A native journal for iPad.

The iPad is where you read back. On the couch, on a slow Sunday, with time to wander through who you have been writing about and what happened with them. Ember on iPad is built for that: the whole life archive, laid out with room to breathe.

The full app, not a stretched phone

Ember on iPad looks and works like Ember on the Mac. The sidebar holds your views, your worlds and your tags. The journal shows your entries beside the page you are reading. Every feature is here, nothing trimmed down for a smaller device.

Bring a keyboard, if you like

Attach a keyboard and the Mac shortcuts come with you: ⌘K to search your whole archive, ⌘L to log a moment with someone, ⌘N to create anything. Without one, everything is a tap away.

One archive across your devices

Ember is one app on your Mac, iPhone and iPad. With Ember Plus, they stay in step through your own iCloud, so the line you caught on your phone this afternoon is on your iPad tonight. There is no Ember server in the middle, no account to create, and no AI reading a word. Your journal is an open JSON archive you can export whenever you want.

Ready to start writing?

Ember is a private life archive for your Mac, iPhone and iPad. Local-first, no lock-in, no AI, no noise.

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