Anthias
A free self-hosted player for Raspberry Pi and x86, formerly Screenly OSE.
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- Free tier
- Self-host
- Runs
- Self-hosted
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A free self-hosted player for Raspberry Pi and x86, formerly Screenly OSE.
Signage as one module of a workplace platform, not the product itself.
Content management that leans on other people's players, with approval workflow built in.
An AGPL platform with a modular HTML5 player aimed at low-memory devices.
Drives signage onto Chromecast dongles instead of dedicated players.
A long-running open source signage CMS built around content feeds.
The product formerly sold as Raydiant, rebranded and quoted rather than listed.
A SMIL player that talks to any CMS speaking the same standard.
A deliberately small slide-based signage tool, deployed with Docker.
Enterprise workplace communications, with room booking in the same product.
Announced as open source and self-hostable, with no licence published yet.
Buy the player once and the cloud software comes with it, with no subscription.
Cloud subscription, self-hosted perpetual or hybrid, all quoted rather than listed.
Cloud signage covering the smart-display operating systems as well as boxes.
Priced per player, with one of the broadest hardware lists published.
Cloud signage with the widest published device list, and public prices.
Per-device pricing published openly, across an unusually wide player list.
A browser-based player that runs almost anywhere, and a free screen for a review.
Signage priced per display per year, aimed squarely at schools.
A 1987 enterprise brand, acquired in 2026 and sold only through partners.
Enterprise-focused cloud signage, priced per screen with a player included.
An MIT-licensed CMS and web player, published openly but not finished.
The commercial product from the team behind Anthias, built on Raspberry Pi.
An MIT-licensed signage CMS covering an unusually wide range of players.
A scheduling front end for Raspberry Digital Signage and Raspberry Slideshow players.
Now part of Navori, still sold and supported under its own name.
A Swiss SaaS platform that expects you to run its own purpose-built players.
Per-device pricing from $8 with no minimum, and its own Android player.
Open source signage you can run on your own server or buy hosted.
Hosted signage with a free single-screen plan and a wide player list.
The box behind the screen, read off the vendor's own datasheet.
The current-generation mainstream BrightSign player, with an NPU.
The entry point into the platform most signage CMS integrate with.
Two screens, 8K video and live TV from one BrightSignOS player.
An OPS module that replaces a display's brain without replacing the display.
A rugged Android player rated from -20°C, powered over Ethernet.
Two screens from one fanless Android box, on a single PoE cable.
The single-board computer most open source signage software targets first.
A sealed, fanless player powered over its network cable.
Four synchronised HDMI outputs from one box, for video walls.
The screen itself. Brightness decides most positions before anything else.
A 4K panel with BrightSignOS built in, so no player sits behind it.
A 21.5-inch panel for the places a 55 will not fit.
3,500 nits and IP56, for glass facing the street.
Bought by the cabinet, sorted by pixel pitch, and priced by how fine that pitch is.
3,500 nits at 2.976 mm, built to be read through glass.
A 1.25 mm microLED cabinet light enough to hang almost anywhere.
Flip-chip LED down to 0.84 mm, priced openly per cabinet.
The market that sells the screen time rather than the screen.
Buy digital out-of-home on a credit card, with no minimum spend.
A supply-side platform built to sell OOH to buyers who have never bought it.
Runs both sides of the DOOH market, a DSP and an SSP under one roof.
What sits beside a signage platform: feeds, measurement, device management.
Measurement and device management on one licence, white-labelled.
Computer vision that counts who looked, without recording them.
Ready-made content feeds, priced openly per media player.
Start here when the hardware is already decided.
The vocabulary vendors use, defined plainly. Useful when two quotes describe the same thing in different words.