Ember
Wind finally swung NW this morning — first mature buck on the trail cam all season. Anybody else seeing movement pick up with this cold front?
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DMDana M.Same over here. Grunt call working better than the bleat this week.
Everything you get.
Free to start.
Read the ground, run the crew, get everyone home safe. Start free for 14 days with no card, then keep a free plan or move to Pro at $99.99 a year — and cover a whole camp with one Club plan.
In short
Ember’s features cover three jobs: scout solo with the Breakdown stand score, offline satellite maps, and a pressure-tracking journal; run the crew with a shared map, stand reservations, and a roster with roles and dues; and get everyone home with safety check-ins. Free to start for 14 days, then Pro at $99.99 a year.
Updated September 2026
✓ Solo or fifty-member club✓ No AI metering✓ Free to start
yes — all of it, for one bill
Do you need a club to use Ember?
Whether it’s just you or a fifty-member lease, you get the whole season — the same reads, the same maps, the same someone-knows-you’re-out — for the same $99.99 a year. The club tools only stack on when you’ve got a crew; nothing waits on it.
joined for the club? it’s your app the other 300 days too Works with no crew
- Stand scores, with the reasoning
- Offline satellite maps
- Pressure-aware journal
- Live weather & wind
- Safety check-ins
Adds when you’ve got a crew
- One shared club map
- Seat-level reservations
- Members, roles & dues
- Hunt calendar
- Shared harvest log
Works with no crew
Scout solo.
No crew, no club, no setup. Everything a solo hunter needs to read the ground is in the box the day you install it.
your land, scored —no crew required
The Breakdown
Every stand scored from six real factors — weather, terrain, moon, time, season, and the ground itself. You get the reasoning in plain English, not just a number to obey.
Your ground, read three ways
See where deer bed, drink and travel on your own dirt — aerial, relief and topo. It all lives on the phone, so it still reads with zero bars.
A journal that tracks pressure
Log every sit and every sighting. Ember tells you when a stand needs to rest and when it’s ready to hunt again, so you stop burning your best ground.
Live weather & wind
Front timing, wind direction and pressure read against each stand, so the score you’re looking at is today’s, not last week’s guess.
Deer & antler scoring
Score a buck from a photo and keep the record next to the stand it came off. A season history that’s yours, club or no club.
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Scoring
Stand Breakdown score
Six weighted factors, with the reasoning.
Wind & thermal read
How today’s wind sits on each stand.
Historical harvest data
Past kills weigh into the score.
Road-proximity scoring
Pressure from access and roads.
Moon & solunar timing
Peak movement windows by day.
Live radar & front timing
When the weather turns, and where.
Maps
Aerial base
Canopy, fields and edges. Download an area to keep the imagery with you offline.
Shaded relief base
Read the terrain’s shape at a glance.
USGS topo base
Contours, benches and drainages.
Elevation, slope & aspect
The land’s angles, layered on.
Water & cover layers
Where deer bed, drink and travel.
Record
Pressure-aware journal
Log sits; know when a stand needs rest.
Sighting log
Every deer seen, dated and placed.
Deer & antler scoring
Score a buck from a photo.
Works with no crew
Get home safe.
Works whether you’re with a crew or completely alone. The people at home still hear you made it out, and someone gets told if you don’t.
Overdue · Blackhills Lease
Jesse hasn’t checked out.
Checkout time was 8:00p. Checked in at Stand 2-1.
8:00p — push sent to Jesse
8:30p — text + automated call to Jesse
9:00p — calling Jesse’s emergency contacts
even hunting alone
Check in, check out
Check in on the walk in, out on the way home — one tap each way. Ember knows when you’re overdue.
Missed check-out escalates
Miss your crew’s checkout time and Ember starts working the list: a push, then a text and a call to you, then a call to the people you named.
Your people, not just the club
Name an emergency contact at home: a spouse, a parent, a buddy. They get told even if you never joined a club at all.
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The check-in
Check in / check out
One tap in, one tap home.
Checkout-time aware
Overdue is measured against your crew’s checkout time.
Last-known location
Where you were last seen, on the map.
If you’re overdue
Overdue detection
Miss your check-out and Ember notices.
Escalation ladder
Push, then text and call, then your contacts.
Fires on reconnect
The alert waits for a bar, then sends.
Emergency contact
Your person at home gets a real call.
SOS button
One tap: a call and a text to your contacts, with your position.
Adds when you’ve got a crew
Run the crew.
The one group that actually needs a group. These stack on top when you’ve got a crew, and nothing above is locked behind them.
already worked solo
One shared map
The whole club finally looking at the same ground — stands, cameras, plots, access and off-limits zones on one map, each pin carrying its Breakdown score.
Seat-level reservations
Claim a seat, not a stand: a two-man blind books twice. Claims go club-wide the second they land, so nobody doubles up opening morning.
Members, roles & dues
One roster: paid, pending, overdue. Roles decide who can edit the map. Ember chases the dues so you’re not the one texting seven guys in October.
Hunt calendar
Pick a date, see every open seat and who’s sitting where, so the club plans around each other instead of pulling into the same gate.
Shared harvest & journal
Photo, date and who logged it, in a season history that outlives the group text. A record the whole club can still read next August.
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The map
Shared club map
One map the whole club sees.
Stand, cam & plot pins
Everything marked, everyone in sync.
Access & off-limits zones
The lines everyone sees first.
Reservations
Seat-level reservations
Claim a seat; a blind books twice.
Club-wide claim sync
Claims land for everyone at once.
Conflict detection
Double-books caught before dawn.
Members
Members roster
Who’s in the club, in one place.
Roles & permissions
Who can edit the map, and who can’t.
Dues tracking
Paid, pending and overdue at a glance.
Dues reminders
Ember chases dues, not you.
Records
Hunt calendar
Who’s sitting where, by date.
Shared harvest log
Season history that outlives the text.
Club sighting feed
What everyone’s seeing, as it’s logged.
The Camp
Every feature, field-tested by the camp.
See how other Ember hunters actually run this stuff — real setups, real seasons — in the Ember Hunt Camp on Facebook.
Start free · Pro unlocks the rest
All of that. One plan.
Start free with a 14-day trial of everything and no card. Keep a real free plan, or move to Pro at $99.99 a year for the Breakdown, premium maps, and more emergency contacts — one bill, solo hunter or fifty-member club.
01Free covers club coordination, stand reservations, and the full safety chain.
02Pro adds the Breakdown, deer scoring, premium maps, and up to three emergency contacts.
03One Club plan covers the whole roster — no per-member checkout.
Everything on the table — see it plainly.
The plans
Start free
14 days of the whole app, no credit card — then keep a free plan or upgrade.
- Free$0
- ProMost popular$99.99/yr
- Season Pass$49.99
- Clubfrom $199.99/yr
Get the app
14 days free · No credit card · Cancel anytime
Plans are purchased in the app, billed by the App Store or Google Play. The full safety chain — check-in, SOS, location sharing, and missed-checkout alerts — is free for everyone. See full pricing for what each plan includes.
Questions about Ember’s features
What does Ember cost?
Ember starts free: 14 days of the whole app with no credit card, then a real Free plan you keep. Pro is $99.99 a year, a one-time Season Pass is $49.99, and a Club plan covers a whole camp from $199.99 a year. The safety chain is free on every plan.
How does Ember score a stand?
The Breakdown weighs the real factors — wind, weather, terrain, water, and road pressure — into one score out of 100, then shows its work: every factor in plain English, so you learn the ground instead of obeying a dot.
Do you need a club to use Ember?
No. Ember works the same whether it’s just you or a fifty-member lease. Solo hunters get the Breakdown, offline maps, the journal, and safety check-ins; the crew tools stack on when you have a crew.