Compared to Yodeck
A self-hosted alternative to Yodeck
Yodeck is cheap to start with and well liked for it. People look for an alternative when the screen count climbs, or when somebody in procurement asks where the media is stored.
What Yodeck 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.
- Being inexpensive at small screen counts, and honest about it.
- Working well with Raspberry Pi hardware, which keeps the cost of a screen down.
- A managed platform with nothing for you to run, patch or back up.
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
Signvero
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 Yodeck
- The screen count is small and stable. The arithmetic here does not favour us under about twenty screens.
- You want the player hardware decided for you rather than using televisions and boxes you already own.
- You have nowhere to run a server and no appetite to find one.
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.
OptiSigns
The same estate, licensed per site rather than per screen, on infrastructure you own.
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 Yodeck
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.