The debt tracker that’s been missing.
The only way to work long-term is to stay in balance. Push past it and effectiveness, mood, and health start sliding together — usually before you notice. Ambera makes the balance visible, while it’s still yours to adjust.
This week
-5signed points
Recent activity
- Deep work — payments migration
- Walk after lunch
- 1:1 with managercalendar
Built on three things we won’t compromise.
Debt, not mood.
Feelings are lagging indicators. The ledger surfaces the underlying balance — what you’ve spent vs. what you’ve recovered — so the drift shows up weeks before the crash.
The ember, not the flame.
An ember is heat that’s sustained. We design for the practice of staying there — no streaks, no XP, no pressure notifications. If a feature would make you feel watched, it doesn’t ship.
You decide what it means.
Ambera reports patterns; it doesn’t prescribe. “Your week is leaning depletive” — never “you should rest.” The interpretation stays yours.
How it works
One primitive. Three quiet rituals.
01 · Check in
One tap on how the day left you.
Most days, that’s the whole ritual — drained to restored, right at the top of home. Your balance for today and the week takes shape from there. No streaks to keep; showing up is enough.
02 · Log the detail
Book the things that shaped it — when you want to.
Want more than a feeling? Mark the meeting, the walk, the eight hours of sleep — each spent or restored, 1–5. The check-in fills the gap between how the day felt and what you booked, so a light day still counts.
03 · Catch the drift
A nudge when the line starts leaning.
When the week tilts depletive and the trajectory keeps sloping down, Ambera surfaces it on Patterns — and a single quiet notification meets you where you are. Never to prescribe. Just to make the drift visible while it’s still cheap to correct.
Ambera
now
Your week is leaning depletive — log anything that shaped today.
Recently added
From morning lens to evening review.
A few quiet additions that close the loop around the ledger — the shape of the day, end to end, with AI in the places where typing would have made you skip it.
Your arc · this week
Set for lean recovery
Planning
Set the shape of a stretch.
Name how you expect a week — or a sprint — to lean, from heavy depletion to heavy recovery, on one descriptive slider. Add a lens if you want a handle: A calmer stretch, Focus, Recovery, Momentum. Then watch how the days actually unfold against the shape you set — intended versus emerging, never a score to hit.
Energy check-in
How did yesterday leave you?
Logged yesterday as −3
Any morning
Rate the day you didn't log.
Too busy to log yesterday? One tap on a felt scale — drained to restored — and Ambera fills the gap between how the day left you and what you actually booked. It lands as a single, editable entry, marked as your read rather than a hand-logged activity. Free, and no streaks to keep.
Suggested for today
Lunch walk
From your usual rhythm
Home
The things you do anyway, offered back.
Ambera notices what you log on the same day most weeks — your Wednesday lunch walk, your Monday deep-work block — and surfaces it, already set to the intensity you usually give it. From your own rhythm, not a generic template. Add what fits, leave what doesn't.
Logging · intensity
This would bring today to 88% of a full day.
As you log
See how full your day already is.
Add an activity and Ambera shows how much of a full day you’ve taken on — and where this one would land — before you commit. “A full day” is learned from your own heavy-but-real days, or you set it yourself. A read, never a limit.
Cumulative · 14 days
Paused — reading logs through Tue.
Honest by default
Charts that admit what they don’t know.
When you haven’t logged in a while, the lines fade and the read softens — they pause rather than guess at the days you didn’t record. Log again and they brighten. The model only knows what you’ve told it, and never pretends otherwise.
Busy morning: 1:1, then focus block until lunch.
Ambera proposed
Catching up
PremiumDescribe a stretch, get a list.
Type or speak what happened — "Busy morning: 1:1 with my manager, then a focus block until lunch." Ambera turns it into a list of ledger entries you can edit before saving. Reply to refine; "actually that meeting was tougher" updates the list in place. Nothing is logged until you confirm.
From your reflection
Ambera noticed these moments. Add the ones that shaped today.
Evening
PremiumThe things you forgot to log.
Write or speak your reflection. Ambera reads it against today's ledger and proposes activities your note mentions but you haven't booked — never silent, never inferred. You confirm what to add.
What your weeks reveal
“Your Mondays tend to run harder than the rest of your week — and a hard stretch is usually followed by a quieter day.”
Drawn from 4 patterns
Over time
PremiumWhat your weeks reveal — for you, specifically.
Once there's enough history, Ambera reads the patterns across your weeks — the day that runs hardest, what tends to follow a hard stretch — and reflects them back in a sentence. Observational, never prescriptive. Grounded in your own data, not advice off a chart.
About you
Work
Founder, mostly solo dev work…
Life
Empty — add a note
Energy
Mornings are my best hours…
Other
Empty — add a note
Profile
Tell Ambera the shape of your life. Once.
Four short chapters — Work, Life, Energy, Other — plus any custom pages you add. Writing is free. Premium uses them to tailor every AI suggestion to your context instead of a generic average.
Reflection
Long 1:1 in the morning, then deep work most of the afternoon. Took a walk before dinner…
Listening… tap to stop
Everywhere notes live
Speak when you can't type.
A microphone sits under every long-form text field — reflections, arc descriptions, activity notes, About you. Tap, speak, the transcript appends. On-device only; no audio leaves your phone.
Integrations
Bring the rest of your week with you.
A meeting, a workout, a night’s sleep — Ambera proposes the activity, you confirm or override. Never silent inference. Google Calendar, Linear, and Apple Health are live today.
Apple Health & Health Connect
LiveLast night’s sleep notes your check-in; workouts arrive as activities to rate.
Linear
LiveSee the weight of a sprint week against your real balance.
Google Calendar
LiveSynchronize your meetings and events into the ledger automatically.
Outlook & Office 365
PlannedMap work meetings into the ledger without copy-paste.
Jira
PlannedSame idea for teams already living in Atlassian.
Integrations are part of Ambera Premium. See what’s included →
Pricing
The core loop is free, forever.
Gating the ledger would betray the tone the whole product is built on. Premium adds AI that reads your patterns, plus integrations that bring the rest of your day into Ambera automatically.
Free
$0
A real product, not a trial.
- Manual logging
- Today + 7-day balance
- Cumulative trend chart
- Daily notification when your trend is decreasing
- Imbalance nudge when the week drifts
Premium
$9.99/month
Ambera notices the imbalance. Premium tells you what to do about it.
AI assists, tuned to you
- Suggest from a sentence — type a note, Ambera proposes the title, direction, and intensity for you to confirm.
- Describe a stretch — speak or type "busy morning: 1:1 then focus block," get a full list of ledger entries you can edit before saving.
- Intensity calibrated to your own scale, learned from your recent ledger — not a generic average.
Integrations
- Google Calendar sync — meetings appear as suggested activities you can confirm or adjust.
- Linear sync — your engineering work flows into your timeline.
- Continuous refresh as your day evolves.
- Support for the work that keeps Ambera improving.
Why I’m building this
I was a good developer at company after company, pushing hard each time, and burning out repeatedly without seeing it coming. There wasn’t any tool to warn me — and yet the debt kept quietly building, week after week.
An ember is heat that is sustained. A flame burns bright and consumes its fuel. A dead coal is the other failure mode. Ambera is the instrument I wish I’d had — a thermostat for effort, not a thermometer for mood.
— Maki, founder
Watch your balance, before you feel it.
Ambera is on iPhone. Download it free, log your first activity in under a minute, and see your balance start to take shape.
Free to use. Premium is optional.