Kiosk & Retail Displays
Design an interactive kiosk
Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe the touchscreen, records, approvals, analytics, and back office you need, and it builds the kiosk as a page of your own app.
Just enter your idea into the text box and AI will build it for you
What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t kiosk hardware or a vendor package — it’s an AI that builds software for you.
You describe the app you need in your own words, and Kliv builds it: the data, the screens, the admin area, the publishing rules, and the workflows behind the display. What you get is a real web app that’s yours, on your own domain, and you can change it later by asking. It isn’t a fixed kiosk template.
On this page, that app is an interactive kiosk. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this is one for public screens, exhibits, retail displays, and the back office that keeps them current.
Why build your own kiosk software?
The hardware is usually the easy part: a tablet or screen in a locked frame, running a browser in fullscreen. The harder part is what the screen draws from: the object records, the stories people contribute, the approval queue, the take-home email, and the ability to fix a typo without a vendor ticket.
With Kliv, the kiosk is a page of your own app, designed for fingers and read at arm’s length. The same database can run the public screen and the back office, so the exhibit and the collection record stay together.
The collection, wired for touch
Three kiosks can share one back office. These records serve them all.
Objects and stories
Every artifact is a record with photos, label copy, and the longer story. The kiosk and catalog read the same record, so the label and ledger do not drift apart.
Screens and layouts
The attract loop, exhibit tree, large-print toggle, and gallery pages are app screens with a purpose. Staff edit them from a desk, not at the frame.
Moderated visitor or volunteer stories
Retired drivers, staff, or visitors can submit written or recorded memories. Each contribution waits in a moderation queue until a curator approves it.
Take-home email
“Email me this” can send a visitor’s object list and further reading from the museum’s own address, creating a mailing list from people who asked for more.
Tap analytics
You can track which panels are touched and which stories hold attention. Events you define are charted for the next exhibit meeting.
An example: Gareth’s railway museum kiosk
Here’s how one museum might use an interactive kiosk built with Kliv. It’s only an example — you would describe your own screens, collection, and approval process.
The object is cataloged once
Locomotive No. 7’s builder’s plate is photographed and recorded with number, foundry, year, and shelf location. Every kiosk and catalog page reads that one record.
The curator writes from the back office
The label copy and the longer “read more” story are edited in the app, away from the display frame and without reinstalling anything.
A volunteer memory waits for approval
A retired driver’s memory of the 1968 snow run enters the moderation queue. One curator click makes it public, and before that it cannot reach the gallery floor.
Publishing updates every screen
When the exhibit is published, all three kiosks update. No USB stick moves around the museum and no vendor visit is needed.
Analytics inform the next exhibit
The tap chart shows the signal-box story drawing the most attention in the west gallery. Gareth can plan the next winter exhibit from what visitors actually chose.
Describe the kiosk you want to build
Kliv builds from your description, so the more detail you give, the closer the first version. Include the screens, records, approval rules, accessibility needs, and analytics. Here are three to build on:
Museum gallery kiosk
Objects, stories, approvals, and tap analytics.
“Design a museum kiosk for three gallery tablets. Include an attract loop, an exhibit tree built from object records, volunteer stories held in a moderation queue, a large-print mode, and tap analytics for each panel.”
Visitor-center guide
Trails, conditions, staff edits, and take-home maps.
“Design a visitor-center kiosk showing 18 trails, today’s trail conditions, seasonal closures, staff edits from a phone, a large-print mode, and an “email me the map” button.”
Factory-tour timeline
Archive photos, staff anecdotes, and guestbook.
“Design a lobby kiosk for our factory’s 100th anniversary. Build a swipeable timeline from archive photos, staff-submitted anecdotes that need approval before publishing, and a guestbook that resets to the attract loop after idle.”
Everything upstream of the screen
Edits publish deliberately. Volunteers can draft and curators can approve. The gallery floor only sees the published version, so an unfinished layout cannot appear mid-morning.
One collection can serve two audiences. The same object records can feed a public collection website and the kiosk in the room. Cataloging No. 7 once can put it in front of visitors beside the engine and people searching from elsewhere.
The exit panel can hand off payment. A kiosk can invite a family membership at $61 a year and hand the visitor to their phone to finish checkout. No card reader is needed on the frame; the payment lands in the museum’s Stripe account.
Most internal tools hide in an office. This one stands in a gallery, but the pattern is the same: internal tools, even the ones on public display, get built here by describing them.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI that builds custom web apps from a description. For kiosks, it builds the public screens and the admin system behind them.
Do I get a real app, or a template?
A real app. The kiosk screens, content records, moderation queue, and analytics are built for your exhibit or display, not forced into a fixed template.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. You can ask for new screens, changed layouts, different approval rules, or new analytics events.
Who keeps the content current?
Anyone you allow. Volunteers can draft, curators can publish, and every kiosk updates when the published content changes.
What do the tablets need to run?
A browser in kiosk mode is the basic requirement. A consumer tablet or screen that opens a web page can run the kiosk; the locked frame is the kiosk-specific purchase.
Can visitors pay at the kiosk?
The kiosk can pitch a membership, donation, or product, then hand off to the visitor’s phone for checkout. The frame does not need a card reader.
What happens when someone walks away mid-screen?
The attract loop can reset after idle. A kiosk session does not need to sign anyone in, so an abandoned screen does not expose an account.
Can one back office run several screens?
Yes. Multiple kiosks can read the same records and publish from the same admin area while still showing different screen layouts.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. The kiosk app and any public collection pages can run on your own domain.
Will public collection pages show up in search?
Yes, if you choose to publish them. Public pages can be served so search engines and AI assistants can read them.
Can I move off Kliv later?
Yes. The code syncs to your own Git repository, so leaving is a git pull rather than a rebuild.
Do I need a separate CMS?
No. The app includes its own admin area for object records, copy, files, moderation, and publishing.
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Design the kiosk from the records out
Describe what visitors should touch, what records sit behind each screen, who approves changes, and what you want to measure. Kliv builds the kiosk and its back office.