Red Ember
Stop carrying the whole
household in your head
Red Ember is a shared organiser for a household. It brings your family's calendar, email, tasks, lists, documents, health records and money into one private place, then surfaces the handful of things that actually need someone this week.
Less time asking “What are we forgetting?” More time knowing “We've got it handled.”
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What Red Ember does with your Google account
Connecting Google Calendar and Gmail is optional, and Red Ember's access is read-only. It reads your calendar to show what is coming up, and reads your mail to spot the things that need a reply, a form or a payment — then writes those into your household's own list. Red Ember cannot send email, change events, or modify your Google account, and it never stores the body of a message. You can disconnect at any time from your Google account permissions.
The problem isn't that you need another app. It's that someone still has to keep track of all of them.
This is the whole idea
Screens from the actual app.
One place to look
Red Ember reads the calendars and email you already get, and writes what it finds as things to do — each one opening with what it actually asks of you. Tasks, appointments, money, health and anything with a date on it land in the same short list, and everything that isn't urgent waits its turn rather than shouting.
Or just say it out loud
Hold the button and ramble. Red Ember splits it into tasks, shopping items and things you're waiting on, works out who each one is for, and shows you the whole list before it saves a single row.
The things that fall through
A normal list only holds what you owe. Red Ember also holds what you're waiting on, and nudges it when it goes quiet. And it reads the school district's calendar PDF so the teacher days that need childcare are visible in September, not the night before.
Health that remembers what you already tried
A pill case you can read one-handed at the kitchen counter — counts, not milligrams. And the part no pharmacy portal keeps: what was tried before and why it stopped.
Before an appointment, Red Ember drafts the note — what they're taking, what's changed, what was ruled out, and room for the question you thought of at 11pm and always forget in the room.
And the business, if you have one
Tag a transaction once and Red Ember keeps your Schedule C position current — net profit, self-employment tax, what to set aside, and where the year is heading at the current run rate.
Underneath sits the worksheet itself, totalled by tax line and ready to hand an accountant. Every figure traces back to the rows behind it, and it downloads as a CSV.
And the rest of the week
Ramble about milk, the dentist and the email you owe. Red Ember sorts it into tasks, shopping and follow-ups, and shows you before it saves anything.
Grocery, Costco, Target and hardware lists, in a view built for a phone in a supermarket.
Save recipes, reuse favourites, send the week's ingredients to the shopping list with duplicates merged.
Miss Tuesday and Tuesday doesn't become Wednesday's problem. It's simply gone.
Red Ember works out what it is, when it's from and who it's about, then files it.
Connect the bank and see where it went, against the plan you meant to follow.
Built for both people carrying it
Not a personal productivity app with a family tab bolted on. Both adults share one household — the same rows, not a copy. So you stop asking each other “did you do that?” and “did we ever reply?”
Your information is personal. Red Ember treats it that way.
A household organizer holds some of the most personal things you have. The rules are short and they don't have exceptions.
- Google access is read-only. Red Ember can read connected calendars and email, but it cannot send email, change events or modify your Google account.
- Connections are optional. Nothing is connected unless you choose to connect it, and access can be revoked at myaccount.google.com/permissions at any time without changing a password.
- Your data isn't sold or used for advertising. There is no advertising in Red Ember and no analytics on your behavior.
- Email bodies aren't stored. Red Ember reads a message to decide whether something needs attention, then keeps the resulting item and a link back to the original.
- Households are isolated from one another at the database level. Not by application code remembering to check.
- Red Ember never asks for or stores third-party passwords. Not now, and not as an option later.
The full detail, including the specific Google scopes Red Ember requests and Google's Limited Use requirements, is in the Privacy Policy.
You shouldn't have to remember everything
Thirty days, and see what happens when the systems you already use start working together.
No credit card required.