EMBER PRESS KIT
https://ember.mov/press/


FACTS

Name:          Ember (on the App Store as "Ember: Journal & Life Archive")
Developer:     Nandha (Nandhakumar Senthilkumar), a solo developer
Website:       https://ember.mov/
App Store:     https://apps.apple.com/app/id6775558241
Released:      9 October 2026
Platforms:     iPhone and iPad (iOS and iPadOS 18.5 or later), Mac (macOS 15 or later)
               One universal app: download it once, use it on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Languages:     English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil),
               Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional),
               Vietnamese
Price:         Free, with no limit on what you write.
               Ember Plus (optional): $4.99 a month, $39.99 a year, or $59.99 lifetime
               (US prices; lower in many countries).
               Plus adds private iCloud sync across devices and the full theme catalogue.
Press contact: nandha@ember.mov


ONE LINE

Ember is a journal that remembers your people.


SHORT DESCRIPTION

Ember is a private journal for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Mention someone once, and every
moment you share gathers on their page. Years from now, everything you lived together
is there, in your own words. No account, no AI, and the core app is free.


LONGER DESCRIPTION

Most journals keep events in the order they happened. Ember keeps the people. Type @
and a name while you write, and that entry joins the person's page, next to how you
met, the stories you share and every moment you wrote down. Over the years the journal
becomes a life archive, organised around the people who mattered.

Worlds group the circles you move in (family, work, college), and Stories hold chapters
that span years. The Feed brings back moments on the right day, like a year since you
met someone, and when a person you care about has been quiet too long, they gently
surface, with no streaks and no guilt. A Map shows where memories happened, and on Mac
and iPad a Graph shows everyone at once, gathered into the worlds you share.

Ember imports Day One and Apple Journal libraries, with photos, video and audio, and
finds the people already named in old entries. Entries support Markdown, photos, voice
memos and songs from Apple Music.

Ember is local-first. The journal lives on your device, locks with Face ID, Touch ID or
a passcode, and syncs only through your own iCloud. There is no Ember account and no
Ember server. Ember has no AI: it never reads, writes or summarises a word of your
journal. Everything can be exported at any time as an open, documented archive.


KEY FEATURES

- @ mentions: mention a person once and the entry gathers on their page
- A page for everyone: how you met, shared stories, every moment written down
- Worlds and Stories for the circles and chapters of a life
- Feed: on this day memories and gentle nudges about people gone quiet
- Map of entries, stories and people; Graph of everyone on Mac and iPad
- Import from Day One and Apple Journal
- Markdown, photos, voice memos and Apple Music songs in entries
- Memory cards and story PDFs to send to the people in them (nothing is hosted)
- Local-first, app lock, private iCloud sync, full export, no AI
- Native on Mac, iPhone and iPad, in 12 languages


WHY IT EXISTS

"I've lost nearly five people I know. Not lost like they are gone. Lost like I forgot
their name." Nandha built Ember so the people who crossed his path keep a place, even
someone met only once. The full story: https://ember.mov/about/


WHAT IS IN THIS FOLDER

Icon/          The app icon, 1024 x 1024 PNG, for iPhone and iPad and for Mac
Screenshots/   Screenshots from Mac (2880 x 1800), iPhone and iPad, in English
Banner/        The App Store header artwork

The people and entries in the screenshots are Ember's sample library: the life archive
of Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. No real person's journal is shown.


USING THESE MATERIALS

You may use everything in this kit when writing about or reviewing Ember, in print, on
the web or in video. Please do not alter the icon. For other screenshots, a review
build, promo codes or an interview, email nandha@ember.mov.
