Daysome
Daysome is a calm day clock, on a tablet. It shows someone What day it is, what is happening now, and what is for tea, on a tablet they already have. On the home screen its icon reads My Day.
Daysome shows one person, on one iPad, the shape of their own day. That is the whole thing. There is nothing to tap.
Im supposed to have my coffee now, it comes up on the screen when you're doing something else.
Who it is for
It was built for a family member in the early stages of dementia — happy, settled, living at home, and starting to lose track of when to eat, when to drink, what the weather is like compared to yesterday, and when her favourite TV show is on. She reaches for her iPad all day long, so that is where the answer lives.
If that sounds like somebody in your family, it may help. If it does not, it probably will not, and we would rather say so.
What is on the screen
The day and the part of the day, in large plain words. The time, nearly as large. Under the time, a few words about the weather, the way somebody would ask about it: "Warmer than yesterday, rain later". No degrees, no percentages and no little cloud symbol. Then, what is happening now, and what is coming next, in two slots that never move. What is on the menu for each meal. Weekly visitors — the cleaner, the shopping delivery — on the days they actually come. And a note from the family, which takes itself down when it stops being true.
Between things, it says how much time there is. "Half an hour until tea" — in quarters and halves, the way a person says it, never "34 minutes".
What it never does
It never says anything has been missed. No red, no "overdue", nothing struck through. Something whose time has passed simply drops off the display.
A screen that tells someone with dementia they have failed creates anxiety in a person who was otherwise settled, and buys nothing back.
It shows no dose, no drug name and no clinical instruction. You might add a reminder of your own, in your own words, but the app never asks about medicines. Daysome is not a medical device and makes no medical claim.
What you do
You set the day up once, from the same tablet, behind a PIN. After that the only thing that changes daily is what is for dinner, and that is four taps standing in the kitchen holding something cold.
Or from wherever you are. Connect the tablet to a household here on daysome.org and the day can be seen and changed from your own phone or computer: tonight's tea, a note for the morning, a visitor next Thursday. More than one of you can look after it, each with your own sign-in, and a second tablet in the bedroom can show the same day as the one in the kitchen.
What it costs, and what it keeps
Daysome is free on the tablet, and it stays free. One tablet, set up and changed on that tablet, with no account, no internet connection and no adverts, ever. Everything it knows — the routine, the meals, the note — stays on the tablet and reaches nobody, including us.
The household plan pays for the connected part: changing the day from here, more than one tablet, more than one person. It is £29.99 a year, or £89.99 once for as long as Daysome exists, and connecting a tablet starts a free month so you can see whether it helps before deciding. The plan belongs to the household, not to whoever paid for it, so it survives a change of carer. If it lapses the tablet carries on exactly as it is; only the connected part stops, and nothing on the screen says so.
The privacy policy is short for the free tablet, because there is very little to say, and says exactly what a connected household stores and where. The terms say the same about the plan in more words.
Getting it
Daysome is coming to the App Store, Google Play and the Amazon Appstore. On the home screen its icon reads My Day, because that is true and plain to the person using it, whatever we call it here.
Help
The support page answers the questions that come up most, starting with the one everybody asks first: there is nothing on the screen to tap, and that is the app working as intended.
Contact
We aim to answer emails to
Daysome is made by Multizone Limited, Mobile apps, software and product management consulting since 1998. Registered in England and Wales, company no. 3504416. Leatherhead, KT23 4JY, United Kingdom
