Your phone is the Head. Your machine is the Engine. EmberOS turns any phone into a live terminal for the computer you already own — files, code, local AI and games, all glass-box, all yours.
No cloud in the middle. Your phone (the Head) pairs directly with a daemon on your own machine (the Engine) over your network. Everything Ember can see or do lives on hardware you own.
A fast, native-feeling web app — the Hearth. Browse files, edit and run code, chat with local AI, play your games. Nothing is stored here; it's a window, not a vault.
emberd, a tiny daemon on your desktop or server. It holds your files, runs your models and tools, and answers only to Heads you've paired. Keys never leave it.
Every component here is a real, working surface — not a mockup. They all run on the Engine and render on the Head in real time. This is the current build, not a roadmap.
A real two-pane explorer over your machine's filesystem — browse, preview, move, import, trash-with-undo.
A full PTY to your Engine — run anything, resize, multiple sessions. The real shell, not an imitation.
Syntax-highlit editor with side-by-side live preview — and a coding agent that edits real files on request.
Full-color Game Boy, GBA, NES, SNES and Genesis — battery saves sync to your Engine and resume anywhere.
Pick Ember's brain — free on-device models via Ollama, or your own Claude / GPT key. Vision included.
The assistant that ties it all together — reads your files, sees your game screen or any photo, runs your tools.
Ember proposes changes; you approve, reject, or undo. Nothing touches your machine without a nod.
Connect your account, browse your repos, clone straight into ~/projects. The token never leaves the Engine.
One-tap installs from a curated app library — real packages land on the Engine and run in your Terminal.
Read and send from your own accounts. Credentials live in a 0600 file on the Engine — never in the browser.
Your schedule on the Engine, surfaced on the desk — and Ember can read it and add events through the Inbox.
Schedules and watchers that run on the Engine even when the Head is in your pocket — plus system snapshots.
EmberOS is the third tool in the FantasyLab family — built on the belief that the software running your life should run on your hardware, and show its work.
Run one command on your machine, then open the Hearth on your phone and pair. That's the whole setup.
http://<your-computer>:3623 on your Wi-Fi.Android is where EmberOS is headed furthest: the on-device Engine (your phone is the computer) ships on this track first.
http://<your-computer>:3623 on your Wi-Fi.Apple doesn't allow Linux on the device, so your iPhone is the Head and the Engine lives on hardware you own — which is the whole philosophy anyway.