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.
Mac support is planned.
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.
Preview 4 · released October 18, 2026
What's new in v0.6
v0.6 is the biggest DayFrame release so far, and the last private preview before the
first public one. Three months of work landed in it: email that works with any mail
provider, calendar and contacts on open standards, four new modules, and a long list of
stability fixes aimed at the day strangers install the app for the first time.
Email for any provider, and more than one of them
Email is no longer Gmail-only. Add any IMAP account, with ready-made presets for Yahoo,
AOL, Posteo, Mailbox.org, Zoho, WEB.DE, GMX, Telekom, freenet and Vivaldi — or type a
bare host name and let Find settings discover the rest. Connect several
accounts side by side, each with its own tile and its own From when you compose.
Compose with rich formatting, pin important messages to the top of a folder, open two
messages side by side in split view, mark a whole folder read, and turn a message into
a contact or a calendar event without leaving it.
Calendar and Contacts on open standards
Calendar speaks CalDAV and Contacts speaks CardDAV, so your Posteo, Mailbox.org, Zoho
or self-hosted server works alongside Google. Repeating events can be edited and
deleted, a new event goes into the calendar you choose, and sync is incremental so a
refresh costs seconds, not minutes.
One connection is shared across Email, Calendar and Contacts. Sign in once, and
DayFrame asks before removing an account another module still depends on.
Four new modules
Asana — My Tasks grouped by due date, project activity, task
detail, and write actions: complete, reschedule, comment, quick-add. Pin a project or
a single task to the rail, and drop Focus, Workload, Week-ahead and Due-today widgets
on a board.
Mastodon — sign in to any instance for your home timeline and
notifications, favorite and bookmark posts, and pin a saved hashtag to the rail.
Sports — live scores, finals and headlines for the NFL, NBA, MLB,
NHL, college football and the major international football competitions. Favorite a
team and it leads the tile.
Time — a glanceable clock tile for the zones you care about, with
a right-click to copy the current time in the format you need.
Boards that know who you mean
A board widget can now be bound to a person, and it renders everything every module
knows about them — their mail, their events, their tasks — on one card. Bluesky saved
searches, Mastodon hashtags, Sports teams and Asana projects all arrive as new widgets,
and your pinned tiles live in Appearance settings beside the tile overrides.
Notes, hardened
The Markdown notes module that debuted in v0.5 gained inline [[ wikilink
autocomplete while you type, and a long list of fixes from a line-by-line review:
renames that never leave a dangling link, line endings that survive an edit, and an
editor that never throws away unsaved work silently. Your vault stays yours — it is
plain files on disk, and Obsidian can open it at the same time.
Tiles with more personality
A module's logo can fill its tile or sit centered with an adjustable title strip. Pick
any rail color from a Paint-style picker, collapse empty rows from the rail's context
menu, and the live tiles now pre-scale their textures and pause their flip clock when
the window is hidden, so a full rail costs less than it did.
Built for the first public install
Your local cache is encrypted at rest, and nothing waits on it before the first frame.
A rolling diagnostics log, a log folder and Copy diagnostics in About,
plus crash handling that tells you when the app didn't shut down cleanly.
Sync starts on launch with the visible tiles first, and modules back off politely
when a provider rate-limits them.
GitHub signs in with the device flow, so the app ships no client secret, and a
Google account can be disconnected — and revoked — from inside DayFrame.
Windows builds for both x64 and Arm64.
Built to grow, module by module
Twelve modules are on by default in v0.6, two more are a switch away in Settings, and more
arrive over time.
Available now
Email
Calendar
Contacts
GitHub
Bluesky
RSS
Notes
Boards
Mastodon
Weather
Market News
Time
Asana
opt-in
Sports
opt-in
Planned
Photos
Tasks
Parcel Tracking
Transit Schedules
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 and Zoho, 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.
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: Calendar day view, Calendar agenda, Weather conditions,
Bluesky recent posts, Market News watchlist, RSS, and Email folder.
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.
Private preview now. Public preview next.
v0.6 is in the hands of a small group of testers on Windows 10 and 11, x64 and Arm64.
It is the last private preview: the release after it opens the doors to everyone, with
a Microsoft Store listing on the way so installs are signed and updates arrive on their own.
Want to try v0.6 before then, or hear when the public preview lands?
Contact us and tell us
which mail, calendar and contacts providers you use — we are especially keen to hear
from people on Posteo, Mailbox.org, Zoho or a self-hosted server.