Yodeck Reviews

Pros

Easy to setup using low cost hardware.
Easy to maintain

Cons

In case you show a website it is very hard to answer cookie policy questions remotely so the popup is showed.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft PowerPoint

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Remote setup Freedom in setting up shows

Pros

I love that Yodeck let's you customize your playlist with your photos, video's and even has widgets for social media including Facebook and Instagram. It's easy to download files into your account and they also have their own layouts that you can use to customize and create what ever you want.

Cons

It did take me a little time to figure out the scheduling process. Making a playlist was a breeze, scheduling it to run was a little more involved, especially if you are running multiple playlists on one media screen. Might just be me.

Pros

East of setup. It was very easy to get it on our network.

Cons

Device storage is limited. Storage on the device is relatively small.

Pros

I love how easy the Yodeck app is to use. Tagging and scheduling content is EASY EASY EASY and works great!

Cons

I would like to see some improvements in the security with some of the widgets. I don't want to provide my login credentials for SharePoint, PowerBI, etc. to be able to use some of those widgets. There has to be a better (more secure) way...

Alternatives Considered

ScreenCloud and Screenly

Reasons for Choosing Yodeck

Managing PCs, Windows, Office, etc. was expensive, time-consuming, and a pain.

Switched From

Microsoft PowerPoint

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Price, simplicity, Raspberry Pi players included

Pros

My company has been using Yodeck for over 2 years and currently have 79 media players and i am able to manage the players without help. Its easy to use and sends you emails if a player goes down. Easy to use and fast customer support.

Cons

The only con that I have is sometimes I received a media player that is not working. OF the 79 media players I have received I have had 5 that did not work. 3 of them I was able to fix by re-flashing the SD card and 2 I had to replace the SD card.

Pros

The software is working 100% of the time even without internet connection. That is what business needs: reliability.

Cons

Wifi set up process should work even simpler. You always need a keyboard or a LAN cable to connect, but every IoT Device out there can perform that via smartphone.

Pros

Simplicity, cost and ease of changes. Ability to use our own Pi's was the quickest way to get going on day one.

Cons

We have not found a negative for our needs.

Pros

It helped clean the Campus University from paper and create more digital content, easy to update and manage on the daily basis.

Cons

Just that we cant use the Schedule feature because of the price upgrade.

Pros

Price and features. Yodeck is a great signage solution for the price and with the free Raspberry Pi Player included with the annual subscription, it gets even better. The feature set is huge with many widgets to connect the screens with live data.

Cons

The Content Scheduler is not easy to use and I wish that Yodeck has phone support instead of just chat.

Pros

We were most impressed with the low cost of the solution combined with a large number of features. It was also lovely to create an I.T. dashboard display that was very reasonably priced, as most competitors charge a high price for the ability to display content from secure websites.

Cons

Currently, you cannot have two YouTube videos running on the same layout/display. Not a big deal and I'm sure future versions will allow this as an option.

Pros

The documentation, layout of the system and ease of integration makes the system really practical in a busy environment where there are lots of systems to manage. I have implemented Yodeck at both schools i have worked in, and from when I first started using it, I have consistently seen updates to the UI and features.

Cons

I think there needs to be better diversity in Widgets. I think they hold huge potential to really standing out the system from the rest. For example, we are a Microsoft school so would benefit greatly from those features. Other custom API widgets would also be amazing so we really can personalise it.
The layout system can be improved with integration with widgets too. For Example, the weather widget is hard to fit correctly in the top right hand corners as the grid limitations of the widget is greater than the size of the widget, so it makes it difficult to be precise with positioning.

Alternatives Considered

ScreenCloud and OptiSigns

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Price and experience with the system previously. The raspberry Pi integration and use also benefits us rather than a webos verison.

Pros

All cloud based to simple to update and sync to players. We've replaced our entire digital signage screens with TVs running Yodecks behind them. We've also managed to create one incorporated with a free to air setup TV box so staff can enjoy TV whilst we overlay important messages.

Around the school site we use them to display messages for students, live feeds from Twitter, the weather, time and news. Very powerful and very easy to use and manage.

Cons

Nothing. Every works well for us. Plenty of guides online helping if you get stuck too.

Alternatives Considered

Screenly

Reasons for Choosing Yodeck

Wanted the ability to use normal TV screens and update remotely.

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Trialed YoDeck and worked brilliantly for us.

Pros

We are a small manufacturing plant that needed a convenient way of passing messages along to all of our staff that work at all times of the day. I simply create slides in PowerPoint and quickly upload them to Yodeck. The software is extremely easy to use and fits our needs perfectly.

Cons

I have tried implementing some of the widgets and they don't always fit the screen, and sometimes don't work so it is hard to depend on them enough to use them.

Alternatives Considered

Screenscape and EZ Screen

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Free monthly option for using only one screen. Hardware is a Raspberry Pi, which I have prior experience with.

Pros

That you can roll your own players from raspberry PIs which we had many on a shelf from other projects. We lover the birthday widget for our younger members

Cons

Occasionally we've had an odd issue with visual noise on uploaded videos, but never had the time to investigate if it's our problem or Yodesk's.

Pros

The ease and speed of updating our content at will is the best part about YoDeck and our Raspberry Pi video units. I can update from almost anywhere...can even do most content updates from my phone.

Cons

We had sought a solution that would allow us to sync 10 - 15 monitors in our stores. Unfortunately the only way to get that right now is a system that is way out of our budget for the size stores that we have. YoDeck and Raspberry Pi video units were as close as we could get - though they don't sync up as of yet - they were well within our budget.

Alternatives Considered

FirePoint

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Quality of the product and price of the service & video units.

Pros

Super easy interface with lots of features, but not at all complicated.

Cons

Limited player options- RPi players are main option with less robust web player option.

Alternatives Considered

Rise, Mvix Digital Signage and OptiSigns

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Best feature set with easiest interface and lowest cost.

Pros

We like Yodeck's intuitive user interface and simple, Raspberry Pi based players. Yodeck also presented as a great value when compared to similar signage solutions.

Cons

We have not found any significant problems, and rollout has been smooth.

Alternatives Considered

Play Digital Signage, Mvix Digital Signage and XOGO Decision Signage

Reasons for Switching to Yodeck

Yodeck was the best value for the features we wanted.

Pros

Easy to use, simple to implement, light on resources and works as it should.

Cons

It gets expensive fast if you have more than one screen.

Alternatives Considered

Xibo

Reasons for Choosing Yodeck

Xogo didn't offer all that we wanted and was more expensive.

Switched From

XOGO Decision Signage

Pros

Its so easy to setup and use, simply drag and drop any videos you need and upload them to the Yodeck server, their server then verifies that it is a usable format if not then it will automatically convert it to a usable format that Yodeck recognizes. you can even customize schedules by location. we have 2 stores and both stores have different hours. We have the Sorry we are closed sign pop up when we close by time wise and it helps to get those last minute customers finished up, we have even loaded up some music to help our staff close and clean the store each night. Easily add Banners and even custom tikcer tapes to any of your screens. play videos and slides with ease. you can even set when a video or sale should expire and when new sales start if you are ahead of the game and have them made up already.

Cons

I only wish there were more widgets and not just graphical widgets. I wish that there was a ability to have closed captioning with uploaded videos as well so people across the room can see and read what is being said on the videos that we upload. not even sure if this is possible but it would be a nice addition.

Pros

We integrated Yodeck into our arena quickly and easily. From set up to daily updates and changes, it has been a very easy system to use. Adding graphics, changing schedules, building layouts are all very easy to do compared to other media players we have tried and if we have had any problems they are very quick to respond.

Cons

There were a few issues at first with their software being user friendly, but they are constantly updating and almost everything I had a problem with at first has been fixed. The scheduling can take some time to get used to, and the way the stored media is displayed when building a playlist can get sloppy.

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

The feature set is rich, reliability is amazing, and price point is incredible. As an IT professional I crave solutions that never let me down and that I never have to worry about. Yodeck delivers big time on these key needs!

Cons

At first it took a little getting used to that the "Playlist" is really what you are showing as opposed to a "slide show" as in other solutions but then you realize its actually better and more customizable so its really just a terminology difference.

Pros

This "cloud based" application does "everything". From formatting and organizing your content to establishing the best layout for your messaging as well as providing an uncomplicated scheduling module for time sensitive content distribution. This "easy to use" yet feature rich application is the most comprehensive digital media solution on the market. In addition, it is absolutely "bullet proof". I have been using Yodeck 24/7 for the past 18 months and there has not been a single outage. The email support has been very responsive and the documentation easy to follow yet very comprehensive.

Cons

Although the email support is great, a "real time" support chat would be a plus.

Pros

How simple it was to get up and running. Ease of use a big plus. And reliability has been 100%... I expected downtime since we're running this on a Raspberry Pi, but we're amazed it's been 100% reliable.

Cons

Nothing... honestly... nothing! I'm really trying to find something negative, but it has been a great product with amazing reliability.

Pros

Excellent support, regular updates/upgrades with new features, flexible prices and low cost for the players as they use Raspberry pi.

Cons

Few widgets, with poor design. But this was not a big problem for us, because we created our own widgets.