Screens that pay for themselves

Live on your screen
in three steps

Every screen you set up here can also sell ad slots to local businesses, and you keep up to 92% of every sale. NowBoard gets you from sign-up to a live screen display in under an hour, including the hardware. Here is exactly how it works.

Sign up free Browse Boards

Free plan. No credit card. No hardware required to start.

See it working

See it in 60 seconds

Two short examples. Each shows the real steps, from the first Board to a live TV.

Add a screen with live property listings

  1. Property Listing Board showing one home for sale with its photo, guide price, bedrooms and features

    Step 1 of 4

    Pick the Property Listing Board

    Open Templates and choose the Property Listing Board. It starts with sample homes, so you see the layout before you add anything.

  2. Listings Board showing three homes side by side, each with a photo, price and status

    Step 2 of 4

    Connect your listings feed

    Add the property feed from your portal or CRM. Your listings fill the Board and stay in sync. Property feeds are on Starter and above.

  3. NowBoard pairing screen on a TV with a QR code and an eight-character code

    Step 3 of 4

    Pair the window TV

    Plug a NowBoard Player into the TV. Scan the QR code with your phone, or type the code on the screen.

  4. Estate agent shop window with a TV showing a home to let, between printed property cards

    Step 4 of 4

    Live in your window

    Your listings now play in the window, day and night. Mark a home as sold, and the window shows it within seconds.

A care home's day on screen

  1. Daily Activities Board for a care home, with morning and afternoon activities and the current one marked Now

    Step 1 of 4

    Morning: today's activities

    Put the Daily Activities Board on the lounge TV. Residents and visitors see the whole day, and what is on now.

  2. Menu Board for a care home showing breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner

    Step 2 of 4

    Lunch: the menu

    At lunch, the Channel changes to the Menu Board. The kitchen updates a dish from a phone, and the TV shows it within seconds.

  3. Photo Gallery Board showing a resident's birthday with her family and a cake

    Step 3 of 4

    Afternoon: family photos

    In the afternoon, a Photo Gallery Board shows photos from the week. Upload a photo once, and it joins the slideshow.

  4. Care home lounge with residents at a jigsaw table and a wall TV showing the Daily Activities Board

    Step 4 of 4

    Every day, on its own

    Set the times once in the Channel schedule. The lounge TV changes Board on its own, every day, with nobody at the screen.

Pick a Board. Add your content. It's on your screen.

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Step one

Pick a Board

Browse 100+ ready-made screen layouts, designed to be read from across a room. Filter by what you want to show, or browse by your sector. Then choose one of 10 Styles to set the look of every Board, or design your own from scratch in the grid editor on Starter and above.

  • Content Boards: schedules, menus, announcements, welcome screens, meeting rooms, countdowns
  • Media Boards: image slideshows, video backgrounds, live and YouTube video
  • Info Boards: opening times, weather, emergency notices, quick messages
  • Each Board comes loaded with sample content matched to your sector, you never start from a blank screen
  • Light and dark versions of every Board are included

Not sure which Board to start with? The Welcome Board and Schedule Board are the most popular first choices across every sector.

The Templates page in NowBoard: a grid of ready-made Board layouts, each with a preview, venue tags and a Use this button
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Step two

Add your content

Type in your timetable, menu, announcements, or upload images. It is as straightforward as filling in a form. Everything updates on screen automatically: no publishing step, no cache to clear.

  • A library of 28 kinds of content: timetables, menus, notices, events, opening times, team lists and more, each with its own editor
  • Write an item once and link it to as many Boards as you like: change it in one place and they all update together
  • Changes appear on your connected screens within seconds
  • Set expiry dates on time-sensitive content so it disappears automatically
  • AI writing assistance: write, rewrite, translate, and adjust tone (coming soon, Professional+)
  • Update from any device, phone, tablet, or laptop
A Board open in NowBoard: Content and Settings tabs, the content it uses, and a preview of the Board as it plays on screen
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Step three

Plug in and display

NowBoard works on any screen with a modern Chrome browser: preview from any laptop, phone, or tablet for free. Already have an Android TV or Google TV stick? Install the NowBoard Player App from Google Play. For unattended 24/7 displays, plug in a NowBoard Player, or a NowBoard Player Pro for live NDI video, connect to Wi-Fi, scan the QR code, done.

Change content from anywhere, it updates on screen within seconds. No IT support needed, no daily maintenance, the screen looks after itself.

Two wall-mounted screens in a leisure centre reception, both showing the day's timetable
Step three, in detail

Four ways to display a Board

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NowBoard Web Player (Chrome)

Try it, or use a PC you already have

Needs a Player Licence for each screen

Open your NowBoard Screen in Google Chrome. A laptop or small desktop PC wired to a screen can run a Board all day in full screen.

Trying NowBoard out, or driving a screen from a laptop or mini PC you already own.

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An Android TV stick with its HDMI connector

NowBoard Player App (Android TV)

Reliable, on hardware you buy

Needs a Player Licence for each screen

Get it on Google Play

An app for a Google Play Certified Android TV or Google TV stick, box, or Android tablet.

A reliable, always-on screen on Google Play Certified hardware.

Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Roku are not supported.

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The NowBoard Player Pro HDMI device

NowBoard Player Pro

For live NDI video

£199 ex VAT, UK only

Our most powerful HDMI device, It can also show live video from an NDI source on your network. Plug in, scan the QR code, done.

Live video from an NDI source on your network, and the most reliable set-and-forget option for an unattended screen.

DIY: Build your own version — available internationally

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The NowBoard Player HDMI device

NowBoard Player

Plug in and go

£149 ex VAT, UK only

Our dedicated HDMI device for everyday screens. Plug in, scan the QR code, done.

Menus, notices, schedules and slideshows on a screen that runs all day without anyone touching it.

Live video from an NDI source needs the NowBoard Player Pro.

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NowBoard Windows App

For a Windows PC

Needs a Player Licence for each screen

A player app for Windows. The PC driving your screen starts up, signs in and carries on showing your Boards without anyone touching it.

A screen run from a Windows laptop or mini PC you already own.

Available now. Download it from the Players page in the NowBoard app.

What comes next

Once you are live, grow at your own pace

Your first Board is a start, not a limit. Here are the things most organisations add next: all optional, all easy.

Add Boards to your Channel

Add more Boards and rotate through them automatically. Set how long each one displays before switching.

Schedule by time of day

Show a Welcome Board in the morning, a Menu at lunch, and an Activities Board in the afternoon, automatically. On Professional, Scheduled Boards also put a Board or Playlist on screen for a specific date and time.

Invite your team

Invite staff to update content, with no per-seat charge. Owner and Admin roles work today; roles that limit someone to certain screens are coming.

Add more Screens

Each content feed is a Screen. Add a second TV with different content in another room, or roll out across multiple buildings.

Open it in a browser

Open your Channel in a compatible browser using its display link. Each connected TV still needs its own Player Licence.

Emergency override (Professional and Enterprise)

Activate an Emergency from your dashboard and it takes over every screen instantly. One click.

Ready-made presets:

  • Fire Evacuation
  • Critical Alert
  • Test / Drill
  • Maintenance Mode
  • Missing Person
Who uses NowBoard

Built for every space where people need to know what is on

NowBoard works wherever there are screens and people who need information. Each sector gets Boards, sample content, and terminology tailored to their context.

Events → Sector page Hotels → Sector page Offices → Sector page Restaurants → Sector page Schools → Sector page Care homes → Sector page Gyms → Sector page

Sign up free for your first Board

Sign up free. Then browse the Template library and add your first piece of content. You can preview everything in your browser before you touch any hardware.

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