Steps and sleep
Read from Health Connect on Android and Apple Health on iPhone.
CHECKED BY YOUR PHONE
Tasks that lock apps · with ONYX, your AI coach
Embark on your next step. We make sure you take it.
Add a task. Not done by midnight? The apps you pick lock tomorrow.
Inside Embark
Built like glass.
Every screen floats, and every layer has one job.
Every screen
One tap from anything.
Home, Locks, Progress and Friends, with ONYX in the middle of the dock.
Your computer
Locks follow you.
When a lock is on, apps like Discord, Steam and games close on Windows and Mac until it ends.
Your wrist
Today, at a glance.
Today's tasks, whether anything is locked, and your passes left. Tick a task from your wrist.
How it works
Three steps. Every day.
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01
Add a task.
Write what you'll do and when: a time, or all day. Switch on Locks my apps and pick the apps you'd hate to lose.
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02
Your phone checks it, or you tick it.
Steps, sleep and screen time are checked by your phone. A photo you take when it's done is checked by ONYX. Anything else, you tick yourself.
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03
Not done by midnight? The apps you picked lock tomorrow.
From the time you wake up until midnight. Calls, texts, emergency calling and maps are never locked.
Try it
Run one day, right here.
Pick a task, choose how it's checked, then decide how your day goes. Nothing is saved.
7:00 AM
7 AMNOON6 PMMIDNIGHT
Your day plays out here.
Fill in the steps on the left, then pick how it goes.
Every night
Make tomorrow's 3 tonight.
Before bed, write the three things you'll do tomorrow. Your plan is easy to make at night and hard to skip at 9 AM. Skip it, and your main apps lock the next morning until you write today's 3.
Your coach
ONYX. Firm on the task. Kind to you.
ONYX is the AI coach inside Embark. It plans your day with you, checks photo proof when your phone can't, and talks by voice when you'd rather speak.
- Turns a goal into tasks you can do today
- Gives you one first step when you're putting it off
- Answers "Why are my apps locked?" in plain words
- Writes tomorrow's 3 with you each night
ONYX is an AI, not a person. It isn't a therapist or a crisis service. If you're struggling, call or text 988 in the US.
ONYXAI COACH
ONYX is AI, not a person. It doesn't have feelings.
Skipping the gym tonight. I'll go tomorrow.
ONYX · 9:38 PMTomorrow has its own. Tonight is 30 minutes. Shoes on. That's the whole first step.
Why are my apps locked? My phone died at 4.
ONYX · 9:39 PMThen it couldn't count your steps. That's a real problem, not a skip. Today's lock is over.
Thanks. Running at 6.
ONYX · 9:41 PMGood. It's on your list with the same deal.
ONYX IS THINKING
Checking
Your word counts only when nothing else can.
Screen time
At most 30 minutes on the apps you pick, or at least an hour in one. On Android.
CHECKED BY YOUR PHONE
A photo when it's done
Taken with the camera when it's done. ONYX looks at it and decides.
CHECKED BY ONYX
You tick it
For anything nothing else can show. It counts, and it's never called checked.
YOU CHECK IT OFF
The rules
Strict. Never cruel.
Emergency passes
Real life happens. You pick how many you get each month, from 1 to 5. A pass opens a lock. Passes are never for sale.
CALLS
TEXTS
MAPS
Always open
Calls, texts, emergency calling and maps are never locked. Messaging apps stay open unless you say yes.
NO
DODGING
Once the day starts
A locking task can't be deleted, moved or switched off. Making it harder is always fine.
Protected time
A weekly day of rest, prayer times, fasting days, holidays from any calendar, family time. Nothing is due, counted or locked inside it, and a fully protected day never breaks your streak.
988
Crisis help is free
If you're going through something hard, a crisis pause ends your locks right away. It's free and never locked. In the US, call or text 988.
Every device
Get Embark.
Android comes first. Locks follow you to your computer too: when a lock is on, games and chat apps close on Windows and Mac until it ends.
Price
One plan. Everything in it.
EMBARK PRO
$99.99a year
7 days free for new members, then $99.99 a year. Renews automatically until you cancel. Cancel any time in Google Play or the App Store.
- Tasks that lock your apps
- Phone and photo checks
- ONYX, your AI coach, by text and voice
- Emergency passes, protected time, tomorrow's 3
- Your streak, friends and home-screen widgets
Crisis help is free and never locked. Passes are never sold.
Questions
Good questions.
Is Embark a fitness tracker?
No. Embark is for any goal: studying, sleep, work, reading, the gym. It doesn't count what you eat or chart your body. It makes sure the task gets done.
What never gets locked?
Calls, texts, emergency calling and maps, always. Messaging apps stay open too, unless you say yes to locking one.
What if my phone couldn't check a task?
If the phone couldn't check it (the battery died, an update turned access off), it counts as not done and your apps still lock. Tell ONYX what happened from the lock screen. If ONYX believes it was a real problem, that day's lock ends.
Can I get out of a lock?
With an emergency pass. You pick how many you get each month, from 1 to 5. Lowering the number starts right away; raising it waits until next month.
Does a task with no time lock?
No. A task with no time is a plain to-do. Only a task with a time, or one set for all day, can lock your apps.
I keep a day of rest. Does Embark respect it?
Yes. Set protected time for any faith or reason. Nothing is due, counted or locked inside it, and it never costs a pass.
Is ONYX a real person?
No. ONYX is an AI coach, and it will always tell you so if you ask.
Where do my progress photos go?
Nowhere. They stay on your phone. They're never uploaded and never shown to friends or ONYX.
Who is Embark for?
Anyone 18 or older who has ever planned something at night and skipped it by morning.