Type a message and it runs across the screen as a glowing LED sign. Go full screen on a phone, tablet or TV. Free, in your browser.
This puts back the default message and settings. Signs you saved under Saved are kept. Save the current one first if you want to come back to it.
Five steps. No download, no account, nothing leaves your browser.
Write it in the Message tab, or tap a template such as OPEN, ON AIR or a countdown. Add more messages to play them one after another. Open the options of a line to give it its own colour, mode, time or transition.
On the Motion tab choose Scroll, Static, Blink, Bounce, Wave or Typewriter, or turn the board into a live Clock or a Countdown. Set the speed and the text height.
The Look tab has LED colours and colour styles, four fonts including a 5×7 pixel font, round or square LEDs, glow, brightness, a bulb frame, a metal bezel and the shape of the screen.
Press Full screen, click the display or press F. The screen stays awake while the sign runs, and a phone turns the text sideways by itself. Tap the sign to show pause and speed buttons.
The Share tab copies a link that opens your exact sign on any screen, saves a PNG or records a video of 6, 12 or 30 seconds. Saved keeps your signs in this browser.
{c=cyan,m=blink,t=3} SALEThe list view sets these for you with the sliders icon on each line.
LED Scrolling Banner turns any screen into an online LED sign. Type a message and it runs across the display as glowing dot-matrix lights, like the signs in shop windows, stations, stadiums and studios. You choose how it moves, how fast, how big, which colour and which font, and then go full screen on a phone, tablet, laptop, TV or spare monitor. There is nothing to install, no account and no watermark.
They are three names for the same thing. An LED banner or LED scroller is a phone or screen showing large glowing text that runs from right to left, the way a dot-matrix sign above a shop door or a train platform does; a marquee is the older web term for scrolling text. Turn your phone sideways, go full screen and it works as a sign at a concert, an airport pick-up or a shop window; on a TV or a second monitor it becomes a message board.
Type your text in the Message tab. Each line of the list is one message, and the sign plays them one after another: scrolling messages run past, static and blinking ones change after a few seconds. Pick a mode on the Motion tab, set the speed (1 to 20) and the text height (7 to 32 LED rows), choose a colour and a font on the Look tab, then press Full screen, click the display or press F. Space pauses, the arrow keys change the speed and Esc brings you back. Scrolling runs at the same speed on every screen, whether it refreshes at 60 or 120 times a second.
A real dot-matrix display builds every letter from a grid of LEDs. This one does the same: the text is drawn once on a hidden canvas, sampled into a grid of on and off dots and painted as round or square LEDs. In Realistic mode each LED has a lens, a highlight and a soft bloom, and the unlit LEDs stay faintly visible, which is what makes it look like a real board. Classic draws flat dots and is lighter on old phones and TVs. The Pixel font uses a classic 5×7 bitmap font, the kind used on old train boards and calculators, scaled up in whole LEDs so every dot stays sharp. For more, there are colour styles (rainbow, gradient, fire, ocean, sunset), a brightness slider, a chasing bulb frame, a metal bezel and a camera effect with flicker and a scan bar.
Every message can have its own look. Press the sliders icon on a line to give it a colour, a mode, a number of seconds on screen and a transition: slide, fade, open from the middle, zoom, glitch or sparkle. A playlist such as OPEN, 10% OFF TODAY and BACK AT 2 PM can mix colours and modes in one sign. Prefer typing? Switch to Text and write the options as {c=amber,m=blink,t=3,x=zoom} in front of a line. Live values like {time}, {date} or {cd=2027-01-01 00:00} can go anywhere in a message.
In Clock mode the board shows the time of the device it runs on, with or without seconds, in 24-hour or 12-hour format, or with the date. In Countdown mode you set a number of minutes and the board counts down in minutes and seconds (hours appear for longer timers). At zero it flashes TIME!. A shared countdown link starts a fresh countdown of the same length when it is opened. To count down to a date instead, put {cd=2027-01-01 00:00} in a message.
It works on iPhone, iPad and Android as well as on a computer. Safari on iPhone does not allow normal full screen, so the sign uses its own full screen that still fills the screen. If you hold a phone upright in full screen with a wide sign, the sign rotates to landscape so the text runs along the long side. Where the browser supports it, the screen is kept awake while the sign is in full screen. Tap the sign to show the pause, speed and exit buttons; they fade away after a few seconds.
Copy link puts your messages and every setting into the web address, so whoever opens it sees exactly your sign. Download PNG saves the current frame at 1280, 1920 or 3840 pixels, and Record saves the moving sign as a video of 6, 12 or 30 seconds (WebM, or MP4 in Safari). The screen shape decides the proportions: 3:1 and 8:1 for a banner, 16:9 for a presentation, 1:1 for a post and 9:16 for a story. Keep the tab in front while it records.
Your last sign is kept in your browser’s local storage, so it is there next time. Under Saved you can keep several signs by name, open or duplicate them and export or import the whole library as a small file for another device. Nothing you type is uploaded. The sign makes network requests only when you ask for it: if a message uses {btc} or {eth} the page asks CoinGecko for the current price, and if it uses {weather} the browser asks for your location (you can refuse) and sends that position to Open-Meteo to get the temperature. Otherwise the only requests are the font and cookie-free page-view analytics. No ads and no cookies.
Run a show with the backstage stage clock, measure how loud the room is with the online decibel meter, play on the online virtual piano or put visuals to your music with the music visualizer. More on the music tools page.