What day it is, what is happening now, and what is for tea.
Daysome shows one person, on one iPad, the shape of their own day. That is the whole thing. There is nothing to tap.
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 and when to take her tablets. 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. 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. A line says "First set of pills, after breakfast" and points at the dosette box, which remains the only thing that knows what has actually been taken. 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.
What it costs, and what it keeps
Daysome is free on the tablet, and it stays free. There are no adverts and there never will be.
It needs no account and no internet connection. Everything it knows — the routine, the meals, the note — stays on the tablet and reaches nobody, including us. See the privacy policy, which is short because there is very little to say.
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