Compared to OptiSigns
A self-hosted alternative to OptiSigns
OptiSigns covers a lot of ground and supports a long list of devices. The reason to look elsewhere is usually not the features - it is the monthly line per screen, or a requirement that content does not leave the building.
What OptiSigns is good at
The case for staying put, first
A comparison where the other product has no advantages is marketing, and everybody can tell. These are real, and most of them are things we have deliberately chosen not to be.
- Breadth. A very long list of supported devices and content integrations out of the box.
- Getting started without talking to anybody, which matters more than it sounds.
- Support and uptime being somebody else’s job rather than yours.
What changes if you move
Where it runs
Your server, your database. No outbound connection is required at all, which is the part that decides whether an estate with a procurement process can use it. The content, the schedule and the audit trail stay on hardware you control, and they survive us going away.
What it costs as you grow
You buy a band for the size of your estate and the screens inside it are free. The hundredth screen costs what the twenty-sixth did. Per-screen billing is perfectly reasonable at three screens and becomes a budget line somebody defends every year at a hundred - and the first thing that happens then is that people stop adding screens they need.
Reaching a screen that is busy
An emergency notice covers whatever is on the screen in two to five seconds, including a screen running somebody else's application. On Android that needs the overlay permission and it is the thing most often missing when a building already has screens showing a news channel nobody can change.
When the network drops
Playback runs from a local cache, so a dropped connection is not a dark screen. Eight hours offline is a supported state rather than a failure, and the player catches up by itself when the link returns.
How each one is billed
OptiSigns
Hosted, billed per screen per month. Check their page for the current figure.
Their pricing pageSignvero
Self-hosted, licensed per estate. You buy a band for the number of screens you have and the screens inside it are free.
Our pricingWe do not print their price here. Any vendor can change one this afternoon, and a comparison carrying last year’s figure is worse than one carrying none.
Straight answer
When you should stay with OptiSigns
- You rely on a specific integration of theirs and it is doing real work.
- Your estate is small enough that per-screen billing is not the thing you think about.
- You need a contractual uptime commitment from a vendor. That is a support contract, not a licence - ask us about one, but be clear that is what you are buying.
If you recognised yourself in any of those, buy the other thing. You will be happier, and we would rather say so on this page than six weeks into a pilot.
Also compared
The rest of the field
ScreenCloud
Same job, on your own server, without the per-screen line on the invoice.
Yodeck
For estates that outgrew per-screen billing, or cannot send content off site.
Xibo
Also self-hosted. The difference is how much of your week it asks for.
Rise Vision
Strong in schools. The question is where the data sits and what the alert path is.
NoviSign
Same capability, on your own infrastructure, priced by estate rather than by screen.
See it beside OptiSigns
We will set up a live system with your own login so you can put the two next to each other, rather than taking a comparison page's word for it.
No open demo, no sign-up wall, a person reads every request.