These two look alike from a distance: both turn a screen you already own into an always-on wall display, and both are set up from a phone or a laptop. They are built for different rooms. DAKboard describes itself as an always-on family calendar holding schedules, chores and weather in one place. TickrDash is the scoreboard in the den on a Saturday.
Both run on hardware you already have, so the real question is what goes on the screen and what you pay for it.
| What you are comparing | DAKboard | TickrDash |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware required | None required — DAKboard says “no proprietary hardware needed.” It also sells its own: a Wall Display, and an $80 plug-and-play unit that attaches to an existing TV or monitor. | None. The TV, tablet, monitor or browser already in the room is the display. |
| Screen | Any TV, tablet or iPad, PC monitor, Raspberry Pi, Fire TV or Android box, cast over AirPlay or Chromecast — “anything with a browser.” | Android TV and Google TV (Play Store app), iPad and iPhone (Add to Home Screen), and any browser on any screen. Fire TV is coming soon. |
| Content | Calendars, photos, chores, to-dos, weather, news and RSS, smart-home controls, stock quotes, travel times and more. The published integrations list has no live-scores or sports block. | Full-screen game cards, a Smart Scoreboard that fits up to eight games on one slide, conference and division standings, the college Top 25, golf leaderboards, tennis, Formula 1, stock quotes and market indices, weather by ZIP code and lottery results. |
| Price model | A free plan with one predefined screen; Essential at $6 a month ($5 billed annually) for two custom screens; Plus at $10 a month ($8 billed annually) for three. Extra screens are priced per screen. Essential has a 30-day free trial. | $4.99 a month, $11.99 a quarter or $29.99 a year, with multiple screens on one account. Code TRY-DASH30 makes the first month free, no card required. |
| Setup | Build the screen yourself in a drag-and-drop block editor, then link a device with a code or open the screen in a browser. | Sign in, pick the leagues and teams you follow, add your ZIP code and your tickers. The layout is already built; the phone control panel changes it mid-game. Setup guides. |
Last checked: September 2026. Every DAKboard figure and description above is quoted from DAKboard’s own published pages on the day we looked; plans, prices and integration lists change. DAKboard is a trademark of its owner and is named here only to identify the product being compared — TickrDash is not affiliated with it.
For a lot of households this is the right answer, and it is not close. TickrDash has no calendar, no photo frame and no to-do lists, and it is not trying to have them.
Nothing stops you running both, on different screens, for different reasons. The kitchen board and the den board are not the same board.
If the screen you are setting up is for game day, a general-purpose dashboard is the wrong shape — not because it is a worse product, but because a scoreboard is a specific thing.
Full-screen game cards for the teams you follow, and a Smart Scoreboard that fits up to eight games on a single slide. Conference and division standings, the college Top 25, golf leaderboards, tennis and Formula 1 — laid out as scoreboards, not as blocks on a grid.
Scores refresh while games are live, typically within a minute of the action, and the rotation moves on its own so the screen is never showing yesterday’s slate.
The phone control panel swaps what the big screen is showing without interrupting the rotation, and quick presets change the whole board in one tap when the good game moves.
There is no layout to design. Pick your leagues and teams, add a ZIP code for weather and the symbols you watch, and leave it. The setup guides cover Android TV, Google TV, iPad and any browser.
Between games the rotation carries stock quotes and market indices, local weather by ZIP code and lottery results — so it is not only a scoreboard, it just starts as one. Open the live demo to see the rotation; it is the real product with non-live data.
League and competition names are used here only to describe what the app shows. TickrDash is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any league, team or governing body.
The fastest way to decide is to put both on the screen in question and look at them from where you will actually be standing.
Comparing hardware instead? GLANCE vs. TickrDash covers the small LED panels, and the LED sports ticker alternative page prices the larger wall-mounted strips over five years.
See it running before you sign up — the demo is the real product (with non-live data).