Straight answers.

Start free. Every new hunter gets a 14-day trial of the whole app with no credit card, then keeps a free plan for as long as they want. When you're ready, Pro is $99.99 a year, a one-time Season Pass is $49.99 for the season, and a Club plan (5, 15, or 30 members) covers a whole camp from $199.99 a year.

The free plan covers joining a club and coordinating, stand reservations and dues, your journal and harvest logs, seasons and regulations, and the full safety chain — check-in, location sharing, SOS, and automatic escalation if you miss checkout, with one emergency contact. Pro adds the Breakdown, deer & antler scoring, LiDAR and premium map layers, property & parcel data, up to three emergency contacts, full weather, and unlimited pins and clubs.

Members are free. The admin buys a Club plan sized to the roster — 5, 15, or 30 — and everyone it covers gets full access at no extra cost. A member who already pays for Pro doesn't take a seat.

Pro and Club plans are yearly and cancel anytime — you keep access through the period you already paid for; manage or cancel in your App Store or Google Play subscription settings. The Season Pass is a one-time purchase that simply ends at the close of the season. The free plan costs nothing and never expires.

No. Ember is the whole product on your own — the Breakdown, your property mapped, offline maps, a hunting journal, safety check-ins. The crew tools stack on top the day you want them, at no extra cost.

Stand scoring you can trust, your land mapped, with satellite imagery you can download for offline, a journal that reads back as a season log, and a check-in that gets you home safe. No group, no setup committee.

It weighs the real factors — wind, weather, terrain, water, and road pressure — into one number, then shows its work: every factor, in plain English, so you learn the ground instead of obeying a dot.

It's built on your actual land — elevation, slope, aspect, cover, pressure — not a generic heat map. It's a tool to sharpen your read, not a promise a deer will walk by. The honest part is that it tells you why, so you can decide for yourself.

Partly. Before you leave the truck, Pro (the free trial counts) lets you download satellite imagery of your property on the phone apps; your zones and markers come with it, and markers you drop without signal send when you reconnect. Topo, roads, the other map layers and the Breakdown need a connection. See emberhq.app/offline-maps.

No. Add people whenever you need to — the price doesn't change with the roster.

The admin sends one invite link. Each member taps it, joins the club free, and immediately sees their stands, the shared map, and the calendar.

Ember keeps the roster and shows who's paid and who owes, so you can nudge the right people instead of the whole group text. Confirm how your club collects payment when you set it up.

Set the club up once and retire both. Most clubs move over in a single evening: drop the stands, send the link, done.

Yes — down to each pin and journal entry. Every marker, zone, sighting, and harvest has a “Share with club” switch: on, your club sees it; off, only you do. Your map pins start shared so the club has a map to work from, while your sightings and harvests stay private until you choose otherwise. Admins run the roster, lease, and dues and can edit the shared map, but they can’t open your private journal. Full breakdown at emberhq.app/who-sees-what.

Your crew sets a checkout time (8 PM out of the box; a solo hunter is a crew of one). Miss it with no check-out and Ember works a ladder: a push to you, then a text and an automated call to you, then a voice call to your emergency contacts and a push to your crew's admins. Ember checks on the hour, so each step can take up to an hour. Lost signal? Your check-in sends the moment your phone reconnects. The safety page shows every step, with the call script word for word.

Your position leaves your phone only when you press SOS, and it goes only to the people that alert reaches: your emergency contacts, your crew's admins, and anyone checked in on the same property, while the alert is open. While you're checked in, your crew sees which stand you're at on the shared map, not a live position. There is no track log. The safety page lists exactly what we hold and what we never keep; the full data-handling details are in our privacy policy at emberhq.app/privacy.

Yes, if you’re on onX Hunt: export a KML from the onX web map (or a GPX from the app), open it in Ember, and your waypoints become markers and your areas become zones — you review and tag each one first. Colors, photos, and tracks stay behind. Other apps vary: some export cleanly, and HuntStand can’t export at all. The switching page lays out each one honestly.

Download Ember, map your property, and the Breakdown starts scoring your stands. Solo or with a crew — same app, same price.

Ember runs on iPhone (App Store) and Android (Google Play).