Choose how to survey
Walk with the camera and watch coverage appear on the floor, or mark where you stand on a floor plan, a picture of your home, or a blank grid.
ORBIT: WiFi Signal Heatmap — See where your Wi-Fi is weak, and what to try next
Map coverage across your home with your camera or a floor plan, check whether your channel is crowded, and get practical next steps. Before you buy another router, extender or mesh node, find out what is actually wrong.
How it works
From “my Wi-Fi is bad” to a clear next step
Survey the way that suits your phone and your home. ORBIT does the interpreting.
Measure your coverage
ORBIT builds a heatmap of the area you covered and marks the strongest and weakest spots it measured.
Check Band & Channel
In a few seconds, with no walking, see whether nearby networks are crowding your channel.
Get practical next steps
ORBIT explains what the measurements support trying first, and when they don’t support buying anything at all.
Features
Two ways to map your coverage. One quick channel check.
Use whichever survey suits your phone. Both give you a heatmap and the same practical advice.
Map coverage as you walk
Walk through your space with the camera. ORBIT lays a coloured grid on the floor as you go and builds a map of the area you covered.
- See strong and weak areas where they actually are
- Top-down heatmap in the shape you walked
- For phones that support Google ARCore
Survey on a floor plan
Use a plan or picture of your home, or a blank grid. Stand somewhere, tap where you are, and ORBIT takes a reading there.
- A full survey mode, not a fallback
- Works on phones without ARCore
- Survey again on the same plan to check whether a change helped
Check whether your channel is crowded
ORBIT looks at the Wi-Fi networks around you and tells you whether they are crowding your channel.
- See which channel your network is using
- A clearer channel suggested when the evidence supports one
- No walking required
What to do next
Before you buy another router, extender or mesh node, find out what is actually wrong
ORBIT doesn’t leave you with a column of numbers. It reads your survey and suggests the next thing worth trying, only as far as the measurements support.
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Move what you already have
When a measured weak area points to it, try repositioning your router, extender or mesh unit first.
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Change or check your channel
When nearby networks are crowding yours, ORBIT says so and suggests a clearer channel to try.
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Take a few more readings
If the survey doesn’t cover enough of your space to be sure, ORBIT asks for more rather than guessing.
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Hold off on new hardware
ORBIT only raises adding a unit when your measurements support it, and says so when they don’t.
Advice that fits your setup
Tell ORBIT what you have before you survey, so its advice doesn’t assume a single router:
- One router or access point
- Router plus an extender or repeater
- Mesh, or several access points
- I’m not sure
Wi-Fi, not Internet speed
ORBIT measures the Wi-Fi signal between your phone and your equipment. It does not run a speed test. If your Wi-Fi looks healthy, ORBIT will tell you, so you know to look at the Internet connection itself.
What you get
A picture of your space, not a number that flickers
A single signal reading changes every second and tells you nothing about your home. ORBIT records where each reading was taken.
Measured, not invented
Spots ORBIT measured are shown differently from areas it estimated between them, so you always know which parts are real readings.
Strongest and weakest
The best and worst measured areas are marked on the map, with a plain-language summary of how your coverage reads overall.
Share Wi-Fi report
Send a plain report of what ORBIT found to your ISP, an installer, a landlord or family, using any app you choose.
Saved surveys
Your surveys are kept on your phone so you can reopen them later, and delete any of them whenever you like.
In the shape you surveyed
Coverage is drawn over the space you actually covered, not stretched into a rectangle or a guessed floor plan.
No account required
No sign-in and no profile. Open the app and start surveying.
Privacy
Your survey is a map of your home. It stays on your phone unless you share it.
A Wi-Fi survey says a lot about where you live. ORBIT does not automatically upload your surveys. It has no Internet permission, so it can’t.
- Stored locally
Surveys and floor plans stay in ORBIT’s private storage on your phone, excluded from cloud backup.
- No account required
No sign-in, no email address, no profile, no sync.
- No advertising
No ads, no ad SDKs, no advertising identifier.
- No analytics
No usage tracking, no background telemetry, no crash reporter.
Sharing is your choice
When you tap Share Wi-Fi report, ORBIT writes the report on your phone and hands it to Android’s share sheet. You pick the app and the recipient. ORBIT itself sends nothing anywhere.
The report describes the survey and what ORBIT found. It never includes your network name, access point addresses, raw readings, your location or your floor plan image. Read the full privacy policy.
Availability
ORBIT: WiFi Signal Heatmap for Android
Free, with no account required. All you need is a phone running Android 7.0 or later, and a Wi-Fi network to survey.
- Camera scan needs a phone that supports Google Play Services for AR.
- Floor plan surveys work without AR.
- Band & Channel detail depends on what your phone and Android version report.
Coming to Google PlayThe release is in progress. A link to the Google Play listing will appear here as soon as it is public.