Screenbird vs Fugo: which digital signage platform fits your screens?

Let's start with credit where it is due: Fugo is the rare signage platform with real browser-based screen casting, and theirs is well built, a casting link in the browser, no app install, on Mac and Windows, including walk-up casting without a login.

The difference is where it sits in each price list. Per Fugo's own pricing FAQ, screen casting is available on its Core and Enterprise plans, so not on Essential (USD 20 to 24 per screen), and Core plans support casting to up to 10 screens simultaneously. Screenbird includes live screen mirroring on every plan, from any desktop browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari); the connection is peer-to-peer, so the video stream never passes through Screenbird's servers.

If casting is the feature you are buying signage for, on Fugo it starts at USD 30 per screen per month; on Screenbird it is part of the EUR 12 plan.

Screenbird charges one flat rate per screen, EUR 12 per screen per month billed annually (EUR 15 billed monthly), with every feature included from day one: screen mirroring, proof of play, split screen, scheduling, and the full app catalog. There is no higher tier to unlock more capability.

Fugo's ladder runs Essential at USD 20, Core at USD 30, and Enterprise at USD 40 per screen per month, where the 20 percent annual discount applies to Essential and Core only, so Enterprise is USD 40 either way. Casting and the Power BI and Looker integrations start at Core, and Enterprise holds the rest: proof of play, audit logs, SSO (including IdP-initiated), API access, player variables, and priority support all sit there.

Proof of play is the sharpest example in this whole comparison: on Fugo it is an Enterprise-only feature at USD 40 per screen per month, while Screenbird includes it on the one EUR 12 plan. A team that needs playback evidence for advertisers or franchise partners pays Fugo's top rate to get it.

Screenbird's dashboard ships in 15 languages. Fugo's CMS supports 9 (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, and Portuguese, per their help center), which covers much of Europe but leaves out languages like Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese that Screenbird maintains.

On infrastructure: Screenbird runs on EU infrastructure (Supabase's EU regions together with Cloudflare). Fugo's hosting is primarily UK (AWS London), with supporting infrastructure in Germany, and its compliance posture is unusually formal for this market, with SOC 2 Type II and a public trust center. Organizations that specifically need all data inside the EU should weigh the UK primary location for themselves; organizations that want formal audit reports may see Fugo's trust center as a plus.