Anthias
A free self-hosted player for Raspberry Pi and x86, formerly Screenly OSE.
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Platforms that change what plays by time of day, day of week or date, without anyone touching the screen.
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Dayparting is the reason a screen can show a breakfast menu at eight and a lunch menu at noon with nobody in the building touching it. Almost every platform in the directory does some version of it, which makes it a poor shortlisting filter and a very good one for reading the fine print.
The differences are in the edges. A platform that schedules a whole playlist is not the same as one that schedules a single zone inside a layout, and one that schedules by date range is not the same as one that handles a recurring weekly pattern with exceptions for public holidays. Ask what happens when two rules overlap: some products take the most specific rule, some take the most recent, and a few will play both in sequence, which is rarely what anyone wanted.
The other question worth asking is what the player does when it cannot reach the network at the moment a schedule changes. A player that holds its schedule locally keeps switching on time; one that fetches on demand shows yesterday’s lunch menu until the connection comes back.
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.
A long-running open source signage CMS built around content feeds.
Enterprise workplace communications, with room booking in the same product.
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.
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.