The best digital signage software of 2026

Yodeck suits the café menu, reception screen or shop window display you want running this week. Any screen with an HDMI input will do. On a yearly plan, Yodeck sends you its player, a pre-configured Raspberry Pi, at no extra cost, or knocks money off each screen if you use a device you already have. You plug it in, sign in from your browser and build playlists from images, videos, web pages and more than 147 apps, then schedule what plays when. Yodeck says over 65,000 accounts and 350,000 screens in 135 countries use it.

Prices (checked November 4, 2026) are per screen per month: Basic $8, Premium $12 and Enterprise $16, with a custom Enterprise+ plan for large networks. The pricing page shows the same figures for monthly and yearly billing, and only the yearly plans include the player. One screen is free forever with the Basic features, unlimited storage and unlimited users, and the 30-day trial gives you every feature for up to five screens with no card.

The Basic plan's included player has 1 GB of memory, while Premium and Enterprise come with a 4 GB player, so pick Premium if you plan to show video or heavier apps.

Choose it if you want one screen free and a player that arrives ready to use.

Skip it if you need touch screens or kiosks, which OptiSigns covers with its Engage plan.

OptiSigns says it supports more hardware and operating systems than anyone else in the market. It runs on Android devices, Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi, and it also sells its own players if you would rather buy something known to work. That makes it a sensible choice when your locations already have a mix of smart TVs, sticks and old PCs.

You build screens from playlists, templates, data feeds and a built-in designer. Higher plans add user roles, folder security and an approval step before content goes live (Pro), dashboards, synced playback across screens, automatic power on and off and single sign-on (Pro Plus), and touch kiosks and interactive screens (Engage).

Per screen per month (checked November 4, 2026): Standard is $10, or $9 billed yearly. Pro is $12.50 or $11.25, Pro Plus $15 or $13.50, and Engage $30 or $27. Enterprise is $45 or $40.50 with a 25-screen minimum. Add-ons include video walls, background music and wireless presentation.

The free plan covers 3 screens, 3 users and 1 GB of storage, shows the OptiSigns logo on screen and does not include scheduling. To test scheduling, use the 14-day trial, which needs no card.

Choose it if you have mixed hardware or need touch kiosks.

Skip it if you want every feature for one flat price, since key features sit in higher plans.

ScreenCloud suits companies that use screens to keep staff informed. You can show dashboards from your business tools, company news, QR codes with tracked scans and web pages, and build them from design templates that you can lock so local teams only change the parts you allow. It lists more than 80 apps and integrations, unlimited users and unlimited file storage, plus a GraphQL API for developers.

For larger rollouts it includes proof-of-play logs, an audit log of what users changed and custom user permissions. ScreenCloud Touch adds interactive screens.

The pricing page lists two plans billed yearly (checked November 4, 2026): Core at $20 a screen a month and Pro at $30, aimed at teams that want more analytics and content. Enterprise is priced by quote and includes a free device. Yearly plans come with a free device or a discount on one; monthly plans do not. The page did not show monthly prices. The free trial lasts 14 days with no card.

ScreenCloud costs two to three times what Yodeck charges per screen, so it makes the most sense when the screens carry business data rather than a menu or a promotion.

Choose it if you want live dashboards and company updates on screens across several sites.

Skip it if you run a few retail or restaurant screens on a small budget.

Rise Vision builds its product around schools. Its plans and features talk about classrooms, school-wide overrides and districts, and the pricing page has separate tabs for K-12 and for higher education and nonprofits, where you see the discounted price for your type of organization.

Every plan includes templates, unlimited storage and users, scheduling, offline playback and a support promise of a reply within one business hour. Advanced adds emergency alerts through the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), school-wide overrides, Google and Microsoft calendars, Sheets and PowerPoint, Meta integration, a stock library and brand settings. Enterprise adds classroom alerts, district-wide overrides, screen sharing, a content approval step and single sign-on.

Standard prices (checked November 4, 2026): Basic is $11 a display a month, with an average 9% saving for yearly billing. Advanced is $138 a display a year and Enterprise is $164 a display a year. Enterprise is also sold as $1,399 a school a year for unlimited displays, and a district with three schools needs three of those licenses. Volume discounts start at 11, 70 and 200 displays. Hardware is sold separately.

Choose it if you manage screens across a school or district and need emergency alerts that take over every display.

Skip it if you run a shop or restaurant, since much of the product is built for school needs.

viewneo, which appeared in the old version of this guide, is still a sensible choice for a small business with one to a few screens. You get 30 days with every feature, and when the trial ends you can keep one screen free for good, with one playlist and one user.

You create content in the browser with the Content Designer or from your own images and videos, and you can generate pictures from a text prompt. Playlists run by time, day of the week or rules, and you send them to one screen or many. You manage every location from one account and see whether each device is online. Plugins add weather, social media, Power BI, Salesforce, HubSpot and SharePoint content. viewneo sells its own 4K Signagebox and also supports other players.

Prices in US dollars (checked November 4, 2026): Professional is $21 a player a month, or $210 a year, which works out to $17.50 a month. Plugins cost extra per player. Enterprise is $280 a month plus $17 a player, and adds sub-accounts for each location, shared content and optional white labeling, which suits agencies that resell signage.

Choose it if you want to test everything, then keep a single screen running free.

Skip it if you want plugins included in the base price.

NoviSign is a cloud signage service that runs on the operating systems built into commercial displays. It lists Samsung Tizen and LG webOS alongside Android, Windows, ChromeOS and the Amazon Signage Stick, and it works with BrightSign players. If you buy commercial Samsung or LG panels, you may not need a separate player box at all.

It kept its place from the old version of this guide, where it appeared as NoviSign Digital Signage. Prices per screen per month, billed yearly (checked November 4, 2026), are Business $14, Business Plus $17 and Premium $25, with a separate Partners plan by quote for resellers. The page says yearly billing saves 10% but does not show the monthly prices. There is a 30-day free trial and no free plan.

The pricing page lists what each plan adds, but it is easiest to judge in the trial, so test on the exact display model you plan to buy before you commit to a yearly contract.

Choose it if you are buying commercial Samsung or LG screens and want to skip separate players.

Skip it if you want a free plan or monthly prices you can see before signing up.

OnSign, listed in the old version of this guide as OnSign TV, now works mostly through professional AV integrators. Its site names Sephora, Walmart, ESPN and Subway as clients, and it holds ISO 27001 certification for information security. OnSign does not sell hardware. Instead it supports a long list of players: Android, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, macOS, BrightSign, LG webOS, Samsung SSP, NovaStar Taurus, Bluefin and the Amazon Signage Stick.

You build campaigns, compositions and playlists, and you can feed screens from data sources and a set of free apps. The company also offers custom app development, training and consulting, which matters when you are rolling out hundreds of screens for a client.

Prices per player per month (checked November 4, 2026) are Core $19.99, Pro $24.99 and Enterprise $34.99, or $17.99, $22.49 and $31.49 billed yearly, which saves 10%. Volume discounts start at 25 players. Each plan offers a free trial, but the page does not say how long it lasts.

Choose it if you are an integrator or manage a network of many screens on several kinds of hardware.

Skip it if you run a single shop, since Yodeck or viewneo cost less and need less set-up.

Xibo is the pick if you want to run signage on your own servers. The Xibo CMS, where you build layouts and schedules, is open source under the AGPLv3 license and published on GitHub. You can install it free and pay nothing for the software, though you provide the hosting and IT time yourself and get help from the community forum rather than a support contract. The Windows and Linux players are open source too.

If you need to play on Android, LG webOS or Samsung Tizen screens, Xibo sells commercial players with perpetual licenses, so you pay once per screen instead of every month. Self-hosters can buy those licenses and a help-desk option separately.

Xibo also offers a hosted cloud version, which you can try free for 14 days on the Professional plan with two players of your choice and no card. The pricing page does not publish prices for the cloud plans or the commercial player licenses, so you need to ask sales (checked November 4, 2026).

Xibo suits IT teams that already run servers and want to keep signage content on their own network.

Choose it if you want open-source software and full control over where your content lives.

Skip it if nobody on your team can maintain a server.