Orba Companion by Vistai

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

Changelog

• Jun 7, 2026
  description

  Orba Companion by Vistai turns passive video watching into active learning. Open a lecture on YouTube, Coursera, or Udemy, start a session from the side panel, and Orba works alongside the video - pausing at natural topic boundaries, checking your understanding with quick quizzes, and helping you summarise or ask questions anytime.
  
  Whether you are studying for exams, completing an online course, or learning a new skill from video, Orba Companion keeps you engaged instead of letting lectures play in the background unnoticed.
  
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  WHY ORBA COMPANION?
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  • Learn actively, not passively - short quizzes help you retain what you just watched
  • Stay in flow - the video pauses only when it is time to check understanding
  • Summarise on demand - get clear takeaways without leaving the player
  • Ask questions in context - Orba uses the lecture you are watching, not generic answers
  • One calm side panel - everything lives beside your video; no tab switching
  • Built for learners - clean, focused interface designed for long study sessions
  
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  HOW IT WORKS
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  1. Sign in with your Vistai account (one-time, secure connection via vistai.site)
  2. Open a supported lecture page and open the Orba Companion side panel
  3. Click Start Learning, Orba reads captions, finds natural segment boundaries, and guides your session
  4. Watch normally, Orba pauses the video when it is time for a quick quiz
  5. Answer, continue, and use Summarise or Ask whenever you need a recap or clarification
  
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  SUPPORTED PLATFORMS (BETA)
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  • YouTube - education and tutorial videos
  • Coursera - enable subtitles/CC on the lecture player for best results
  • Udemy - enable subtitles/CC on the lecture player for best results
  
  We are expanding support and improving caption coverage during Beta. Your feedback helps us prioritise what to build next.
  
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  ORBA COMPANION ASSISTANT
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  • Summarise - generate a concise overview of the current video
  • Ask - type a question about what you are watching and get a contextual answer
  • Session-aware - features work best after you start a learning session on a lecture page
  
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  FAIR DAILY USAGE
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  Orba Companion includes a daily learning allowance (180 minutes per day) so the service stays reliable for everyone. Your progress is tied to your Vistai account when signed in.
  
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  PRIVACY & SECURITY
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  • Sign in through Vistai, no API keys to paste or manage in the extension
  • AI requests use your secure Vistai session; processing runs through Vistai’s protected API
  • Orba Companion only runs on pages you open on supported learning sites
  • Uninstalling the extension opens a short goodbye page at vistai.site if you want to share feedback
  
  For privacy practices, see Vistai’s policy on https://www.vistai.site
  
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  WHO IS IT FOR?
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  • Students watching lecture recordings and MOOCs
  • Professionals upskilling with video courses
  • Self-learners on YouTube tutorials who want accountability
  • Anyone who has ever finished a video and realised they cannot explain what they saw
  
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  GETTING STARTED
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  Install Orba Companion, pin the extension, sign in at vistai.site/extension-auth, open a lecture, and click Start Learning. Enable captions on Coursera and Udemy for the best experience.
  
  Questions or feedback: visit https://www.vistai.site
  
  Orba Companion by Vistai - your personalised AI pal for learning towards growth.

  Orba Companion by Vistai turns passive video watching into active learning. Open a lecture on YouTube, Coursera, or Udemy, start a session from the side panel, and Orba works alongside the video - pausing at natural topic boundaries, checking your understanding with quick quizzes, and helping you summarise or ask questions anytime.
  
  Whether you are studying for exams, completing an online course, or learning a new skill from video, Orba Companion keeps you engaged instead of letting lectures play in the background unnoticed.
  
  WHY ORBA COMPANION?
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  • Learn actively, not passively - short quizzes help you retain what you just watched
  • Stay in flow - the video pauses only when it is time to check understanding
  • Summarise on demand - get clear takeaways without leaving the player
  • Ask questions in context - Orba uses the lecture you are watching, not generic answers
  • One calm side panel - everything lives beside your video; no tab switching
  • Built for learners - clean, focused interface designed for long study sessions
  
  HOW IT WORKS
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  1. Sign in with your Vistai account (one-time, secure connection via vistai.site)
  2. Open a supported lecture page and open the Orba Companion side panel
  3. Click Start Learning, Orba reads captions, finds natural segment boundaries, and guides your session
  4. Watch normally, Orba pauses the video when it is time for a quick quiz
  5. Answer, continue, and use Summarise or Ask whenever you need a recap or clarification
  
  SUPPORTED PLATFORMS (BETA)
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  • YouTube - education and tutorial videos
  • Coursera - enable subtitles/CC on the lecture player for best results
  • Udemy - enable subtitles/CC on the lecture player for best results
  
  We are expanding support and improving caption coverage during Beta. Your feedback helps us prioritise what to build next.
  
  ORBA COMPANION ASSISTANT
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  • Summarise - generate a concise overview of the current video
  • Ask - type a question about what you are watching and get a contextual answer
  • Session-aware - features work best after you start a learning session on a lecture page
  
  FAIR DAILY USAGE
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Orba Companion includes a daily learning allowance, so the service stays reliable for everyone. Your progress is tied to your Vistai account when signed in.
  
  PRIVACY & SECURITY
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  • Sign in through Vistai, no setup or manage in the extension
  • AI requests use your secure Vistai session; processing runs through Vistai’s protected API
  • Orba Companion only runs on pages you open on supported learning sites
  • Uninstalling the extension opens a short goodbye page at vistai.site if you want to share feedback
  
  For privacy practices, see Vistai’s policy on https://www.vistai.site
  
  WHO IS IT FOR?
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  • Students watching lecture recordings and MOOCs
  • Professionals upskilling with video courses
  • Self-learners on YouTube tutorials who want accountability
  • Anyone who has ever finished a video and realised they cannot explain what they saw
  
  GETTING STARTED
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Install Orba Companion, pin the extension, sign in at vistai.site/extension-auth, open a lecture, and click Start Learning. Enable captions on Coursera and Udemy for the best experience.
  
  Questions or feedback: visit https://www.vistai.site
  
  Orba Companion by Vistai - your personalised AI pal for learning towards growth.

• May 25, 2026
  description

  VBuddy - Your AI Learning Companion for YouTube
  
  Ever watch a brilliant educational tutorial, only to forget most of it the next day? VBuddy is here to fix that. Designed for lifelong learners and students, VBuddy lives in your side panel and transforms passive watching into active, high-retention learning.
  
  How it Works: 
  VBuddy acts as a smart companion that watches educational videos right alongside you. As the video progresses, it uses advanced AI to analyze the transcript in real-time. Instead of just letting you binge passively, VBuddy identifies intelligent "topic shifts" and pauses the video to serve you tailored, multiple-choice quizzes on what you just watched.
  
  Core Features:
  1. Automatic Context Analysis: VBuddy reads the room and understands the complex topics being discussed.
  2. Smart Quizzes: Get tested at the perfect moment! VBuddy generates on-the-fly questions specifically tailored to the video.
  3. Beautiful UI: VBuddy lives in a sleek, non-intrusive side panel that stays out of your way while you watch in full screen.
  
  Note: VBuddy requires a free Vistai account.

  Orba Companion by Vistai turns passive video watching into active learning. Open a lecture on YouTube, Coursera, or Udemy, start a session from the side panel, and Orba works alongside the video - pausing at natural topic boundaries, checking your understanding with quick quizzes, and helping you summarise or ask questions anytime.
  
  Whether you are studying for exams, completing an online course, or learning a new skill from video, Orba Companion keeps you engaged instead of letting lectures play in the background unnoticed.
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  WHY ORBA COMPANION?
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  
  • Learn actively, not passively - short quizzes help you retain what you just watched
  • Stay in flow - the video pauses only when it is time to check understanding
  • Summarise on demand - get clear takeaways without leaving the player
  • Ask questions in context - Orba uses the lecture you are watching, not generic answers
  • One calm side panel - everything lives beside your video; no tab switching
  • Built for learners - clean, focused interface designed for long study sessions
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  HOW IT WORKS
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  
  1. Sign in with your Vistai account (one-time, secure connection via vistai.site)
  2. Open a supported lecture page and open the Orba Companion side panel
  3. Click Start Learning, Orba reads captions, finds natural segment boundaries, and guides your session
  4. Watch normally, Orba pauses the video when it is time for a quick quiz
  5. Answer, continue, and use Summarise or Ask whenever you need a recap or clarification
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  SUPPORTED PLATFORMS (BETA)
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  
  • YouTube - education and tutorial videos
  • Coursera - enable subtitles/CC on the lecture player for best results
  • Udemy - enable subtitles/CC on the lecture player for best results
  
  We are expanding support and improving caption coverage during Beta. Your feedback helps us prioritise what to build next.
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ORBA COMPANION ASSISTANT
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  
  • Summarise - generate a concise overview of the current video
  • Ask - type a question about what you are watching and get a contextual answer
  • Session-aware - features work best after you start a learning session on a lecture page
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  FAIR DAILY USAGE
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  
  Orba Companion includes a daily learning allowance (180 minutes per day) so the service stays reliable for everyone. Your progress is tied to your Vistai account when signed in.
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  PRIVACY & SECURITY
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  
  • Sign in through Vistai, no API keys to paste or manage in the extension
  • AI requests use your secure Vistai session; processing runs through Vistai’s protected API
  • Orba Companion only runs on pages you open on supported learning sites
  • Uninstalling the extension opens a short goodbye page at vistai.site if you want to share feedback
  
  For privacy practices, see Vistai’s policy on https://www.vistai.site
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  WHO IS IT FOR?
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  • Students watching lecture recordings and MOOCs
  • Professionals upskilling with video courses
  • Self-learners on YouTube tutorials who want accountability
  • Anyone who has ever finished a video and realised they cannot explain what they saw
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  GETTING STARTED
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  
  Install Orba Companion, pin the extension, sign in at vistai.site/extension-auth, open a lecture, and click Start Learning. Enable captions on Coursera and Udemy for the best experience.
  
  Questions or feedback: visit https://www.vistai.site
  
  Orba Companion by Vistai - your personalised AI pal for learning towards growth.

• May 25, 2026
  name

  VBuddy by Vistai

  Orba Companion by Vistai

• May 25, 2026
  category

  productivity/tools

  productivity/education

• May 25, 2026
  host_permissions

  https://www.youtube.com/*, https://youtube.com/*, https://www.coursera.org/*, https://www.udemy.com/*

  https://www.youtube.com/*, https://youtube.com/*, https://www.coursera.org/*, https://www.udemy.com/*, https://vistai-api.vistaigrow.workers.dev/*

Permissions & access

Permissions

sidePanelstorageactiveTabtabsscripting

Host access

https://www.youtube.com/*, https://youtube.com/*, https://www.coursera.org/*, https://www.udemy.com/*, https://vistai-api.vistaigrow.workers.dev/*

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