In every household, there’s usually one person who runs the schedule.
They know which day is the early start, which kid has soccer, who’s getting picked up by which grandparent, when the dog is due for the vet, and whose turn it is to bring the fruit platter to assembly. They might use Google Calendar, or a paper diary, or — more often than they’d like to admit — their own memory.
DayNest is for them.
What DayNest is
DayNest is an open smart family calendar display.
It’s a wall-mounted screen — available in sizes from a 15″ portable tablet up to a 32″ centrepiece — that lives in your kitchen, hallway, or family hub and shows what’s happening in your household at a glance.
It works with the calendars you already use — Google, Apple, Outlook — and pulls everyone’s events into one shared view. It does shopping lists, chores, weekly meal plans, family photos, and morning weather. When it’s not being used, it fades into an ambient photo display that quietly looks at home next to the kettle.
What makes DayNest different isn’t just what it does. It’s what it isn’t.
Why we built it
We didn’t set out to build a hardware company. We set out to buy a family calendar display, and we got increasingly frustrated with what was on the market.
The category has a problem. You buy a $400 device, and then discover that the features you actually wanted live behind an $80–$180 annual subscription. Cancel the subscription and your screen becomes a digital photo frame. Forget to update your card and you’ll get a polite email reminding you that the device you already paid for is now hostage.
That’s not a product. That’s a rental disguised as a purchase.
And if you’re in Australia or New Zealand, the picture is worse:
- Pay double for an imported US device with a US power plug
- Wait six weeks for shipping
- Hope you never need warranty support
- Pay $80 to ship a faulty unit back across the Pacific
- And work around AI features built for American calendars, schools, and email providers
We thought there had to be a better way. So we built one.
What “open” means at DayNest
DayNest is built on a simple promise: the device you buy stays the device you bought.
No subscription tax on the basics. Your calendar, your photos, your lists, your chores — the core of what makes a family display useful — work out of the box. No card on file required.
Works with the calendars you already have. Google, Apple, Outlook. DayNest pulls from where your data already lives, so you’re not migrating anything or starting again. Your data stays yours. If you ever stop using DayNest, your calendar doesn’t go anywhere.
No walled garden. We don’t try to lock you into our own ecosystem of accounts, apps, and services. We use open standards where they exist, and we’ll keep doing that as we grow.
No surprise paywalls. If we add features that have real ongoing costs — like advanced AI — we’ll be upfront about what’s included and what isn’t. You’ll never wake up to find the feature you bought the device for is suddenly behind a new fee.
The AI: Sense.aio
DayNest is powered by Sense.aio, our email-to-calendar AI.
When a school newsletter, an appointment confirmation, or an invitation lands in your inbox, Sense.aio reads it, extracts the date, time, place, and who it’s for, and quietly adds it to the family calendar. You don’t have to forward it. You don’t have to remember to add it. It’s just there when you walk past the screen the next morning.
The point of Sense.aio isn’t to be impressive. It’s to be useful. We care whether you walked past your display this morning and learned something you didn’t already know.
Designed in Australia
We’re a small team, based in Australia, building for Australian and New Zealand families.
That means local power and shipping. AU-based support during AU hours. 90-day returns handled locally — not via international shipping label. And AI features that understand how Australian schools, sports clubs, and household life actually work.
It’s the product we wanted to buy for our own families, and couldn’t find.
Who DayNest is for
DayNest is built for households where coordination is a daily problem:
- Families with school-aged kids and packed weekend schedules
- Two-career households where no single person has the full picture
- Blended families managing schedules across two homes
- Multi-generational homes where grandparents help with the school run
- Carers managing complex schedules for parents, partners, or kids with additional needs
If you’ve ever found out about your own family’s plans by overhearing them, DayNest is for you.
What’s next
We’re launching DayNest in Australia and New Zealand with five models — Go, One, Plus, Pro, and Tablet TV — covering sizes from compact bench-top to a full 32″ wall display.
This is just the beginning. The roadmap includes deeper integrations with the platforms Australian and New Zealand families actually use, more languages, and continued investment in Sense.aio so the AI keeps getting more useful, more accurate, and less work for you.
If you’ve been waiting for a family display that was actually built for here — and built to be yours once you’ve bought it — this is it.
Welcome to DayNest.