Split-flap display buying guide
Thinking about a split-flap display for your café, hotel, office or home? Here's how the options compare, mechanical hardware, free browser tools, and digital boards that run on your TV.
Mechanical boards (Vestaboard, Oat Foundry)
The real thing, with real flaps. Beautiful, but expensive: Vestaboard is ~$3,500 and Oat Foundry starts at $15,000. They're fixed in size, need installation, and have thousands of moving parts to maintain.
Free browser tools
There are free split-flap boards that run in a browser tab. Fine for a quick play, but they lack native apps, menus, live data, scheduling, multi-screen and support, they're not built to run all day in a business.
Digital boards on your TV (Split-Flap TV)
The middle ground: the split-flap look and feel on any screen you own, fully dynamic, with menus, social counts, news, weather and more, from €19.99/month with a free trial.