A private AI notebook for your Mac

You write.
Ember remembers.

Everything you tell Ember becomes a plain file on your Mac. Teach it something once and it remembers for good. Bring any AI you like, from Claude to one that runs offline.

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Download Ember for Mac

Built for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later).

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You ask once. Ember builds the whole notebook and saves it as real files on your Mac.

Ember is for anyone who keeps notes. A trader keeps their lessons. A student keeps their courses. A founder keeps their ideas.

See it your way

A canvas for your thinking.

Notes, blocks, and a mind map on one open canvas. Ember lays your ideas out the way your head actually works. No plugins to install, no setup to learn. It just works.

Ember's open canvas with note cards and a mind map
Real terminal power

A full terminal, right in your notebook.

Run real commands and AI agents next to your notes. No second app, no window to switch to. Drag a note or a file straight into the terminal and keep going. Terminal power, wrapped in a beautiful app.

Ember with a built-in terminal running below the notes
Teach it once

Show Ember a skill once. It keeps it forever.

Teach Ember how you like something done, a way to lay out a note or a routine you run every week, and it remembers. You never explain it twice.

Plan toward a day

Tell it the deadline. It plans the weeks.

Point Ember at a day, like an exam or a trip, and it spreads the work across every week between now and then. A little at a time, so nothing lands the night before.

Ember's calendar view with a plan-toward-a-day panel
Bring your own AI

The AI is a guest. The memory is yours.

Sign in with Claude, ChatGPT, or Google. No keys, no setup. Switching your AI feels as easy as Sign in with Google. Or keep it completely offline and run it on your own Mac, even with the Wi-Fi off.

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Lock a folder. It stays private.

Lock the folders that are just for you and the AI goes blind to them. It cannot read, search, or answer from anything inside. Nothing watches. Ember knows only what you told it.

It is all just files

The memory is the folder.

Everything Ember keeps is a plain Markdown file on your Mac. Open it in any editor, back it up, or read it ten years from now. Your AI's memory is a file you can read. Walk away whenever you want. It was always yours.

Every AI guesses who you are. Ember is the place where it finally knows you, because you told it once.

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I am building Ember on my own. If it earns a place on your Mac, a coffee keeps me going. No pressure at all, and thank you for trying it.

Nabeel, the maker of Ember

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