets, on-device OCR, haptics, and local bill reminders.

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Are you using the right card for this purchase?

Card Benefits & Rewards·2 min read

See what each card purchase actually earned versus your best other card, get a forward use-this-card-here recommendation, and add any card by hand-typing its rules.

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Leaving YNAB or Lunch Money? Your import is on the way

Import, coming soon·2 min read

One-shot import rails from YNAB and Lunch Money are in early access — reply to this email to get your history moved over.

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See it before you place it

Dashboards & honesty·2 min read

Rearrange your dashboard and preview any widget with your own data before it takes a slot, tap any chart for the transactions behind it, and see why ten of our 44 widgets now decline to print a number.

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