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Built for working crews

Perfect for

  • Film & TV.
  • Live Events.
  • Theatre.
01 / Toolbox

9 tools, one tap away.

The diagnostic and control floor of StageTools. Every utility you'd carry in a hard case: DMX testers, Network scanners, Timecode, calibration tools, collapsed into one tab and built to talk to the lighting protocols you already run.

  • Live monitoring across sACN, ArtNet, Pathport, MA-Net 2/3, HogNet, ETCNet, OSC, and NDI
  • Read-only on the wire by default. Nothing leaves your device unless you choose to transmit it
  • Background scanning with push alerts so you don't miss a node going offline
  • Match a Kelvin target across every common color-mixing scheme: RGB, CIE xy, Hue/Sat, hybrid LED
Micro Console on iPad, one of nine tools inside the Toolbox section
  • Network Devices

    Scan, save, and ping every node on the rig network. Load web UIs with a single tap. Live Device Map so you can see the status of every device.

  • DMX Viewer

    Live sACN + ArtNet receive across up to 100 universes. Snapshot, flicker finder, priority conflict detection.

  • Micro Console

    Patch GDTF fixtures and test them while at the lamp dock. Fader pages, Programmer with simple syntax, and snapshots directly from DMX Viewer.

  • DIP Switch Calculator

    Visual 8- and 10-switch DIP calculator in either direction. Prep a bag of new controllers in minutes.

  • CCT Converter

    Kelvin → RGB / CIE xy / Hue / hybrid LED via the ASC White Point from MITC. Save user presets per fixture. Find the Hybrid LED mix with adjustable Cool White and Warm White.

  • Protocol Detector

    Passive listener for sACN, ArtNet, Pathport, MA-Net 2/3, HogNet, ETCNet, and OSC with automatic conflict detection.

  • LTC Timecode

    SMPTE LTC generator + receiver across four frame rates with Off, Jam Once, and Continuous chase modes.

  • Curve Builder

    In-field dimmer and color calibration so you can create the perfect linear, exponential, logarithmic, or s-curves. Direct export to grandMA3 XML, ChamSys MagicQ CSV, and PDF reference sheets.

  • NDI Monitor

    Discover and view NDI sources on your network. Transmit your iPhone camera, watch it on your iPad. Get monitor feeds, screenshot frames, and record clips.

02 / Quick Plots

Plots and topology maps for the rig and the network.

Two flavors of drafting in one editor. Lighting plots for the rig: symbols, cables, layers. Topology maps for the network: devices, hostnames, IP labels. Both export as PDFs the gaffer can mark up on paper.

  • Symbol library, hand-drawn shapes, callouts, and cable runs with bend points
  • Photo or PDF backgrounds, with the canvas auto-sizing to the page you imported
  • Map Shot: drop a satellite view of the venue as the background layer
  • Layers, locks, and visibility toggles per element
  • Topology nodes link to your Network Scanner results. Tap a symbol to open the device's web UI
  • Export to image, PDF (any paper size), or directly into the Network Scanner map
03 / Fixtures

Every GDTF fixture, ready to drop.

Sign in to GDTF Share once and the entire global fixture library lives in your pocket. Browse, favorite, download for offline use, and pull straight into Quick Plots or the Micro Console.

  • 8,000+ fixtures from 1,000+ manufacturers via GDTF Share
  • Download directly to your USB to quickly import a fixture to your console
  • Full channel-level inspection: modes, attributes, cell breakdowns
  • Used directly by Micro Console for one-tap patching with multi-cell support
04 / Files

Riders, plots, gels, and reference, all in your pocket.

Save the PDFs you keep printing on paper. Bookmark the supplier sites you keep digging through history for. Organize them in folders that mirror how you actually work.

  • Import PDFs and images, or save URL bookmarks with one tap
  • Folder organization with drag-to-reorder and color tags
  • Built-in QR scanner and NFC tag reader for venue / case labels
  • Share an entire folder via AirDrop, email, or a sharable link
05 / Scout

All your scout work, in one place.

Photos, voice memos, written notes, and a GPS map preview pinned to every location scout. Walk the venue once, hand the LD a branded PDF when you're back at the truck.

  • Multi-photo capture with PencilKit markup overlay
  • Voice memos with rename and in-place playback
  • Block editor for notes: headings, bullets, todos, dividers
  • Auto-generated satellite map preview saved to every scout
  • Branded PDF export with your name, company, and logo
Scout Notes, on-set scouting in action
Pricing

Pick a plan. Start free.

Seven-day free trial when you download. Cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Free tools also work without a subscription.

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You've been here

The moments this app exists for.

Every feature was built to solve a specific problem encountered on a real set.

"At the lampdock. Need to test these fixtures before they ship out to set."

Micro Console patches them as GDTF fixtures and drives sACN or ArtNet to verify modes, addresses, and channels in minutes.

"Not getting universe 3 at the nodes. Is the console even outputting it?"

DMX Viewer confirms what's on the wire. Protocol Detector flags conflicting sources before they hit the rig.

"Rigging gaffer emailed a network drawing. Which IP is which node?"

Network Scanner with saved profiles and XLSX label import. Drop the result into Quick Plots, where labeled topology symbols hyperlink straight to each node's web UI.

"Photos, notes, PDF files. All in different apps. None tied to the scout."

Scout Notes pins photos, markup, voice memos, block notes, and a GPS map to each scout. Branded PDF when you're ready to share.

"RGB ribbon color shifts as we dim it."

Curve Builder generates a per-fixture correction curve from lux readings, with direct export to grandMA3 or MagicQ.

Honest positioning

What StageTools is not.

The hardest part of building a tool for working techs is saying no to features that look cool but don't actually help anyone.

  • Not
    A Vectorworks or LightWright replacement. Quick Plots is for on-the-fly sketches, topology maps, and on-set verification, not the paperwork-grade drafting workflow.
  • Not
    A full-show console. Micro Console transmits DMX for testing, focus, and emergency takeover, not for running a 200-cue show.
  • Is
    The bag of single-purpose tools a working tech actually carries, collapsed into one iPhone and iPad. The scope. The network scanner. The handheld tester. The fixture catalog. The drafting pad. All talking to each other.
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Privacy is a real feature.

All network reads are local and read-only. Nothing leaves your device unless you turn on iCloud Sync, and then it only goes to your own iCloud account. No analytics. No crash reporting. No ads. No tracking. Ever.

Under the hood

Speaks every protocol on your network.

sACN / E1.31 ArtNet Pathport MA-Net2 MA-Net3 HogNet ETCNet OSC mDNS / Bonjour LTC GDTF

Get it on your next job.

TestFlight beta is open to working lighting crews: film, theater, touring. Free for testers. App Store launch in 2026.

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