Streak lives inside Gmail as a spreadsheet-style pipeline, which is brilliant until your CRM outgrows your inbox. Orbit is a full standalone CRM with timelines, tasks, invoices, and one AI assistant, Hiro, that drafts follow-ups and invoice reminders. Nothing sends until you approve it. The free plan needs no credit card.
Streak is clever. It turns Gmail into a CRM by laying a spreadsheet-style pipeline right over your inbox, so you never switch tabs. For a freelancer tracking a handful of deals, it is hard to beat for speed of setup.
The ceiling shows up as you grow. A CRM that lives inside Gmail is tied to Gmail. The contact record is thin, the reporting is limited, and once you want a proper timeline, invoices, booking pages, or anything beyond pipeline rows, you feel the walls of the inbox. Streak also leaves every bit of the actual work to you. It is a better view of your email, not a system that does anything on its own.
People leave when the pipeline matters more than the inbox, and when they want the CRM to start carrying some of the load.
Orbit is a real all-in-one CRM, and one AI assistant, Hiro, lives inside it. Hiro hands you drafts to approve, edit, or dismiss, so the leverage is real but the control stays with you.
Streak's superpower is that it never makes you leave Gmail. If your entire workflow is email, your deals are simple, and the idea of a separate app feels like more than you need, Streak is the lighter tool and there is no shame in keeping it.
It is also genuinely fast to set up because it borrows the inbox you already use. Choose Orbit when you have outgrown rows in a spreadsheet, when you want real timelines, invoices, and an assistant that drafts the work, and when the pipeline has become the thing you manage all day rather than a side note in your email.
Streak boxes and pipelines export to CSV. Download your contacts and pipeline, then import the contacts CSV into Orbit and map your columns to fields and tags. Rebuilding stages takes a few minutes, so the full move fits in an afternoon.
No. Orbit is a standalone CRM with full contact timelines, tasks, invoices, proposals, and booking pages. It has its own built-in email inbox, so no Gmail connection is needed, but it does not live inside your inbox the way Streak does.
Orbit adds one AI assistant, Hiro, that drafts follow-ups, writes proposals and invoices, and builds pages and forms, plus real timelines, invoices, proposals, and booking pages. Streak gives you a pipeline view inside Gmail but leaves the work and the deeper CRM features to you.
Yes. Orbit has a free plan with no credit card that includes 250 contacts, one pipeline, unlimited tasks, a calendar, a built-in email inbox with 100 sends a month, and basic Tables. Pro is $14 a month or $112 a year, with an optional 30-day free trial that requires a card. AI is included with free monthly credits.
Orbit is free to start, no credit card. Import your Streak pipeline and ask Hiro to draft your first follow-ups today.
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