Put the family calendar on the TV you already own

A color-coded day per person, on the biggest screen in the house — synced from the calendars your family already keeps, with nothing new to buy.

Most families already own the best family-calendar display ever made. It hangs on the living-room wall, it has a 55-inch screen, everyone walks past it forty times a day — and most of the time it shows nothing at all. The entire "family calendar display" category exists to sell you a second, smaller screen to do a job the first one could do better.

Daybo takes the other path: it's a calendar app for the TV itself. Install it, connect the calendars your family already keeps, and the household's day appears as one color-coded row per person — readable from the couch, driven by the remote, with nothing new to buy, mount, or plug in.

What it looks like on the screen

Daybo's Today view is built like a front page, not a spreadsheet. The date sits large in the corner, the weather rides along the top, and each person gets a lane in their own color — Maya's soccer practice in blue, Dad's grill night in green — with the evening's main event featured and a countdown running to it. Nothing on it is smaller than you can read from across the room; that rule shaped every screen in the app.

When you want more than today, the Plan view pages through the week, the weekend, or the whole month. And when nobody has touched the remote for a few minutes, Daybo fades into a large, slowly drifting clock that shows what's coming up next — so an idle TV becomes a calm, useful object instead of a black rectangle.

It syncs the calendars you already use

Nobody in your family has to adopt a new calendar. Daybo pulls from Google Calendar, Outlook and Microsoft accounts, iCloud, and any calendar with a subscription link — school schedules, team fixtures, work rotas. Google changes typically show up within seconds; the others refresh on a short timer. Events you add or edit in Daybo write back to writable Google and Outlook calendars, so the TV never becomes a second source of truth that drifts from your phone.

Privacy is handled the way a shared screen demands: an event you've marked private in your own calendar shows on the TV only as "Busy." The title and location never leave your account — a surprise party stays a surprise even on a 65-inch screen.

Setup is one scan, not one evening

Nobody types an email address with a D-pad. The TV shows a code; someone scans it with a phone; that single scan creates the household, makes them the admin, links the TV, and signs their phone in. From there the phone handles everything a remote is bad at — connecting accounts, editing events, inviting the rest of the family — and it also gets reminders before events start, so the big picture lives on the wall and the nudges live in your pocket.

The two jobs a family calendar actually has

Watch how families really use a shared calendar and two distinct rhythms appear. The first is daily awareness — dozens of two-second glances: who's home for dinner, when is pickup, what's tonight. Nobody interacts; they absorb and move on. The second is occasional planning — every week or two, the family actually talks through the schedule: can we do the birthday Saturday, when does camp start, who's free for the trip. The TV is the best surface ever built for the first job, because glancing is what a wall screen is for — and it turns out to be a surprisingly good place for the second, because for once everyone is looking at the same screen while they talk. Daybo is designed around exactly those two rhythms: calm and glanceable at rest, and a shared page to point at when the family is deciding something.

Where a TV honestly isn't a wall calendar

A dedicated display is on all day; a television is on when it's on. Daybo's ambient clock earns the TV idle time it wouldn't otherwise have, but if what you want is a screen glowing in the kitchen at 6am, a small dedicated display genuinely serves that better — that's the trade, and pretending otherwise would be silly. What the TV gives you in exchange is scale and presence: the family's day at a size everyone can read together, on hardware you already own, for hardware cost of zero.

Which TVs does it run on?

Daybo is in early access, and modern smart TVs are the first platform. Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV and Google TV are on the roadmap — and the honest answer to "which one next?" is: whichever the waitlist asks for most. That's exactly why the form below asks what TV you have.