Appspace alternative. $6 a screen.
If you only need digital signage — not desk booking, visitor management, and an Employee App — Appspace is overbuilt and overpriced. Brix is $6/screen/month billed annually, no 25-user minimum, no Employee Experience Platform tax.
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Appspace bundles the workplace platform you don't need. Brix is just signage, done well.
$6/screen vs the 25-user minimum
Appspace's Express tier requires a 25-user minimum, 25 devices, and 25 GB storage — a floor that doesn't make sense for an operator running 5 screens in a single location. Brix is one-screen-and-up, $6/screen, no user minimums.
You're paying for desk booking you don't use
Appspace bundles room booking, visitor management, intranet, and an Employee App with their signage. If you just need screens that show menus or promotions, you're cross-subsidising a workplace platform sold to Fortune 500 corporate-comms teams.
Public pricing, real numbers
Appspace's Express and Enterprise tiers are 'contact sales.' Brix is $6/screen, posted, the same for every customer. No procurement gate, no per-account quote, no negotiating room because there's nothing to negotiate.
Appspace pricing: by quote only.
Appspace does not publish its prices. You get a quote from sales.
Brix is $6 per screen per month billed annually ($8 month to month), with every feature included. Book a Demo.
Brix vs Appspace, feature by feature.
68 features. A badge shows the Appspace plan that a feature needs.
| Feature | Brix · $6 billed annually |
|---|---|
| Content & media | |
| Image upload & playback | ✓ |
| Video upload & playback | ✓ |
| Document upload & display (PDF, Word, PowerPoint) | PDF + PowerPoint (no Word) |
| Web pages / HTML / web URL | ✓ |
| YouTube / live streaming | ✓ |
| Authenticated / secured web pages | Public + basic auth |
| Layout & design | |
| Multi-zone / split-screen layouts | ✓ |
| Drag-and-drop layout editor | ✓ |
| Pre-built templates (count) | Curated set |
| Auto-size text / responsive templates | ✓ |
| Lockable layouts | ✓ |
| Ticker / scrolling text overlay | ✓ |
| Scheduling & playlists | |
| Build playlists | ✓ |
| Day-parting / time-of-day scheduling | ✓ |
| Working hours / screen schedules | ✓ |
| Tag-based playlists / sub-playlists | ✓ |
| Advanced media scheduling rules | ✓ |
| Per-asset expiry | ✓ |
| Apps & integrations | |
| App count | 40+ |
| Custom-built apps on request | ✓ |
| RSS / news / weather feeds | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams / Viva integration | Teams alerts; Viva Engage feed (beta) |
| Slack integration | Generic webhooks |
| Power BI dashboards | Public embed links |
| Interactive & kiosk | |
| Interactive kiosk app | Touch on Windows/Android TV |
| Storage & limits | |
| Cloud storage | Unlimited |
| Screen count limit | Unlimited |
| Per-file upload size limit | 2 GB video / 250 MB image / 100 MB document |
| Vendor logo on screen (free of) | ✓ |
| Users, roles & workflow | |
| Multi-user accounts | Unlimited |
| Team workspaces / channels | ✓ |
| Role-based access control | ✓ |
| Approval workflow / collaboration | ✓ |
| Folders for presentations / schedules / displays | ✓ |
| Multi-language UI | Screen content in any language; console in English |
| Analytics & reporting | |
| Proof-of-play / impression reporting | ✓ |
| Time-segment / date-range reports | ✓ |
| Email notifications on display online/offline | ✓ |
| Live snapshot / channel preview | ✓ |
| Remote management (RDM) | |
| Manage screens from web / mobile | ✓ |
| Remote reboot | ✓ |
| Power schedule (auto on/off) | ✓ |
| Remote troubleshooting / diagnostics | ✓ |
| Remote software updates / MDM-driven | ✓ |
| Zero-touch player provisioning | Code-free pairing on the same network |
| Security & compliance | |
| Single sign-on (SAML / OIDC) | OIDC + SCIM (no SAML) |
| Multi-factor authentication (MFA / passkeys) | ✓ |
| Audit logs | ✓ |
| Custom data residency | US, EU, Australia, Asia-Pacific |
| Data encryption (at rest + in transit) | ✓ |
| Player lockdown (kiosk mode / secure registration) | ✓ |
| Hardware compatibility | |
| Amazon Signage Stick (Fire OS) | Default device |
| Android TV / Google TV | ✓ |
| Windows PC | ✓ |
| Apple TV / iPad | iPad via browser; no Apple TV |
| Raspberry Pi | Browser player (unmanaged) |
| Open hardware (no vendor lock-in) | ✓ |
| Support | |
| Knowledge base / docs | ✓ |
| Email support | ✓ |
| Phone support | ✓ |
| Video / scheduled remote support | ✓ |
| Same-business-hour SLA | Sev2 within 4 business hours |
| Free migration assistance | ✓ |
| Deployment options | |
| Cloud / SaaS | ✓ |
| On-premise install | On-prem render agent only |
| Billing | |
| Free trial duration | 7 days |
| Month-to-month billing | ✓ |
| Minimum screen count | None |
Moving from Appspace to Brix.
Export your Appspace channels and content library. Appspace's admin lets you bulk-export media; channel layouts can be screenshot or rebuilt — we'll handle the conversion.
We move your content for free. Your screens pair with a code on the hardware you already have.
Talk to us about your moveWhat Appspace gets right. And where the math breaks.
What Appspace gets right
Appspace is genuinely impressive software for what it actually is — an Employee Experience Platform that happens to include digital signage as one channel. The Microsoft Teams / Webex / Slack integrations are deep and real. Room booking, visitor management, and the Employee App tie together cleanly into a unified corporate-comms surface that signage-only platforms can't match.
For a Fortune 1000 company with a centralised IT team rolling out distributed-office workplace tech across 50+ buildings, Appspace earns its price. The integrated platform replaces three or four separate vendors.
Where the pricing math breaks
Appspace publishes a Free tier (2 users, 1 device, 5 GB) and gates everything real behind Express (25-user/device minimum) and Enterprise (50+ users), neither with a public price: the pricing page asks how many users and devices you need and sends you to sales.
That means a modest deployment — 25 employees, 5 signage screens — starts with a quote, priced on users as well as devices. Brix for 5 signage screens is $360/year billed annually, posted on the pricing page.
The pricing only makes sense if you genuinely use the user-licensed features (Employee App, Teams integration, room booking). For pure signage, you're paying for a platform you'll touch 10% of.
When Appspace is the right choice
Appspace is the right call when you're a Fortune 1000 IT director rolling out a distributed-office workplace platform — visitor management, room booking, Microsoft Teams integration, an Employee App, AND signage — and you want all of it under one vendor with a single SSO. The platform consolidation is genuinely valuable at that scale.
For SMBs, single-location operators, gyms, restaurants, retail, healthcare clinics, and any business that doesn't have a corporate-comms team — Brix is signage-only, priced for that buyer, and doesn't ask you to absorb the Employee Experience Platform overhead.
Questions about Appspace.
We're a 10-employee company. Does Appspace even sell to us?
Their Express tier requires a 25-user minimum. Below that you're on the Free tier (1 device, 5 GB) which is gimped to the point of unusable. Brix has no minimums — one screen, $6/screen/month billed annually.
We use Microsoft Teams. Will we lose that integration?
Yes if you're displaying live Teams channels on screens. If you only need Teams notifications or chat embedded in signage, Brix supports it via web URL embed. The deep Teams integration is genuinely an Appspace strength for buyers who use it.
Do we need an Employee App on signage?
Almost never — and that's the point. Appspace prices for buyers who do. If you're just showing menus, promotions, internal comms, or wayfinding on screens, the Employee App is dead weight.
Can Brix replace Appspace's room booking?
No — Brix is signage, not workplace management. If room booking is part of your spec, you'd want a dedicated room-booking tool plus Brix for the screens. Often cheaper than Appspace bundled and easier to swap parts later.
Free migration?
Yes — send us your Appspace channels and screen list, we rebuild your schedules for free. Most migrations live the same day.
Try Brix before you renew Appspace.
7-day free trial, no credit card. We move your Appspace content for free.