Signage software, built to keep playing.

PixelFlow Studio and PixelFlow Player

PixelFlow Studio is the dashboard. It is a cloud application — you open it in a browser at pixelflow-studio.com, and it is where your media, designs, playlists, schedules and screens live.

PixelFlow Player is what goes on the screen. It is one product, not six. The same player is wrapped for each platform it has to run on: some versions you install on the device behind a screen, one runs inside the display itself, and one is a browser tab with nothing to install at all. Whichever route you take, it pairs with the same dashboard, takes the same playlists and behaves the same way.

Once PixelFlow Player has downloaded a playlist, it plays from its own copy. A dropped connection stops new content arriving; it does not stop the screen. This site is simply where we introduce the two — PixelFlow Studio is the app you work in, PixelFlow Player is the app on the wall.

Who it’s for

AV integrators who install screens and then look after them for clients. Multi-site operators — retail, hospitality, corporate estates — with displays in more than one building. Anyone past a handful of screens, where walking round with a USB stick has stopped being a plan.

Work is organised into workspaces, with four roles — owner, admin, editor and viewer — and complete separation between one workspace and the next, so the people who should see a set of screens and content can, and nobody else can.

What’s different

• It plays offline. PixelFlow Player keeps a local copy of its content and plays from that copy — so a site with unreliable internet is still a site you can put screens in.
• The design studio is built into PixelFlow Studio. Build screen content in the browser — layers, 38 kinds of animation, video on the canvas, QR codes, images that refresh themselves and live playlists.
• It reports back. Proof of play records plays, hours on screen and completion rate, for a single screen or across a workspace, and exports to CSV — so what actually ran is a report, not a phone call.

Where it runs

PixelFlow Player runs on six platforms. What changes from one to the next is how it gets onto the screen:

• Android 9 or newer — media players and commercial displays. The same player runs on Android TV and Google TV.
• Windows 10 and 11 — any PC or mini-PC.
• Raspberry Pi 4 — running 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS.
• Samsung Smart Signage, SSSP 6 — PixelFlow Player runs inside the display itself, with no separate box. Images and video keep playing from the display’s own storage if the connection drops; designs from the studio need a connection.
• ChromeOS — any ChromeOS device enrolled in Google Admin Console and set up as a kiosk. Google charges a Kiosk & Signage Upgrade licence for each device run that way, bought from Google rather than from us.
• A browser — Chrome or Edge, with nothing to install. It caches the whole playlist, designs included.

We do not sell hardware. There is no proprietary hardware to buy and no box you can only get from us — you source standard devices from the supplier you already use, and we keep PixelFlow Player working on them. What genuinely differs from one device to the next is set out in Hardware & Compatibility.

Ionut Emilian Ene, PixelFlow Studio founder