iPhone and Android
Your day feeds a fire.
Ember is a habit tracker and a to-do list with a fire underneath them. Write what needs doing, finish it, and the logs go on. Light an ember and the fire keeps the day, with no streak to break. The fire burns down on its own, so the app asks about today rather than about your last six months.
Free to use, 3 embers a day. Membership takes the cap off.
How it works
The work is the fuel.
Write what needs doing
A task is worth one to five logs, and you say which when you write it. Finish it and the bundle goes on the fire. That is the whole deal: the work is the fuel.
Some things you keep lit
A habit is an ember. Light it and the logs go on, and the record keeps every day you did. There is no streak to break: a day off costs that day and nothing else. Meeting the goal is what pays, 2 of 3 glasses is nothing yet.
The fire keeps a world
Behind the list a fire burns down on its own, and what you finish keeps it going. Out there a character lives by it, and every ember you keep pays experience into who they become.
What else is in there
Everything a day needs, in one fire.
Deep Focus
Twenty five minutes, fifty, or open ended. Sittings are filed under work, study or whatever you name, and they earn logs.
Breathing and sitting
Three deep breaths with the screen breathing along, or a timed meditation with a bell at the end of it.
Rituals with steps
A morning routine is one ember with its steps inside it. Tick them off in the card; the ember only counts when the needed ones are done.
Quests and a ledger
Today on the home screen, everything else at /quests, filed by tag, with what burned today sunk to the bottom.
Works with no signal
Add a todo, check one off, log an ember: all three go through in a tunnel and settle up when you surface, on the day you actually did them.
Notifications that are only the bell
The end of a sitting, the end of a meditation. No ads, no news, no “we miss you”.
Free and membership
Free lights 3 embers a day.
And that free tier is the app: every screen, the world, the timer, sync across your devices. The one cap is how many embers you can light in a day. Membership takes it off.
| What you get | Free | Member |
|---|---|---|
| Embers lit a day | 3 | Unlimited |
| Quests and todos | ||
| Rituals and breathing | ||
| Deep Focus | ||
| The world | ||
| Cloud sync across devices |
Weekly and yearly plans, bought through the App Store or Google Play at the price shown there. Cancel any time from your store account.
Light the first one tonight.
Free on iPhone and Android. Nothing to set up beyond picking a habit or two, and you can change every one of them later.