Free digital signage software for any browser and TV

Most digital signage tools give you a slideshow: photos and text sliding past on a loop. Festaboard gives you a 6-row by 22-column grid of 132 mechanical-style tiles that flip into place, one character at a time, with a soft physical click you can mute. It is signage with a look, not another generic feed running in the corner of the room.

That character earns attention. A split-flap board announcing your Wi-Fi code, today's specials, or a welcome message reads differently from a flat PowerPoint on a screen. You get per-cell color tiles in white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, plus five themes, so the board matches your space instead of fighting it.

It is genuinely free. There is no subscription, no per-screen license, and no hardware requirement for the core experience. You sign in with a one-time email code, no password to remember, and start building a board.

Because Festaboard is a browser web app, it runs anywhere a browser does: laptops, desktops, tablets, smart TVs, and single-board computers in kiosk mode. That includes Raspberry Pi hardware from a Pi 3A with 512MB of RAM up to a Pi 5, and RK3568-based Android displays, so you can drive a wall without buying a dedicated signage player.

Press F, or use the on-screen control, and the board goes fullscreen. The site chrome disappears and only the 6x22 grid fills the screen, ready for a TV or monitor. You can also install it as a PWA with Add to Home Screen, so it opens like an app on the display.

A screen mounted on a wall should not need a keyboard, a mouse, or a person to babysit it. Add ?kiosk=1 to your board's share URL and Festaboard drops into kiosk mode: no chrome, low-motion animation, and sound off by default. It holds a screen Wake Lock so the display never sleeps, and it auto-reloads to recover on its own if the browser tab has been hidden for a long stretch.

For low-power players you can tune the animation with a URL flag. Use ?anim=full for the complete flip, ?anim=lite for fewer steps (the default in kiosk mode), or ?anim=off to swap text instantly with zero animation on very modest devices. Festaboard also respects the operating system's prefers-reduced-motion setting automatically.

Signage is only useful if it stays current, and climbing to the TV every time is not a plan. Edit your board from the dashboard and, on a screen running kiosk mode, the change pushes to the display in about a second with no reload. You can update a board across the room or across the building without touching the screen.

To hand a board to someone else, toggle public sharing on to get a read-only link at festaboard.com/b/ followed by a token. Anyone can open it with no account, which makes it easy to drop the same message onto a second screen or send it to a colleague.

One static message gets stale. In fullscreen you can cycle between your main board and extra saved slides on an interval you choose, anywhere from 5 minutes up to 120 minutes, so a single screen carries several messages through the day.

Two live integrations work today. The Clock shows live time, day, and date in 12-hour or 24-hour format and updates itself, which is handy for a lobby or reception. TrustMRR pulls live MRR, growth percentage, and customer count from your SaaS via a slug, for a team wall. More integrations are coming soon, including Weather, Crypto, Spotify, Home Assistant, Google Calendar, Countdown, and Datafast, and those are not available yet.