Screenly
Anthias
A free self-hosted player for Raspberry Pi and x86, formerly Screenly OSE.
- Open source
- Free tier
- Self-host
Anthias is the open source project that used to be called Screenly OSE. It does one job well: put a playlist of images, video and web pages on a screen with no subscription and no cloud account. Installation on a Pi is a card flash from Raspberry Pi Imager rather than a command line, and it runs on ordinary x86 machines too. Screenly maintains it alongside its commercial product, and the code is dual licensed, so building a product on top of it is a licensing conversation rather than a given.
Capabilities
- Scheduling and dayparting
Compared with
Sources
- https://anthias.screenly.io read 4 September 2026
- platformsdeploymentself Hostablecapabilities States Raspberry Pi 2 through Pi 5, ordinary x86 PCs and 64-bit ARM SBCs.
- api Names a REST API.
- pricing Free and open source, no subscriptions, no cloud lock-in.
- company . founded Developed in the open since 2012.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Screenly/Anthias/master/LICENSE read 4 September 2026
- licenseopen Sourcerepopricing Dual licensed, GPLv2 and a commercial license. The GitHub API reports NOASSERTION for this repository, so the licence has to be read from the file rather than the API.
Alternatives to Anthias
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