Comparison

Ember vs cool

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Ember

Features
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Some people count the days without even meaning to. Ember counts with you. Ember puts the person you lost on your home screen — their photo, softly lit, and the days: "1,204 days loved and missed." Not another app to open. It lives where you already look, a hundred times a day. THE WIDGET • Their photo and the counter, on your home screen in every size. • A quiet text counter for your lock screen. • The count turns over at midnight, on its own. • Choose the wording: "days loved and missed," "days since we said goodbye," "days of missing you," or a plain count. THE HARD DAYS, HELD Some days arrive like weather — the first birthday without them, the first holiday season, each anniversary. Ember knows the dates and tells you two weeks ahead, so no hard day lands unannounced. Alerts are off by default for everything except the birthday and the anniversary. This is a keepsake, not a notification machine. EVERYONE YOU CARRY Grief rarely comes one at a time. Ember keeps a page for each person — their own photos, their own dates, their own widget. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account. No cloud. No tracking. No analytics. The photos and dates stay on your device. This is between you and them. PRICING — ONCE, ON PURPOSE The free app is a real memorial: one person, one widget, the first milestone. Ember — Forever is $9.99, once. Every person, every photo, every widget size, the whole milestone arc, all four themes. No subscription — ever. A memorial that expires when a payment lapses is obscene. Pay once, and it's yours for good. QUIET BY DESIGN Nothing gamified, nothing loud, no confetti, no therapy-speak. Four muted themes — Warm Slate, Candlelight, Linen, Night — a serif numeral, and the days. The app gets out of the way. SUPPORT Email: help@emberwidget.app Web: https://emberwidget.app/support

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cool

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cool-time — a living Jewish-style clock for your iPhone. THE DIAL • Alefbet letters instead of numerals, following the rules of gematria • An authentic counter-clockwise movement, like the famous clock of the Jewish Town Hall in Prague • A red second hand and a medallion that shows the current holiday on its own SIX THEMES • Prague, Jerusalem, Midnight, Shabbat, Pomegranate and Retro • A theme changes the dial, the app background and even the Home Screen icon • Parallax: stars of David in the background respond to the tilt of your phone A LIVING CLOCK ON BOTH SCREENS • A clock widget for the Home Screen: moving hands, the Hebrew date and the holiday • Lock Screen widgets: a mini dial, the date and the status of the day • Clock wallpapers: save the dial of any theme as a wallpaper for the Lock and Home Screens JEWISH CALENDAR • Today's Hebrew date alongside the civil date • Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh and all the holidays of the year with a countdown • A new day begins at sunset — as tradition has it No ads, no subscriptions, no data collection.

Screenshots

Ember4 screens
cool4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: cool at none against Ember's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Ember sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. cool asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Ember versus cool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmbercool
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB17 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLance MerrillZheniy Shacc

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ember

One-time1
  • Ember — Forever$9.99
None

cool

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ember free?
Ember is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is cool free?
cool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ember or cool have ads?
Neither Ember nor cool shows ads.

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