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Ember

Privacy Policy — Ember

Last updated: 2026-06-12

Ember ("the app", "we") is designed to help people with ADHD brains start tasks

they're avoiding. We built it to collect as little as possible.

Short version

• No account. No login. No tracking. No ads. No analytics SDKs.
• Almost everything you do — your tasks, steps, streak, XP, focus history, and

Parking Lot notes — stays on your device (in the app's local database).

• The only thing that leaves your device is the **text of a task (or a single

step) you ask the AI to break down**. That text is sent over HTTPS to our

breakdown service so the AI can return micro-steps. See below.

What is sent off-device, and why

When you tap "Shrink it" (or "Shrink it again"), the app sends:

• the task or step text you typed or dictated, and
• your device language code (e.g. en, ro)

to our Supabase Edge Function, which forwards it to OpenRouter, which routes it

to the DeepSeek model that generates the step list. We do this only to produce

your steps. We do not:

• attach your name, email, device ID, or any identifier,
• store the text on our servers after the request completes,
• use it to build a profile or train models.

OpenRouter and the model provider process the request under their own terms. If

you never use the AI feature (the app works fully offline with built-in

templates), nothing leaves your device.

Microphone & speech

If you use voice dictation, audio is transcribed to text using Apple's on-device

/ Apple-provided speech recognition. The resulting text fills the input box just

as if you'd typed it. We don't store or transmit the audio.

Subscriptions

Premium subscriptions are processed by Apple and managed through

RevenueCat, which tells the app whether your "premium" entitlement is active.

Purchase and billing data is handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy; we

never see your payment details.

Notifications

If you enable it, the app schedules at most one gentle, encouraging local

notification per day. These are scheduled on your device; no push server is used.

Data retention & deletion

Because your data lives on your device, deleting the app deletes your data.

There is no server-side copy to request or erase.

Children

Ember is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data

from them.

Not a medical service

Ember is designed for ADHD brains but is not a medical device and does not

diagnose, treat, cure, or manage ADHD or any other condition.

Contact

Questions: estartoken@gmail.com