The Forge
keep the fire fed
00:20
cold coals — claim some time for yourself
0forged today
real time · in the app, 5 min to an hour
Light a tile.
Keep the fire.
Ember Tiles is a calm, offline-first life tracker: make a tile for anything you care about, and light it each day you show up. Day by day, it grows into a wall of embers.
It is built for people keeping a daily count of something — a practice, a sobriety date, a symptom, a chore — who want no account, no feed, and no streak that scolds them.
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iPhone & Android — in testing
Free · No account · No ads · Nothing leaves your device
This is the whole idea
A wall of days, catching fire
These are the app’s own cards, rebuilt here with sample data — go on, tap the ✓ to light today, or any past square to fill in a day you missed. That’s the whole ritual. In the app a past square opens that day’s month first, so nothing lights by accident.
What's inside
A quiet place to tend your days
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Your tiles
Make a tile for any habit — practice, sobriety, a morning walk. Each day you show up it lights and glows — from the app or a home-screen widget. Log once a day, or in 15-minute blocks; miss one and you can fill it in later. Nothing turns red: streaks here warm you, they never shame you.
One day at a time
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The Vigil
A separate log for the things you are not trying to build a streak on — cravings, symptoms, moods. Record a count or a severity, and the day-rhythm view shows when they tend to visit, so you can meet them prepared instead of surprised.
Noticed, not judged
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The Mandala
A 9×9 grid that breaks one large goal into eight themes, with eight steps behind each — 64 in all, each small enough to actually do. Start from one of twelve ready-made archetypes — Recovery, Writer, Musician, Artist, Living Well among them — or fill it in yourself.
One goal, 64 steps
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Widgets
Your tiles on the home screen, on Android and iPhone: the whole grid, just today's row, the Vigil's lamp, or one tile of your choosing. Light a tile from the widget without opening the app.
One tap from the home screen
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Your Story
Where you look back rather than log: charts across your tiles and the Vigil, the records you have set, and the journal — daily notes and prompts, kept beside the day they belong to.
The stats and the journal
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The Flight Deck
The home screen: today in one view — your day count, the tiles still unlit, what is waiting in the Harbour, and one tap to log most of it without going anywhere else.
Today, in one screenThe pillars
Six ways to keep the fire
All six are optional, and all six of these are live — go on, tap. Nothing here is saved.
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The Arena
every good deed counts
0points today
tap a good deed to throw · tap 🎯 darts ▾ for another sport
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The Harbour
the small things, done
Call the dentist🛶 one-off
Bins out🚢 weekly
Water the plants🚢 every 3 days
one-offs sail · chores rest and come back · no due dates, nothing goes overdue
The Ember
caring for her is caring for you
Day 47rising · day by day
LV 9Chick380 / 425 XP
raised over 41 days of care
she's resting · always okay · care anytime
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The Vessel
today’s site is marked
CVault of the Hollow Spire
Walk — scout the ground+20 xp
Stretch — stay nimble+20 xp
Hydrate — fill the waterskin+20 xp
Wind down — make camp+20 xp
Pathfinder29/30
???14/15
???9/10
a site a day, ranked E to S · four quests clear it · streaks awaken skills
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The Runway
a plane for every goal
$600of $1,200
Tokyo, next spring50% ✈ $600/$1,200
money in, she flies · tap a city code to change it
See it glow
Four screens, one fire
Privacy
Yours alone
There is no account and no server. Everything you write stays on the device you wrote it on, because there is nowhere else for it to go.
NO ACCOUNTNo sign-up, no email, no password. Open it and begin.
NO SERVERThere is nowhere for your data to go. Everything lives on-device.
WORKS OFFLINEAirplane mode, cabin in the woods — your tiles still light.
ONE-FILE BACKUPExport everything to a single file; import it anywhere, anytime.
No tracking, no analytics, no third parties. That's the whole policy — read it in full.