Screenly 26.8.0 | Screenly

Screenly 26.8.0: A new look for the dashboard, with navigation in one place

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The dashboard has a new look, and it is quicker to get around than the one it replaces.

Navigation used to be split in two: a sidebar for sections and a top bar for everything else. Which one held what was never obvious, and the top bar had grown over the years into a row of unrelated controls. There is one sidebar now, with its entries grouped, and no top bar. Your workspace, your account and your notifications are all in it, so there is a single place to look and less distance to travel between the things you use most.

Notifications open as a dialog in the middle of the screen rather than a panel sliding in from the right edge, with a count on the sidebar entry showing how many you have. A long notification is shortened to its first few lines with a Show more to open it, so one wordy notification no longer pushes the rest of the list out of sight.

On a narrow window the sidebar becomes a drawer you open when you need it. On a wide one it stays open, since collapsing it saved a few pixels and cost you the labels.

Screenly 26.8.0: Global search and the New menu have been removed

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The top bar held a search box that looked across screens, content and playlists at once, and a New menu for creating things from anywhere. Both are gone with the bar, and neither has a replacement in the sidebar.

Each section still has its own search, which is where most searching happened: Screens, Content and Playlists all filter their own lists, and those searches know about the things particular to them, such as labels on screens. Creating things still starts from the section you want it in.

If you leaned on the global box to jump between sections by name, this is a step back for you specifically, and worth telling us about.

Screenly 26.8.0: Uploads keep running while you move around the dashboard

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Uploading a large video meant staying on the Content page until it finished. Uploads ran in the background there, but moving to Screens or Playlists loaded a new page and cancelled every upload still in progress. For a long video over an ordinary connection, that is a real chunk of someone’s afternoon spent not using Screenly.

Content is now part of the same single-page dashboard as the rest of Screenly, so uploads keep running while you go elsewhere. Close the upload dialog, go set up a playlist, and the upload carries on. Reopen the dialog to see its progress and an estimate of the time left, or start more uploads.

Moving between Content and a single item no longer reloads the page either, so browsing your library feels like one place rather than a series of loads.

Screenly 26.8.0: Workspace and account settings work like the rest of Screenly

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Settings were laid out their own way, with a list of pages down the side, so moving between a screen’s settings and your workspace’s meant adjusting to a different arrangement of the same kinds of controls.

Workspace and account settings now use the horizontal tabs that playlists and screens use, and each tab has one save bar, so it is clear what a save applies to. Branding moved into the Workspace tab rather than standing alone, and saves together with the workspace name.

An old link or bookmark to the branding page now opens Settings > Workspace, where branding is.

Screenly 26.8.0: Apps can ask you to pick a Slack channel

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Apps can now work with Slack through your workspace’s Slack connection, and an app that needs a channel can ask for one directly. Its settings show a picker listing the channels available to that connection, so there is no channel ID to look up in Slack and paste in.

If Slack is not connected yet, the setting shows a Connect to Slack button that takes you to Settings > Integrations, rather than failing later.

Screenly 26.8.0: Playlist transitions show a preview, and other improvements

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Improvements

Playlist transitions are shown as animated preview cards, so you can see what each one does before choosing it. The option previously called “None” is now “Instant”.
A playlist with no screens assigned now shows a “Select screens for your playlist” prompt instead of an empty table, and explains how assignment by label works.
The dashboard has a new typeface, which also loads faster than the one it replaces.