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title: "Ember | A Native Journal App for iPad"
description: "Ember on iPad is the full life archive: the sidebar, the journal, the Feed and the living graph of your people, with the same private archive as your Mac and iPhone."
url: https://ember.mov/ipad-journal-app/
language: en
---

Ember • Journaling

# A native journal for iPad.

![A woman in a blue jacket stands by a window reading a letter, a map on the wall behind her.](https://ember.mov/assets/art/vermeer-woman-reading-letter.webp)

*Johannes Vermeer, Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, about 1663*

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.

![Ember on iPad: the sidebar, the list of entries, and Sunday at Grandma's open beside them.](https://ember.mov/assets/devices/ipad-entry.webp)

## 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.

- **The Graph.** Your people as a living map, grouped into the worlds they belong to. Tap anyone to open everything you have ever written about them.
- **The Journal.** Type @ and a name, and the entry belongs to that person forever. Gather entries into Stories that span years.
- **The Feed and Nudge.** The Feed brings back what you wrote a year ago today. The Nudge page shows the people who have gone quiet, next to your own last words about them.

![Theo's page on iPad: his details beside every entry he is in.](https://ember.mov/assets/devices/ipad-person.webp)

## 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.

![A story on iPad: Clara learns to drive, told across months.](https://ember.mov/assets/devices/ipad-story.webp)

## 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.

[Download on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6775558241?pt=128905247&ct=site&mt=8)