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Ember Universal Launcher
Your games. Your space. Your Ember.
A better home for your PC gaming experience.
Discover a cleaner way to organize, launch, and experience your PC games. Everything you need, in one beautifully designed launcher.
Interactive Product Concept — Actual Ember Desktop UI
Click sidebar tabs, launch a game, or toggle the live HUD overlay
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FPS
6.9 ms
144
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CPU
34%
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GPU
82%
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VRAM
7.4 GB
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GPU °C
64°C
Live Telemetry
The Philosophy
Everything starts here.
PC gaming shouldn't begin with five competing storefront popups, mandatory sign-in screens, and cluttered ad feeds. Ember brings your personal library together into a calm, fast, locally operated space on Windows.
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One personal library for every way you play
Whether your games live as standalone Windows executables, launch through Steam, Epic, GOG, or Xbox, or run inside an emulator with your own ROMs and disc images, Ember organizes them under one roof with custom cover artwork and groups.
Standalone .exe
Store & Xbox Apps (AUMID)
Emulators + Launch Args
Launcher Hand-offs
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Owned by your PC, not a cloud server
Your library, cover images, session history, and settings live locally in %APPDATA%ember-launcher powered by built-in SQLite. No account to register, no telemetry, and no internet connection needed to launch or track your games.
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Built to respect your focus
From the Liquid Glass dark interface to a playtime tracker that survives crashes via 4-second heartbeats, every detail in Ember is engineered to make launching and enjoying your games effortless.
Crafted Capabilities
Engineered for how PC gamers actually play.
Every feature in Ember exists to solve a real part of daily PC gaming—without bloat, subscriptions, or unnecessary complexity.
01 · Library Management
03 · Automatic Discovery
Your Gaming Library & Automatic Windows Discovery
Keep your games organized in one place with a clean and beautiful library. Filter instantly by custom groups, sort by recent activity or total playtime, and keep full history even when a game is uninstalled or stored on an external drive.
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Automatic Windows Application Discovery: Scan registered Windows Start Menu, Microsoft Store, and Xbox games directly into your library without hunting for hidden
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Manual & Emulator Flexibility: Add any
.exe, specify custom launch arguments, configure an emulator executable with ROM hand-off, or define a custom child process to track. - Non-Destructive Uninstalled State: Moved or uninstalled games stay marked as Not installed with all playtime and statistics preserved until you click Locate or choose to remove them.
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Elden Ring42h 18m · RPG
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Baldur's Gate 381h 10m · RPG
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Hades II34h 50m · Action
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Cyberpunk 207768h 15m · RPG
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Breath of the Wild52h 04m · Emulated
AWNot installed
Alan Wake 219h 40m · Locate
Pick the games to add. Store and Xbox games that can't be started from an .exe show up here.
2 Windows applications selected
04 · Customizable In-Game HUD
Performance Overlay
Monitor gaming performance using a customizable in-game overlay powered by a lightweight native Windows helper daemon (NVML, FrameView SDK, PDH, and Win32 system telemetry—zero PowerShell spawning overhead).
4 Layouts
3 Sizes
Drag Anywhere on Screen
In-Game Screen Preview · Top-Right Anchor
EMBER
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⚡FPS6.1 ms165
⬡CPU28%
⬡GPU86%
◈VRAM8.2 GB
◈RAM14.6 GB
🌡CPU °C58°C
🌡GPU °C65°C
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02 · Automatic Playtime Tracking
Playtime Tracking That Never Loses a Minute
Track the time you spend playing your favorite games automatically whenever you launch through Ember. One tracker per game ensures double-clicking never creates duplicate timers.
4s Process Heartbeat
Writes session progress to SQLite every 4 seconds. If your PC loses power mid-game, your session closes cleanly at the last heartbeat.
15s Grace Period
Handles launcher-to-game hand-offs seamlessly and waits 15 seconds after the last matching process exits before finalizing.
Daily & Weekly Analytics
Explore 14-day daily charts, 8-week trends, daily averages, and most-played rankings across 7 days, 30 days, and all time.
2h 45mplayed today
14h 20mthis week (Mon–Sun)
2h 03mdaily avg (7 days)
Playtime · Last 14 Days
Daily
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Baldur's Gate 344% of playtime · 81h 10m
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Cyberpunk 207737% of playtime · 68h 15m
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Hades II19% of playtime · 34h 50m
05 · Custom Interface
Designed Around You
Enjoy a customizable Liquid Glass interface with carefully designed interactions, specular borders, responsive playtime badges, and instant switching between deep obsidian Dark Mode and warm ivory Light Mode.
08 · Mindful Welcome
A Calmer Startup
When Ember starts with Windows, an optional corner message fades in with a thoughtful quote for a few seconds, then quietly disappears. It never steals window focus, never covers fullscreen games, and shows only once per Windows session.
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“Take a breath. The game will wait for you.”
06 · Seamless Updates
Stay Updated Without Setup Wizards
Receive native Windows toast notifications when a new release is published—even while minimized to the system tray. Choosing Update downloads, verifies the SHA-512 checksum, installs silently, and reopens Ember with What's New ready to read.
Ember Update Ready · v1.4.2
SHA-512 verified · Silent install preserves all games & settings
Changelog →
07 · Always Accessible
System Tray Integration
Keep Ember accessible without occupying your taskbar. Configure Ember to launch quietly in the Windows system tray at sign-in and minimize on close so your playtime tracking and performance overlay stay ready whenever you start a game.
Launch Ember when Windows starts
Minimize to system tray on close
Your Daily Flow
Less managing. More playing.
See how Ember fits naturally into every gaming session from the moment you sit down at your PC.
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Open Ember
Wake Ember from your Windows system tray or launch it directly—greeted by a calm, instant interface with zero login prompts.
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Access your gaming library
Browse your unified collection across PC stores, standalone installs, and emulators with instant search and group filters.
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Launch your favorite game
Click any game card to start playing immediately. Ember handles launch arguments, emulator ROM paths, or Windows App IDs automatically.
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Track your playtime
A single session tracker monitors the running process every 4 seconds and records heartbeats locally to SQLite until you finish playing.
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Monitor your gaming performance
Toggle the Liquid Glass performance overlay anytime to inspect live FPS, frame time, CPU/GPU load, VRAM, RAM, and temperatures.
Step 01 · Instant Startup
Ready in the background before you even pick a game
With single-instance locking and optional Windows startup in the system tray, Ember is already waiting quietly when you sign in—accompanied by a gentle, optional welcome quote once per session.
Ember Single-Instance Lock Active
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“Welcome back. Take your time.”
Local-First Architecture
Made to stay out of your way.
Ember is built as a practical gaming companion rather than another noisy platform competing for your attention. It runs locally on your machine and respects your system resources.
100% Local Operation
Built on Electron's built-in node:sqlite engine with zero cloud dependencies. Your game paths, cover images, and session timestamps never leave your PC.
Simple Organization
No convoluted nested menus or store tabs. Group your games the way you think about them, find anything in keystrokes, and launch with a single click.
Practical Native Helper
Process scanning and hardware telemetry run through a persistent, lightweight native Windows helper rather than repeatedly spawning heavy background shells.
Zero Unnecessary Complexity
No mandatory user accounts. No subscriptions. No ads, chat popups, or telemetry trackers. Only network requests are checking GitHub Releases for app updates.