Daylane

Your household's week, on a screen in your home.

Daylane is a calendar display for a shared home. One screen on a kitchen or hallway wall shows the week everyone in the household is actually having — drawn from the calendars they already keep, on their own accounts, without anyone having to copy anything onto a whiteboard.

It reads calendars. It never writes to them.

What it is

Daylane is two pieces: a server, and a phone app that talks to it. The app is where you sign in, connect your calendars, and pair the screen; the server keeps the week on that screen up to date.

How it works

  1. Make an account. Sign in with Google, with Apple, or with an email address and password. Every one of those paths verifies your email address before the account can be used.
  2. Connect a calendar. Daylane supports Google Calendar and Microsoft (Outlook.com and Microsoft 365). Connecting sends you to Google's or Microsoft's own consent screen, where you grant read-only access. Daylane holds no password of yours for either service — only the access token that consent produces, which you can withdraw at any time from your Google or Microsoft account.
  3. Pair the display. The screen shows a short code. You type that code into the app, and the screen is linked to your household. Only the household owner can pair or unpair a display, and unpairing takes effect on the screen within about twenty milliseconds while it is online.
  4. Invite the household. The owner invites people by email address. Each person connects their own calendar; their events join the household's week. Nobody — the owner included — can see or manage anyone else's calendar connection.

What it reads, and what it leaves alone

Daylane reads the primary calendar of each connected account, and nothing else. Secondary calendars — a subscribed holiday feed, a birthdays calendar, a shared "Family" calendar kept alongside the main one — are not read. We would rather say that plainly than let a wall display show a week that looks complete and is not.

From the events it does read, Daylane keeps only the fields a screen draws: the title, when it starts and ends, whether it is all-day, the location, the description, whether the time is busy or free, any reminder, and attendees' display names. The provider's full response — which carries attendees' email addresses, meeting join links, and attachment details belonging to people who have never heard of Daylane — is discarded rather than stored.

The privacy policy sets all of this out properly, including what is kept, for how long, and what happens when you disconnect.

What it does not do