Digital signage companies: Castit and the alternatives

Five names often come up next to Castit: Yodeck, ScreenCloud, Xibo, BrightSign, and DS Templates. They come at screens from different sides: cloud services you buy online, open-source software, hardware first, templates for the system you already run. The table below puts all six side by side, from each company's own website, so you can choose with your own screens in mind.

• Cloud services with players of their own — Yodeck and ScreenCloud run in the cloud and also supply media players.
• Open source — Xibo's CMS core is open source, and you choose between hosting it yourself and having it hosted.
• Hardware first — BrightSign builds players, as separate boxes or built into displays, with free tools on every player, subscription cloud services, and more than 200 certified CMS partners.
• Templates for the system you have — DS Templates is a content platform, not a full CMS: its templates publish into the digital signage software you already run.
• Partner-delivered platform — Castit runs in the cloud on hardware from many makers, its own Castit Android player included, is installed and supported by certified partners, and is part of GuideLites, whose platform also handles visitor registration and meeting-room booking.

What we say about each company comes from its own website, checked on 6 November 2026. Products change, so check the details with them before you decide.

Castit compared, one by one

A fair look at each, with what it is best for and the questions worth asking both.

• Who installs the screens, and who comes on site when one fails?
• Does it run on the screens and players you already own, or do you buy new hardware?
• Do you want to host the software yourself, or have nothing to maintain?
• Do you want a new system, or better content for the one you already run?
• What happens when the network drops?
• Do you need more than screens: e-paper on doors and shelves, room booking, visitor registration?

It fits best when you want screens that are installed properly and stay up, on hardware you choose, with a partner nearby who answers the phone:

• Certified partners scope the setup, install the screens, and come on site, with Castit behind them for second-line support.
• It runs on Android, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Windows, Linux, the Web Player and the Castit Android player, all managed as one network.
• Wireless e-paper displays, for meeting-room doors, shelf edges, and the places a screen can't go, are managed from the same dashboard as the screens.
• Castit is part of GuideLites, whose platform also handles visitor registration and meeting-room booking, so you can add either one when you need it.
• Screens keep playing from local storage during an internet outage and catch up when it's back, with remote monitoring and silent updates.
• Your data is hosted in the EU.
• Essential, the free plan, starts with 21 days of the complete product on up to ten players, then keeps one player running for free, with no credit card and no end date.