Meraki Systems Manager vs SignagePlayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meraki Systems Manager
Manage all your iOS devices from a central web dashboard. This app enhances mobile device management with features like a managed app store, content delivery, and GPS location reporting.
- Centralized web dashboard management
- Managed app store
- Content delivery with backpack
- GPS location reporting
- Enhanced MDM and MAM functionality
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Meraki Systems Manager is Cisco Systems' Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution that allows you to manage all of your iOS devices from a central web dashboard. Installing this app on an iOS device provides enhanced MDM and MAM functionality that includes features such as a managed app store, content delivery with backpack, and GPS location reporting. Note: continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life.
SignagePlayer
Create and manage digital signage presentations from your PC and push them to an unlimited number of screens. This platform allows you to remotely control your devices and load your favorite presentations for public display.
- Create presentations on PC
- Push to unlimited screens
- Remote device control
- Load custom presentations
- Free account creation
- Public display management
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What is FREE Digital Signage? You know those TV screens you see installed in more & more public areas like stores, restaurants, above gas pumps, food menu boards & lots of other places. Well, that’s called Digital Signage. Build an amazing presentation on your PC & push it to unlimited number of screens & all for FREE. Go ahead & Open your FREE account & find out why MediaSignage is the world’s most popular Digital Signage platform. Open your free account at http://start.mediasignage.com and register this iPhone / iPad app with the same user name and password you provided in the SignageStudio to associate your device as a remote station, so you can begin remote controlling it and load your favorite presentation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SignagePlayer at 4.7 against Meraki Systems Manager's 2.4. SignagePlayer also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 9.0). Meraki Systems Manager's advantage is ratings volume (96 vs 3). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SignagePlayer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meraki Systems Manager has 96 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Meraki Systems Manager's written reviews are positive against 20% of SignagePlayer's.
Meraki Systems Manager ships an update every 2 months, SignagePlayer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meraki Systems Manager | SignagePlayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (96 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Meraki | MediaSignage Inc |
Customer experience
Meraki Systems Manager
SignagePlayer
Bugs and requests
Meraki Systems Manager
Reported bugs
3 issues- Enrollment certificates become invalid
- Backpack functionality broken on iOS 9+
- Location services always running, draining battery
Requested features
3 requests- Improve enrollment process
- Add option to configure notification frequency
- Improve app stability and performance
SignagePlayer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Meraki Systems Manager
No in-app purchases
SignagePlayer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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