What you can do with Screenly

A short tour of the whole product: screens, content, playlists, apps, access, and security.

Get started covers putting content on one screen. This page is a quick look at everything else, so you know what is there when you need it.

Screens

• Status at a glance: online or offline
• Whether a screen has the latest content and schedule, or is still downloading them
• Alerts when a screen drops off
• Remote screenshots, to see what a display is showing without visiting it
• Remote reboot and diagnostics
• Orientation for portrait or landscape, and scaling to fit the display
• Keeps playing if the internet drops, and catches up when it returns. What offline actually means has the detail

Screens check in on their own every few minutes and report how they are doing, which is what keeps all of the above current. A problem usually shows up in your dashboard before anyone standing in front of the screen notices it.

Content

Images, video, audio, PDFs, presentations, documents, spreadsheets, live streams, and web pages.

Two kinds update themselves once they are on screen. A web page is a live URL the screen loads and keeps current, including pages that need a sign-in. An app shows live data that refreshes on its own, such as a dashboard, a calendar, or a news feed.

Video is re-encoded when you upload, so every device gets a format it can play. Storage has no limit on any plan, as long as you only store media you use on your screens. See our fair use policy.

Playlists and scheduling

• An ordered, looping rotation, with a duration per item
• Schedules live inside the playlist: by hour, by day, or by date range
• Every screen evaluates its schedule against its own local time, so 9am means 9am in each city
• Priority playlists interrupt everything else on a screen while their schedule is active

Apps

Browse the App Store for dashboards, calendars, news, weather, and more. If nothing fits, you can build your own.

Workspaces and access

• Roles that control what each person can do
• Passwordless sign-in by default
• SSO through your own identity provider
• Linked workspaces, which share billing and licenses while staying operationally separate

Security

On ScreenlyOS, the device is locked down: nobody can sign in to it remotely, updates are verified before they install and undo themselves if they fail, and it works with the kind of network security larger organizations require.

If your IT or security team wants the specifics, they are in ScreenlyOS or Screenly Anywhere.

For developers

Everything in the dashboard is also available through an API, a command-line tool, and an MCP server for driving Screenly from an AI assistant. See the developer documentation. You can skip this entirely if it is not your job.

Next

Connect your first screen. The Glossary defines any term above that is new to you.