Ehmber Support

Ehmber is a notes app built around returning, not storing. You hold the ehmber, say what's on your mind, and let go. If the thought needs to come back, Ehmber brings it back on the day you named, or the morning you're meeting the person it's about.

There are no folders to keep tidy. Notes stay warm while you touch them and cool when you don't, and once a week Ehmber asks you about a few cooling notes so the pile never forms.

Nothing. Ehmber is free, all of it: voice capture, returns, the weekly ehmbers, widgets, and iCloud sync. There are no in-app purchases, no ads, and no subscription.

It's made by JC Mobile App Studio. If you like it, the studio's other apps are listed in Settings, under From the studio.

iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later, including the iPhone Duo. On iPad, the iPhone Duo unfolded, and iPhone in landscape, Ehmber uses two panes: the stream on the left and the open note on the right.

An Android version for phones, tablets and foldables is on Google Play.

No. There is no sign-up and no login. Your notes are files on your device, and in your own iCloud Drive if you turn sync on.

Press and hold the round ehmber at the bottom of the screen, say what's on your mind, and let go. Your words appear as you speak. That's the only gesture to learn.

Prefer typing? Tap Type next to the ehmber, write the note, and tap the arrow. Tap Voice to switch back.

The first time, iOS asks for the microphone and speech recognition. Allow both. If you said no, turn them on in iPhone Settings › Apps › Ehmber.

Ehmber also downloads Apple's on-device speech model the first time. Until it's ready you'll see "Preparing on-device speech" under the ehmber. If you let go before it finishes, wait a moment and hold again.

No. Ehmber uses Apple's on-device speech recognition whenever your iPhone supports it, so the audio and the words stay on your device. Ehmber never records or keeps audio, only the text you see.

Nothing is saved. Ehmber goes quietly back to the stream.

If a thought sounds like something to do and you didn't say when, Ehmber asks once: when you next see that person, or on a day? It asks out loud after a voice capture, and shows the question on screen after a typed one.

Answer out loud, tap a choice, or tap Just keep it. If you say nothing, the note is simply kept. Ehmber never asks twice about the same note.

It learns on its own. Once you've answered the same way at least three times out of four for a kind of note, Ehmber stops asking and picks that answer for you.

Settings, under The one question, shows your question rate. Turn off Ask out loud if you'd rather read the question than hear it.

Say when in the note itself. "Call the bank tomorrow" or "Ask Sam about the invoice when I see him" already has its answer, so Ehmber just saves it and tells you when it'll come back.

Today, tonight, this evening, tomorrow, tomorrow morning, the day after tomorrow, any weekday ("Friday", "next Friday", "Friday evening"), this weekend, next week, next month, the end of the month, and "in 3 days", "in 2 weeks" or "in 6 months". It also understands times like "at 3", "at 8:30 am", noon, "in the morning" or "in the afternoon".

Without a time, mornings mean 8 AM and evenings mean 6 PM.

On the day and time you named, Ehmber sends a notification. Notes about a person or an event come back the morning you're meeting them. Returned notes wait at the top of the stream under Back to you.

From the notification, tap Rekindle to open the note, or Release to let it go. In the app, tap Done when you've handled it, or Later to bring it back again.

Later moves a returned note to Tonight, Tomorrow morning, End of week, or a day and time you pick. It leaves Back to you and comes back then.

Ehmber looks at your calendar for the next day and a half. When a person's name or an event you mentioned shows up in an event title or its attendees, the note comes back at 7:30 that morning, or two hours before the event if that's later.

This needs calendar access: allow it when asked, or in Settings under Returns. Ehmber only reads your calendar and never writes to it.

Check that Calendar is allowed in Settings under Returns, and that the person's name, at least their first name, appears in the event title or attendee list.

Contacts access is optional but helps Ehmber recognize names when you capture. It only reads given names, on your device.

Make sure notifications are allowed in iPhone Settings › Notifications › Ehmber. Focus modes can also hold them back. Ehmber sends only two kinds: a note coming back, and the weekly ehmbers reminder.

Returned notes still appear under Back to you even if the notification was silenced.

Folders turn into chores. Ehmber orders the stream by warmth instead: notes you touch stay near the top, and ones you leave alone slowly cool and sink. The ehmber dot beside each note shows how warm it is.

Nothing is ever deleted for you. A cooled note drops below a fold at the bottom of the stream. Tap the fold to see them, and search always finds them.

Choose how fast notes cool in Settings under Warmth: Gentle keeps a note warm for about two weeks, Steady for about a week, and Quick lets it cool within a few days.

Once a week Ehmber picks up to five notes that are cooling and asks about each: Rekindle to warm it up, Act to give it a return, or Release to let it go. It takes about two minutes.

It's ready on Sunday at 6 PM by default. Change the day and time in Settings under Weekly ehmbers. Open it any time with the flame button at the top of the stream.

It moves to Released. Scroll to the bottom of the stream and tap Released to see them. Nothing is lost: open a released note and bring it back to the stream.

Released is the only place where you can delete a note for good, and Ehmber asks you to confirm first.

Every note is a plain Markdown file. Open the Files app, then On My iPhone › Ehmber, or iCloud Drive › Ehmber with sync on. Notes are in the Notes folder, and released notes in Archive.

You can open, copy or back up these files with any app. A short header at the top of each file holds the note's details, such as when it comes back.

Turn on Sync with iCloud in Settings under iCloud, on each device, signed in to the same Apple Account. Your files move to iCloud Drive › Ehmber and stay in step. Turn sync off and they move back to the device.

Go to Settings, under iCloud, and tap Restore from iCloud. It pulls every note in iCloud Drive › Ehmber back onto the device.

On a fresh install, if Ehmber finds notes waiting in iCloud, it offers to restore them at the top of the stream.

Yes. Capture, on-device speech, returns, search and the widget all work without a connection. With iCloud sync on, changes catch up when you're back online.

Touch and hold the Home Screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and search for Ehmber. Choose a size and tap Add Widget.

The small size shows the thought that matters most right now. Medium and large show a slice of the stream, and extra large on iPad shows two columns. Tap a note to open it.

Yes. Touch and hold the Lock Screen, tap Customize, choose the Lock Screen, tap the widget area, and add Ehmber. There are rectangular, circular and inline sizes.

None. There are no analytics, no ads, no tracking and no account. Ehmber has no server of its own.

Your notes live on your device, or in your own iCloud Drive if you turn sync on. The full policy is linked at the bottom of this page.

Yes, it's on Google Play. It has the same capture ritual, the one question, returns, the heat stream and the weekly ehmbers, plus a home-screen widget and a two-pane layout on tablets and foldables.

Not automatically. iCloud sync is for Apple devices. On Android your notes are the same plain Markdown files, which you'll find in the Files app under Ehmber, so you can copy them across yourself.

Use the form below, or email contact@jcmobileappstudio.com with Ehmber in the subject. For a bug, include your device, your iOS or Android version, and what you did just before it happened. Every message is read.

In Settings, under From the studio, tap Rate Ehmber. A rating helps a small studio more than you'd think.