You pay for the person who starts the show.

Everyone else is free. Every operator on the rail, every phone in Button Mode, the SM calling it, every Editor helping build the paperwork, the director watching Fullscreen. Free, and staying free.

Joining and operating a show you have been invited to costs nothing on every plan, whatever your own account is on. A cue system that charges per crew member is not a cue system anyone uses.

Local Free $0

No card, no trial clock

Everything except the multi-device parts on a show you start, and still free to join anyone else's.

  • One show of your own, start to finish
  • Full plot and cue stack
  • Fullscreen and Show Mode
  • Show file save and load
  • CSV import and export
  • Both printed documents
  • Join anyone else's show, in any role
  • On your own show: no cloud sync
  • No Button Mode phone remotes
  • No operators, watchers or wallboard
Open FlyCue
One show Production $49 one-time

60 days of sync from the day you start

One show, start to strike. For the community company doing a panto, or a school musical.

  • Everything in Free
  • Live cloud sync across devices
  • 1 Admin, up to 3 Editors
  • Unlimited Operators and Viewers
  • Unlimited Button Mode remotes
  • Show slipped? Ask and I will extend it, free
  • Stays readable and printable after it expires
Buy a production pass
Annual Season $149 per year

About three production passes

Unlimited shows, one Admin. For a freelance head mechanist or a stage manager across several productions a year.

  • Everything in Production
  • Unlimited productions
  • 1 Admin, unlimited Editors
  • All your shows in one list
  • No expiry, shows stay live as long as you do
  • Email support
Start a season
Venue House Custom

Set up with you, not through a checkout

A venue, producing company or drama department where more than one person starts shows, and someone can always let the crew in.

  • Everything in Season, for the whole crew
  • Up to 10 Admins, so anyone on the roster can start a show
  • Unlimited Editor and Operator seats
  • Unlimited synced shows for every member
  • Shared venue rigs across the crew
  • Cover when someone is away
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The small print, in plain words

All prices in Australian dollars. Payment is handled by Stripe inside the app, so this site never sees a card. Production is a one-time charge, not a subscription that renews behind your back. Season renews yearly and can be cancelled from your account.

Your data stays yours whatever you decide. The show file download and CSV export are never locked behind a plan, and a show that has run out stays readable and printable. It just stops syncing.

Education

50% off for students and teachers paying out of their own pocket, and 25% off for schools, universities and colleges buying institutionally.

Email us from your institution's address and it is applied. No form, no verification service.

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Four roles. You pay for one of them.

FlyCue only works if the whole crew is on it. Charging per head would guarantee half the team ends up back on a printout, so only the person who starts the show costs anything.

Admin

Paid

Starts shows, and the only role that can add or remove people, or run an import that could overwrite the lot. Those powers are what a licence buys.

Editor

Free

Builds the plot and the cues, sets the colours and the deads, prints the paperwork, and moves through the stack too. Everything except managing people and importing over the top of them.

Operator

Free

Moves the stack forward and back, on the rail or in Button Mode, and can print their own cue sheet. Nothing they can edit.

Viewer

Free

Fullscreen Mode only, no account. The wallboard, the director, anyone who just needs to see where the show is up to.

What a licence actually pays for.

FlyCue is built and looked after by one person who works in theatre, not by a software company with a sales team. Every licence goes back into building it, and into keeping the free tier as complete as it is.

Plenty of theatre runs on nothing at all. A school production or a community company with no budget should still be able to draw a proper plot, write a cue stack and hand the crew paperwork they can follow. The companies that can afford a licence are what keep that possible for the ones that cannot.

What changes between plans.

 FreeProduction SeasonHouse
Plot, cues, Fullscreen, Show ModeYesYesYesYes
Printed plot and cue sheetYesYesYesYes
Show file, offlineYesYesYesYes
Live cloud sync-YesYesYes
Button Mode remotes-YesYesYes
Operators and Viewers-UnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Productions you start1 local1UnlimitedUnlimited
Other people's shows you can joinUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
How long a show stays editableNo limitTwo monthsNo limitNo limit
Admins, who start shows and manage people-1110
Editors, who build and run shows-3UnlimitedUnlimited

Fair enough questions about money.

Why per production and not just a subscription?

Because a lot of theatre is not continuous. A community company doing one panto a year should not pay for twelve months of sync it uses for six weeks. If you are across three or more shows a year the Season licence works out cheaper, and that is the only reason to move up.

What happens when a production pass runs out?

Nothing disappears. The show stays readable and printable, and you can still download the show file and run it locally. What stops is live sync between devices. Renew and it picks up where it was.

Why two months?

It covers the window where a fly plot actually matters: drawing it up, tech, the run, strike. Much longer and it stops being a production pass and starts being a subscription you did not choose. If your build starts earlier than that, say a school production plotted at the start of term and performed at the end, tell me when you buy it and I will set the clock to suit, or extend it later. Nobody's pass is going to expire mid-run.

What is actually missing from the free tier?

The multi-device parts of a show you start. A free show lives on the one machine that made it: no cloud sync, no show code, so no Button Mode remotes, no operators and nothing on a wallboard. What you do get is the whole of the app on that machine, plot, cues, rig view, Fullscreen, Show Mode, CSV and both printed documents, with no time limit. What it does not limit is joining. A free account can be an Editor, an Operator or a Viewer on as many other people's shows as it is invited to, with full sync, forever.

Why is so much of it free?

Because plenty of theatre runs on no budget at all, and the fly floor is usually last in the queue for whatever budget there is. A school production or a community company with nothing to spend should still be able to draw a proper plot, write a cue stack and hand the crew paperwork they can follow. The licences from companies that do have a budget are what keep it that way.

Do I need to pay for my fly crew?

No. Operators, Viewers and Button Mode remotes are unlimited on every paid tier, and Editors are unlimited from Season up. The only thing a licence really covers is the Admin, the person who starts shows and adds people. Everyone else joins with the six-digit code.

Why does House stop at 10 Admins?

Because ten covers any venue that runs on one roster: a full production department, the duty techs and whoever covers when someone is away, with room to spare. It is there so one licence stays one venue rather than quietly becoming four. If you genuinely need more than ten, or you run several venues under one roof, get in touch and we will sort something out. That is a conversation, not a wall.

Is a licence tied to me, or to a show?

To you, but every role is granted show by show. Being the Admin on your panto gives you nothing on someone else's Twelfth Night unless they add you to it, and being an Operator on theirs costs you nothing. One account can be the Admin of its own show and a plain Operator on three others at the same time.

How do I actually pay?

Inside the app. Open FlyCue, pick Production or Season, and Stripe handles the payment. This website never touches your card details. A House licence is set up with you by email instead, because it covers a whole crew and needs a short conversation first.

Is there an education price?

Two of them, depending on who is actually paying. A student or a teacher buying it out of their own pocket gets 50% off any tier. A school, university or college buying an institutional licence gets 25%. Get in touch from your institution's email address and it is applied.

Can I try it before paying anything?

The free tier is not a trial. It is the whole app minus cloud sync, with no time limit. Build a real plot, write a real cue stack, print the paperwork, and only pay when you want several devices following each other live.

Where does my show data live?

On the free tier, only on your machine. On the paid tiers it syncs through the cloud so devices can follow each other, and you can pull a full show file down at any time. The export is never locked behind a subscription.

Start on the free tier.

Build the whole show first. Decide about sync when the crew arrives.