Ember turns the small moments of your day into deeper family connection — through check-ins, patterns, and AI that actually understands your family.
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Ember was built by a dad who had everything —
and still felt like something was missing.
Not a crisis. Just the quiet distance that grows
when life gets loud and time gets scarce.
Daily check-ins take two minutes. The AI Daily Brief surfaces what your family is actually feeling — the stress they haven't mentioned, the gratitude they haven't expressed, the disconnect you haven't noticed.
The Weekly Sync gives your household a shared picture of priorities, pressure points, and wins. Alignment happens by design. Not by accident, and not by argument.
The Family Pulse Dashboard tracks mood, energy, connection, and appreciation across weeks and months. Watch your family grow stronger — with data, not guesswork.
Each family member does a 2-minute daily check-in — rating their mood, energy, and sharing what's on their mind. Kids get age-adapted versions with emojis instead of text. Ember's AI synthesizes everyone's responses into a Daily Brief that shows you what your family is actually feeling, spots patterns, and suggests gentle actions.
About 2 minutes. It's designed to be quick enough to do while waiting for coffee. Kids' check-ins are even faster — just tap an emoji and go.
Every evening, Ember's AI analyzes your family's check-ins and generates a personalized brief. It connects dots you might miss: "Lily's been low energy for 3 days — this usually correlates with school stress." It's like having an emotionally intelligent co-pilot for your family.
A guided 15-minute family conversation every Sunday. Ember prepares discussion starters based on the week's data — wins to celebrate, friction to address, and priorities for the week ahead. Families tell us it becomes their favorite ritual.
Absolutely. Your data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256). We never sell your data, never use it for advertising, and never share it with third parties. AI processing uses only first names — no emails or identifying information.
Yes. Ember is COPPA compliant. Children under 13 use parent-managed accounts with minimal data collection. Teens (13+) get private check-ins that parents can see trends for (but not read word-for-word). You control what's shared.
No. Individual check-ins are private. The AI Brief shares family-level insights without exposing anyone's specific responses. You control the level of transparency.
When you create a family, you get a unique shareable code (like FAMILY-7F3K). Share it with family members and they can join your household in the app. You can also send email invites directly.
Ember's co-parenting mode lets separated parents share a family unit. Both households see the same children's trends and insights. Adults can choose what to share with each other. It's designed for cooperation, not conflict.
Yes! Premium plans support extended family members. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, or close family friends can join your family unit and participate in check-ins.
Mood apps track one person. Ember tracks your entire family and uses AI to find relationship patterns — how one person's stress affects another, which days your family is most connected, what triggers disconnection. It's emotional intelligence for the whole unit.
Ember notices when gratitude goes unspoken. It might prompt: "Marcus hasn't received appreciation this week — want to send one?" Small nudges that compound into a culture of gratitude.
After 30 days, Ember reveals patterns like: seasonal stress cycles, communication gaps between specific family members, how one person's mood ripples through the household, and what activities correlate with your family's best days.
Full Pro access for 7 days — AI Daily Briefs, Weekly Sync, Family Dashboard, age-adapted check-ins, unlimited family profiles. No credit card required to start.
$99/year gets you every feature — current and future — at a price that never increases. It's our way of saying thank you to the families who helped shape Ember from the beginning.
Yes. Cancel anytime from your account. You keep access through the end of your billing period. No cancellation fees, no hassle.
There wasn't a single moment that broke me. No crisis, no rock bottom, no dramatic turning point. Just a Tuesday night when I looked around at my full, beautiful, busy life — my wife, my four kids, dinner on the table — and thought: I don't really know how any of them are doing.
We had the life. Twelve years of marriage. Four kids who are healthy and loud and wonderful. A house that is never, ever quiet. By every measure worth measuring, we were doing well.
But I wanted more than well. I wanted to know my son's inner world — what he was proud of, what kept him up at night. I wanted my wife to feel genuinely known, not just coexisted with. I wanted my kids to grow up in a family where the question "how are you really doing?" had a real answer.
The problem wasn't love. It was time. There's never enough of it to have the conversations that matter. You get the logistics — who needs to be where, what's for dinner, did you finish your homework — but the deeper stuff gets deferred. And deferred. And quietly forgotten.
I built Ember because I couldn't find anything that solved this. Every app I found was either for productivity, or parenting management, or mental health tracking. None of them were just... for families who want to stay close.
So I made one. Small enough to fit into any day. Smart enough to notice what you might miss. Warm enough that your kids actually want to use it.
If you're here, I think you already know the feeling I'm describing. The good news is that connection doesn't require perfect circumstances or unlimited time. It just requires showing up — a little, consistently, with intention.
That's what Ember is for.