A living night
Aurora skies, a breathing fire, an original score, and gentle narration. Every trace answers with light and sound — a journey you feel, not a menu of levels.
Visual & audio journey
A magical interactive experience for the whole family
Draw with a living ember
Slow down and follow the glow. A night of living light and handcrafted music — watch a warm ember move, remember its path, then bring the line back to life with your finger.
No ads, no subscriptions Made for families
Coming soon to iOS & Android
More than a game
An interactive experience for the whole family
Grown-ups come for the quiet mastery of the Journey. Children come for letters, shapes, and bedtime stories. Everyone stays for the same warm, starlit night.
Tools that teach
Real letter, number, and shape practice for small hands. The ember shows each stroke with natural pen lifts, then waits patiently while your child traces.
Learning that sticks
Stories to share
Campfire Tales come with warm spoken narration — or turn it off and read aloud together, one page and one little trace at a time.
Together, or narrated
The Journey
Seven chapters. Eighty-four hand-drawn paths.
Travel through atmospheric night chapters where three kinds of tracing grow gently more varied — and adaptive help keeps the next step always within reach.
Guided Trace
A warm guide glows ahead of your finger. Follow it gently — the ember answers every stroke with light.
Ease in
Echo Trace
Watch the ember dance its path across the dark, hold it in your memory, then bring the line back to life.
Remember
Follow the Ember
The ember moves in real time and asks you to stay close. Keep pace, keep calm, keep the glow alive.
Flow
Every evening, a new ember
A quiet ritual, every day
Daily Ember
One short, shared path each evening — the same ember for everyone, everywhere. A quiet ritual with a streak to keep.
A two-minute return
Endless
Ever-changing paths that follow your skill. No timer pressure, no failure wall — just your calmest best score.
Replayable mastery
For little hands
Little Embers
A soft corner of the game made just for children — patient, quiet, and completely free of ads. Two ways to play, one warm glow.
Learn to Trace
Letters, numbers, and friendly shapes. The ember demonstrates natural pen lifts, then waits — as long as it takes — while your child completes the whole letter. Finished glyphs grow a Sticker Board of little companions.
Campfire Tales
Short bedtime stories you read and play together. Little reading moments flow into child-led traces, gentle choices, and glowing responses from the story world. Tales are never scored — they simply unfold.
No ads, ever — nothing to tap by accidentLearn to Trace makes zero network callsNo scores, timers, or failure states for little onesGrown-up areas sit behind a parent gate
Campfire Tales · a sneak peek
The Fox & the Northern Lights
Help a small fox climb from the fire beside the lake all the way to the sky river. Twelve painted scenes, gentle English narration, and traces that light the way.
Two more Tales — Firefly Meadow and Lantern in the Snow — join the shelf at launch.
From the game
Six little windows
Real captures from the development build, framed as they play.
Fair by design
Free to play. One unlock for everything.
Start free and keep the free part forever. When you’re ready, a single one-time purchase opens the whole night — no subscriptions, no coins, no ads.
Free, forever
- The complete first Journey chapter
- The full Fox Campfire Tale, with narration
- Letters A–G, numbers 1–3, and four starter shapes
- Daily Ember and Endless, free-safe forever
Then, one unlock
Once.
A single parent-gated purchase opens everything: every remaining Journey chapter, all three Tales — the Fox, Firefly Meadow, and Lantern in the Snow — and the full library of letters, numbers, and shapes. Family Sharing friendly. No subscriptions, no consumables, and never any ads.
Good to know
Questions by the fire
Is Ember Traces free to play?
Yes — a generous sample stays free forever: the complete first Journey chapter, the full Fox Campfire Tale with narration, letters A–G, numbers 1–3, four starter shapes, and Daily Ember and Endless play. A single parent-gated purchase unlocks everything else. There are no subscriptions and never any ads.
Is Ember Traces safe for young children?
The whole app is ad-free, and Little Embers is built for small hands: Learn to Trace makes zero network calls, there are no scores, timers, or failure states, and grown-up areas — including the purchase — sit behind a parent gate.
What does my child practice in Learn to Trace?
Letters, numbers, and friendly shapes. The ember demonstrates each stroke with natural pen lifts, then waits patiently — as long as it takes — while your child completes the whole letter. Finished glyphs grow a Sticker Board of little companions.
Can we read the Campfire Tales together?
Yes. The Fox & the Northern Lights comes with gentle English narration, or you can turn narration off and read each page aloud yourself. Short reading moments flow into child-led traces and glowing story responses — and Tales are never scored.
When does Ember Traces come out, and on which devices?
Ember Traces is in development for iOS and Android — designed for portrait play on phones, and portrait or landscape on iPad. Email hello@embertraces.com and we will let you know the moment it launches.
Coming soon to iOS & Android
Sit by the fire a while
Ember Traces is warming up for release. Follow along, and when the ember is ready, we’ll save you a seat by the fire.