{"slug": "show-hn-free-desktop-orcabot-for-macos", "title": "Show HN: Free Desktop OrcaBot for macOS", "summary": "OrcaBot, a virtualized sandbox for securely orchestrating AI tools, is now available as a free desktop application for macOS after previously requiring a paid cloud subscription. The desktop version keeps credentials hidden from agents and prevents data exfiltration through network egress controls, with tools and agents running inside an isolated virtual machine.", "body_md": "OrcaBot is a virtualized sandbox for securely orchestrating your AI tools.\n\nIts secrets broker keeps credentials hidden from agents. Network egress controls help prevent data exfiltration. The tools and agents themselves run inside an isolated virtual machine.\n\nUntil now, OrcaBot has run exclusively in the cloud using Fly.io virtual machines. Those machines cost money to operate, which is why the cloud version of OrcaBot requires a subscription.\n\nNow OrcaBot Desktop is available for free on macOS\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000099](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000099)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-free-desktop-orcabot-for-macos", "canonical_source": "https://orcabot.com/blog/free-desktop-orcabot", "published_at": "2026-07-22 00:06:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-22 00:22:19.422288+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-safety", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["OrcaBot", "Fly.io", "macOS"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-free-desktop-orcabot-for-macos", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-free-desktop-orcabot-for-macos.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-free-desktop-orcabot-for-macos.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-free-desktop-orcabot-for-macos.jsonld"}}