EinkDashboard started from a simple idea: your old Kindle deserves a second life as a beautiful, always-on ambient display.
Like most developers, we had a Kindle Paperwhite sitting unused in a drawer. The battery still held a charge. The screen was still crisp. It just had no purpose anymore.
We wanted to turn it into a dashboard — something that shows the weather, our calendar, our Todoist tasks. But every DIY solution required a Raspberry Pi, Python scripts, jailbreaking, and hours of debugging. That felt like too much friction for something so simple.
So we built EinkDashboard: a cloud-based platform that generates a dashboard image you can open in your Kindle's built-in browser. No jailbreak. No coding. Setup in under 3 minutes.
Your Kindle shows information at a glance without demanding attention. No notifications, no feeds, no doom-scrolling.
Great tools should just work. No Raspberry Pi, no Python, no jailbreaking. If it takes more than 3 minutes, we've failed.
All dashboard images are generated in the cloud. Your Kindle loads a static image — no JavaScript, no crashes, no battery drain.
Have a question, a feature request, or just want to say hi? We'd love to hear from you.