Slides to TV
THE FULL ANSWERS

Everything your TVs need, in one simple place.

The full answers to the six questions everyone asks, in the same order as the homepage — with the screens and the slides to show for it.

We test everything on the least technical person in the building, not the most. If your least technical person can't use it, we consider it broken.
1 · “WHO’S GOING TO MAKE THE SLIDES?”

You don’t — the app does.

Every other signage company hands you an empty canvas and wishes you luck — that’s why most screens play the same four slides from 2023. Here you answer a few plain questions, or snap a photo of a flyer, and the slide is built for you: artwork, layout, words placed right.

  • Guided choices for the everyday stuff — events, menus & specials, entertainment lineups, staff shout-outs. Each kind of slide asks only the questions it needs.
  • Snap a photo of a paper flyer — the AI reads it and fills everything in.
  • Already have slides in PowerPoint, Canva or Google Slides? Save them as a PDF and upload once — every page becomes a slide, and re-uploading updates them in place, keeping their schedule and screens.
  • AI pictures every month — 26 on Starter, 48 on Pro, 68 on Premium, and more whenever you need a busy month.
  • Reuse artwork you've already made, or regenerate just the picture and keep the wording.
  • Classic templates and your own artwork work too — AI is a choice, not a requirement.
😊 Ease built in: big buttons, plain words, no design skills — a finished slide in about a minute.
The Create screen: pick what the slide is about and answer a few questions

…and what comes out the other end:

A breakfast menu board
A flu shot clinic announcement
A live music night announcement
2 · “IS IT BUILT FOR A PLACE LIKE MINE?”

Yes — it sets itself up for your kind of place.

A restaurant needs menus that keep up with the kitchen. A plant needs proof the safety message ran. A post needs Queen of Hearts results by Saturday night. Tell the app what kind of place you are and the right tools are waiting — in every plan.

  • Restaurants & cafeterias: menu boards drawn from your menu. Change a price once and every board redraws; tap Sold out on a phone; allergen icons and Chef’s picks; breakfast turns into lunch by the clock.
  • Clinics, plants & workplaces: a days-without-an-injury scoreboard that counts itself, “is this still correct?” check-ups so nothing stale stays up, and a home page that shows what needs attention. Built for clinics →
  • Posts & lodges: Queen of Hearts results, Volunteer of the Month, kitchen specials and band nights — already named the way you say them.
  • Churches & nonprofits: service times, drives and meetings, each with its own short form.
  • Every place: countdown slides that update themselves, and a Home, Help page and setup checklist written for your kind of place.
😊 Every one of these is in every plan — Starter included, except menu boards, which come with Pro. You don't pay extra for the tools that make it fit your place.

What the screens look like, place by place:

A restaurant’s lunch menu board
🍽️ Restaurant
A workplace safety scoreboard
🛡️ Workplace
A post’s Queen of Hearts results
🎖️ Post or lodge
A church welcome slide
⛪ Church
Menu boards for each part of the day, with sold-out switches
3 · “WHO CHECKS WHAT GOES UP?”

You decide — and nothing goes stale.

Last month’s flyer still playing is what happens when keeping screens current is somebody’s fourth priority. Here nothing reaches a TV until the right person says so, and slides start and retire on the calendar you set.

  • The Library — reopen any slide to fix a date or regenerate the art, duplicate last month's and change what's different, swap the picture while keeping the wording, category and play history. Your filters stay put instead of resetting after every edit.
  • Approvals — staff and volunteers make slides; nothing plays until an approver says so. Send one back with a note and it returns to its maker. Or let trusted people post directly — every organization sets its own rule.
  • Scheduling that thinks in calendars — exact dates, certain days of the week, "the second Friday of the month," breakfast-only or after-four. Slides retire themselves when they're done.
  • Weather-aware slidesPro — the patio special only plays when it's actually nice out.
  • Screen groups — the bar TVs play bar things, the dining room plays menus, and new slides route to the right screens by category automatically.
  • The message bar — type "Today's soup…" on your phone and it scrolls across the bottom of every TV within minutes, over your slides, without touching them. Schedule it, choose which screens carry it, make the big news shout in large letters. It takes itself down at midnight.
  • One red button takes a slide off every screen at once.
😊 Ease built in: the nav shows a badge when something's waiting, reordering is arrows or a position number — no fiddly drag-and-drop — and approving takes one tap.
The Approvals page: a submitted slide waiting for a yes, with a note for the person who made it
4 · “WHAT DO I HAVE TO BUY?”

Probably nothing — or about twenty dollars.

Signage quotes usually turn into a capital expense: their panels, their players, their installer. Your TVs are already on the wall. Pair one with a short code and it starts playing.

  • Our player on Google Play — put it on a cheap streaming stick, type the code, done.
  • Any smart TV with a browser works too — no app store needed.
  • BrightSign playersPremium supported for sites that already have them.
  • It survives the room it lives in — restarts itself after a power cut and keeps playing straight through an internet outage, then catches up when the connection comes back.
  • Live status, in play order — see which screens are online and what each one is showing right now, from your phone, from anywhere.
  • Portrait screensPro for the vertical TV by the door (early access), and zone-level transitions so slides change the way you want them to.
  • Clock and local weather in the corner — the two things everyone glances at a screen for. Set your ZIP code once.
  • Emergency takeover alertsPro — one tap puts a warning on every screen, over whatever is playing, until you clear it.
  • QR codes on any slidePro — a menu, a coupon, a sign-up — with every scan counted.
😊 Ease built in: green dot = online. If you can read a traffic light, you can run your screens.
TV Content: each group of TVs and the slides it plays, in order
5 · “CAN I PROVE IT ACTUALLY RAN?”

Yes — with Pro, every showing is recorded.

Sooner or later somebody asks — an inspector, a board, a sponsor who just wrote you a check. Most signage plays your content and forgets it. Ours counts on every screen, automatically, so the answer is a report, not “I think so.”

What a report answers

  1. Did it actually run?
  2. How many times — per slide, per day.
  3. For how long — total screen time, not just a play count.
  4. On which screens — broken out by TV and by group.
  5. Who made it and who approved it — on every single slide.
  • Counted even while a TV was offline. The player keeps its own tally through an outage and hands it over when it reconnects — a dropped connection doesn't become a hole in your record.
  • Any date range, or one tap: last 7 days, last 30 days, this month, last month.
  • Display counts and screen timePro for every slide and every TV, with a day-by-day chart that shows any day nothing was shown.
  • A clean PDFPro to print or forward, or a spreadsheet if you'd rather work the numbers.
  • Advertiser one-pagersPro — hand each sponsor their own month with a day-by-day chart.
  • The monthly email files itself.Pro Turn it on once and last month's report shows up without anyone remembering to run it.
  • “I read this” sign-offsPro — staff scan a QR code on the slide and sign, and it lands on the report.
  • “Is this still correct?” check-upsPro — every 90 days a manager re-confirms each message, and every check is logged. How it works →
  • Locked approved wordingPro — the words legal signed off on can't quietly change after the fact, so the record and the screen always agree.
The Reports page: times shown, hours on screen, and a day-by-day chart
6 · “WILL IT LOOK LIKE US?”

Yes — it’s your brand, not ours.

Your place has a name, a crest and its own way of doing things. Nearly everything your people see is yours to set — from the dashboard, in plain words, with no support ticket.

Same app — each place’s own look:

A Volunteer of the Month slide in a post’s colors
A church slide in warm, welcoming colors
An office welcome board in a company’s colors
A clinic check-in board in a medical center’s colors

🎨 Your branding

Set your colors and look once and they carry across the app and the slides your people build — and our name and logo never appear on your slides.

🔑 Your own sign-in page

Your logo, your colors and your name on the page your team signs in to. Share the link or print the QR code — it's the page they bookmark.

🎖️ Your logos & emblems

Upload the crest, the unit emblem, the sponsor's mark — they drop onto slides where they belong.

🖼️ Your own backgrounds

Upload your artwork and drag a box over the open space where words should go. Every slide built on it lands the text in exactly the right place — no more words across someone's face.

🗂️ Your categories

Name the kinds of slides your place actually makes — Kitchen Announcements, Queen of Hearts, Entertainment — and give each one its own short form to fill in.

👨‍👩‍👧 Your groups & roles

Kitchen, Lounge, Auxiliary, Riders. Each group only makes the slide types you allow, and a member's role can fill itself in so they never pick from a list they don't understand.

👁️ Who sees what

Choose who can set up screens, hide Import and Reports from admins, keep owner-only things owner-only. Every organization draws the line in a different place.

🏢 A menu that fits your kind of place

Tell it whether you're a restaurant, a clinic or workplace, a post or lodge, or a church, and the app sets itself up to match — its own Home, Help, starter categories and tools, nothing you'd never use.

📊 Your monthly reportPro

On or off, to whichever inbox should get it, with your date window.

📍 Your location

One ZIP code drives the weather in the corner of your screens and the weather conditions your slides can be scheduled against.

It teaches itself, too

New organizations get an onboarding checklist that only lists steps they can actually act on, and a Help page that documents your setup — not a generic manual full of features you don't have turned on.

EVERYTHING, BY PLAN

The whole thing, in one list.

Most of this comes with every plan. Where something needs Pro or Premium, it says so.

Starter $49/mo Up to 3 TVs · all your locations in one account · 5 users · 26 AI pictures a month
Pro $89/mo Up to 5 TVs (add more, up to 12) · all your locations in one account · 15 users · 48 AI pictures a month
Premium Custom 13+ TVs · more users · 68 AI pictures a month

Making slides

  • AI slide creation from plain questions
  • AI pictures each month — 26 · 48 · 68 by plan
  • Photo-of-a-flyer reading
  • “Tidy up my words” — AI fixes spelling and shortens it for the TV
  • Make artwork lighter or darker
  • Guided forms for each kind of slide
  • Ready-made designs for menus, safety postings and events
  • Your own artwork
  • PowerPoint, Canva & Google Slides import
  • Re-upload a deck and the slides update in place
  • AI can re-read an imported slide so you can edit it here
  • Saved artwork you can reuse

Tools for your kind of place

  • Menu boards from your menu — sold out, allergens, Chef’s picks Pro
  • Breakfast, lunch and dinner boards that switch by the clock Pro
  • Days-without-an-injury safety scoreboard
  • “Is this still correct?” check-ups, every one logged Pro
  • Posts & lodges mode — Queen of Hearts, Volunteer of the Month and more
  • Countdown slides that update themselves

Organizing & control

  • One Library for the whole organization
  • Edit, duplicate, swap artwork
  • Approval queue with full-size previews
  • Send back with a note
  • Direct posting for trusted people
  • Maker and approver recorded on every slide
  • Locked approved wording Pro
  • Groups with their own permissions Pro

Scheduling

  • Exact start and end dates
  • Certain days of the week or weeks of the month
  • Time of day
  • Automatic expiry
  • Made-ahead slides that replace last month’s on their start date
  • Play order by position
  • Weather-triggered slides Pro

Your screens

  • TVs included — 3 on Starter, 5 on Pro (add up to 12), 13+ on Premium
  • All your locations in one account, one login
  • Screen groups, each with its own slides
  • Live "playing now" view
  • Online / offline status
  • Pull a slide from every screen at once
  • Clock & local weather
  • The scrolling message bar
  • Emergency takeover alerts Pro
  • QR codes with scan counts Pro
  • QR scan page — all your links in one scan Pro
  • Tall (portrait) screens Pro

Players

  • Android app on Google Play
  • Any browser-capable smart TV
  • One-code pairing
  • Restarts itself after a power cut
  • Keeps playing through internet outages
  • BrightSign players Premium

Proof & reporting

  • Display counts and screen time for every slide Pro
  • Counting that survives an offline stretch Pro
  • Any date range, plus quick-picks Pro
  • PDF & spreadsheet export Pro
  • Monthly report by email Pro
  • Advertiser proof pages, emailed monthly Pro
  • “I read this” staff sign-offs Pro
  • Longer history for audits Premium

Your brand

  • Your logo, colors and emblem
  • Never our name or logo on your slides
  • Logos & backgrounds per group Pro
  • Your details (address, hours, phone) filled in automatically Pro

People & help

  • Users — 5 · 15 · more on Premium
  • Owner, admin, approver, editor and staff roles
  • Self-service password reset
  • Setup checklist and help matched to your kind of place
  • Done-for-you support in your account Premium
  • Concierge setup — free with a yearly plan Add-on

Works from anywhere

  • Everything runs in a phone browser
  • Nothing to install to manage your screens
  • Make, approve and post from the floor
  • Bring your own TVs and sticks

Something you need that isn't on this list? Ask — a good part of this list started as somebody's question. See the plans and prices →

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