Calendar
Your family’s schedule, rendered like a calendar you’d actually hang.
One frame instead of 17 gadgets.
Calendar. Weather and stocks. Rotating art. One frame does every one of those jobs, each drawn the moment you apply it.
Concept render, not a product photo. The software runs on a stand-in screen today; the frame itself isn’t built yet.
You’ve probably already tried to build this yourself.
A framed calendar in the kitchen. A Raspberry Pi taped behind a monitor for the weather. A motivational print that looked great for two months. An “AI art frame” that hands you a blank box and calls it done.
“Couldn’t bring myself to spend $400+ on something that basically shows Google Calendar. So I cobbled together my own.” r/smarthome
“A bunch of individual apps… never worked because they will never open multiple apps.” r/smarthome
Every one of those is a real, separate purchase or a real weekend project. Nobody’s built the version that’s just one frame.
One frame, many modes
One frame. 17 jobs it already does.
Weather
Today and the week ahead, composed like a print, not a widget.
Stocks
Your portfolio or watchlist, glanceable. Decor, not a trading terminal.
Art Generator
Pick a mood; the system writes the prompt and builds an original piece.
Art Selector
Real public-domain artwork from museum collections, rendered gallery-style.
Nature
Rotating landscape and nature art, generated fresh.
Artifacts
Rotating object and still-life-style art.
Motto
A daily statement piece, refreshed, not the same poster for two years.
My Maps
A styled map of a place that matters to you.
Traffic
A commute-at-a-glance readout.
Sunrise
Live sunrise and sunset times for your location, rendered as ambient sky art.
Sports
Live scores for your teams, laid out like a scoreboard you’d actually hang.
Flights
Live status for the flights you’re tracking, rendered as a departures board.
Transit
Next departures from your stop, updated and readable at a glance.
Countdown
Days until the date that matters, as a piece you’d actually want on the wall.
Prayer Times
Today’s prayer times for your location, rendered as calm wall art.
Clock
A multi-timezone world clock, rendered as a piece, not a taskbar readout.
Family Photos
Your own albums on the wall. Pick them in the app and the frame rotates through them on the interval you set.
These are the modes that work today. Family Photos shows your own pictures rather than generating anything. More are in build. We’ll say so plainly when they ship, not before.
Your data, composed like art.
Weather, stocks, and your calendar render as something you’d want on a wall. This is decor that happens to be useful: a real readout, drawn when you apply it and held until you apply again.
LCD tier only. The live-refresh modes need a backlit screen; e-paper’s refresh rate can’t carry a moving number (see below).
No subscription to use your frame. Basics are free forever.
Live weather, your calendar, your stocks, your own photos, and a rotating baseline of art: all included, with no subscription to use your frame, the basics stay free forever. Unlike the frames that held your photos hostage. You pay only for more generation than the free plan gives you, because that’s the part that actually costs us to run.
What’s free
A rotating library of pre-made and licensed art, plus every live-data mode (weather, calendar, stocks). Unmetered, because none of that costs us anything ongoing to show you.
What’s paid, and why
Extra generated art beyond the free plan (real compute, an actual ongoing cost), premium style packs, and multi-room. Never the basics. Never retroactive.
Down the road
A no-backlight e-paper tier.
The LCD frame above is what we’re taking reservations for. Further out, we’re gauging interest in a premium color e-paper option: no glow, no backlight, reads like a print across the room. It’s a later, optional tier, not the main story, and it’s not out yet. We’re not going to fake the shot to make it look done before it is.
Where this actually stands.
No customers yet. No reviews yet. Here’s what’s real and what isn’t, plainly, because we’d rather you hear it from us.
Built and real today
Still roadmap
A working app and cloud backend, live on real infrastructure
The frame itself. Hardware; no manufactured units exist
17 modes generating real content
Automatic scheduling, multi-room orchestration
Family Photos: your own albums, applied to a frame and rotating
A finished frame client. Today the wall runs a kiosk browser page
The prompt pipeline behind the art modes
Sound, video, or anything animated on the frame
Most of the software works today. The frame itself is not yet built.
Want one?
We’re not shipping yet. Tell us you’re interested and we’ll email you the moment reservations open. No spam, no charge, unsubscribe anytime.
Pre-launch. No hardware exists yet. Nothing charges you until you choose to reserve.
Refundable anytime
Reserve your spot.
Put down $35 to hold a spot on our list for the LCD frame, around $299 (target, not final until manufacturing is locked in), so sub-$300, undercutting the $499 flagships. Your deposit comes off the price if you buy; you get it back in full, anytime, no questions, if you don’t.
This isn’t a purchase, it’s a refundable hold. PRTL hasn’t gone into production yet and this may not ship. Estimated ship window: not yet set. We’ll update this the moment a manufacturing partner and funding are locked in, not before.
Reservations aren’t open yet. We haven’t turned on payments. Get notified when they open and you’ll be first in line.
PRTL is pre-launch. No units have been manufactured. This deposit is fully refundable, anytime, no questions asked. Estimated ship window: not yet set. We don’t have a manufacturing partner locked in, so we’re not going to invent a date. This product may not ship. Reserving does not obligate you to purchase.
Questions, answered plainly.
Is this a subscription?
No. The frame works free: live weather, your calendar, your stocks, and your own photos, with no subscription to use your frame, the basics stay free forever. The only optional paid tier is extra generated art, because that’s the one part that actually costs us money to run.
Does this look like a glowing tablet?
The LCD tier is honest about being backlit; that’s what lets it run live tickers e-paper can’t refresh fast enough for. Our e-paper tier has no backlight at all; it reads like a print, not a screen. It’s not out yet (see above).
Isn’t this just another photo frame?
Photos work on PRTL, but they’re not the headline, and dedicated photo frames already do that job well. What we’re actually building is the calendar, the live ticker, and the rotating art that a photo frame doesn’t touch, in the same object.
Is this an AI gimmick?
Art generation is one mode of several, alongside calendar, weather, and stocks. Even there, the system writes the actual prompt for you; you’re not handed a blank text box.
Why not just get a Samsung Frame or an Aura?
Both are genuinely great at one job: Samsung at art-on-a-TV, Aura at photos. PRTL is a smaller, cheaper frame for the other rooms those don’t reach, doing the calendar, weather, stocks, and art jobs neither of them does.
How much does it cost?
The LCD tier is targeting around $299, sub-$300 and undercutting the $499 flagships in this category, not final until a manufacturing partner is locked in. E-paper doesn’t have a price yet; we’ll share it once it’s real.
Will this keep working if the company doesn’t make it?
Fair question, and honestly the strongest answer to it isn’t built yet. Today: no subscription required for the frame to work, real supplier conversations underway, and we say plainly when something’s pre-launch instead of pretending otherwise.
I could just build this myself (Pi / DAKboard / MagicMirror).
You’d be validating the idea by building it; that’s the whole thesis. PRTL is the version that doesn’t need a Pi, doesn’t break when an API changes, and doesn’t take a weekend to set up.