The family calendar built for Samsung TVs

Native on Tizen, designed remote-first, readable from the couch: everyone's day in color-coded lanes on the screen your family already looks at.

If there's a Samsung smart TV on your wall, you already own the hardware for a family calendar most dedicated displays can't match for sheer readability. Daybo is built natively for Samsung sets — not a website squeezed onto a television, but a TV app designed remote-first from its first screen to its last.

Built for the 10-foot experience

Everything on Daybo's screens obeys living-room rules: text sized to read from the couch, one clearly focused element at a time, and any target reachable in at most four presses of the D-pad. Today opens like a front page — the date large in the corner, weather along the top, each family member in a lane of their own color, and the evening's main event featured with a live countdown. The Plan view pages through the week, the weekend, or the month. Leave the remote alone for a few minutes and Daybo fades to a large drifting clock with what's-next — an idle TV that's actually worth glancing at.

Your calendars, not new ones

Daybo syncs Google Calendar, Outlook and Microsoft accounts, iCloud, and any calendar with a subscription link. Google changes land in seconds; the rest refresh on a short timer. Add or edit an event from the couch and it writes back to writable Google and Outlook calendars, so phones and the TV never drift apart. Anything marked private in your own calendar appears on the shared screen only as "Busy" — titles and locations stay in your account.

Set up with a scan, run from the couch

The TV shows a code; you scan it with your phone. That one scan creates your household, makes you the admin, links the TV and signs your phone in — no typing an email address with a remote, ever. The whole family gets invited from the phone, each person gets their color, and roles are enforced properly: a teen can manage their own lane, a younger kid can check things off, and neither can reorganize the family's month. From the couch you can add events, open details, and RSVP — who's in for Friday pizza, settled without anyone finding their phone.

Which Samsung TVs work?

Samsung smart TVs from 2023 onward — sets running Tizen 7.0 or newer. That's the honest floor: older sets run a Tizen version the current Samsung toolchain can no longer build for, so we'd rather tell you now than after you've signed up. (An older Samsung in the bedroom can still come along later via the roadmap below.)

Early access, plainly

Why native matters on a TV

TV web browsers are slow, and web pages fight the remote — that's why Daybo is a real Tizen app, not a wrapped website. Focus moves the instant you press, scrolling doesn't stutter, and the app is built with a television's quirks in mind: the ambient clock drifts slowly around the screen rather than parking in one spot, precisely so an OLED or QLED panel showing it for hours is never asked to hold one static image. Small things, but they're the difference between an app that respects the device on your wall and one that treats it as a monitor.

What early access families actually get

Early access is not a stripped demo — it's the real product, in the state we honestly describe: the Today front page, the Plan views, add-event and RSVP from the remote, all four calendar sources syncing, private-as-Busy, the ambient clock, the phone companion with reminders. It also means a direct line to us. Early families' couch complaints have already reshaped the app twice — the entire front-page design exists because the first grid version read like a spreadsheet from ten feet away, and real families said so. Sign up expecting to be listened to.

Not a Samsung? Tell us anyway

Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV and Google TV are designed and queued — and the queue order is decided by exactly one thing: what TVs the waitlist actually owns. The dropdown below is the vote.