Doorby
Know before you knock.
Doorby shows the people you live with when you're on a call: one glanceable dot on their phone, home screen, or lock screen. So they know when it is safe to walk in.
A presence system for households, on iPhone, Mac and Windows. Doorby never sees your email or meeting data, and it needs nothing from IT.
For the people who share your life, not your org chart.
Teams and Zoom know you're on a call, but only your colleagues can see it. The people who actually walk into the room are exactly the ones locked out.
Your partner
Working from the same flat, guessing from the tone of your voice whether it's a call or a podcast. Now it's one glance at the lock screen.
Your parents
“Is now a good time to call?” answered before the phone rings. Green means yes, red means later.
Your flatmates
No more freezing mid-hallway with a laundry basket. The kitchen run can wait ninety seconds, if you know to wait.
One signal, done properly.
Your work computer checks whether its microphone is in use, the one thing every call has in common. It needs no calendar access and no company account, so there is nothing for your employer to approve.
Red means a microphone is hot right now.
That's the whole product. It works with Teams, Zoom, Slack, FaceTime, anything at all, and even catches muted, listen-only calls, because the mic stays open.
Get the phone app
Create an account with just a name. There is no email or password. Place the widget on your home or lock screen.
Pair your work computer
A small companion lives in the Mac menu bar or Windows tray. Enter a one-time pairing code from your phone and it starts reporting.
Invite your person
Send an invite code to your partner, parent, or flatmate. You choose the direction: they see you, you see them, or both.
One boolean ever leaves your machine.
Privacy isn't a settings page here; it is the architecture. The companion sends
call or free plus a timestamp. That's the entire payload.
No content, ever
The signal never carries audio, meeting titles, participant lists or app names. It is a single yes/no; there is nothing else to leak.
You choose who sees what
Sharing is per person, each direction its own decision. Pause any person, or everyone, with one tap.
Paused looks like offline
Nobody can tell “hidden from me” apart from “laptop is asleep”. Pausing never tells on you.
A real kill switch
Every device has its own revocable token. Remove a device from your phone and its reporter permanently stops itself.
Notice to IT departments
The companion needs no admin rights or microphone permission, and it does not integrate with Teams or your tenant. It makes outgoing HTTPS requests carrying one boolean, and uninstalls cleanly. The full technical notes, including how detection works on each platform, are on one page: read the IT notes →Get Doorby.
The phone app is where you see people; the desktop companions are what report your status. Most households want the iPhone app plus one companion per work computer. Setup details live in the manual.
iPhone
ForthcomingThe main app: live status feed, invites, device pairing, and home & lock-screen widgets with near-real-time updates.
Join the TestFlightMac
ForthcomingA menu-bar app, never in the Dock. Shows your chosen person's live status and reports your own. Sandboxed, and it needs no mic permission.
Join the TestFlightWindows
ForthcomingA tray app with the same idea: your person's dot in the tray, a toast when their call starts or ends. No admin rights required.
DownloadAppendix A: physical systems
In the laboratory: an e-paper door sign and a HomeKit bridge, so the dot can live on your actual door, or turn a hallway lamp red.Doorby is a work of Riga Computing Company, a software studio in North Rhine‑Westphalia, with its heart in Riga.