Yodeck Reviews

Cons

In the spirit of a fair review, it's worth considering any drawbacks of the Yodeck digital signage platform. However, in the two years since its installation at Andrew Johnson Golf Club, the system has operated flawlessly, with no notable issues to report. The one instance where we required assistance, the hiccup was swiftly and efficiently resolved by their responsive support staff. While some may yearn for a con to weigh against the many pros, our experience has been so positive that finding fault seems more like searching for a needle in a well-kept fairway. Yodeck has proven to be a reliable and robust solution for our digital communication needs.

Pros

Yodeck is a great, easy to use system. The interface is clean and intuitive to use. There are lots of built-in templates to get you started, but it can also accept content imported from other methods like pictures, Powerpoints, PDFs and Canva. It is quick to refresh and push out new content to screens. The customer support have been quick to respond to queries. I also recommend reading the Yodeck Documentation page as it is really helpful.

Cons

The 1GB Pi sometimes struggles/lags when there are multiple apps in your playlist, so I would recommend the 2GB or higher version if you want more complex graphics.

Alternatives Considered

OptiSigns

Reasons for Choosing Yodeck

Wanted to move away from an open source product to a more established product. Also wanting to refresh our out-of-date Firestick players which we used with Xibo.

Switched From

Xibo

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

The cost versus the amount of features Yodeck has was a benefit to us.

Pros

Nothing. $79 For their in-house hardware. Tech support that doesn't give a sh%t. Buggy Unusable software. Waste of time and money.

Pros

Yodeck is simple to setup, inexpensive and easy to manage. There isn't much of a learning curve with the Yodeck user interface and purchasing the players (we upgraded from the free players to the 4gb version for a nominal charge) from Yodeck is a plus and a must if you don't want to fool with setup. When I got my players, all I had to do was plug them into the screens, power them on and register them. Yodeck added our wifi settings and named the devices so that was great and meant a few less steps for me. Getting the content setup and figuring out scheduling, layouts, etc. was a breeze using the Yodeck tutorial videos. And when I did run into an issue, their online chat support was there to walk me through the solution quickly. There's really no negatives with Yodeck!

Cons

It took me a few trys to get the scheduling to work the way I needed it to. I just didn't understand exactly how it worked. But after a few tries and watching the tutorial, I got it to work and now it's working seamlessly for us.

Alternatives Considered

Wallboard Display

Reasons for Choosing Yodeck

Google Chromebits are difficult to find AND Google Digital signage is very limited and not very user-friendly when you start adding lots of screens to your deployment.

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Pricing and ease of use. I set up a free screen using the Yodeck platform and discovered how easy it was and that sold me.

Pros

I've used Chrome Sign Builder, Kitcast, etc... the value of Yodeck as a small business is unparalleled. They really understand small business.

Cons

Nothing. I can forgive any general software glitches as they seem rare and often repaired quickly.

Pros

What do I like best about Yodeck? It really is the complete package! Yodeck gives me everything I am looking for and they make it affordable. Also, it's just so easy to use.

Cons

I've really tried to come up with a dislike....but I can't. It's a bit cliche, but I seriously love Yodeck.

Alternatives Considered

ScreenCloud and OptiSigns

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Ease of setup, Ease of use, Extremely great pricing, Simple upgrade options, reliability. Yodeck was definitely the solution for our needs.

Pros

My experience with Yodeck has been largely positive thanks to these features. The platform not only simplified the process of managing my digital content, but also gave me the flexibility and control I needed.From the moment I started using Yodeck, I was impressed by how easy the platform was to navigate. I didn't have to go through a complicated learning process; Everything was laid out logically and clearly, which made it easy to create and manage content.

Cons

Compared to other options on the market, Yodeck can be more expensive, especially for small businesses on tight budgets.The free version of Yodeck has certain limitations, both in functionality and storage. This can be restrictive for users who want to explore all the features of the product without committing to a payment plan.

Alternatives Considered

Raspberry Pi OS

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Thanks to its free trial of 1 device, we were able to test how it worked and test it fully. Apart from its wonderful operation.

Pros

Feature packed and widely compatible multimedia support with such a simple and clean interface to manage all your digital signage.

Cons

Understanding scheduling and prioritizing order was a challenge to comprehend and the guides.

Pros

Intuitive, enough features and the price is ok.

Cons

One of the players delivered had a defect SD card. However the support helped fix it quickly.

Alternatives Considered

OptiSigns

Reasons for Choosing Yodeck

Was based in Flash - which is not supported in browsers anymore.

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

It is cheaper and has a more intuitive user interface.

Pros

The ability to craft dynamic content, with video / motion backgrounds. This allows for engaging, eye catching content.

Cons

Some of the dynamic Apps show loading screens briefly. I believe this is something they are working on improving.

Pros

It is incredibly user friendly for both admins and customers. It's cheap and easy to deploy, it's easy to manage...it's amazing!

Cons

There are limited features compared to more full-fledged platforms, such as wayfinding. But we do not utilize that.

Alternatives Considered

Xibo, Skykit, Play Digital Signage, Rise Vision, Spectrio and BroadSign

Reasons for Choosing Yodeck

Visix's hardware was expensive, finnicky, and unreliable. It felt like we were constantly fixing players. The interface was not user friendly, and required downloading apps to update content.

Switched From

AxisTV Signage Suite

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

I assessed 20 different digital signage platforms, and YoDeck sits in a great middle ground. It is cheap and uses inexpensive hardware, but still feels stable and easy to use like a more fully-feature platform.

Pros

Ease of use, I love the layout feature! Snapping to the grid and ability to preview is wonderful!

Cons

I love working with Brightsign, so I hope they can integrate apps that work well with it.

Alternatives Considered

OptiSigns

Reasons for Choosing Yodeck

Usability, it wasn't as user friendly. Apps were stale and overall player insights were not there....

Switched From

OptiSigns

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Using the trail and Yodeck being so transparent with using a trail and not being restricted on how many days I get to play with it. Knowing the customers will always pick the company that treats them right. I previously bought a Raspberry Pi Player with Optisign and I spent a fortune....I wish I had know about this I would have just subscribed for the year! That is definitely a PLUS!

Pros

Whoever created and designed yodeck did a phenomenal job. Our experiences with yo deck has been nothing but praise. The user face is easy to use, understand, and to get up and running. On average it took about 5 minutes to set up (we received yodeck players at a minimal cost) and the fact that they offer free yodeck players with a yearly purchase is amazing. The only things we had to do to set up a yodeck player was plug it in, and plug in an ethernet cord. From there using the Remote Management portal on yodeck was a breeze after that.

Cons

The only thing I have found difficult to use is the calendar interface. It gets quite confusing if you have multiple things going on at once, however, it is a very minor issue. The calendar interface could use some TLC but other than that, the product is amazing.

Alternatives Considered

Play Digital Signage, Mvix Digital Signage and Rise Vision

Reasons for Choosing Yodeck

We made the switch due to a lack of support from the company, cost, and unreliability with the product.

Switched From

Rise Vision

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

We chose Yodeck for the benefits (mainly free yodeck players), ease of use, and product deployment.

Pros

The software is very easy to use. The flexibility to partition the display into custom size area with a variety of content and sources (external websites, YouTube, weather widgets, scrolling text, etc.)

Cons

I have not found an way to acknowledge or hide cookie and location messages that websites require users to confirm.

Alternatives Considered

ScreenCloud and Mvix Digital Signage

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

We don't have a large budget and we use the signage for sharing information with employees and visitors. I have found Yodeck to be the best value in the market. We have not experienced any outages because of the software/device. Yodeck had all of the features that we need, and a lot more.

Pros

Nice management panel, see if the monitors are on or off. Also the shutting down and turning on screens on schedule saves the sceens panels (previous tool didn't have this option, which caused displays to broke after year or two)

Cons

No good Microsoft integrations, only Power BI. Would be great if OneDrive for Business, Teams or Sharepoint online integrations would work.

Alternatives Considered

ScreenCloud

Reasons for Choosing Yodeck

Screenly didn't have integrations at all. Also Yodeck has very good deal order subscription, get Raspberry PI 4 player for free!

Switched From

Screenly

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Yodeck had Raspberry Pi support, which is very good digital signage player.

Pros

Easy deployment and hardware versatility.

Cons

A drag and drop feature with the media library would be instead of the select and move. Nice to have but just as easy to move and relocate media. Also ran into an issue with PowerBi widget and was only to work around by publishing reports as an application and displaying as an application through powerbi.

Alternatives Considered

ScreenCloud

Reasons for Choosing Yodeck

Easy of use and content deployment was consistently an issue.

Switched From

Mvix Digital Signage

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Hardware functionality, familiarity and easier to replace. Warranty provided by Yodeck was also better in my opinion.

Pros

The fact that it is a cloud based platform really works well for us. Due to not being reliant on a central publisher located in a DC, the management of the platform can be done from anywhere. With integrations for SSO from Azure AD, this also provides security and RBAC access from our existing estate without the need to manage individual users and groups in the application. Having Raspberry Pi's run the content displays is a nice touch too, as they are cheap to replace should one fail and using Micro SD cards to install the OS on is also really handy as these can be rebuilt in minutes should there be a problem with the player. There are a large number of widgets available out of the box, but being able to create your own is also really handy too. This way we can build a generic widget for a certain task, then just keep re-using it for different sites.

Cons

As with any new products, there are a few teething issues. These are mainly down to widgets needing to be developed to allow certain functionality. However, Yodeck tech support are very prompt and very helpful, so can't really say this is a down point. Just a staged development of the app integrations i suppose with any platform.

Pros

- Value for money: tried different, much more expensive solutions, Yodeck beats 'em all!
- Use any Raspberry Pi as a player, even 4K display resolutions (using Pi 4), free players for all screens when using annual subscription.
- Very intuitive to set up and use. When ordering with player you can setup in advance, just connect the player to your screen and you are all set! Plug & Play!
- Cloud based and central management from any device with internet connection.

Cons

No support for dutch language. No problem for me personally but some users would like this.

Alternatives Considered

Xibo

Switched From

Xibo

Pros

I am a safety engineer and it is very simple to work with for me. I can update the screens in various locations throughout our shop and have no problems. The set up was super easy and the websites that can be copy and pasted for web use works very well. This way I am able to put up safety videos over subjects we have problems with. I love that you can add powerpoint as well and it will set up the times to scroll through all of it. In some scenarios with past digital signage companies I had to paste slide for slide so this saves me a ton of time. Yodeck provides free players with subscriptions to services which makes it very convenient should you have to present for approval to corporate. All in all this is a great platform and I enjoy using it.

Cons

There is nothing I can think of besides maybe having a day counter option. I would like to put a clock up that counts the amount of days without an accident to display on the screens in the shop and I can't find anything like that on the widgets besides countdowns.

Pros

I have a blog for the Blair House a seniors residence in Ottawa Ontario Canada and this Yodeck software has given me the ability to display in real time The bus schedule for our bus stops ( 4 in total ), plus the weather, Emergency warnings system, Our Community Events Calendar, Covid 19 status all edited from my home pc or cell phone.
In Canada we are a bilingual country English and French so all the webpages have to be repeated in both languages. easy as can be.
The building is an Ottawa Community Housing building with an energy engagement program that consists of a monitor in the lobby that informs tenants of how much energy is being used ( electricity and gas) and compares it with other similar buildings .
Now the information is of some value to the tenants as they do not have to wait outside in the rain or cold to catch a bus.
I was somewhat concerned about the new Raspberry Pi 4 that replaced the Pi 3 as to how much work it would be to upgrade it involved 8 letters and a hyphen WOW works fine!
This is by far one of the best Raspberry projects that I have come across thumbs up.

Cons

In the Ottawa Community Housing building we have a large percentage of people that do not speak either of Our official languages and it would be nice to incorporate Google Translate into this platform.
I would like to see a camera on the raspberry Pi that could scan a QR code that when displayed would translate to the appropriate language.
It is very important to try to create a hands free environment in this time of Covid.

Pros

The simplicity of setup is a great draw - having the option of preconfigured Raspberry Pis being delivered, ready-to-display, is a huge plus. It also makes adding additional screens a breeze as budgets allow.

Cons

The web-based interface does take some getting used to, particularly for individuals with less experience navigating directory structures on the web.

Alternatives Considered

ScreenCloud

Pros

Best digital signage platform for displaying websites and HTML5 content. Raspberry Pi 4 expanded RAM options make a huge difference for complex visualizations!

Cons

A little technical to set up for the average user. Its worth the tradeoff for power in my opinion though.

Alternatives Considered

OnSign TV

Reasons for Choosing Yodeck

Pricing, and support for web content.

Switched From

OnSign TV

Pros

Very user-friendly. Wide range of media support, such as videos, images, web pages and Youtube. Nice hardware support.Software is cloud-based, only requiring an internet connection. Good customer support.The pricing is fair.

Cons

The only con I can think of is that the software requires an internet connection to setup. However, this is not a big issue for me. It will operate offline once all media assets have been cached.

Pros

I was searching for a digital signage in order to project trailer and show scheduler for our cinema.
Yodeck was the optimal solution. Based on Raspberry Pi, cheap hardware that you can manage as you want, Yodeck gives you full remote configuration of you system: you can upload any media (audio/video/image) or you can also link directly youtube videos or webpages!
What I most liked is the possibility to create diffent playlist, mixing layouts with different kind of media, and scheduling the playlist whenever I want, switching automatically playlist in various time of the day.
The update from the portal is very simple and the monitor will syncronize with the contents scheduled in very short time.
Very nice also the alerts that notice you that you monitor is offline, so you can check the status with very short downtime.
The installation is very easy: yodeck gives you the os image for the raspberry: the only thing you have to do is install the image and follow the instructions.
So, I am very satisfied with this solution (we have been using it for more than 3 years and we never had problems) and I advice it for who need a simple but powerfull system for digital signage.

Cons

Maybe is not very intuitive the part about making a layout on the screen and then checking how it comes on the monitor, but with but with a few attempts everybody will manage to configure all

Pros

Yodeck is an excellent mid-tier digital signage system that offers free players. It's easy to deploy and even easier to manage remotely. Yodeck delivers a robust yet efficient solution for digital signage at a reasonable cost that just works. Period.

Cons

While Yodeck excels in many areas it would benefit greatly from a UI update in others. Overall, the Dashboard UI is acceptable but specific areas like scheduling and media storage are antiquated and can be confusing to use.