Never miss the day again
Mark the day you met once and it comes back every year — telling you both a week out, while you can still book something. Nobody has to be the one who remembers.
Your ember is smouldering — keep it lit.Some people you never
A private app for couples
Some people you never
stop thinking about.
Send a little “thinking of you.” Play a game between busy moments. Keep your photos, plans and memories in a space just for the two of you.
Free on iPhone · one optional plan covers you both.
Android coming soon — get one email when it's ready.
On iPhone and Apple Watch today, with Android coming soon — and it works across different phones. Free everyday essentials. Emberknot+ is optional, US$5.99 a month or US$49.99 a year total for both of you.
Sam
Good · Working
Thinking
Good evening
Alex
A
You
Missing you
Sam
Good
deep in the mines
Sam is thinking of you · just now
Your ember is warm · 12 days
Thinking of you
ThinkingHugMiss youProud
NoteMomentMood
VoiceSay moreWhere I am
Moments
Yesterday
Sam is proud of you18:04
Made it through the review. You were right about the second slide.Sam · 18:22
Sam misses you
🥺Today
Sam is on the way home07:12
“call me”
0:14
One minute, sound on
See it before
you read about it.
The tap, questions, games, letters, Date Night, your Ember and more. The whole app, in a minute.
Why a tap works
It takes a second.
It lands all day.
A text needs words and an answer. A tap needs neither. It says I'm thinking about you and then gets out of the way — which is why people send them at three in the afternoon on an ordinary Tuesday, and why getting one feels like being picked out of a whole day.
- It answers instantly. The heart bursts and your phone taps your hand the moment you press — no spinner, no waiting to see whether it worked.
- Eight ways to say it — thinking of you, love you, hug, miss you, proud, got you, goodnight, good morning — each with its own colour and its own feel.
- Or say it your way. Any emoji, a word, or something you draw with your finger.
More than a button
Everything the two of you
are keeping.
The anniversary you always remember three days late. The trip you are both quietly counting down to. The photo only one of you has. Emberknot holds all of it in one place that belongs to the two of you — and nudges you in time to actually do something about it.
Something to look forward to
The trip you are both counting down to, on both phones, with the one line that matters — "booked under my name", "ferry at 08:40". Half the pleasure of going somewhere is the waiting.
The good bits, saved
Press and hold anything they sent — a photo, a note, a tap on a bad day — and it is kept. A year in, you have a record of the two of you that nobody else has read.
They know you got there
One tap when you are home, at work, landed. The small reassurance that stops somebody wondering. No GPS is involved — the app never asks for your location and has no code that reads it.
Know what kind of day it is
Before you call, you already know whether it was a great one or a rough one. Set yours in a second, and it clears itself — a bad Monday should not still be showing on Thursday.
Be together from anywhere
Study, work or wind down in the same half hour from different cities — on your Lock Screen, counting the taps you send each other while it runs. As close to the same room as two phones get.
Us
AS
Alex and Sam
418taps
62notes
27moments
12streak
The day we met61 days · every year
Lisbon, together23 days · trip
Dinner tomorrowBooked under my name
Sam
Good · Working
Thinking
Everywhere you already areEmberknot+
The best part
never opens the app.
Their mood is simply there — on your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, your watch face — changing through the day without either of you opening anything. You glance at your phone for some other reason and find out they are having a rough one.
- Send a tap from the widget. One press, app never opens.
- A real Apple Watch app, not a companion afterthought.
- Live Activities you control on iPhone, one trigger at a time.
- Voice notes and the Atlas. Hear them instead of reading them, and keep a map of everywhere you have both been.
That is part of Emberknot+, along with photos, Questions, Games and every tap — and one subscription covers both of you, not one each. The everyday app is free: four taps, notes, moods, Today's question, an open-when letter, a countdown, Date Night, Cup Pong, and your first photo and voice note.
Play together
Something to do
besides talk about it.
A game you finish over three days, a wheel that picks dinner, a question with an answer you did not expect.
GamesEmberknot+
Twenty-two of them, from Chess to Rummy, a turn at a time — Cup Pong is free. Make your move whenever; they get a nudge when it is theirs.
See the gamesDate Night
Fill the wheels together, then let them decide. For nights in, nights out, and nights on a video call.
Spin the wheelsQuestionsEmberknot+
Ask them something with two or three answers to pick from. They can always type their own instead.
App iconsEmberknot+
Fifteen icons.
One choice, both phones.
Pick the one that feels like the two of you, and it changes on both Home Screens — yours straight away, theirs the next time Emberknot is open on their phone. iPhone or Android, it is the same icon on each.
- Classic is free. The other fourteen — Ember, Sunset, Neon, Sakura, Love Note and the rest — come with Emberknot+.
- Either of you can change it, from Settings → Appearance, right next to the themes.
- If Emberknot+ ends, nothing jumps. The icon stays as it is.
ClassicFree
Ember
Blush
Midnight
Gold
Aurora
Paper
Sunset
Ocean
Neon
Sakura
Forest
Prism
Sweetheart
Love Note
Holiday themesEmberknot+
Dress it up
for the day.
Eight animated themes, from New Year's to birthdays. Set one any time of year and it changes for both of you, like every theme. Each has its own gentle background and its own burst when you tap — press a heart below to see it.
- New Year'sChampagne bubbles and gold.
- Valentine's DaySlow hearts, softly glowing.
- EasterPastel eggs and blossoms.
- Fourth of JulySoft fireworks, high up.
- HalloweenLittle bats and a pumpkin glow.
- ThanksgivingAutumn leaves, swirling down.
- ChristmasSnowfall and string lights.
- BirthdayBalloons drifting up.
A gentle reminder when one is coming up — ahead of each holiday, and three days before any birthday you have saved in your dates. Both of you get it, and one switch in Settings turns them off.
iPhone & Android
Different phones.
Same little world.
One of you on an iPhone, the other on Android? That is completely fine. Taps, notes, photos, letters, Today's question, games and Date Night all go back and forth between the two, exactly as if you had the same phone. Nobody has to switch.
iPhone is on the App Store now; Android is coming soon to Google Play. Get one email the day it is out.
The promise
No feed. No followers.
Nobody performing.
Nothing you put here is for an audience, because there is no audience. There is no way to find anyone in Emberknot — no search, no suggestions, no uploading your contacts. The only way in is a short code that somebody hands you on purpose.
- One connection at a time — either of you can end it, alone.
- Note previews are one switch away from off. Turn them off and the words are left out of the notification itself — you read them in the app.
- Your location is never read. No permission, no geofence, no code that asks the phone where it is.
- No generative AI. The point is that it came from a person.
Who makes it
Built for two people first.
I built Emberknot for my girlfriend and me. Now I'm sharing it with other couples who want a little space of their own.
Getting started is three steps: each of you makes your own account, one of you invites the other, and you start sharing.
Questions? Get in touchBe the reason
they check their phone.
Free on the App Store for iPhone, with Android coming soon. Emberknot+ is optional: three days free for new subscribers, then US$5.99 a month or US$49.99 a year for both of you.
Out now on iPhone
Coming soon on AndroidOn the App Store now for iPhone. Android is coming soon — join the waiting list for one email the day it is on Google Play, and nothing else, ever.