Letters worth keeping.
Say what you meant to say. Ember tidies the transcript without changing a word of it, sets it in a typeface you choose, and sends it however suits the person reading it — including on paper, in the post.
How it works
Talk
Hold the button and say it out loud. Pause, think, carry on — it stitches together. Or type it; the box does not mind which.
Read it back
The filler comes out, the punctuation goes in, and spoken run-ons become sentences. You see exactly what changed, side by side, before anything is sent. No word is ever swapped for a better one.
Choose how it looks
Eight typefaces, four papers, three inks. A letter to your grandmother does not have to look like a letter to your accountant.
Send it their way
One letter, several people, each on whatever channel suits them. Nobody sees who else it went to.
21 August
I found the tin of buttons you gave me when I was small. All of them still there, including the brass one you said came off a coat your father wore.
I am sending this in handwriting because typing at you felt rude.
Caveat on cream laid. Printed, folded, and posted for $2.
Where a letter can go
In Ember
Free. It waits for them, quietly, with no notification badge counting up.
By email
Free. Set the way you set it, and they can write back without an account.
On paper
$2. Printed, folded, stamped and posted. Arrives in about a week.
Handwritten
$6. A machine holding an actual pen, on real stationery, in real ink.
What it costs
Nothing to write, nothing to read, nothing every month. Letters in the app and by email are free and always will be. Paper costs what paper costs — $2 a letter, charged when you send it, no subscription and no balance to top up.
One letter to four people is one charge, not four surprises.
Some things it will not do
It will not tell you when someone is typing. It will not show you a feed. It will not turn your letter into something you did not write, and it will not pretend a sent letter can be called back — once paper is with the printer, it is in the post.
It is also not end-to-end encrypted, and it says so on the privacy page rather than in a footnote.