Everything you need to launch a magical countdown

Anyone with a Dagatal account can design, test, and publish as many calendars as they like. You are not charged per calendar, and you can work on drafts all year before the holidays hit.

• Unlimited calendars, doors, and media uploads
• Secure hosting under your own vanity slug (for example /c/brand)
• Live preview links so stakeholders can review changes

You only need three ingredients to get rolling:

Our editor keeps every task in one workspace so you can ship a calendar in a single sitting.

Every calendar tracks its own timezone. Doors unlock automatically at midnight, and visitors only see the current or past days.

Update copy, images, quizzes, or CTA links whenever you need. Saves are transactional, so a half-finished change never goes live.

• Changes are saved when you click Save; if something is invalid, nothing is changed and you see what to fix.
• Visitors receive the new content the moment you click Save.
• Replaced or deleted images are removed from our servers.

From the dashboard, choose Duplicate calendar to clone the background, doors, soundtrack, and all day content.

The editor stores door coordinates as percentages so layouts remain consistent across desktop and mobile breakpoints.

If you unlocked premium for a calendar you can access the stats tab:

• Daily views and completion rate (share of doors opened)
• Door-level opens (counted when a visitor actually opens a door) so you know which surprises landed best
• Device mix and popular referrers

The Dagatal homepage displays a curated selection of active calendars in a featured showcase. Calendars are hand-picked by the Dagatal team from among those whose owners have opted in.

Premium calendars unlock an additional tab inside the editor where you can override every color token and hide Dagatal chrome.

Premium is a one-time purchase scoped to a single calendar. There is no recurring subscription and no automatic rollover when you duplicate or create a new calendar.

Upload JPG, PNG, GIF, or WebP backgrounds up to 10 MB (day images up to 5 MB, door images up to 200 KB). Every image is converted to WebP automatically: usually a fraction of the original size with no visible loss in quality, so calendars load fast even on mobile data.

Need animated visuals? Convert your video into a lightweight looping GIF before uploading.

In the editor's Premium tab, upload an MP3 or OGG file up to 10 MB. Visitors get a small player on the calendar with play/pause and a volume slider.

• Music only starts when a visitor presses play, because browsers block autoplay with sound.
• We check every file and remove tags and embedded cover art before storing it.
• You can replace or remove the soundtrack at any time.

Share the /c/{slug} link anywhere—email, chat, signage, or intranets. We pre-render meta tags so previews look polished on social platforms.

The hosted calendar loads over HTTPS and can be dropped into an iframe or linked from other microsites. Because unlock logic runs server-side, there is nothing extra to configure.

Visit Manage → Profile to enable TOTP codes or register WebAuthn passkeys. We store credential IDs in binary-safe format and require confirmations before finishing enrollment.

• Authenticator-app codes (TOTP) asked at every sign-in
• Passkeys work across Face ID, Windows Hello, and FIDO2 keys
• Sign-in attempts are rate-limited to stop password guessing

Draft calendars live behind authentication. Anonymous visitors only see published doors, even if they guess the slug.

• File types are detected from the content, not the file name, and every image is re-encoded, so nothing hidden in a file survives
• Image metadata (such as GPS location) and audio tags are removed; files get random names
• Uploads are stored outside the website and delivered through a script, so they can never run as code
• When you replace an image or delete a calendar or your account, the files are deleted too

Need a hand? Reach out and we will respond within one business day.