Ember: Sleep Light Clock

Ozark Technologies

About this app

Wake up at 3 AM and reach for your phone to check the time? Then lie there doing the maths until morning?

Ember is a night light for your nightstand that answers the only question that matters in the middle of the night, without ever showing you the time.

• Red means rest. It's still night, go back to sleep.
• Amber means almost. It's nearly time, getting up is fine.
• Blue means morning. It's okay to get up.

HOW IT WORKS
Set your bedtime and wake time once. At night, tap Goodnight and put your phone face up on the nightstand, plugged in. The screen stays completely black. If you wake up, tap it: it glows softly in one color for a few seconds, then fades back to black. At wake time it glows faintly on its own, bright enough to notice if you're awake and dim enough not to wake you.

NO TIME, ANYWHERE
Ember never shows the current time. There's no clock on the night screen, no countdown, and the status bar stays hidden, so there's nothing to read and nothing to calculate.

MADE FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
• Hold anywhere to leave, so a sleepy tap or swipe never lands you on a bright screen
• Faint, adjustable glow that stays on top of the lock screen
• Optional "almost" window before wake time, in its own color or blended
• Sleep in on weekends with a separate weekend wake time
• Nine soft colors, with a warning if your Sleep and Wake colors are hard to tell apart for people with color blindness
• Optional gentle buzz on tap, so you can check without opening your eyes
• Optional Do Not Disturb while Ember is on
• Or a steady faint glow all night, if you prefer

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no ads, no tracking. Ember doesn't even ask for internet access: your schedule never leaves your phone.

What’s new

First public release of Ember.