The best free digital signage for one or two TVs

For one or two TVs, the best free digital signage is usually the screen's own browser, because it adds no player box and no account. Yodeck, OptiSigns, DigitalSignage.com and Xibo all offer a free tier as well, and each one is free only inside a limit: a number of screens, or the device the free plan is allowed to run on. If your sign is text, a menu or a notice you update now and then, those limits rarely matter. If the screen has to play video or a wall of apps, they decide the answer for you.

Prices below were read from each vendor's own pricing page in October 2026 and are in US dollars.

Pick by the job the screen has to do

• Video, YouTube or a video wall: Yodeck or OptiSigns. Both play video; OwnScreen does not, so a screen built around clips belongs with one of them.
• A screen that already has a Windows PC, a Raspberry Pi or an Android player: OptiSigns allows those on its free plan, and DigitalSignage.com expects you to bring a player of your own.
• Two TVs and nothing else in the room: a browser tab is the shortest route to a working sign.
• A screen with weather, feeds, dashboards or a widget library: Yodeck lists 147+ apps on Premium, and that library is what the paid tiers are for.
• A screen you want to leave alone for months: any of the five works. What matters is whether someone will update it.

What OwnScreen costs for one or two TVs

The editor and every display link are free and need no account. A display link holds the whole sign: the text, colors and font are in the link, so it shows the same thing until you open a different link on that TV.

To change a running screen from your phone, sign in, press Save and choose Go live. Starter is US$4.99 a month or US$49.90 a year for one live screen. Pro is US$14.99 a month or US$149.90 a year for up to five, and Business is US$29.99 a month or US$299.90 a year for up to twenty. A plan covers your account rather than each screen, so two TVs that both change from your phone are one Pro plan.

For comparison, two screens on Yodeck Basic come to $192 a year billed annually, and two on OptiSigns Standard to $216 a year at the annual rate. OwnScreen Pro is US$149.90 a year for up to five live screens. Every plan starts with a 2-day free trial, and a one-off event pass gives you Pro for 3 days for US$9.

Your first signOne TV, one browser

Try the editor free

What you give up with a browser sign

No video playback and no app library. No proof-of-play reports and no player hardware. A display link shows the message in the link, so a sign that must change on its own needs a live screen and a scheduled saved screen, which is a paid step.

What you gain is one less device to power, update and explain to staff. A TV with a browser, or a laptop on an HDMI cable, is the whole install.

Test the free tier on your own TV

Open the editor, write the message and read it from where people will stand. Then open Pair a TV on the TV and enter its code on your phone, which saves typing a link with a remote. Leave the sign up through a lunch break and see whether the TV dims, sleeps or drops the browser. That test tells you more about the free option than any feature list, because the limit that usually bites is not the plan but the screen.