Why it is free
Short version: your BOOX is the best planning device ever made, and the best device deserves the best calendar. Putting a price tag between the two felt wrong.
Exhibit A: the BOOX is simply the best
Let us be honest about the competition.
- Paper planners are lovely until you need to move a meeting. Then you have arrows, crossed-out lines and a Tuesday that looks like a crime scene.
- Phones are brilliant at many things. Calm is not one of them. You open the calendar to check one meeting and come back up for air twenty minutes later, somewhere deep in a video about bread.
- Glossy tablets glare at you like a tiny sun, and somehow need charging every time you want them.
And then there is the BOOX. A screen that looks like paper and is gentle on your eyes. A pen that feels like a pen. A battery that shrugs at days of use. Real Android underneath, so your calendars come along. No pings begging for attention. Just you, your day and a page waiting for ink.
It is the only device that is equally happy holding a novel, a sketch and your Thursday. That is not a gadget. That is a companion.
Exhibit B: the best deserves the best
A device this good should not be stuck with calendar apps made for glowing phone screens: animations that smear across e-ink, buttons sized for thumbs, and no idea what to do with a pen.
BooxDay was built the other way round, for the BOOX first. Handwriting lives right next to your calendar. Tasks get checked off with an actual stroke of the pen. Nothing flickers, nothing slides around, and everything is big enough to tap without aiming.
Exhibit C: a community, not a customer list
BooxDay started life as a paid app. Then something became obvious: the people who love their BOOX are not "users". They are a community of note-takers, list-makers, readers and planners who write in the margins of life.
So BooxDay is now free for everyone, and the code is open for anyone to read, improve and share under the GPL. No subscriptions. No "Pro" badge. No trial that ends on day 14. No ads, because the BOOX community deserves better than ads.
The verdict: the best device, the best calendar app, the best price. Zero.
So how can you pay it back?
You do not have to. If you want to, here are some ideas:
- Tell another BOOX owner about BooxDay. That is the whole marketing department.
- Report a bug or share an idea on the GitHub issues page.
- If you write code, improve something and send it in. That is what open source is for.