Changelog

What’s new in Ember.

1. 0.3.12iOSSeptember 8, 2026

   Your daily chat now keeps its conversations apart, and you can talk with Ember about any card straight from the card.

   Talk about a card

   Every card in your daily stack has a third door beside the mic and the pencil: a chat bubble. Tap it and the conversation opens with that card in front of Ember — the card sits in the chat where you can both see it, and whatever you say next is about it. Cards you've already answered, and cards that only ask to be read, can be talked about too.

   Conversations, not one long scroll

   Your day's chat is still one place, but it now knows when one conversation ends and another begins. Come back after an hour away, start talking about a different card, or start fresh, and a gentle wave with the time marks the break. Everything you said before stays right there to scroll back through — nothing is cleared — and Ember carries a memory of each earlier conversation into the next one, so "what did we land on earlier?" gets a real answer.

   • Suggestions come back whenever a new conversation is about to begin, in a single row you can swipe through.

   What to test

   • Open today's cards and tap the chat bubble on one: the chat opens with that card in it, and Ember answers about the card.
   • Chat, leave for an hour, come back and write again: a wave with the time appears above your new message, and the earlier messages are still there.
   • Ask "what did we talk about earlier today?" — Ember should know.
   • Update Ember on your Mac too: this release pairs with desktop 0.3.17.
2. 0.3.11iOSAugust 21, 2026

   Ember now writes you a letter each week — a reflection on your week, kept forever in your timeline.

   A letter from Ember

   At the end of each week you've written in, Ember writes you a letter — a short reflection on the week, in its own voice, grounded in your own words.

   • It lives in your timeline. The letter is stamped at the end of the week it's about, between your days, and stays there for good — part of your journal's history, not a notification that disappears.
   • It quotes you, faithfully. Anything in quotation marks is something you actually wrote, attributed to the day you wrote it. The themes it lists are counted from your own words, not guessed.
   • It arrives glowing. An unread letter glows softly in the timeline — the newest one breathes (and holds still if your device prefers reduced motion) — and settles once you've read it. Reading a letter on one device quiets it on the others.
   • It ends with a question from your week, to carry into the next one.

   Weeks with only a little writing skip their letter — a letter needs a week to reflect on.

   What to test

   • After a week with a few entries, the letter appears at that week's end in the Journal timeline with a soft glow; opening it shows the full letter.
   • The quotes in your letter are really yours, from the days they say.
   • Reading a letter here quiets its glow on your other devices too.
3. 0.3.10iOSAugust 12, 2026

   Your journal day now ends when you do — writing past midnight stays with the evening, and you choose when a new day begins.

   Highlights

   • Late nights stay one night. Writing at half past midnight no longer flips the page under you — the conversation continues, your cards stay put, and the entry files with the evening it belongs to. By default a new day begins at 4 AM.
   • Choose your own boundary. Settings ▸ Appearance ▸ "New day starts at" offers anywhere from Midnight to 6 AM. Your choice travels with your journal, so your iPhone and Mac always agree on which day a late entry belongs to.
   • A new day begins on your terms. After the boundary passes, the fresh daily chat starts with your next message — Ember never switches days in the middle of a conversation.
   • History is untouched. Everything you have already written keeps exactly the date it has today.

   Fixed

   • Ember always knows today's date in your timezone — late evenings no longer look like tomorrow to the assistant.
   • Voice notes and card answers recorded after midnight now file with the evening they belong to, matching everything else.

   Pairs with Ember for Mac 0.3.15 — update both so your devices agree on when the day turns.

4. 0.3.9iOSAugust 9, 2026

   Speak is steady from the very first word, your transcript follows you between headphones, and the hearth is calmer to record with.

   Highlights

   • Start talking the instant you tap Speak. No pause, no waiting for the screen to settle — begin mid-thought and Ember keeps up from the first syllable. This is the single biggest reliability improvement in this release.
   • Your words follow you between headphones. Connect or disconnect AirPods in the middle of a sentence and the live transcript carries straight on through. Previously the rest of that recording could arrive with only the first half written down.
   • The live transcript is the result, not a preview. What you watch appear as you speak is what you keep; the second pass only refines it. Your entry is ready the moment you stop.
   • A steadier hearth. Each word sparks once no matter how the recognizer changes its mind, the fire is sized from one consistent set of numbers, and the pause control has a fuller shape and a small haptic when you let go.

   Fixed

   • A rescued recording now becomes exactly one entry, never a second copy alongside it.
   • The notice about a recovered recording appears once and then stays out of your way.
   • On the draft screen, the retry now sits with the message it belongs to instead of somewhere else on the page.
   • The chat composer rises to meet the keyboard instead of hiding behind it.
   • Voice notes no longer get stuck in a loop asking to be transcribed again.
5. 0.3.8iOSAugust 8, 2026

   Voice notes you can trust completely, a calmer recording screen, and a hearth that burns with your voice.

   Highlights

   • Your voice is safe from the first second. Every recording is tracked from the moment you start speaking, and the audio is written to disk continuously as you talk. If a call cuts in, the battery dies, or the app closes mid-thought, nothing is lost — the next time you open Ember, the recording quietly finishes itself: transcribed, saved as an entry, audio attached. No prompts, no decisions, no re-doing.
   • A calmer recording screen. LISTENING sits quietly at the top with a live word count and the elapsed time. A prompt can now ride along and stay on screen while you speak to it. Pause, resume, discard, and done are all one reach away.
   • The hearth burns with your voice. Embers rise from the coals as you speak — the more you say, the livelier the fire, with little flurries on each new thought. Fall quiet and the bed stays warm for a while, the way a real fire holds its heat. Idle, it rests as banked coals, never dark.
   • Haptics instead of chimes. Recording start and stop now confirm with a gentle tap you can feel with the phone in your pocket — nothing plays over your music, and nothing interrupts the quiet.
   • Recordings play back reliably after updates. Older voice notes now find their audio every time, including after app updates.
   • Smoother everywhere. Card swipes, screen transitions, and the journal feed all got a tuning pass — less friction, fewer skipped frames.
   • Devices stay in step with less effort. Syncing with your desktop is quicker to catch up when you return, and gentler on the battery while you're away.

   Update Ember on your desktop too so both sides speak the same language.

6. 0.3.7iOSAugust 7, 2026

   Dismiss cards you're done with, daily cards with a stronger editorial sense, a Debug section in Settings, and a smoother reading view.

   Highlights

   • Dismiss a card. A quiet ✕ on any open card lets you set it down for good — it stays in the deck, softly marked "Dismissed", and stops asking. The day's tally stays honest: "All done" when you dismissed some, "All answered" when you answered them all.
   • Daily cards know what's worth saying. The deck now works your whole journal with a clearer sense of purpose: a line of yours from months ago that speaks to today, a pattern named gently, an open thread you never came back to, growth you can verify, a win worth celebrating — and when a day was heavy, a card that simply sits with it.
   • Settings ▸ Debug. A new section with a "Regenerate daily cards" button, plus choices for which model writes your deck and how much thinking it puts in. Your picks sync across devices.

   Fixed

   • Long entries in the reading view now fade cleanly into the page instead of showing a gray band.
   • Day summaries refresh dependably right after you write.

   Update your other device too — decks and answers sync best when both sides are current.

7. 0.3.6iOSAugust 6, 2026

   A daily deck of cards made just for you — questions worth sitting with, echoes of your own words, and patterns Ember noticed.

   New

   • The Daily Card Stack. Once a day, Ember lays a small deck at the top of your journal: a question worth sitting with, a line of your own from months ago, a pattern it noticed, sometimes a mantra. Swipe through the stack, answer the ones that ask — by speaking or typing — and every answer becomes its own journal entry.
   • A deck with weight. Cards swipe like paper: the next one is already peeking in as you go, answered cards wear their answers, and coming back later lets you browse everything you said.
   • Your answers, everywhere. Answer a card on your desktop and it appears on your phone. The deck is shared: one deck a day, across all your devices.

   Improved

   • Summaries that keep up. Write or answer something, then return to your journal — your day's summary refreshes to include it.
   • Ember knows whose words are whose. When your daily summary reflects on a card answer, Ember reads its own question as a question — never as something you wrote.

   The card stack is new on both platforms — update Ember on your other devices too so your decks and answers travel together.

8. 0.3.5iOSAugust 4, 2026

   Chats open with your day at a glance, tap-to-start openers, and a cleaner, easier-to-read chat screen.

   New

   • Your day, at a glance. Open a chat before you've said anything and Ember sets the scene: a short title for your day, your daily summary, and how much you've written so far.
   • Tap-to-start openers. Three suggested openers, drawn from what you actually wrote today. Tap one and the conversation starts right away — and they tuck themselves away the moment you start typing instead.

   Improved

   • A calmer chat screen. The date now appears once, on the day card itself, and a new menu button in the card jumps you to any other day's conversation.
   • Easier to read. Ember's replies render at full strength now, and your own messages have a friendlier new typeface.
   • A tidier composer. Everything sits on one row — the microphone steps aside while you type and comes back when you clear the field.
   • Steadier conversations. If a reply can't come through, Ember now says so right away and stays ready for your next message.
   • Day titles are new — update Ember on your other devices too so they show up everywhere.
9. 0.3.4iOSJuly 29, 2026

   Enter your invite code on the welcome screen — sync turns on and AI comes with it, with no key to paste.

   New

   • One code sets you up. The welcome screen now takes your invite code, and everything follows from it: sync turns on, and AI is ready without a key to paste. Pair this phone with your Mac and AI comes along with it.
   • Know where you stand. Settings now shows a quiet meter for how much of this month's included AI you've used. It refreshes monthly.

   Improved

   • Clearer sync status. If your sync storage fills up, Settings now says so plainly: syncing pauses, your journal stays complete on this phone, and nothing is lost. New changes sync again as soon as there's room.
   • Polish throughout — anywhere Ember used to ask you for a key it now offers the code sheet instead, and running out of this month's included AI reads as a friendly note rather than an error.

   Note

   • Ember on your Mac has a matching update. Updating both keeps your devices in step.
10. 0.3.3iOSJuly 28, 2026

    Your phone now shows every synced device by name — and your inbox stays in step across all of them.

    New

    • Your devices, by name. Settings now lists every Mac and iPhone connected to your journal — shown by name, like "MacBook Pro" or "iPhone 15 Pro" — each with when it last synced.
    • Your inbox stays in step. Read a letter on your Mac and it's marked read here too.

    Improved

    • A gentle shimmer now shows in your journal while the daily summary is being written.
    • Pairing with your Mac feels snappier — the code screen responds instantly and submits itself when you've typed the code.

    Note

    • This update pairs with the newest Mac app. If your Mac pauses syncing, updating Ember there picks things right back up.
11. 0.3.2iOSJuly 27, 2026

    Pairing shows a confirmation code, and connections are more reliable.

    Highlights

    • Confirm-code pairing. After you scan your desktop's code, your phone shows a short code to type on the desktop — so only your own devices connect.
    • More reliable connections. Pairing and sync now connect dependably, even on networks that were flaky before.
12. 0.3.1iOSJuly 27, 2026

    Pairing with your desktop is more dependable, and sync speaks plainly when it needs something.

    Highlights

    • Smoother desktop pairing. Scanning your desktop's pairing code now completes more reliably, and if anything does interrupt it, the message tells you exactly what to do next.
    • Clearer sync messages. When sync needs attention — a connection blip, a code that was already used, an app that needs updating — it now says so in plain words instead of a generic error.
13. 0.3.0iOSJuly 27, 2026

    Faster core, real release notes in TestFlight, and the 0.3 version train.

    Highlights

    • Faster everything under the hood. The Rust core (sync, search, embeddings) now ships as an optimized release build — noticeably snappier and less than half the size it used to be.
    • Real release notes. These TestFlight "What to Test" notes now come straight from the release's changelog, so every build tells you exactly what changed.

    Notes

    iOS and desktop now ride the same version train (0.3.x); the patch numbers may diverge as each platform ships fixes independently. Release notes on iOS live here in TestFlight — the in-app what's-new pill is a desktop feature.