Get Ember
Version 0.2.0 · Free to use, $19 a year to lift the ceilings
Coming to the Mac App Store
Ember is heading to the App Store on Mac and iPhone — one purchase covering both, updates handled for you, and nothing of your card ever reaching us. Apple Developer enrolment is in review; the listing goes live once it clears.
Until then you can run the build below. It is the same app, and everything you make in it comes with you — Ember carries its whole library in one file, so moving across costs you nothing.
An early build, direct from us while the App Store listing is in review.
Requirements
- macOS 15 or later
- Apple silicon and Intel
What Ember will ask permission for
For reading the screen: the pixel under your cursor when you pick a colour, and every code on the display when you scan one. Asked once, the first time you use either.
Only so Ember can press ⌘V for you, dropping what you picked straight into whatever you were working in. Skip it and everything still works — you just paste it yourself.
Both are macOS permissions you grant in System Settings, and both are revocable there at any time. Ember asks for each at the moment it first needs it, never at launch.
First launch shows a Gatekeeper warning
This build is not signed yet, so macOS will warn that Ember is from an unidentified developer. Expected, and it goes away with the App Store release — here's how to open it in the meantime:
- Move Ember to your Applications folder.
- Right-click (or Control-click) the app icon and choose Open.
- Click Open again in the dialog that appears.