The split-flap display that runs on your TV.
Remember the clack of an old departures board? Now any TV can make it. Split-Flap TV flips your menus, messages and social counts into place with that same satisfying sound, and you change it all from your phone. On the screen you already own, from €19.99/month.
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Do you remember the old departures boards at your local airport?
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Jay-Z's Roc Nation flagship store runs a Split-Flap TV board in-store.
A split-flap board on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Across hospitality, retail and corporate spaces worldwide.
Real boards, real places.
From Jay-Z's Paper Planes store and the U.S. House of Representatives to cafés, hotels and coworking spaces, here's Split-Flap TV running on real screens.
Jay-Z's Paper Planes flagship runs a Split-Flap TV board reading “Greatness is a process.”
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The Congressional Staff Academy flips class schedules and quotes on a single 65-inch TV.
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A live gelato flavour board, flipped from a phone as flavours sell out.
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A departure-board menu that matches the aviation-themed café.
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“The Station: you have arrived”, a 1950s train-station board on a modern TV.
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“Unleash your creativity” welcomes members in a Regus coworking lounge.
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Your TV, as a live split-flap board.
Split-Flap TV is an app that turns any TV you already own into a vintage split-flap (Solari) board, the kind you remember from old airports and train stations. You write it from your phone, every letter flips into place on the screen in seconds, and you can change it any time from anywhere.
Here is why businesses put one on the wall.
Save thousands
A mechanical board is $3,500 to $15,000+. Split-Flap TV runs on the TV you already own, from €19.99/month per screen. No hardware to buy.
Change it in seconds
Update the board from your phone, mid-service, from anywhere. No reprinting menus, no reordering signage, no waiting.
A wall people look at
The flip and the click-clack pull attention a static screen never will. It's the display Roc Nation's Paper Planes and the U.S. House of Representatives put on their walls.
Nothing to break
No two-person install, no thousands of moving flaps to jam, no maintenance. Install the app, send a board to any screen, live in about five minutes.
Everything it can show
One board can flip through all of these. Tap any to see how it works.
Pick your world.
Cafés & Restaurants
→Flip menus, prices and daily specials, and change them from your phone mid-service.
Bars & Breweries
→Rotate your tap list, cocktails and happy-hour prices with retro-terminal atmosphere.
Hotels & Hospitality
→Welcome guests by name and show events, check-out times and local weather in the lobby.
Offices & Coworking
→Put live KPIs, visitor welcomes and social counts on a wall people actually look at.
Retail & Brands
→Announce drops, promos and live follower counts, the display Roc Nation & HBO use.
Home
→Airport departure boards, now-playing, countdowns and quotes on the TV you already own.
Runs on the streaming apps you already use.
Install Split-Flap TV on Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV or Chromecast, then send it to any TV and manage everything from your phone. Add live data sources from the app marketplace.
Live in 5 minutes.
Get the app
Install on Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV or Chromecast.
Send to any screen
Any TV or monitor becomes your split-flap board.
Update from your phone
Change menus, messages and data from anywhere.
Same magic. Different math.
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| Split-Flap TV | Vestaboard | Oat Foundry | DIY build | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Choose rows & columns | You choose | Fixed 6×22 | Fixed at build | Fixed at build |
| Change colour any time | Any colour | Fixed flaps | Fixed at build | Fixed at build |
| Portrait or landscape | Coming soon | Landscape only | Fixed at build | Fixed at build |
| Price | From €19.99/mo | $3,500 | $15,000+ | Parts + weeks |
| Runs on your TV | Yes | No (hardware) | No (hardware) | No (hardware) |
| Any screen size | Yes | Fixed 132 chars | Custom build | Whatever you build |
| Menus · social · live data | Yes | Limited | Limited | DIY only |
| Setup | 5 minutes | 2-person install | Weeks | Build it yourself |
| Moving parts to break | None | Thousands | Thousands | Thousands |
| Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Community only |
See what you’d save.
Split-Flap TV at about $19/mo per screen (Economy, billed annually), against what the mechanical boards cost over the same period.
A DIY build has no fixed price: parts, plus weeks of your time.
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Economy
For a single beautiful board.
- ·Unlimited message boards
- ·Clock, calendar & scheduling
- ·Mobile management
- ·1 screen, multiple pages
Business
Live data + social. Most popular.
- ·Everything in Economy
- ·Social follower counters
- ·News, weather & Spotify
- ·Live JSON/XML data
Cockpit
The full flight deck.
- ·Everything in Business
- ·Your real-time data: sales, CRM
- ·Faster updates
- ·Priority support
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Trusted in spaces run by Jay-Z's Paper Planes and the U.S. House of Representatives.