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Mindcat Screens · digital signage for Gulf chains

Digital signage that updates every branch at once, in Arabic and English.

For restaurant, café and retail chains in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, then clinics, hotels, banks and schools. Change a price once and every counter, drive-thru and window screen shows it. Iftar menus and back-after-prayer screens run on the times you set for each city, and you see which screens are playing. Hosted in the UAE or the Kingdom from AED/SAR 49 a screen a month, set up by us. Written plan and price within 24 hours of your brief.

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Mindcat Screens layout designer: a 1920x1080 menu board titled Grills and مشويات with Mixed Grill, Shish Taouk, Lamb Kofta, Chicken Mandi and Lamb Kabsa in English and Arabic, AED prices, and a Mixed Grill for two offer at AED 99.
The Deira menu board in the designer: grills in Arabic and English, prices read from the menu.Real screen, sample data

Where branch screens go wrong

Five ways branch screens fall behind in a Gulf chain.

A restaurant worker stands on a step stool reaching behind a wall screen showing a blank blue input screen, chairs still stacked on the tables and a colleague preparing the counter.
Before: a staff member on a step stool at the back of the menu screen before opening, USB stick in hand.Illustrative photo

One edit, every branch · how one price change moves

From the new mandi price to every counter, without a single branch visit.

A grill and mandi chain with branches in Deira, JLT and Olaya raises one price on a Thursday afternoon.

  1. 01Marketing leadChanges the price onceChicken Mandi goes from AED 42 to 45 in the UAE menu, and from SAR 42 to 45 in the Saudi one. Or the price arrives from your POS.On: Menu boards
  2. 02The systemEvery board picks it upEach menu board layout reads its prices from the menu, so nobody redraws a board. Arabic and English sit side by side.On: Layout designer
  3. 03The systemEvery branch updatesThe change goes to the screens in the Deira, JLT and Olaya groups within minutes. Riyadh boards show riyals and the caffeine line.On: Display groups
  4. 04Branch managerMarks a dish sold outWhen the mandi runs out at 21:00, the manager switches it off in the menu and it drops off every board that reads that menu. A branch that needs its own sold-out list gets its own menu during setup.On: Menu board products
  5. 05Operations managerChecks every screenThe displays list shows each screen as up to date or out of date, whether it is logged in, and the layout it is showing.On: Displays
  6. 06Owner or mall partnerGets the proofProof of play shows which layout ran on which screen, how many times and for how long, as a report or a spreadsheet.On: Proof of play
The POS price feed in step 1 and the caffeine line in step 3 are set up for you during setup. Everything else works on day one, as long as the screen is online.
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What it does · real screens

The digital signage screens your team will use every week.

Captured from our own running copy with invented sample data: a grill chain with nine screens in Deira, JLT and Olaya, a Ramadan campaign and a week of plays. Names and prices are not real.

  1. “Every price change is a weekend of USB sticks.”

    Menu boards with live prices

    Products, prices, calories, allergy notes and a sold-out switch live in one menu per country. Every board reads from it, so one change reaches every branch. Arabic and English on the same board.

    Used by
    Marketing, operations, branch managers
    On screen
    The Deira grills board in English and Arabic, with AED prices read from the UAE menu.
    A digital menu board for a Gulf grill restaurant: Grills and مشويات, Rice and Wraps and أرز وساندويشات, with Mixed Grill, Shish Taouk, Lamb Kofta, Chicken Mandi and Lamb Kabsa in English and Arabic at AED prices, beside a photo of mixed grill skewers.
    Menu board: change the price once, every counter shows it.

  2. “Ramadan boards go up late every year.”

    Schedules that follow the Gulf day

    Menus switch by time of day, the Ramadan campaign runs from iftar to suhoor on the dates you set, and a back-after-prayer screen takes over at the times you load for each city.

    Used by
    Operations, marketing
    On screen
    Lunch and dinner boards, six prayer-break events at different times, and the Ramadan campaign from 17:30 on 8 February 2027.
    Mindcat Screens schedule list: daily Deira menu board events for lunch and dinner, an always-on summer window layout, seven prayer break back-soon events at different times, and a Ramadan 1448 iftar campaign starting 2027-02-08 at 17:30.
    Schedule: prayer breaks per city and the Ramadan campaign, set once.

  3. “The breakfast board stays up until a barista remembers.”

    Dayparts: breakfast, lunch, iftar, suhoor

    Named time windows you reuse across every branch. Change Iftar once when Ramadan starts and every event that uses it moves with it.

    Used by
    Operations
    On screen
    Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Iftar (Ramadan) and Suhoor windows.
    Mindcat Screens dayparting list with named time windows for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Iftar (Ramadan) and Suhoor and their start and end times.
    Dayparts: the Gulf day, named once.

  4. “A screen goes black and nobody knows for two days.”

    Every screen’s status in one list

    Each screen shows up to date or out of date, whether it is logged in, its player and the layout it is showing; the details page has when it last checked in. Alerts can go to your operations team by email.

    Used by
    Operations, IT
    On screen
    Nine screens across Deira, JLT and Olaya; the Olaya drive-thru shown out of date and logged out.
    Mindcat Screens displays list: counter menus, windows and a drive-thru across Deira, JLT and Olaya, each with status, player type, IP address and current layout, and the Olaya drive-thru marked out of date.
    Displays: the black screen shows up here before a customer complains.

  5. “Every board is designed twice, once per language.”

    One design in both languages, landscape or portrait

    Drag text, prices, photos and offers onto a landscape counter screen or a portrait window. Arabic text runs right to left in the same layout as the English.

    Used by
    Marketing, your designer
    On screen
    Iftar set menu, back-after-prayer screen and a portrait summer window, as they play.
    Three layouts as they play on screens: a Ramadan Kareem family iftar for four at AED 149 in Arabic and English, a back-after-prayer screen reading نعود بعد الصلاة with Back after prayer about 15 minutes, and a portrait window promo Beat the heat with any cooler AED 12, 2 for AED 20.
    On the screen: iftar, prayer break and a portrait summer window.

  6. “The Eid campaign went live on half the stores.”

    Branch groups and campaigns

    Group screens by branch, city or type: all counter menus, all windows, all of Riyadh. Schedule a campaign to a group once, with a start and an end.

    Used by
    Marketing, operations
    On screen
    Groups for Deira, JLT, Olaya, all menu boards and all window screens.
    Mindcat Screens display groups: Deira, JLT and Olaya branches, All menu boards and Window screens, each with its screens.
    Groups: one schedule reaches every window screen.

  7. “Mall management wants proof it played.”

    Proof of play

    Which layout played on which screen, how many times and for how long, by day or week. Export a spreadsheet or email it on a schedule.

    Used by
    Marketing, owner, mall partners
    On screen
    A week of plays per screen: menu boards, prayer breaks and the summer window.
    Mindcat Screens proof of play report: rows per display and layout, such as Deira counter menu 1 with Deira menu board played 3,012 times for 1 day 4 hours, and prayer break back soon played 6 times.
    Proof of play: the report mall marketing asks for.
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Also included

The rest of the system, in one line each.

Who it is for

Three Gulf chains with screens in every branch, before and after.

Customers order under a row of menu screens showing grills and mandi at a restaurant counter in Deira.
Restaurants and cafés

Restaurant and café chains

Before: a 9-branch grill and mandi chain emails a price list on Thursday, and Olaya shows the old combo on Sunday. After: one edit in the menu, every counter screen updates in minutes, Riyadh boards show riyals with the caffeine line, and the iftar menu goes up at the time set for each city, every day of Ramadan.

Menu boardsDaypartsRamadan schedule
A fashion store entrance in a Gulf mall framed by two tall portrait screens showing summer dresses, families walking past on a marble floor.
Retail and mall stores

Fashion and retail chains

Before: the Eid campaign goes live on half the stores. After: a chain with 30 portrait window screens in Dubai Mall and Riyadh Park schedules it once, from the first morning of Eid to the third night, and sends mall marketing the proof-of-play report.

CampaignsPortrait windowsProof of play
A clinic waiting room in Dubai: a mother and daughter on a sofa, a man on his phone, a patient at the reception desk, and a wall screen showing a family photo.
Clinics

Clinic groups

Before: waiting rooms in Jumeirah and Al Barsha show a TV channel. After: they show the doctor rota, Ramadan clinic hours and health messages in Arabic and English, scheduled per clinic from one place. No patient names on screen.

Doctor rotaClinic groupsArabic and English

Also used for

Hotels, banks, schools and showrooms.

A Dubai hotel lobby with the Burj Khalifa through floor-to-ceiling windows, a staff member greeting a guest with a suitcase beside a portrait screen next to the lifts.
A hotel lobby facing the Burj Khalifa, with a portrait screen beside the lifts.Illustrative photo

Built for the Gulf

What is ready today, and what we add during setup.

Every row is either true today or work we do during your setup. We say which.

What Gulf chains needWhere it stands
Arabic and English on the same boardToday. Arabic runs right to left in any text on the screen, with Arabic fonts such as Tajawal.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, iftar and suhoor menusToday, as named time windows. We set yours up in the first week. Ramadan dates are entered ahead and moved after the moon sighting; there is no Hijri calendar.
Back-after-prayer screensToday with fixed times per city, which we load month by month. A live prayer-time feed per city is added during setup.
Caffeine and the salt icon on Saudi boardsAdded during setup in your Saudi templates. Calories and allergy notes are product fields today.
AED and SAR pricesToday. One menu per country, so Dubai shows dirhams and Riyadh shows riyals.
Prices from your POSAdded during setup, from 51 screens or as extra work: a feed from Foodics or your POS or ERP through the API.
Data in the UAE or Saudi ArabiaToday. Shared copies run in the UAE; your own copy can run in Jeddah or Riyadh.
The console in ArabicPartly. The menus are mostly in Arabic and the rest is mixed, and the layout stays left to right. We translate the screens your team uses during setup.

بالعربية

Mindcat Screens in Arabic, for Saudi and Emirati chains.

Mindcat Screens · إدارة شاشات العرض في كل فروعك

شاشات عرض فروعك كلها، تُدار من مكان واحد. غيّر سعر الصنف مرة واحدة، فيظهر السعر الجديد على شاشات المنيو في كل فروعك خلال دقائق، بالعربية والإنجليزية.

يظهر منيو الإفطار والسحور تلقائيًا في رمضان، وتظهر شاشة «نعود بعد الصلاة» في وقت الصلاة حسب مدينة كل فرع، دون الحاجة إلى زيارة الفرع.

نستضيف بياناتك في الإمارات، أو في جدة أو الرياض إذا اخترت نسخة خاصة. وتدفع لكل شاشة شهريًا بالريال أو الدرهم، وكلما زادت شاشاتك قلّ سعر الشاشة.

لوحة التحكم معرّبة جزئيًا اليوم، ونعرّب الشاشات التي يستخدمها فريقك أثناء الإعداد. أما ما يظهر على شاشات الفروع فعربي بالكامل ومن اليمين إلى اليسار.

Prices

Price your screens: per screen, in AED and SAR.

Set your screen count and where it should run. Logins are free. Every price is also listed in full below.

Where should it run?

Your monthly price

AED 1,015

SAR 1,015 · USD 276.38 · about AED 41 per screen

One-time setup
AED 7,900
Per-order fees
None

AED and SAR are the same number. Excludes 5% UAE VAT and 15% Saudi VAT, screens, installation and player licences for non-Windows screens, which you pay the player’s maker once per screen. Annual prepay takes 15% off.

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The full price list

Every band, option and fee, in writing.

You pay per screen per month. A screen is a display with a player connected to your system in that month; each screen of a video wall counts. The price per screen drops as you add screens: each band’s price applies only to the screens inside that band. Logins for marketing, operations, branch managers and IT are free, as many as you need.

ScreensAEDSARUSD
1 to 10494913.34
11 to 5035359.53
51 to 20025256.81
201 and up19195.17

Worked example. A chain with 25 screens pays 10 × 49 + 15 × 35 = AED 1,015 a month (SAR 1,015, about USD 276.38). With 9 screens the AED 590 shared minimum applies. With 60 it is AED 2,140. With 250 it is AED 6,590.

How you run it changes the multiplier.

OptionPriceMinimum a month
Shared, hosted by us in the UAEThe screen price above. Your own separate system on servers we share across clients.AED/SAR 590 (USD 160.65)
Your own copy, hosted by us in the UAE or Saudi ArabiaScreen price × 2AED/SAR 1,999 (USD 544.32)
In your own cloud or servers, run by usScreen price × 0.75, and you pay your cloud bill directlyAED/SAR 1,999 (USD 544.32)

One-time setup. Up to 10 screens: AED/SAR 2,900 (USD 789.65), a fixed-price quick start: your brand, one Arabic and English menu board or main layout, one portrait layout, dayparts, the Ramadan and prayer schedule, branch groups, the player install guide, your first screens connected and one training session. 11 to 50 screens: AED/SAR 7,900 (USD 2,151.12), adding up to 4 layouts, menu boards per country in AED and SAR, the campaign calendar, a proof-of-play report schedule and logins per branch. 51 to 200: AED/SAR 17,900 (USD 4,874.06), adding up to 10 layouts, a price feed from your POS or ERP and single sign-on on your own copy. Above 200: from AED/SAR 34,900, scoped in writing. Extra work is AED/SAR 250 an hour (USD 68.07), or 10 hours for AED/SAR 2,250.

Paid to others, outside the screen price. Player software on a Windows media player costs nothing. Player software on Android boxes, Samsung (Tizen), LG (webOS) and ChromeOS screens is a one-off licence per screen from the player’s maker: you buy it, or we order it in your name at cost. Screens, media players, mounts and installation come from your AV installer, or we quote them separately. Annual prepay takes 15% off. Prices exclude 5% UAE VAT and 15% Saudi VAT.

Compare digital signage options

What 25 screens cost with each option.

The same chain with 25 screens, priced from each option’s own published price list. Checked on 10 October 2026. VAT is extra everywhere, and so are the screens.

Swipe the table sideways to see every column.

Option25 screens a monthData in the UAE or KSAWho sets it upSource
USB sticksNo software bill. The cost is the weekend drives, and the branch still on last week’s price.On the stickBranch managersYour weekend
Mindcat Screens, sharedAED/SAR 1,015 (USD 276.38). One-time setup AED/SAR 7,900. Player licences extra on non-Windows screens.Yes. UAE, or your own copy in Jeddah or RiyadhWe do, in Arabic and EnglishThis page
Yodeck PremiumUSD 300 (USD 12 a screen on Premium)Not statedYou doyodeck.com
OptiSigns ProUSD 281.25 (USD 11.25 a screen on Pro, billed yearly)Not statedYou dooptisigns.com
ScreenCloud CoreUSD 500 (USD 20 a screen on Core, billed yearly)Not statedYou doscreencloud.com
An installer’s project with its own softwareOne Dubai installer quotes AED 30,000 to 60,000 for 3 to 5 branches with central content, screens includedUsually not statedThe installercameoadvt.com
Install it yourselfA server, someone to install, update and secure it, and the same player licencesWherever you host itYour IT teamYour quote

The global tools cost about the same per screen, and they leave four jobs to you: the Arabic layouts, the Ramadan and prayer schedule, the Saudi menu details and the hosting question. Ask each option three questions: where the content and logs are stored, who builds the Arabic boards, and who answers when the Olaya drive-thru goes black on a Thursday night.

How we start

From screen count to the first board live, with the plan in writing.

No demo maze and no annual contract to start. You see the plan and the price before you pay anything.

A technician hangs a screen on a wall mount above a café counter by Dubai Marina, a small player box wired beside it, while the café manager watches with a tablet.
Installation day at a waterfront café: the screen goes up, the player box connects behind it.Illustrative photo

Why Mindcat

Hosted in the region. Set up and run for you.

Where it fits

Your industry and your seat.

FAQ

What chains ask about digital signage.

Do I pay for player software on each screen?
It depends on the screen. On a Windows media player the player software costs nothing. On Android boxes, Samsung (Tizen), LG (webOS) and ChromeOS screens it is a one-off licence per screen from the player’s maker, which shows the maker’s name on the device. You buy it, or we order it in your name at cost. It is never inside our screen price.
What happens when the branch internet drops?
The screens keep playing. Players store the content they need ahead of time and pick up changes when the connection is back. The displays list shows which screens are out of date or logged out.
Can we use the Android screens we already have?
Usually, yes. Most Android boxes and commercial Samsung and LG screens can run a player; each needs the player licence above. We check your models in the first call. Consumer smart TVs often can’t; a small Windows or Android player behind them can.
Can the boards show Arabic and English?
Yes. Arabic runs right to left on the screen, beside the English, with Arabic fonts. The console your team uses is partly in Arabic today; we translate the screens your team uses during setup.
Can Saudi boards show caffeine and the salt icon?
Yes, once we add them to your Saudi templates during setup. The SFDA rule from 1 July 2025 covers electronic menus as well as paper. Calories and allergy notes are product fields today. Which items need the icon is your call; we put it where you tell us.
Can screens switch at prayer times?
Yes. A back-after-prayer screen takes over at the times you set for each city, which we load month by month, or from a live prayer-time feed we add during setup. Whether a branch pauses at prayer time is your choice.
Can I prove a campaign played?
Yes. Proof of play shows which layout ran on which screen, how many times and for how long. Export it as a spreadsheet or send it to mall marketing on a schedule.
Can our data stay in Saudi Arabia?
Yes. Your own copy runs in Jeddah or Riyadh, or on your own servers. The shared option runs in the UAE.
What counts as a screen?
Each display with a player connected in a month. Each screen of a video wall counts. Logins for your team are free.
What is it built on?
Mindcat Screens is built on Xibo, licensed under AGPL-3.0, and any changes we make to it will be released under the same licence. Your copy carries the licence notice and will link to the source of our version.

The brief · one email

Tell us your screen count and where your branches are.

The honest no: if the work is a software factory with a named delivery date, we are the wrong partner.

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