Open your iPhone Duo and Ember opens like a book: your prayers on one page, the Word on the other, and the fold left clear between them.
Available now on iPhone Duo in Ember 1.1
Today, openOn iPhone the Rosary, the Chaplet, the Examen, and Night Prayer sit behind a button. On the open Duo they're four tiles on Today's left page, one tap each, while the verse feed pages along on the right.
Open: the inner display
Two pages, one fold.
On a regular iPhone, Ember is one quiet column. Stretched across the Duo's wide inner display, that column would leave half the screen empty and run each verse edge to edge. So Ember 1.1 turns every full screen into a spread: what you're reading on one page, and where you are, or what you tap next, on the other.
The daily prayerThe word you're praying sits on the left page. The hold ring, the Amen, and one bead for each word sit on the right, where your thumb already is.
The RosaryThe left page is your outline: the opening prayers, the five mysteries with their fruits, and the closing prayers, with the ones you've prayed checked. The right page holds the prayer. Tap anywhere to move on.
The Examen and Night PrayerThe five movements of the Examen, or the nine parts of Night Prayer, stay listed on the left. The reading and the Continue button are on the right.
The Divine Mercy ChapletThe same shape as the Rosary: the whole Chaplet outlined on the left, decade by decade, with the beads beneath it, and the prayer you're on at the right.
Closed: the outer display
Folded shut, it's the Ember you know.
On the outer display Ember keeps its one-column layout. The tab bar runs down the side, and the verse is centered beside the status column, so it never slides under the clock.
TodayOne line of Scripture at a time, centered under the greeting.
The daily prayerThe line above, the hold ring below, the same as on your iPhone.
The RosaryBead by bead, with your place kept between prayers.
How the layout works
Every screen, page by page.
Ember reads where the fold is and splits the screen there, so the line down the middle follows the Duo's hinge. Text goes on one page and the button you reach for goes on the other. Here's what lands where on the open inner display.
Today
Left pageThe greeting, date, season and feast, your streak, today's prayer card, and the four Ways to Pray tiles.
Right pageThe verse feed, paged one line at a time, with the heart and share buttons under each verse.
The daily prayer
Left pageThe Sign of the Cross, then the word being prayed, then your ember and streak.
Right pageThe breathing ember, then the hold ring, the Amen, and one bead per word, then the Glory Be and Done.
The Rosary
Left pageAn outline of the whole Rosary, prayed steps checked and the current one aglow, plus the beads of the decade.
Right pageThe prayer itself. Tap anywhere when you've prayed it.
Divine Mercy Chaplet
Left pageAn outline of the Chaplet (the opening prayers, the five decades, the Holy God, and the closing prayer) with the beads.
Right pageThe prayer you're on.
Examen and Night Prayer
Left pageThe five movements of the Examen, or the nine parts of Night Prayer.
Right pageThe reading or the text, with Continue.
You
Left pageYour practice: streak, stats, and the month.
Right pageThe prayers you've written and your favorites.
Getting started
Left pageThe ember and the heading for each step.
Right pageThe step itself (your name, your focus, a reminder time) and the button to go on.
Open flat
A two-page spread
Open the Duo with the fold running top to bottom and every full screen becomes the spread above. Turn it on its side and Ember goes back to one column.
Partly open
The pages follow the hinge
Fold it partway like a book in your hands and the split stays on the hinge, so no words sit in the crease.
Laptop pose
Pages stack above and below
Stand it up with the fold running across and the pages stack: the word you're praying above, the hold ring below.
Closed
One column, as on iPhone
The outer display gets Ember's iPhone layout, with the tab bar down the side.
Yes. Ember 1.1 is built for iPhone Duo. It fills the inner display and lays each screen out as two pages, split at the fold. On the closed Duo it runs on the outer display like it does on any iPhone. Version 1.1 is available now on the App Store as a free update.
What changes when I unfold it?
The screen becomes a two-page spread. Today shows the day and Ways to Pray on the left and the verse feed on the right. In the Rosary, the Chaplet, the Examen, and Night Prayer, one page shows where you are in the prayer and the other holds the words. Nothing sits on the fold.
Does it work when the Duo is closed?
Yes. On the outer display Ember keeps its familiar one-column layout, with the tab bar running down the side. The verse is centered beside the status column so it never runs under the clock.
What happens in the laptop pose?
When you stand the Duo up with the fold running across the middle, Ember stacks its two pages above and below the fold. In the daily prayer the word you are praying sits above and the hold ring sits below, within reach of your thumb.
Is anything different on a regular iPhone?
No. On every other iPhone, Ember looks and works exactly as it did before. The two-page layout only appears when the window is wide enough to open like a book.
Is the iPhone Duo version a separate app?
No. It is the same Ember, free like everything else in the app. The Duo layout comes with version 1.1, available now.
Free. All of it. Forever.
Pray one true line, on either screen.
The daily prayer, the full Rosary, the Chaplet, the Examen, and Night Prayer. No subscription, no ads, no account. The iPhone Duo layout is available now in Ember 1.1.
