DayFrame

Your day at a glance. Your world in tiles.

DayFrame is a desktop-first app for Windows that brings your email, calendar, contacts, and more together in one place — with a friendly layout and a Windows Phone-inspired live tile navigation rail for switching between modules.

Download from the Microsoft Store What's new in 1.0 Preview 3

Coming soon DayFrame for Mac is on the way.

One shell. Every part of your day.

Instead of juggling separate apps, DayFrame gives every part of your personal world a home behind a single shell. A persistent tile rail on the left keeps your modules one tap away — bold, square, and yours to color — while the main pane shows whatever you're focused on right now.

Pinning goes deeper than modules, too. A single RSS feed, a board, a world clock — pin any of them straight to the rail and it becomes its own live tile.

We want you to feel at home in DayFrame, so even if you don't like the colors or fonts in the application, they're all customizable. Tiles can be any color or size that you'd like.

Under the hood, each module is an independently built, independently tested piece that plugs into a shared contract layer. That's what lets DayFrame grow — new modules arrive over time without disturbing the ones you already rely on.

1.0 Preview 3 · October 2026

What's new in 1.0 Preview 3

Preview 3 arrives through the Store's own updates, so if you have Preview 2 it updates on its own. It adds a Transit module that tells you when to leave for your bus or train, a Bluesky laid out like bsky.app, more email providers, and a long list of Gmail, sign-in, rail and RSS fixes.

New: Transit

Pick your city and see scheduled departures for any stop, with live estimates, delays and service alerts where your agency publishes them. Pin a stop to the rail and its tile shows when the next one leaves. Add your walk time and departures become times to leave, with a toast when it's time to go. A commute timeline lines up your pinned stops, each line has a diagram and a route map, and every stop has a service-day chart.

Transit is a switch away in Settings. Schedules come from Transitland, with a free key you bring yourself.

Bluesky looks like bsky.app

Post cards are restyled after bsky.app, and a thread opens in a pane beside the timeline, so you can read a whole conversation without losing your place.

More email providers

IMAP presets for IONOS, StartMail and STRATO join the list, and GMX and WEB.DE app passwords now work for Calendar and Contacts as well as Email.

Gmail and Google

  • Folders and searches page through all of their results, so Load more keeps going past 500 messages.
  • All Mail's unread count comes from Gmail's own label counters.
  • DayFrame asks for fewer Google permissions, and connecting a different Google account revokes the previous account's grant.

Sign-in that sticks

Signing in through your browser is more reliable. DayFrame validates the response before it shows the success page, ignores stray requests, and retries if its port is taken. Mastodon registers once per server and uses the port sign-in actually listens on.

Rail and tiles

  • You can grab the tile rail's scrollbar again without dragging the splitter next to it. Thanks for the report on the feedback board.
  • Tiles keep flipping while DayFrame isn't focused. You can turn this off.
  • Every tile's right-click menu has a "Module settings" entry.
  • Badges stay on one line at the narrowest rail width, and dragging the splitter no longer stretches tiles.

RSS

Reddit feeds show the subreddit's own image, stop showing a false "Failed to load feed", and space their requests by Reddit's rate limits. Feeds that publish a formatted body now show it.

Smaller fixes

  • Notes' Rich mode fills the pane, and a rename that only changes case reaches the index.
  • Dark-theme form placeholders are readable.
  • A change you make in Weather or Market News settings shows on the open page.
  • The About page no longer shows a stray HTML comment in its release notes.

Built to grow, module by module

Seven everyday modules start on, eight more are a switch away in Settings, and Boards pulls them all together. More arrive over time.

Available now

Email
Calendar
Contacts
Notes
Time
Weather
RSS
Boards
GitHub opt-in
Bluesky opt-in
Mastodon opt-in
Market News opt-in
Asana opt-in
Sports opt-in
Twitch opt-in
Transit opt-in

Planned

Photos
Tasks
Parcel Tracking
Instant Messages
More over time

Email, Calendar & Contacts

These three share one connection per account — a Google sign-in, or IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV for providers such as Yahoo, Posteo, Mailbox.org, Zoho, GMX, WEB.DE, IONOS, StartMail and STRATO, or your own server.

GitHub

Pick repositories from a list instead of typing owner/name, and set how often each one polls. An issue and PR feed keeps comments in sync and supports filters, alongside a pane of monitored repositories and saved views — all within GitHub's rate limits.

RSS

A three-pane reader where feeds show their own channel logo. Pin any feed to the rail as its own tile, carrying that logo with it. Remote content is sandboxed, and images stay blocked until you allow them.

Time

World-clock tiles for the places you care about. Pin any clock to the rail, and copy a time in several formats when you need to share it.

Transit

Departures for the stops you ride from, live where your agency publishes it. Pin a stop to the rail, add your walk time, and its tile tells you when to leave.

Weather, Market News & Bluesky

Each has its own module view for a closer look, plus a matching board widget for your dashboards.

Boards: your own dashboards

Boards are customizable dashboards built from widgets drawn out of your modules — arrange the pieces of your day exactly how you want to see them.

Widgets available today: recent Email, Calendar agenda and day view, a Contacts person, recent Notes, GitHub repository and saved-view activity, Asana tasks and projects, Weather conditions, a Clock, recent RSS items, Bluesky and Mastodon posts, Market News quotes and watchlists, and Sports scores and teams.

  • A distinct edit mode for laying widgets out
  • Undo/redo, plus a whole-board reset
  • Renameable widgets
  • Per-board refresh cadence and density
  • Full keyboard support
  • Pin any board to the tile rail as its own tile

Make it feel like yours

Feeling at home in DayFrame is a first-class goal, not an afterthought. Personalization goes well beyond swapping a color.

Eight board style presets ship today, ready to apply in one click: Midnight, Paper, Neon Tokyo, Atari 2600, Dragon, Fairy, Mermaid, and Hot Dog Stand.

  • Your own wallpaper on a board
  • Texture backgrounds for boards and widget headers
  • Board-wide and per-widget typography
  • Widget header colors with automatically derived, readable foregrounds
  • Built-in contrast checking
  • Customizable tile chrome
  • A library of tile textures, and any tile color you like

Accessibility — contrast and legibility — is preserved across every theme.

Get DayFrame

DayFrame 1.0 Preview is free in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) and Windows 11, on x64 and Arm64 PCs. The Store installs it and keeps it up to date.

DayFrame is a Windows app for now. Open this page on your Windows PC to install it from the Microsoft Store.

Coming soon for Mac. A Mac version of DayFrame is in the works. Follow its progress on the roadmap.

Download from the Microsoft Store

This is a public preview. The people who build DayFrame use it every day, and it still has rough edges. Google sign-in shows an "unverified app" notice while Google's review is in progress, and is limited to the first 100 users. Gmail also works as an IMAP account with an app password.

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