Ember

In the quiet hours of the morning

Speak your dream.
Discover what it means.

Tell Ember a dream — right now — and watch it read the emotions, the symbols, the figures who keep returning. Then paint you a card to keep.

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Free on iPhone · Ember Pro is $3.99/mo or $24.99/yr

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The Staircase Below the House
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one of last night's dreams

How it works

From a groggy whisper
to your inner world.

I

Speak it

Wake up, tap once, and talk. Ember turns groggy mumbling into a clear, structured dream entry — no typing required, though you can.

II

See it

Each dream becomes a unique illustrated dream card, in one of eight styles. The strange houses, the familiar strangers — rendered while you have breakfast.

III

Understand it

The heart of Ember: a title, a summary, the emotions it carried, a gentle reading of its symbols — and one question worth sitting with. A quiet conversation, never a quiz.

IV

Track it

The part that matters most. Dreams reveal themselves over time — so Ember quietly follows the threads, symbols and figures that keep returning, surfacing the deeper message your unconscious has been spelling out, night after night.

The art

Every dream leaves a picture behind.

Eight illustration styles, one for every kind of night. Your dreams accumulate into a collection you'll actually want to open.

The depth

Discover the patterns
in your inner world.

Dreams repeat themselves for a reason. Over weeks, Ember quietly maps what returns — the figures, the feelings, the places — drawing on a century of depth psychology, worn lightly.

Nine archetypes

Recurring figures, named the old way — noticed across your dreams, never diagnosed.

The HeroThe ShadowThe Wise Elder The Trickster…and five more
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Ninety nights, mapped

A calendar of your dreaming life — recall waxes and wanes, and you'll see it.

What keeps returning

Symbols and figures, counted gently over time.

  • water, rising or falling × 7
  • a staircase going down × 4
  • a familiar stranger × 3
  • teeth × 2
Threads

One meaning, many dreams.

Some messages are too large for a single night. When dreams pull in the same direction, Ember gathers them into a thread — a meaning shared across many dreams, waiting to be understood. Jung called the journey individuation. You'll simply notice that something, slowly, is being said.

The more dreams a thread holds, the clearer the message becomes.

A thread of five dreams, three months in the making

“You dreamed of the house again — but this time you opened the door. What do you think was waiting for you, that you're finally ready to see?A reflection from Ember, the morning after

A locked leather journal with an antique key

Locked — and honest about the key.

Dreams are as intimate as thoughts get. The body of every dream — its text, your waking-life notes, your reflections — is encrypted with AES-256 on your device before it is uploaded, and only what you choose to share is shareable. Your key is also held in escrow on our servers, so a new phone never costs you your journal — which means Ember is technically able to decrypt a dream, and we do so only to operate or support the service, or where the law requires it. It is not end-to-end encryption, and we don't claim it is. No ads, no selling, no training on your dreams.

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Out now on iPhone

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The night writes first.
Be there when the morning answers.

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