Ember vs Box Breathing Timer

Ember is a journal that remembers your people. Write about your day. Mention someone once, and every moment you share gathers on their page. Years from now, open it and everything you lived together is there, in your own words. A life archive, kept by you. No account. No AI. Just open Ember and write. MENTION THEM ONCE • Type @ and a name. That moment now belongs to them, and to you. • Everyone gets a page: how you met, the stories you share, every moment you wrote down. • Worlds for the circles you move in (family, work, college) and stories for chapters that span years. • Bring people in from Apple Contacts, with birthdays and details intact. IT COMES BACK TO YOU • The Feed brings back moments you had almost forgotten, on the right day: a year since you met, a story from last summer. • When someone you care about has been quiet too long, they gently surface. No streaks. No guilt. YOUR LIFE, ON A MAP • The Map shows where every memory happened: entries, stories and people. • On Mac and iPad, the Graph shows everyone at once, gathered into the worlds you share. BRING YOUR OLD JOURNALS • Import from Day One and Apple Journal, with your photos, video and audio. • Ember finds the people already in your old entries, so years of writing gather on their pages. WRITE THE WAY YOU ALWAYS HAVE • Markdown, photos, voice memos, and songs from Apple Music. • Weather is added for you. Places only when you choose. • Themes, fonts and line spacing to make it feel like yours. SEND THEM THE MEMORY • Turn a moment into a card for the people in it, or keep a story as a PDF keepsake. • Nothing is hosted. You choose what to send, and to whom. YOURS ALONE • Local-first: your journal lives on your device. • Lock it with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. • Sync is private, through your own iCloud. • Export everything, anytime, as an open, documented archive. • No AI. Ember never reads, writes or summarizes a word of your journal. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC One archive, wherever you write. ⌘K searches everything on Mac and iPad. EMBER PLUS Ember is free, with no limit on what you write. Ember Plus adds: • iCloud sync across your iPhone, iPad and Mac • The full theme catalogue Available monthly with a 1-week free trial, yearly with a 2-week free trial, or as a lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Support: https://ember.mov/support/ Privacy Policy: https://ember.mov/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Fourhold is a breathing timer for box breathing and other paced breathing patterns. A light moves around a figure, each phase is named in a word, and a bell marks every turn — so you can stop counting and follow it instead. People reach for a few slow breaths before sleep, to relax after a hard hour, to focus before something that matters, or when stress or anxiety has the breath running fast. Call it box breathing, breathwork or just breathing exercises — Fourhold keeps the count so you do not have to. FOUR PATTERNS Box — 4-4-4-4, four equal sides, to steady. Triangle — in, hold, out; gentler. 4-7-8 — in 4, hold 7, out 8; for sleep. Coherent — 5½ in, 5½ out, to settle in. Set the pace on box and triangle from three to seven seconds a side, choose the length in cycles or leave it open-ended, or tap a preset — Reset, Focus, Before sleep — and begin. SOUND MADE ON THE PHONE Three soundscapes: Drone, a low tone that opens as you fill. Tide, surf rising and falling with the breath. Air, thin and open, almost nothing. A bell at each gate, and an optional metronome tick. None of it is a recording — it is generated on the device as you breathe, so it never loops. On phones that have them, haptics put the breath on your skin. With sound on, a session keeps going when the screen is off. Put the phone down and listen. YOUR PRACTICE Finished sessions land on the Practice screen with a streak and a calendar, kept on your phone. You can end a session early, and any full cycle you have breathed still counts. Set a daily reminder if you want one; it is scheduled by your device and skipped on days you have already practised. APPLE HEALTH Turn it on and finished sessions are added as Mindful Minutes, alongside the rest of your mindfulness time. Fourhold only ever writes. It never reads your Health data, and that data never leaves your phone. NIGHT AND DAWN One instrument, two lights: the lantern in the dark, or warm paper with the ink flipped. Or follow the system. SIX LANGUAGES English, Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese, following your device language. Every feature is the same in every language and every country. NO ACCOUNT, NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO ADS There is nothing to sign up for. Every pattern, every soundscape, every appearance and your whole record are free and stay free. If you want to say thanks, the Support page has a tip jar — a tip buys nothing. ALSO A small home-screen widget, and Siri shortcuts to start a session or open your practice. Fourhold is a general wellness app for paced breathing. It is not a medical device and offers no medical advice. If 4-7-8 leaves you lightheaded, return to normal breathing.