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Raydiant alternative and Raydiant competitors for restaurant and retail chains after the Displai sale

The usual Raydiant alternative is a per screen platform with a published price that runs on the TVs a restaurant or store already has. Raydiant's assets and customer contracts were bought by Displai Systems in May 2025, raydiant.com now redirects to displai.ai, and no price list is published; the last public listing put Raydiant at about 49 USD a screen a month plus a 169 USD player. Displayer costs 14 USD a screen a month on the yearly rate with daypart menus, roles and screenshot proof of play, or 29 USD month to month. Yodeck, OptiSigns and NoviSign are the other names on most restaurant shortlists.

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Type your restaurant or store name and three lines, and the builder renders a working screen in your browser with the weekly schedule behind it. No account and no player to buy. If your Raydiant renewal is coming up under the new owner, this is the quickest way to see whether a menu board, a promotion loop or a lobby notice runs the way your managers expect.

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  • Venue: restaurant, retail store, clinic, gym, office, school, plant floor, church, senior living or real estate office
  • Orientation: landscape 16:9 or portrait 9:16
  • Layout: full bleed, main plus sidebar, or a menu board in three columns
  • Content: your business name and three short lines, prefilled for the venue you picked

The schedule strip underneath shows the same playlist placed on a weekly grid, which is exactly what the schedule view does inside the product.

Why restaurant and retail groups look for a Raydiant alternative

Raydiant built a good product for hospitality. It had its own media player, an app marketplace, menu boards tied to Toast point of sale prices, kiosks, and an employee experience product. Most groups that start looking are not unhappy with the screens. They are reacting to three changes they did not choose.

Row of commercial displays in a retail store, the kind of screen network a chain moves off Raydiant players

The first is ownership. Raydiant was put up for sale and did not find a buyer for the whole business, so Displai Systems bought the assets, the technology, the customer contracts and part of the team in May 2025. Displai has said it will keep services running for Raydiant customers and that it is focusing on restaurant and hospitality businesses first. That is reassuring if you run restaurants. A retail chain, a clinic group or an office network is no longer the core market, and the roadmap now belongs to a company you did not sign with.

The second is price visibility. Raydiant never published a full rate card, and Displai publishes none at all: its pricing address ends in a demo form. The last public listing showed about 49 USD a screen a month for a single screen, and older listings showed 59 USD on Standard and up to 129 USD on Enterprise. At 49 USD, 25 screens cost 14,700 USD a year in software alone. Mainstream per screen platforms charge 8 to 16 USD for the same screens.

The third is hardware. Raydiant screens usually run on Raydiant's own player, listed at 169 to 199 USD per screen. Restaurant reviewers on GetApp have reported players dropping off Wi-Fi and needing a manual power cycle, and the processing power falling short for animated content. When a player fails, the replacement comes from the same vendor at the same price.

Raydiant competitors compared for restaurants and stores

US prices per screen per month, read from each vendor's pricing page in October 2026. Yearly rates unless stated. Raydiant and Displai publish no rates, so their column shows the figures third parties last reported.

Raydiant, now Displai Yodeck OptiSigns NoviSign Displayer
Published price None; about 49 USD reported for one screen, 59 to 129 USD on older listings Basic 8 USD, Premium 12 USD, Enterprise 16 USD Standard 9 USD yearly or 10 monthly, Pro 11.25 yearly Business 14 USD, Business Plus 17, Premium 25 Essential 9 USD yearly or 19 monthly, Professional 14 or 29
Player Own player, 169 to 199 USD reported Player shipped with the annual plan Android, ChromeOS, Windows, Fire TV and others, sold separately Android, ChromeOS, Windows, BrightSign, Amazon Signage Stick Browser of a recent smart TV, or any Chrome, Android or Windows device
Point of sale menus Toast integration, Square listed Not on the pricing page Not on the pricing page Toast POS integration No POS link; prices edited once and pushed to every board
Proof of play Proof of playback listed, terms by contract Playback Reports on Premium Proof of play on Pro Business Plus, built for ad serving Play record plus timestamped screenshots on Professional
Users By contract Unlimited on every plan Up to 25 on Standard 1 on Business, 5 on Business Plus Unlimited team members on every plan
Best for Kiosks, POS driven menus and location analytics in one contract Lowest price with a player in the box Large app catalog at a low rate Template heavy and interactive screens Groups where many managers edit and someone must show what ran

Reading that table honestly

Raydiant, under Displai, still does things the others on this table do not. If your menu boards read prices straight from Toast, if you use the kiosks or the in-store visitor analytics, or if your contract rate is well below the reported list figures, you would be giving up working features to save money. Displayer does not connect to a point of sale system. A price change is one edit that publishes to every board, which is quick, but it is a person doing it rather than the till.

Where Raydiant loses is predictability. Yodeck, OptiSigns, NoviSign and Displayer publish their per screen prices, let you start without a sales call, and run on hardware you can buy anywhere. For a group whose screens are mostly menus, promotions and notices, that is the trade most operators make.

What a Raydiant replacement costs at 25 screens

Software only, per year, at each vendor's yearly rate. Raydiant is shown at the 49 USD reported for one screen, because Displai publishes nothing; your contract may be higher or lower.

Raydiant or Displai, reported

25 screens at 49 USD is 1,225 USD a month and 14,700 USD a year, plus 169 USD a player for any screen you add or replace. The sources behind those numbers, and what to check in a renewal quote, are in our Raydiant pricing guide.

Yodeck Premium

25 screens at 12 USD is 300 USD a month and 3,600 USD a year, with playback reports and a player per screen on the annual plan. The full rate card is in the Yodeck pricing guide.

OptiSigns Pro

25 screens at 11.25 USD is 3,375 USD a year with proof of play, plus a player for every screen that has no usable browser. Every tier is in the OptiSigns pricing guide.

NoviSign Business Plus

25 screens at 17 USD is 5,100 USD a year with proof of play and five users. Each plan is broken down in the NoviSign pricing guide.

Displayer Professional

25 screens at 14 USD yearly is 350 USD a month and 4,200 USD a year, with daypart menus, groups by brand and venue, unlimited team members, roles and approvals, and proof of play with timestamped screenshots. Month to month it is 29 USD a screen. All plans are on the pricing page.

Against the reported Raydiant rate, a 25 screen group saves about 10,500 USD a year on Displayer Professional. At 60 screens the gap is about 25,200 USD a year, before any player you no longer have to buy from one vendor.

How to switch from Raydiant without a dark menu board

1. Read the contract before you call Displai. Find the term end date, the notice period and whether it renews automatically. Raydiant contracts moved to Displai with the asset sale, so the terms you signed still apply. Set a reminder eight weeks before the end.

2. List every screen by job. Sort them into menu boards, promotion loops, kiosks and back of house notices. Menus and promotions move in an afternoon per venue. Kiosks and anything driven by point of sale data take longest, so decide early whether they move at all.

3. Export your media and menu data. Download the images and videos you uploaded and export your menu items and prices. Screens built from marketplace apps are rebuilt from their source, not copied.

4. Decide what happens to each Raydiant player. Treat them as tied to Displai. Most recent smart TVs can open the Displayer player in their own browser with no box at all; for older TVs, a low cost Android or Chrome device does the job. Our digital signage player page lists what works.

5. Rebuild the menu once, for the whole group. Enter items and prices, set breakfast, lunch and dinner dayparts, tag boards by brand, region and venue, and scope each venue manager to their own boards. The digital menu board software page shows how a price change goes out to every board.

6. Run one venue in parallel. Pair one board a few weeks before the term ends, run the real menu through a full week of dayparts, then move the remaining locations one by one.

What proof of play looks like for a restaurant group

A franchisor that funds a national limited time offer wants to know it was on every menu board from the launch date. A regional manager wants to see that the new price went live at lunch and not two days later. A supplier that paid for a placement in your stores wants evidence.

On Professional and above, Displayer keeps the play record for every screen and stores periodic, timestamped screenshots of what the screen actually rendered. A board stuck on the cable box input, or showing yesterday's price because someone unplugged it, shows up as a picture of the problem rather than a green tick. The proof of play page shows what the export contains, and the retail digital signage page shows how store chains use it for supplier funded placements.

Which Raydiant alternative to pick

Choose Yodeck when

You want the lowest published price with playback reports and a player shipped to each venue on the annual plan.

Choose OptiSigns when

You want a large catalog of apps and integrations at a low rate and a play log without screenshots is enough.

Choose NoviSign when

Your menu boards must read prices from Toast and your designers live in a template library. Business Plus at 17 USD carries proof of play built for ad serving.

Choose Displayer when

Several managers edit the screens, a brand or operations lead approves before anything goes live, menus change by daypart across many venues, and you need screenshots that prove what each board showed. Professional is 14 USD a screen yearly or 29 monthly, with unlimited team members and three screens to start.

Stay on Displai when

Your kiosks, POS driven menus or visitor analytics are in daily use, and the renewal quote from Displai comes in close to the published rates above. Then negotiate a multi-year rate rather than switching.

What is the best alternative to Raydiant?

For restaurant and retail chains whose screens are mostly menus, promotions and notices, a per screen platform with a published price that runs on the TVs you already own. Displayer Professional costs 14 USD a screen yearly with dayparts, approvals and screenshot proof of play. Yodeck Premium at 12 USD and OptiSigns Pro at 11.25 USD are the cheaper picks.

Who are Raydiant's competitors?

The names on most restaurant and retail shortlists are Yodeck, OptiSigns, NoviSign, ScreenCloud, TelemetryTV, Rise Vision, Kitcast, XOGO, Spectrio and Displayer. For POS driven menu boards, NoviSign is closest. For simple menus, promotions and notices across many venues, the per screen platforms compete directly.

Is Raydiant still in business?

The Raydiant company is not; its product is. Displai Systems bought Raydiant's products, technology, customer contracts and key staff in May 2025, raydiant.com redirects to displai.ai, and Displai has said it will keep services running for existing customers while it focuses on restaurants and hospitality.

How much does Raydiant cost per screen?

Raydiant and Displai publish no prices. The last public listing, from October 2024, showed about 49 USD a screen a month for one screen plus 169 USD for the player. Older listings showed 59 USD on Standard and up to 129 USD on Enterprise. Your contract is the only reliable figure.

Can I use my Raydiant players with another platform?

Plan on not reusing them. Raydiant players were sold as part of its own managed service, and nothing published confirms they can run another vendor's software. The cheaper route is usually the TV itself: recent smart TVs can play Displayer in their browser, and older ones need only a low cost Android or Chrome device.

What happened to Raydiant customer contracts after the sale?

They moved to Displai Systems with the rest of the assets in May 2025, so the term, renewal and notice clauses you signed still apply. Read them before your renewal call, and ask Displai in writing which features, support levels and prices carry over.

How long does it take to switch from Raydiant?

About an afternoon per venue for menu boards, promotions and notices once the menu is rebuilt for the group. Kiosks and POS driven screens take longer. Pair one board, run a full week of dayparts, then move the remaining locations, starting about eight weeks before the term ends.

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Price your venues before the Raydiant contract renews

Pair three screens you already own, put your real menu through a week of dayparts, and set the yearly total next to the Displai renewal quote while there is still time to give notice.

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