Best Digital Signage Apps for Offices and Workplaces

The office is not just a place for people to work. It’s where company culture is built, where relationships grow and where those working for you become firmly entrenched in your company culture. And having great company culture is no longer just an option. Employees today consider it as much (sometimes more) than they do salary and perks. 

Using office digital signage has a number of perks, from being easy to use, versatile and adaptable and pretty cheap to set up and get running.

And as the versatility is key here, there are a lot of cool and clever things you can do with office digital signage. It’s not just displaying business announcements, or streaming news. More than ever, businesses are using digital signage to engage employees, manage and build teams and even gamify workplace processes.

With all this in mind, let’s take a look at some of the best digital signage apps for workplaces, from offices or warehouses to co-working spaces or public spaces.

Getting set up with digital signage

Cheap and easy - digital signage is no longer just for the big players. With something like our professional digital signage software, a consumer-grade TV screen and a handy device like the $40 Chomecast, you’re good to go. Amazon are now also offering a made for purpose digital signage player, the Amazon Signage Stick, which is slightly more costly at around $100, but offers great functionality and comes pre-loaded with ScreenCloud.

If you’re a larger business, we do think it's worth the extra investment to get a commercial media player, like our ScreenCloud OS device. As a made for purpose digital signage device, our Station P1 Pro media player is designed to run smoother, be glitch free and to offer an unrivalled level of security.

We believe that our media player is the best available in the industry right now.

Choosing apps

One of the biggest bugbears of office marketers, IT pros and business owners is not the challenge of creating and finding good content for signage. But modern digital signage tools such as ScreenCloud are designed to make it easier, and help your screens create content for you.

From social media, news feeds, booking schedules, company presentations and more. 

Here are our favorite applications for digital signage within the workplace, all of which can be found waiting for you in the ScreenCloud app store. Many of these are also included in the monthly cost of a ScreenCloud account and we’re adding new ones all the time.

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Business and Finance News

Great for: Financial sector

This simple but effective digital signage app pulls streams from some of the biggest business news networks on the planet including Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Reuters. A perfect solution for those who like to keep an eye on the happenings and general sentiment in the finance world.

Of course, this digital signage app is great for those who rely on knowing about business or financial movements, such as traders. But it can also be a useful signage display for banks, financial advisors or business schools.

Get the Business & Finance News app on ScreenCloud’s app store.

Headline News

Great for: Public spaces 

If you don’t want to have 24/7 streaming TV, which can be distracting (and a little soul destroying too sometimes), then a ticker of news headlines can be a great alternative. Headline News pulls the summary of the main headlines from your chosen news sources, from BBC, CNN, Fox and Google News.

What’s more, you can use Headline News with other apps from ScreenCloud to show the occasional news headline slide amongst your other messages.

Get Headline News from ScreenCloud.

World Clock

Great for: Multinational businesses, or transit centers

What time is it in San Jose? What’s the time difference between Paris and Tokyo? Wonder no more with this simple but effective world clock app.

The ScreenCloud World Clock app lets you create up to six different clocks in either 12 hour or 24 hour display, with your choice of cities and time zones. If you need to communicate with people on different time frames, this can be a great way to offer quick access info on your office screens.

Get World Clock from ScreenCloud.

Walls.io

Great for: Sociable brands such as fashion or media 

This great app allows you to aggregate social media feeds from across your business and even lets users share their content too. Collect content by hashtag, brand mention or keyword from across the most popular social media apps.

Walls.io is best suited to events, but can also be a great tool in the office for encouraging brand engagement or monitoring social media results.

Walls offers a free tier, but you may also need a paid subscription for the full service.

Get Walls.io from ScreenCloud.

AwardCo

Great for: Engaging sales teams and encouraging employee engagement

The first of two popular employee recognition and rewards apps, AwardCo can be used to post praise or recognition for individuals or teams across your organization. However, AwardCo can also be used to offer real world rewards such as points which can be redeemed on retailers such as Amazon.

It’s a great way to spread some office enthusiasm and help people feel recognized and rewarded in what they do.

While AwardCo does offer a free level, there are also paid tiers.

Check out AwardCo on ScreenCloud.

Bonusly

Great for: Engaging sales teams and encouraging employee engagement

Our second option for employee recognition offers similar functionality and features. Employees earn points from mentions for a job well done, and these points can be added and exchanged for real world gifts.

Bonusly does offer a lower cost entry level for their paid tier, which might make them a more appealing employee engagement option for smaller business owners.

Check out Bonusly in our app store.

Engage

Great for: SMBs and remote/hybrid based offices

A really nice app that allows everyone to feel connected and engaged with each other. Those magic words, ‘company culture’ can easily be shared through images on the Engage app for digital signage.

Employees (or even customers) can share images with the team through digital signage by simply uploading. This means they don’t need to connect their social media accounts and can share things like wins, client visits, product developments and more with ease.

Engage is included with all ScreenCloud plans

Meeting Room 

Great for: SMBs with lots of meetings

Is there a meeting room available right now? And when is the product team blocking out the whole of room Z for the next two hours?

This simple digital signage app displays which rooms are booked, and when, and even shows when rooms are next available. Avoid double booked meeting rooms and see who is booked when… 

A Godsend for big companies who have multiple teams in meetings throughout the day.

Meeting Room is included in all ScreenCloud plans.

Team News

Great for: Reminders and events for teams of all sizes

Make everyone feel welcomed and valued with the Team News app for digital signage. Get timely reminders of team members birthdays, new arrivals, or specific achievements of individuals.

Team News shares a simple post on the digital display to remind everyone to wish Marilynn in HR a happy birthday, or to say welcome to new hire Raj.

Team News is available on ScreenCloud Pro package and upwards.

Microsoft Teams

Great for: Big teams and multi location businesses

While services such as Teams are great for big businesses, not everyone reads all the notifications.

With the Teams app for digital signage, you can post key announcements or messages onto office displays so that everyone can see. Whether they access Teams or not.

Microsoft Teams is available with Pro and Enterprise ScreenCloud packages.

Digital Signs

Great for: Simple and inspiring messaging in the workplace

Inspirational quotes can be a great way to offer an uplift in a busy office. The Digital Signs app curates a range of inspirational and educational quotes for you to share easily on your digital signage displays.

Simply download the Digital Signs app through your ScreenCloud account, and choose from inspirational, educational or Biblical quotes.

Digital Signs is free with ScreenCloud.

Microsoft Power BI

Great for: Sharing business data with the company

Microsoft Power BI helps you to create visual representations of reports and company data. From countries you currently serve, through to financials, percentages and charts. It can be used to tell the world how your company’s currently running or to give an insight into who you are and the causes you support.

Never worry that there’s a lack of company knowledge or culture again. It’s all right there, up on your screens!

Microsoft Power BI is available for Pro and Enterprise ScreenCloud accounts

GeckoBoard

Great for: Sharing live sales stats and other dashboard based info

Use your digital signage hardware to share live information across your office or factory floor. GeckoBoard is a great piece of kit that allows you to access data from popular software including Hubspot, Google Analytics, Zendesk and Shopify.

Track sales, monitor engagement or keep tabs on revenue and other KPIs in real time.

What makes GeckoBoard a great tool is that it's really simple to set up all the info you need on one screen to keep everyone focused on your main goals.

You will need a Geckoboard subscription, but the Geckoboard app is included on all ScreenCloud plans.

Getting started with ScreenCloud

As the digital signage software platform of choice for over 10,000 organizations, ScreenCloud offers tons of potential for whatever you want to do with your digital displays. Whether that's helping with collaboration or displaying stats, or simply relaying relevant information using your screens.

ScreenCloud is made to be user friendly, with simple integrations for single or multiple screens, or managing your content in one location or many.

Get started with our 14 day free trial, or request a demo to see how you can use ScreenCloud in your workplace.