Display Text vs Beacon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Display Text
Transform your device into a dynamic ticker display for attention-grabbing visual communication. Perfect for noisy environments, discreet messaging, or creative expression with customizable fonts and effects.
- Scrolling and static text banners
- Full-screen display
- Customizable fonts, colors, and text size
- Shake-to-flash for attention
- Save and load messages
- Animated banner export (MP4/GIF)
- Widget support for iOS 16
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Display Text is the ultimate app that transforms your iPhone or iPad into a dynamic ticker display, allowing you to communicate in a fun and attention-grabbing way. Whether you're sending messages across a room, ordering drinks at a noisy bar, or communicating in situations where speech isn’t practical, Display Text ensures your message is seen. With no ads and a user-friendly interface, it’s perfect for discreet communication in loud environments or any place that calls for a visual message. Display Text allows you to display text in two ways: scrolling or static. Just type your message, choose your mode, and rotate your device. Your text will be displayed in big, bold letters like a digital billboard, making it easy to read from a distance. It’s ideal for classrooms, meetings, social situations, or just for fun with friends. The possibilities are endless! Highlighted Features: - Create scrolling or static text banners - Use in noisy environments like concerts, bars, and parties - Perfect for discreet messaging when speech isn't an option - Full-screen display ensures your message gets noticed - Fast and easy text input with customizable options for fonts, colors, and text size - Shake-to-flash feature for grabbing attention in crowded places - Portrait and landscape modes with automatic text resizing - Save and load messages for quick reuse - Send animated banners as MP4s or GIFs With Display Text PRO, unlock even more customization options, including emojis, more font choices, and the ability to save your message history. Plus, Use cases include: - Flirting in social settings like discos or cinemas - Ordering drinks in loud bars or clubs - Displaying funny or supportive messages at sports events - Sending song requests to the DJ without shouting - Communicating with the hearing impaired - Holding up greeting signs at airports - Subtly expressing yourself in meetings or classrooms Display Text also includes unique features like widget support for iOS 16, so your last message can appear directly on your lock screen. Whether you're sending a quick note or crafting an elaborate message with customizable fonts and flashing effects, Display Text offers limitless ways to communicate creatively. For those who want even more, subscribe to Display Text PRO to access premium features like HD mode, advanced flashing effects, and the ability to save and share your messages as animated files. Plus, you can send your LED banner creations via popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and WeChat. Join the thousands of users who have discovered the power of visual messaging with Display Text, the top-rated LED banner app available today. Don’t miss out—try Display Text now and see how easy communication can be! Term of Service: https://github.com/GianlucaP17/PrivacyPolicy Privacy Policy: https://github.com/GianlucaP17/PrivacyPolicy
Beacon
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Hold up a message the whole room can read. Beacon turns your phone into a bright, scrolling LED sign — the kind you hold overhead at a concert, a rave, a festival, a tailgate, or an airport arrivals gate. Type your message, rotate the phone sideways, and it goes full screen at full brightness. Beacon is free. Writing, styling, and exporting a sign costs nothing, and the eight Beacons it comes with play in full — every effect, no preview stubs. Designing effects into your own signs and saving them is one optional purchase called All Access, described at the end. TYPE IT. ROTATE IT. DONE. Rotate to landscape and your Beacon fills the screen: status bar gone, brightness pinned, sleep disabled. Rotate back upright to exit. There are no buttons to find in the dark — held overhead, it works by feel. MAKE IT YOURS — FREE • 35+ display fonts, plus bold, italic, underline, and letter spacing • Five color modes: solid, gradient, rainbow, color shift, and blink • Add your own logo or photo. It scrolls right alongside your text, or replaces it entirely, and picks up the same effects. • Export any Beacon as a looping video or an animated GIF — post it, text it, drop it on a story THE EFFECTS CATALOG — ALL ACCESS • 17 effects — wave, bounce, jelly, jitter, melt, size pulse, bulge, pulse, strobe, negative flash, outline, neon glow, glitch, scanlines, laser scan, emoji confetti rain, and music reactive • 8 animated backgrounds — equalizer, pulsing symbol, radiating rings, siren, waveform, starfield, and plasma • Your own library — save, rename, and duplicate as many Beacons as you like, on top of the eight that come free REACTS TO THE MUSIC Turn on Music Reactive and your Beacon breathes with the room. The mic reads the actual volume in front of you and your sign pulses with the bass. (Part of All Access.) LIVE GESTURES Once you're up, everything is a gesture. Pinch to resize the text. Drag to speed the scroll up or slow it down. Swipe to flip between your favorites while the set changes. Lock the rotation when you want to hold it at a weird angle without it quitting on you. OUT OF IDEAS? Tap Random Phrase for festival-tested copy: DJ requests, hype lines, PLUR, and a few that shouldn't be printed here. Or hit Shuffle and let Beacon pick the look for you — colors and fonts, plus the effects once you have All Access. A NOTE ON FLASHING Strobe, Negative Flash, and Siren flash rapidly. They sit behind a one-time warning, they will never be switched on by Shuffle, and they stay dark until you confirm you've read it. If you or anyone near you is photosensitive, leave them off. ALL ACCESS One optional purchase unlocks all 17 effects, all 8 animated backgrounds, Music Reactive, and saving Beacons to your own library. It also turns off the share screen that appears now and then in Display Mode. One payment, not a subscription. No ads, ever. Beacon - A GeniusGym.art Creation
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Beacon at 5.0 against Display Text's 3.0. Beacon also leads on ads (none vs shown). Display Text's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Display Text sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Beacon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Beacon holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Display Text | Beacon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gianluca Posca | Timothy Gorman |
In-app purchases
Display Text
- Lifetime Premium$4.99
Beacon
- All Access$4.99









