Digisini vs Yodeck
priced per plan
Both open on the TV already hanging on the wall: neither Yodeck nor Digisini makes you buy a box. Where they separate is the bill — Yodeck charges per screen, Digisini per plan — and whether the templates that come with it talk about your trade or have to be built.
First screen free forever · No card · No contract
vs $8 for every screen
Digisini vs Yodeck
Yodeck (founded in 2016 in Greece) has a good technical reputation and a Free plan with 1 screen. What gets repeated around — and what this very page said until August 2026 — is that the plan makes you buy a Raspberry Pi. It does not: its own documentation lists a web player, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Fire TV Stick, Android and Windows, and says you may not need any player of theirs if your TV installs their app. On hardware it is a tie. The difference shows up the moment you hang the second screen.
| Feature | Digisini | Yodeck |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price (1 screen) | Free permanent · Starter €9/month no watermark | Free permanent · Basic $8/month |
| Minimum hardware cost | £0 · Smart TV already on wall works | £0 · the TV or a Fire Stick works too |
| First-screen setup | 5 min · 6-digit PIN in browser | Minutes with the TV app or their web player |
| Panel language | 6 languages (en/es/fr/pt/de/it) | 4 languages (English, Spanish, French, Turkish) |
| Vertical templates | Hospitality, retail, clinics, gyms, driving schools | Generic |
| Offline mode | 48 h cache without internet | Yes, depending on the player you use |
| Price at 3 screens | €19/month · the whole Pro plan | $24/month · $8 for each one |
| Scaling to 10+ screens | Business €59/month · Network €199/month (50) | $8/month per screen: $80 at ten, $400 at fifty |
| Technical stack required | None · just a browser | None if you use your TV app |
| Contract | No · month to month | No · month to month |
Where Digisini wins
- £0 extra hardware — the TV you already have works
- 5-min setup without touching Linux or flashing SDs
- Panel in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian
- No cost for every screen you add
- Templates with hospitality vocabulary (set lunch, allergens, happy hour)
- 48 h offline cache without local hardware
Where Yodeck wins
- Large technical community with deep documentation
- If paying screen by screen suits you, it fits
- Free plan with 1 screen, nothing to buy
- Good option for maker/DIY technical profiles
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Nothing to buy. No card. Real Free plan with 1 screen forever. Move to Starter (€9/month) when you want to drop the watermark. 14-day trial on paid plans.
The software is easy to change
the boxes behind the televisions are not
Comparison articles line up monthly prices. In practice the decision is usually settled by something duller: what is plugged in behind each screen, and whether it can run anything other than what it runs today.
Single-vendor players are the real lock-in
If your current setup runs on small computers flashed with a vendor's own system image, the licence is not what ties you in — the hardware is. Changing platform then means either reflashing every unit or replacing them, and that turns an afternoon into a weekend. Check what is physically behind one television before reading another price page: if it is a generic streaming device or a television with a browser, you have far more freedom than the comparison tables suggest, and probably need to buy nothing at all.
Existing units are worth keeping, not binning
A single-board computer that has been running for two years is a proven unit: it survives the temperature of the spot it is in, and it is already cabled. Even if you move the software elsewhere, it can often keep working as a plain browser device pointed at a web page. The instinct on switching is to start clean with new hardware, and it is usually the more expensive instinct — the cost of a switch is nearly always hours, and hours go into re-cabling and re-mounting far more than into software.
Count screens that are switched on, not licences
Every longer-running setup has a gap between what is paid for and what is actually running: the one in the stockroom that came down, the office one nobody looks at, the one installed for a trade show. Counting the live screens before asking anyone for a quote changes the number more than any discount will, and it is also the moment to decide which ones deserve to continue. Migrating a screen nobody watches costs exactly as much work as migrating one that earns.
Move one screen, not twelve
The migration that goes wrong is the one done all at once on a Monday. The one that works starts with a single screen — the least visible — and leaves it two weeks while everything else carries on unchanged. Those two weeks surface what no demonstration shows: how it behaves after a power cut, whether somebody other than you can change the content, whether a phone is enough for daily edits. If nobody has missed anything after a fortnight, the rest is the same process repeated.
The feature grid has forty rows.
You will use four of them, and you already know which four — you did them last week
Comparison tables are built by the people selling, and they are built to be won: whoever writes the rows chooses rows they tick. Forty green marks against thirty-five is not information, it is a scoreboard for a game somebody else refereed. Meanwhile the decision is small and personal — there are three or four things you do with a screen, and everything else on that grid is noise you will never open.
The exercise that replaces the table takes ten minutes and no software. Write down what you actually changed on your screens in the last month: a price, a photo, the Thursday closing, a new opening time. Then test each candidate on exactly those, in a trial, with your own content. Nine times out of ten the differences that matter are not features at all — they are how many taps it takes to change a line, and whether you can do it from the phone in your pocket while the shop is open.
There is one row on those tables worth reading closely, and it is rarely the one highlighted: how the pricing scales. Per screen, per account, per location — these produce very different bills at three screens and wildly different ones at ten. It is the only line that changes the total by a multiple rather than a percentage, and it is the easiest to check because it does not depend on any judgement about quality. Everything else on the grid you can evaluate in a fortnight; this one you can evaluate in a minute.
And there is a question no grid contains, which decides more than half the outcome: who will be doing this in six months. If it is you, choose whatever you found fastest during the trial. If it is a member of staff who changes twice a year, choose whatever survives being explained once and written on a card — the two answers are frequently different products, and no feature list will tell you that.
This applies to our own comparison pages too, and we would rather say it here than be caught at it: every « alternative to X » page on the internet, including this one, is written by someone with an interest in the outcome. The defence is not to trust the page — it is to run both trials with your own prices and your own screen, which costs a fortnight and settles it far better than any of us can.
The table is from this Tuesday
and the decision lasts three years
Both tools you are comparing will change while you use them, and hardly any comparison says anything about that.
A comparison portrays two products on one particular day. And on that day it is honest. What it cannot tell you is where the two are heading, which is what you will actually live with: plans get reorganised, features move between tiers and prices get revised. That is nobody acting in bad faith, it is how subscription software works — but it means you are choosing, from a snapshot, something you will use in motion.
The most useful figure is not in today's table: it is in their past. How many times the price has changed in three years, whether something that used to be in the entry plan ended up in a higher one, whether there has been a change of ownership. None of that is secret: it is on their own site, in the archived versions of their pricing pages and in their release notes, and it takes five minutes to look at. It says more about the next three years than any feature row.
And there is one question that sums the whole exercise up. If this tool cost thirty per cent more next year, would you stay anyway? If the answer is yes, price is not your real criterion and it is worth knowing that before choosing on it. If the answer is no, what needs checking before signing is not how you get in: it is how you get out, and how much of what you build you will be able to take with you.
Straight with you: this applies to us exactly as it applies to anyone, which is why it is written here. The only decent answer to it is that leaving should be cheap and explained before you join — not a promise never to change anything.
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