The free digital signage platform that runs on the screens and devices you already own.
Build in a browser. Schedule by daypart. Play on anything. Manage every screen from one dashboard.
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About this repository. StudioLite was our open-source (GPL v3) Angular studio; it is discontinued and archived (see the note at the bottom). The active product is SignStudio, free with every DigitalSignage.com account. If you forked StudioLite, your account, screens and players keep working with SignStudio.
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Browser-based, drag-and-drop, 180+ templates, multi-zone scenes and timelines, scheduling and dayparting, and live widgets: weather, news and RSS, social feeds, calendars, countdowns, QR codes, any XML/JSON feed. 
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See which players are online, push updates in minutes, give each location or department its own login, and send an emergency override to every screen in seconds. 
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| Device behind the screen | Typical cost | Guide |
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| Android TV stick or box, Android tablet | $30–$60 | Android |
| Raspberry Pi 5 | under $100 all-in | Raspberry Pi |
| Chromebook, Chromebox, old PC with Chrome OS Flex | $0 (reuse) | Chrome OS |
| Windows or Mac PC, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) | $0 (reuse) | SignPlayer · Linux |
| iPad, or any web browser (embeddable web player) | $0 (reuse) | iPad |
Content is cached locally, so screens keep playing through internet outages; a Watchdog restarts the player automatically for unattended 24/7 operation.
| DigitalSignage.com | Yodeck | OptiSigns | ScreenCloud | |
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| Free plan | 3 screens, forever, ad-free | 1 screen | 3 screens, branded | trial only |
| Entry rate per screen / month | $3.00 | $8 | $10 | from $20 |
| 100 screens, software per year | $3,600 | $9,600 | $12,000 | $24,000 |
| One-time on-premise option | $895 mediaSERVER | — | — | — |
Every number, with a source link per vendor, lives in the open State of Digital Signage Pricing 2026 dataset (CC BY 4.0, CSV/JSON).
Restaurants and menu boards · Retail · Healthcare · Schools · Universities · Hospitality · Corporate · Government · Gyms · Churches
- Open API and SDK: player resource access, the offline caching framework and the scene/timeline model. API reference · SDK docs
- Embeddable web player: drop a presentation into your own page, kiosk shell or intranet with an HTML snippet.
- Data-driven screens: any XML/JSON feed, RSS/MRSS, calendars; IoT triggers from Raspberry Pi GPIO, Arduino, sensors, beacons and REST events. IoT guide · Quick start
- Own the stack when you must: mediaSERVER, the whole platform on your own infrastructure for a one-time $895, no monthly fee per screen.
- White-label for integrators: the Enterprise plan brands the hosted studio as yours, with multi-account management, proof of play and reseller pricing.
- Reference repositories (not maintained): signageplayer-core · mediaArduino
- Create a free account: email and password, no credit card.
- Install SignPlayer on the device behind the screen (or open the web player in a browser) and sign in to pair it.
- Pick a template in SignStudio, publish, done. Screens 2 and 3 are free too; grow from $3 per screen when you need more.
Operated by MediaSignage Inc., Westlake Village, California, continuously since 2006. Company facts, independent reviews (Code4Lib Journal, Capterra, Trustpilot) and the honest weaknesses are on one page: Is DigitalSignage.com legit?
StudioLite was an open-source (GNU GPL v3) digital signage studio built with Angular, TypeScript and ngrx on top of the DigitalSignage.com cloud and the on-premise mediaSERVER. It is discontinued and archived: the code stays available under its license for study or reuse, but there is no roadmap, no releases and no support, and issues opened here will not be worked on. SignStudio, the current editor, uses the same cloud and players, so nothing built with StudioLite stops working.