Every plan starts with a two-week free pilot on one screen and includes offline-proof players, live updates, and a real designer setting up your content. No contracts, no proprietary hardware, cancel anytime.
Billed once a year, you get 12 months for the price of 10.
Your content, perfect, on every screen.
Billed $290 / screen / year
Menus, media, and motion, the full storefront.
Billed $490 / screen / year
Groups, franchises, and growing brands.
Real numbers, checked directly against each vendor's current pricing.
| Platform | Software | Hardware | What you're actually buying |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slate | $24–41 / screen / mo (annual) · $39–59 monthly | Included & pre-configured, or use your own TV/stick free | Designer-built menus, live editing, offline-proof, media loops on Pro |
| BrightSign (BrightAuthor / BSN.cloud) | Author software is free; the cloud content tier runs about $139/player/year (≈$11.58/mo) | Proprietary BrightSign players, roughly $200–500+ each | Powerful, built for enterprise AV integrators, not a small-business self-serve tool |
| Yodeck | Free for 1 screen; paid tiers run about $8–15 / screen / mo | Free Raspberry Pi player included with an annual plan | The budget leader, cheapest way to get *a* screen running, generic templates |
| OptiSigns | Free up to 3 screens; paid plans about $10–45 / screen / mo | Bring your own (Fire Stick, etc.) | Widest app/integration library of the bunch, still a blank-canvas signage tool |
| ScreenCloud | About $20 / screen / mo | Bring your own | Mid-tier generic signage, more corporate-comms lean than restaurant-specific |
| CastHub | Flat-rate: $12/mo (2 screens) up to $95/mo (unlimited) | Bring your own | Cheapest at real scale, but still a generic canvas, no menu-specific design |
The honest read: Slate costs more than the budget row on this page, and that's deliberate. Yodeck and CastHub are cheaper because you're the one designing the screen, uploading assets, fighting a layout tool. Slate's price includes an actual designer's time to build it right, live editing your staff will really use, and a player built not to go blank, not a config wizard. If all you need is any content on any screen, the budget options are genuinely fine. If you need it to look like your restaurant hired someone, that's what the difference in price is buying.
We set up one screen with your real content, free, for two weeks, including brand setup. If it's not obviously better than what you have, unplug it and owe nothing. If you love it, pick a plan and add screens.
Each paired display, landscape or portrait. You can add or remove screens anytime and billing adjusts on your next cycle.
No, your first screen's device is included in setup, already configured and tested for reliable 24/7 display, so there's nothing to research or buy. Additional screens are $19 in hardware each. Already have a smart TV or streaming stick that works? Use it instead, free. One honest note: we don't rely on a smart TV's own built-in browser (Samsung, LG, etc. all work fine as a display, their native apps just aren't reliable for always-on signage), the included device plugs into any TV's HDMI port and takes over from there.
Generic signage tools run $8–25 per screen and hand you a blank canvas you design yourself. Slate costs more than the cheapest of those on purpose, you're paying for an actual designer's time to build your board, and the setup fee includes your first screen's hardware, already configured. The incumbents you may be escaping also require proprietary players at $200–500 per screen, with Slate that's built into setup instead.
Yes, two months free when you choose annual billing. Starter drops from $39 to $24/mo and Pro drops from $59 to $41/mo, billed once a year. It's the same service, same support, you just commit for the year and save the two months upfront.
Yes. You can switch to annual at any time and we'll pro-rate the difference. If you're mid-way through a monthly cycle, the annual rate kicks in on your next billing date.
