Every feature.
Free to use.

Create as many boards and messages as you want. There is no cap, and no plan where there would be one.

Daily menus that flip into place. Change a dish from the control panel — no reprinting, no ladder.

Prices flip the moment they change — cafés, bars, retail, tap lists.

Send any JPG/PNG. Photo mode slices it across the flaps (picture-flap); mosaic mode quantizes it to color chips, Vestaboard-style pixel art. Both included.

Brand marks and mixed frames — compose text, color chips and image slices tile by tile in a single frame.

Inline {b}…{/b} bold anywhere in a message.

Eight signature flap colors as inline text color — plus solid color-chip tiles for patterns and pixel art. Free, not a $39.99 tier.

Every board has a shareable read-only display link — and the free board generator makes account-free share links from the homepage.

12/24-hour, optional date line. Also free with no account at /clock.

Day, date, optional week number.

Count down to a date or run a timer. Layout adapts to your grid. Also free at /countdown.

{time}, {date}, {temp}, {countdown:…}, {price:BTC}, {feed:…} — drop live values into any message.

Location-based current conditions and 3-day outlook, auto-refreshed. Free — not gated behind a $39.99 tier.

Rolling headlines from BBC, Reuters or AP, rotating with a source ticker line.

BTC, ETH, SOL and your own list, refreshed every minute. No “Cockpit” surcharge.

Point a board at any public JSON URL and bind fields into your template with {feed:path}. Refresh down to every 5 seconds — free, not $53.99/month.

Departure-board welcomes for hotels and venues — rotate guest names through a template automatically.

Fifty famous hands replayed street by street with live equities. Nobody else has this. We checked.

Every channel lives in the control panel as a card — configure and send. No marketplace, no per-app pricing.

Live follower counts. On the roadmap.

Live page follower counts. On the roadmap.

The current track on your wall. On the roadmap.

Real departure data for the authentic airport board. On the roadmap — the aesthetic is already here.

Hinge shadows, curvature, slap-and-settle motion. Flat rectangles need not apply.

Ultimate / High / Medium / Low — fixed box-to-font ratios derived from your screen. Replaces rows-and-columns fiddling (a fixed-grid override exists for exotic installs).

Tiles are added as the window grows; a symmetric letterbox holds the frame until the next row or column fits. Portrait and landscape both just work.

Per-flap double-click, cascading decrescendo, stereo panning across the board. Per-board toggle and a volume slider — not one looped sample with an on/off switch.

Classic, Amber, Terminal, Paper (light), Navy, Crimson. Glyph contrast ≥ 7:1 in every one.

A condensed face selected so characters fill the flap, self-hosted with the app. We publish our metrics — glyphs at 78% of flap height, hairline 1px tile gaps, flap width sized to the letterforms — because readability is the product.

One tap for fullscreen; the display grabs a wake lock so your TV doesn’t sleep. Keyboard shortcuts for sound, density, theme.

Type directly onto a live preview board from any browser — phone, tablet, laptop. No app install, no per-device setup dance.

Mix messages, channels and images on one screen with per-item timing, reorder by drag, optional shuffle.

Breakfast board at 8, cocktails at 6. Rules run server-side — the board changes itself even if your phone is off.

Your last 50 pushes with source badges — replay yesterday’s board in one click, pin favorites. No competitor has this.

Every board in one account, each with its own display link. Same content everywhere or different per screen — with no per-screen fee.

Your density, theme and sound defaults follow your account onto every new board.

It’s a web app. Refresh and you’re on the latest version — no firmware, no app-store review lag.

POST /api/boards/:id/show with an API key. Messages, channels, images, playlists, schedules — everything the control panel can do. Read the docs.

Named keys, shown once, revocable any time. Prefix-identified in your key list.

Custom feeds refresh down to every 5 seconds, crypto every 60 — KPI walls, queue counts, scores. No $53.99 “Cockpit” tier standing between you and your own data.

You send meaning (“message”, “countdown”, “image”), displays render adaptively — the same push looks right on a phone and a 65-inch TV. Grid-bound row/column bindings can’t do that.

Full endpoint reference with curl examples, plus guides — and this page doubles as the honest comparison shopping guide.

Smart-TV browser, Chromecast tab, Fire TV browser, a Raspberry Pi, an HDMI laptop: open your board URL, tap fullscreen, done. No sideloading via “Downloader”, no missing Roku app.

Their promise is 5 minutes with an app install. Ours is a URL.

Auto-tiling fills whatever shape the screen is — including video-wall panels, each just another free browser window.

Wake lock plus reconnect logic with offline fallback — the board stays up all day, and comes back by itself.

The control panel is responsive web — manage every screen from anywhere with nothing to install.

Fire TV / Apple TV / Android TV apps are on the roadmap. Browser playback works everywhere today, which is why they’re not first.

Type a message on the homepage, share a live link. No account, no PNG-only consolation prize.

deckboard.party/clock — fullscreen, 12/24h, seconds toggle, themes. Free, no signup.

deckboard.party/countdown — pick a date, get a shareable fullscreen countdown. Free, no signup.

Every feature above works right now at no charge. Deckboard is free to use — you just used the free tools above.

No card on file, no 7-day trial clock ticking on you. Sign up with an email and start flipping.

Creating boards needs a free account with a valid email — that’s how your boards and history stay yours across every screen. The free tools above need no account at all.

We won’t promise “free forever.” Some features may require payment in the future — if that happens it’ll be clearly labeled before any charge, and nothing you already created is held hostage. The Terms say exactly that.