Run Denframe at home
Install Denframe Desktop on a Mac or Windows PC that stays on. Denframe is a small local web service, not a cloud account.
Your home, on every screen
Your day, on the screens you already own.
Denframe is a private, self-hosted family dashboard for calendars, weather, notes, art and smart-home status. It runs on your Mac or Windows PC and keeps household control on your network.
Turn a TV, Nest Hub, Chromecast or Android panel into a calm view of today’s schedule, the weather, family notes and art. Private by design.
Free during the pilot and beta · No Denframe account · Read-only calendars · Signed Mac beta, Windows pilot
Signed beta for Mac, pilot for Windows
Casts to Chromecast, Google TV and Nest Hub, or opens in a TV browser
Every screen on the same home network
How it works, in three steps.
Build one calm view
Start with a layout, add only what matters and preview it at the screen's real size.
Connect a screen
Cast to a receiver on the same Wi-Fi, open it in a TV browser or pair an Android panel.
What a screen can show.
The handful of things a family checks on the way out the door, not a feed or a notification wall. Each one connects once, from its own page in Studio.
The family calendar
Google, Microsoft or ICS calendars on one wall, labelled by the people in your household, with private events kept off the screens that shouldn't show them. Family calendar →
Lists, chores and routines
To-do lists from Microsoft To Do, Google Tasks or Home Assistant, or kept in Denframe, with routines and stars for the children. Tasks, chores and routines →
Meals, groceries and notes
Today's meals, the next few things to buy and a short note for one person or everyone, which disappears on its own. Meal plan →
Weather and what to wear
Add a location once, choose its units and outlook, and get plain advice about what to wear from the same forecast. Weather and what to wear →
Your photos and art
Public-domain art or your own photos, uploaded, sent from a phone or copied from Google Photos, as a picture or the whole background. Photos and art →
Headlines and markets
Stories from a publisher, any feed or a topic Denframe searches for; daily currency rates with no account, or U.S. stock prices with a free key. Headlines →
Out the door
When to leave for a drive, the bus or train timetable you keep, and which deliveries are due today or late. Next departures →
A card for guests
Who to call in an emergency on the wall, and a phone view for a babysitter with the address, contacts and a Wi-Fi code you choose. Guest and babysitter card →
Your home at a glance
A temperature, a battery or a door from Home Assistant beside the day, without turning the screen into another cloud account. Home Assistant values →
More on a self-hosted family dashboard and a family calendar on your TV.
See the screen while you shape it.
The editor draws your dashboard exactly as the chosen screen will, at its real size. Pick a block on the picture to change it; the panel follows what you select.
The dashboard editor, with synthetic sample data.
Place blocks where they go
Add a block, then drop it on the picture. Tidy up lines everything back into the grid, and Delete is one undo away.
Pictures that fill the screen
Let artwork and photos bleed to the edges, choose how they fit and where they focus, and draw a palette from the picture itself.
Readable from the sofa
The readability check sizes text for the distance you sit from each screen, and says how many lines would read too small.
Sources without leaving
Connect a calendar, a weather location or a feed from the block itself, then carry on editing where you were.
A calendar the whole house can read.
Everyone's events on the wall where the family passes, with the shopping list, the day's meals and a note beside them.
Family Week, from the Denframe Library, drawn by Denframe's renderer with synthetic sample data.
Everyone, in their colour
Up to six people, each with a colour and an initial; work calendars show as “At work”, never their titles.
The view that fits the wall
A list, next up, side by side, a timeline, a week or the month, or the calendar as the whole wall.
Private stays private
Private events stay off every screen unless both the dashboard and the screen allow them.
Pictures behind the day.
Put museum art or your own photos behind the whole dashboard and set the blocks over it; Text over the picture picks light or dark ink for you. The Weather background shows the sky outside instead.
Salon Evening, from the Denframe Library, drawn by Denframe's renderer with synthetic sample data.
Runs in your house, not in a cloud.
Most smart-home dashboards are a website with your family’s calendar on it. Denframe is a small service on a computer you own, and the security model follows from that.
Listens only on the computer it runs on until you deliberately open it to your Wi-Fi.
The household password is hashed on the device with PBKDF2 and never transmitted.
Sign-ins become 12-hour sessions you can revoke; wrong passwords are throttled.
Paired phones receive restricted grants with an expiry, never owner credentials.
Diagnostics and metrics stay on the device. Nothing phones home.
Backups are files you keep, with a verified restore and a rollback copy.
Start complete, then choose a look.
Start a dashboard from a complete layout instead of an empty canvas: some come with Denframe, and more wait in the Denframe Library. Each asks only for the few choices it needs.
Linen: A warm household view with soft paper tones and calm, readable serif details. Synthetic sample data.
Look
The same dashboard in each look: 6 looks change its type, colour and rhythm, never what it shows. See every look in the library.
Included
Morning Edition
Time, weather, your next appointment, then a few headlines. An editorial rhythm for the start of the day.
Included
Kitchen Table
A welcoming mix of time, weather, plans, and small tasks. Useful during the morning rush.
Included
After Hours
A generous artwork stage and a discreet clock. Just enough information for a quieter evening.
In the Library
Family Week
The family's week, the shopping list, the day's meals and a note for everyone, in risograph colours for the kitchen.
In the Library
Night Stand
A muted clock, the next 24 hours of plans and a three-day sky on a lamplit night-blue canvas. Nothing bright enough to keep you awake.
In the Library
Front Door
What to wear, when to leave and what comes next, for the wall by the door. Harbour colours over drawn dunes.
Weather uses Open-Meteo only in eligible personal or self-hosted modes. Personal calendars, photos, Home Assistant and stock quotes stay optional and are never connected automatically. Every layout in the library · Short learning and fun packs bring vocabulary, sound and puzzle cards to a screen.
An honest beta.
The Mac installer is signed, and notarized by Apple on a Mac, so your operating system names the publisher. The Windows installer is still the unsigned pilot, so your operating system may show a warning; its installation guide explains the warning and how to check the file. Each download lists its version, its tested environment and its SHA-256 checksum. Review the known limitations before relying on Denframe every day.
The host stays on
Screens show what the host computer serves. When it sleeps or restarts, displays wait until it is back.
Same network
Cast receivers, TV browsers and Android panels must be on the same home network as the host.
Desktop builds
Signed beta and pilot installers exist for an Apple silicon Mac or a Windows 11 PC; the compatibility page lists each build's minimum version. There is no Intel Mac or Linux installer.
Experimental and off paths
Home Assistant app: Supervised install and registry publication are unverified. Nest Hub and Nest displays: Touch and sound are unverified until a real Nest Hub passes their tests. Android panel app: The seven-day soak on a real panel has not run yet. Samsung and other DIAL/UPnP TVs: Evidence beyond one Samsung set, overnight running included, is still open. Samsung TV bridge and Art Mode: Sensing is capability-gated and rests on one Samsung set's evidence. Home controls through Home Assistant: Not yet tried on a real lamp and switch. Apple Home through Home Assistant: Not yet tried from the Home app and Siri through Home Assistant's HomeKit Bridge. Built but off in beta builds, and not offered: Denframe Cloud, AI authoring, Apple TV app, Direct HomeKit accessories, Denframe's own HomeKit bridge, Home controls on touch panels and Ticking Google Tasks from screens.
No phone app yet
An iPhone and iPad companion is an idea, not scheduled; use the browser in the meantime.
Check what works today · Release notes · About the beta · Support by email
Free during the pilot and beta.
Free and full-featured through the pilot and the beta that follows it. Planned 1.0: a one-time household licence, price to be announced. Early households — everyone who joins during the pilot or the beta — get 40% off the 1.0 household licence.