FHCC vs Ember · A Soft Place
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FHCC
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Download the Forest Hills Country Club app to easily: - Book Tee Times - View calendar of events and sign up - View member directory and contact info - View statements and make payments - View Club newsfeed - Update profile picture - Order carry out food items - And more!
Ember · A Soft Place
This app offers gentle, immediate coping mechanisms for intense emotions. It provides simple, safe, and grounding activities to help manage difficult feelings in the moment. Suggestions are quiet, physical, and breath-based, designed to be completed in under five minutes.
- Immediate coping suggestions
- Gentle and safe activities
- Grounding and breath-based exercises
- DBT and ACT inspired techniques
- No logging or account required
- Offline use
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Ember is a soft place for hard feelings. When the feeling is hot, open the app. Ember offers one gentle, safe, small thing you can do right now. Tap for another. Swipe for another. Keep the one that fits and save it as a reminder. Close the app. No streaks. No logging. No hooks. Every suggestion inside Ember is safe. None of them ask you to hurt anything or anyone, including yourself. None of them ask you to yell or be loud. They are quiet, grounded, physical, breath based, and kind. Some are DBT inspired. Some are ACT inspired. All of them are things a real person can actually do in five minutes. Ember is for the moment when the feeling is big and you do not want to take it out on the people you love. It is for hypervigilance, irritability, the old hurt that is suddenly loud again, the wave that came in out of nowhere. You are not broken for having it. You are a person with a nervous system, and nervous systems need somewhere to put the heat. Ember is free. There is no tip jar. There is no paywall. There is no account. Nothing is collected about you. You do not need to sign in. You do not need to come back tomorrow. Ember is here when you need it. Ember is not therapy and it is not a crisis line. If you need either, the Settings screen has real numbers for real humans who pick up. From SillyDroose. Small tools for gentle moments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FHCC at 15.1 against Ember · A Soft Place's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FHCC ships an update every 2 months, Ember · A Soft Place monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FHCC | Ember · A Soft Place |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Forest Hills Country Club, Inc. | Drew Douglass |
In-app purchases
FHCC
No in-app purchases
Ember · A Soft Place
No in-app purchases
