Free options exist and some are good. Here is what each one actually costs you, and where Aldivue fits: 14 days free with no card, then $9.99 per screen per month.
No licence fee, full control. You provide the server, the updates, the backups, and the troubleshooting when a screen goes blank on a Saturday. Great if you have IT staff; expensive in hours if you do not.
Usually capped at one screen, often with a watermark, limited storage, no scheduling, and no support. Fine for testing, awkward once the screen is part of daily operations.
Genuinely free and genuinely painful. Every content change means walking to the TV with a USB drive, and there is no way to see whether a screen is actually playing.
No card, no watermark, no feature locks. If it does not work for your business, do nothing and the trial ends.
There are free and open-source options such as self-hosted platforms, and some vendors offer a limited free tier. They are genuinely free of licence fees, but you usually pay in other ways: hosting, setup time, maintenance, a screen limit, a watermark, or no support.
Aldivue has a 14-day free trial with no card required. After that it is $9.99 per screen per month, month to month, with unlimited storage, unlimited team members, and every feature included.
Most commonly: multi-location management, day-parted scheduling, offline playback, user roles, and support. Those are the things that matter once a screen is part of how the business runs rather than a demo.
If you already have a TV and a Fire TV Stick or a TV with Fire TV built in, yes — Aldivue needs no proprietary player. Otherwise a streaming stick is a small one-time purchase, typically $30–50. Android TV support is coming soon.
A TV you already own, a streaming stick, and software at $9.99 per screen per month. That is usually cheaper over a year than the time cost of self-hosting an open-source platform.
$9.99 per screen per month. Unlimited storage, unlimited team members, all templates and features included. No contracts, no hardware markup. 14-day free trial — no card required.
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