Product Updates
What has changed, and which new features and plugins we added in the latest versions of Play Digital Signage.
New features, security updates and much more
2026
- Dynamic Text - New plugin that shows live text from a Google Sheet on your screens. Paste the link to a sheet shared with "Anyone with the link" and show a single cell, the whole sheet (as a grid or a menu with dotted leaders) or a custom range. Screens refresh automatically, every 5 minutes by default.
- Amazon Signage Stick supports native portrait mode rotation
- App (Editor) for Android
- Audit log filters and CSV/PDF export
- White label support
- Option to disable all AI features, for team owners and super admins on the Team page
- Google Reviews plugin
- Make shapes into gradients
- Masking Selection - Put a picture inside any shape. Select two objects and click Masking Selection: the bottom item supplies the picture and the top item supplies the shape. Play then creates a new image for you and saves it in your Library.
- Group elements in the editor - Select several objects and click Group objects to move, resize, rotate and align them as one. Click Ungroup whenever you want to edit them separately again.
- Flip images and shapes - Mirror images, shapes, icons and groups horizontally or vertically with one click. Select the object, open Settings and use the new Flip horizontal and Flip vertical buttons under Rotate.
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- Detailed Weather - A new plugin for those who want more weather information, like UV index, wind, humidity and gusts.
- Background Music - We've added a feature making it easier to listen to audio files before adding them to playlists or slides.
- Upload Queue - We've redone the upload queue so that files are placed in a queue that will upload and convert files in the background, even if you navigate away from the library.
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- Screen Share - Share your computer live to any Play screen. Use a private session when you are logged in, or generate a public URL so anyone can temporarily display content on a TV.
- Frontend UI Ver. 4.0 - We've updated parts of the Frontend UI to make it easier and more fun to work in Play. Enjoy!
- Counter plugin - Added a countdown to the next slide. Makes it easy for the viewer to see when the next slide is on.
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- Instagram photogrid - Added option to include videos that will be autoplayed
- CAP - Confirmed support for CAP using Alertus
- CAP - Confirmed support for CAP using Raptoralert
- Analytics - Analytics reports can be requested now with an API key, making it possible for scripts to request reports on a daily basis
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- Editor Plugins Unified into a Single Searchable Popup - The way you find and add a plugin has been completely reworked. Instead of multiple dropdown menus, you now have one powerful popup with search functionality to quickly add elements like Text, AI Image, News, and more.
- Sticky “Standby” Group - The Standby group is now sticky when scrolling in Groups & Schedules. This makes it much easier to temporarily stage and manage content items.
- Filter Screens by Tag in Tag Management - You can now filter screens by tag name when creating or editing tags (previously only searchable by screen name).
- Add Tags Directly When Linking Screens - You can now assign tags while linking a screen, eliminating the need to go to screen settings afterwards.
- New Flipboard App - Added official support for the Flipboard app. You can now display curated Flipboard magazines on your screens. Learn more →
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- Klipy GIFs & Animations We’ve replaced the Tenor plugin with Klipy — a much larger library of royalty-free GIFs, short clips, stickers, and trending memes. Search and add animated content instantly to make your digital signage more engaging and dynamic.
- CAP Emergency Protocol Support Added full support for CAP (Common Alerting Protocol). Your screens can now automatically receive and display official emergency alerts (weather warnings, evacuations, Amber alerts, etc.) in real time for improved safety and compliance.
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- Screen Capture – Live View - Screen Capture now supports Live View! After taking a screenshot, click the Refresh button to auto-update the image on the fly — as fast as every 1 second. This makes it much easier to monitor what is currently playing on your screens in near real-time, troubleshoot issues, or verify dynamic content.
- Group & Schedule Screenshot - You can now take a single screenshot of an entire Group or Schedule. All screens in the group/schedule are captured at once, with offline screens clearly marked as “Offline”. A huge time-saver for larger deployments.
- News Plugin - We’ve added a powerful new News Plugin! Display live news on your digital signage by searching and selecting major sources (BBC, The New York Times, Bloomberg, ESPN, Fox News, Google News, and many more) or by adding any custom RSS feed. Fully customizable with layout options, article rotation, interval timing, portrait/landscape mode, publication time, full/maximized images, and a QR code so viewers can continue reading on their mobile device.
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- Sub-Playlists – Advance Parent Option Sub-playlists now include an option to advance the parent playlist after playing a single slide (regardless of the slide’s duration). This gives you more precise control over playlist flow and sequencing.
- Weather Asset – Ungroup Single Day Block The single-day weather asset block can now be ungrouped into its individual base components. This allows you to freely rearrange, resize, and style each element (temperature, icon, day name, etc.) for fully custom weather displays.
- New Slide Condition: Network A new slide condition type called Network has been added. You can now show or hide slides based on whether the player is online or offline — perfect for creating reliable fallback content or offline-specific messages.
- Amazon Signage Stick – Remote Pairing & Batch Wi-Fi Signage Stick updates now support remote pairing of remotes and batch Wi-Fi configuration changes. These enhancements simplify large-scale deployment and ongoing management of your Amazon Signage Sticks.
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- Default Font Settings - You can now set a default font family and default font size for new text assets. Go to your profile page under Default Values to choose your preferred settings. New text elements will automatically use these defaults, saving time and ensuring consistent branding.
- Amazon Signage Stick, New Remote Control Features - New features are now available for your Amazon Signage Sticks. You can remotely turn the TV on and off and easily view the device MAC address directly in Play Digital Signage. These improvements make managing and monitoring your signage sticks smoother and more convenient.
- QR Code App in Playlist Editor - The new QR Code app is now available directly in the playlist editor. You can quickly generate QR codes for URLs, plain text, Wi-Fi networks, or email addresses and add them to your playlists with ease.
- Account Statements - Account statement downloads have been added to the billing section. You can now easily download clear, detailed statements of your transactions and invoices from my.playsignage.com/billing.
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- Our playlists API endpoint used to return a thumbnail for every playlist when requesting all, which slowed down loading teams with many playlists. Now, if a team has more than 20 playlists, we don't send the thumbnail of the playlists, and the browser lazy-loads each thumbnail when the user scrolls it into view. The thumbnails are also cached on the browser side.
- Enforce Two-Factor Authentication for your team. Under Team, team owners can force the entire team to use two-factor authentication (2FA).
- Editor grouped object actions: Align only between selected objects and center on the first selected object.
- YouTube plugin now supports YouTube Shorts
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2025
- Restrict Login Methods - Restrict your team members to only use approved login methods like Microsoft, OKTA, etc.
- Webhook added to alerts.
- Download playlist assets - Download a file with all assets and links to those assets.
- Search in playlists has changed so that results are also shown from folders.
- Bypass Cloudflare - Added failover in case Cloudflare has an outage.
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- Added a new feature that will make ad showings easier. Check out Ad Cycle.
- Updated Tizen players; Tizen players have a new option to use AVPlay as the video player instead of the default HTML video player. AVPlay is a native video player in the Tizen operating system, allowing for a lower-level integration.
- Updated Time & Date; Additional date formats for digital clock plugin (including ISO date formats)
- Updated Slide Conditions; Slide conditions are re-evaluated every minute, so if they expire, the player will proceed to the next slide
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- Automation added where media players periodically check downloaded files for corruption and re-download those that can not be verified.
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- Slide settings are in a dedicated tab in the editor, and selected object settings are also. Using icons for tab labels instead of names
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- Ability to restrict assets in a playlist to full-HD (to avoid overloading non-4K players with 4K files)
- Plugins (RSS reader, Weather, Facebook Post, Digital Clock) default to the user's language
- Stroke and Shadow options for the Ticker
- If slides have only one asset that is full-screen, the editor will pre-select that asset
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- Transfer Screen lets you transfer a screen from one team to another team that you are a member of.
- The group page now shows how many schedules are created for a group
- Add or overwrite slide conditions in bulk edit mode.
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- Added stroke and shadow option to text in our Weather plugin.
- Added Preserve Size option in default values for adding images to the canvas
- Updated the /dashboard
- Added group filter in /screens
- Officially launched the PWA app
- Added the ability to see where a file is used (Library)
- Added a feature so that you can edit alerts in bulk
- Added QR code to the link screen page
- Added option to limit alerts outside normal business hours
- Added option to switch between teams from any page in my.playsignage.com
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2024
- Added support for Tizen 7 OS
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- Added support to view serial number, MAC address, and local IP address for BrightSign players.
- Added support to view the version number on Tizen Smart TVs
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- Kiosk mode supported on Raspberry Pi
- Analytics added support for storing website plugin playback
- The publish button now shows yellow when there are unpublished changes in a playlist
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- Added Canva plugin
- Added functionality to the Website Plugin, so that executing scripts can either happen before the slide runs or when the slide runs.
- Added widescreen support for Samsung Tizen
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- Added a feature in Slide Conditions so that you can invert the condition called Screen Condition. This makes it possible to add slides that are played on all screens except for the ones added in the screen condition.
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- Added folders for playlists, so that you can easily organize Playlists.
- Added an option to add slide conditions when using multi-create
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- Released APP version 3.4
- New OS supported: BrightSign OS
- Added Ken Burns effect as a slide transition option
- Changed the way search works in the library. Now, instead of filtering existing files, a search is performed over all your files and folders to match by file name.
- Added sorting by Last Published in Playlists
- Added the option to pick a default slide background in the default values
- Added the option to unlock the aspect ratio of a video
- Changed colors for slide conditions. A future slide is now marked with a yellow dot
- Changed colors for the publish button. If the playlist has not been published after making changes, the Publish button will appear yellow.
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2023
- Released APP version 3.2
- LG webOS application.
- Microsoft Power BI plugin.
- Group synchronization option – all screens in a group play the playlist in sync.
- Improved scripting support on Android (script executed during preload).
- Virtual clock (clock is synchronized with our server instead of using the operating system time).
- Rotation support for GIF images.
- Playlist references now also show which other playlists reference the playlist (as a sub-playlist).
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- Released APP version 3.1
- Google Drive plugin.
- History for each slide edit.
- Slide shuffling functionality.
- Ability to schedule display on/off for each weekday separately (only devices with HDMI-CEC support)
- Ability to share a playlist with a team (previously only other users)
- Better handling of ultra-high resolution images (previously was limited to 80 megapixels, or 9000x9000px images)
- Optimizations for single slide playlists.
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- Released APP version 3.0.8
- Weekday slide condition support.
- Multi-level playlist in playlist plugin support (nested playlists).
- HDMI / Video input plugin.
- Background option for Video.
- Ability to trigger the next slide when the sub-playlist completes its cycle.
- Android uses WebView to render website plugins instead of an iframe.
- Android supports website scripting.
- Stream plugin also supports the RTSP protocol on Android.
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2022
- Released APP version 2.6
- Support for Trial screens.
- Google Drive support – you can now add files directly from your drive.
- YouTube closed captions load without a refresh.
- Bugfix: SVG files with a tint overlay were not loading on Android.
- Slide-in animations now account for the object’s stroke and shadow as well.
- Optimized video playback for Raspberry Pi devices.
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2021
- Released APP version 2.4
- Twitter plugin launched.
- An ARM variant of the player can now run natively on new Mac M1 chips.
- Added a new icon on the playlist overview for assigned groups and schedules.
- Added size option so users can resize without breaking an object’s aspect ratio.
- Added an additional weather data provider (weatherapi.com) to the existing weatherbit.io.
- Option to create an analytics report in CSV in addition to the PDF one.
- Functionality to set default slide/screen values on your profile page for further customization.
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- Released APP version 2.1
- Added a new RSS reader plugin.
- Tizen TVs now support safety lock (disable/enable remote) management from the web portal.
- Feature: Continue the sub-playlist from the previous slide.
- Updated Windows/Linux/Mac application internal browser to the latest Chrome 89 (Electron v12.0.0).
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- Released APP version 1.22
- Released Samsung Tizen-based player software
- New slide condition type: show a slide only during the time of day
- New slide condition type: show a slide only on specific players
- SVG files can be colored
- The date/time plugin supports letter capitalization
- Improved startup logic for Android players
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2020
- Released APP version 1.20
- Added tagging functionality
- Multi-team membership support
- Public API for tag management and screen commands
- Improved weather plugin accuracy
- Better alignment for the date/time plugin
- Italian, Portuguese, and French translations in the web portal
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- Released APP version 1.19
- Added Stream plugin
- Extended counter plugin, added extra options to count up/down from the moment the slide is shown
- Added an option to periodically refresh the website plugin
- Showing disk usage in player settings
- Native ARM Linux AppImage player support (Raspberry Pi)
- Possible to add an individual audio file to play as the slide is shown
- More efficient logging on Windows, Mac, and Linux apps
- Timeline-based scheduling
- Giphy integration
- Pixabay integration
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- Released APP version 1.18
- The player starts with a dark loader to prevent white flash on screens
- Possibility to set a custom user agent for web plugin requests
- Updated Windows/Linux/Mac application internal browser to the latest Chrome 80 (Electron v8.0.0)
- Mac application is notarized (Catalina will no longer display a warning)
- Added .ttf and .otf font support
- Added .heic image file support (automatically converted to .jpg files)
- Eyedropper to pick a color in the editor
- If Windows registry editing is disabled and the user enables auto-launch, the player will send a warning to the user in the web portal
- Dynamic UUID parameter in website plugin URLs
- Hebrew language option for weather plugin
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2019
- Released APP version 1.17
- Added support for the German, Spanish, and Estonian languages
- Added support for CAPTIONS on YouTube
- Added Analytics (Proof of play)
- Added support for Animated GIF
- Added support for changing names on slides
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- Released APP version 1.16
- Added Two-Factor Authentication supporting multiple authenticators.
- Added support for HTML snippets in the Website plugin
- Added a new function to the count-down plugin to be able to do count-up also
- Added support for player-unique hardware ID in relation to better support
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- Released APP version 1.15
- Changes to Clock plugin – Now possible to do a transparent face
- Changes to the billing section – Now possible to update the credit card
- Changes to the billing section – Initiate payment from the transaction overview
- Changes to the library – Delete files directly from the editor
- Changes to the library – Create slides based on images now have settings for how to insert the images, plus the choice of a background color
- Added remote settings management for players
- Added additional information about player hardware
- Added player download progress bar on the screen page
- Reworked user authentication
- MediaRSS is now loaded asynchronously and not called back before the first item is loaded
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- Released APP version 1.14
- Added plugin Instagram Photo
- Added plugin Instagram#
- Added Royalty Free Image Library
- Added feature: Selecting multiple files
- Added plugin Random quote
- Added feature: Move items from one folder to another
- Added the feature of remote clearing of cache on most players
- Added support for new file formats (WebP, BMP, Excel formats (Microsoft, Apple, and OpenOffice formats), zip, and eps.)
- Added support for Request Desktop Site in Android
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2018
- Released APP version 1.13
- Added native Android support
- Added plugin, On this day
- Added plugin, Quote of the day
- Optimized counter and digital clock plugins
- Added an audio option for playlists
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- Released APP version 1.12
- Added plugin Facebook Photo
- The incorrect hour calculation bug has been fixed in the counter widget
- Added support for preloading Twitter content
- Fixed a bug where RSS load failure caused an infinite retry loop
- Made it possible to use the native web view on Android devices
- Extension web views have allowed transparency-enabled
- The player now hides the previous slide if in the sub-playlist and the background is transparent
- Fixed a bug where audio was not played if scheduled in a sequence of playlists
- Disabled pinch zoom on Electron
- Fixed a bug where, if a scheduled sequence playlist had no matching slides, the next playlist was not triggered
- Possible to pause the audio for some slides
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- Released APP version 1.11
- Added plugin count-down
- Added feature background music in a playlist
- Added a guided tour for new users
- Added a feature where a user can set the grid size
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- Released APP version 1.1
- Added plugin for MediaRSS
- Added plugin for RSS Ticker
- Added support for Raspberry Pi
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- Released APP version 1.09
- Added a new feature, Screen Capture
- Added design templates repository
- Added design templates: Abstract, Company Presentation, Meet the Teachers, Business, Hours, and Meetings at the office
- Added a feature for cropping images
- Added layering for ticker and video
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- Released APP version 1.07
- Added feature Slide Stash
- Added feature Alerts
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