# Augmented Theatre Dashboard — Cue the audience's phones > Cue the audience's phones (iPhone/iPad app by Vladimir Gusev.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/augmented-theatre-dashboard/id6799532758 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Vladimir Gusev](https://appshunter.io/developer/963910848) - Category: Entertainment, Productivity - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 5 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Russian, European Spanish - Released: 2026-08-11 - Data updated: 2026-10-21 ## What is Augmented Theatre Dashboard? Augmented Theatre Dashboard is the operator's side of a performance where the audience's own phones are part of the staging. From the booth, it sends text cues to every phone in the house over the theatre's own Wi-Fi, and delivers the images, video, audio and AR sets a production needs — quietly, during walk-in, so that a cue at curtain is instant. • Shows are folders you can see. Each one holds its own document and its own media, so clearing a closed production is deleting a folder. • Files are delivered content-addressed and verified, and a phone never fetches something it already holds. • Once a phone holds an asset it can be played, paused, stopped, shown and hidden as often as the show requires, without touching the network again. • Any cue can address part of the house — roughly a third of the audience, or half — rather than all of it. • The delivery tally shows how many phones hold each file and how far the rest have got. The companion Augmented Theatre app for iPhone is free. Text and the basic show cues are free forever. Sending media files, AR sets, addressing part of the house and the delivery tally are included for five days, and afterwards need the full version. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Full Version | $39.99 | one-time | ## Is Augmented Theatre Dashboard safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Augmented Theatre Dashboard. ## Is Augmented Theatre Dashboard legit? Augmented Theatre Dashboard appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Augmented Theatre Dashboard is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 4.40 — 2026-10-16 Hand-over is off until a booth asks for it. - A Dashboard now arrives with "Hand the show between consoles" switched off. It is the right default for the great majority of booths, which run one console: with it off, this Dashboard announces nothing, acts on no request from another console, and drives the show from the moment it opens. A booth that passes the show between a Mac and an iPad turns it on, once, on both. It had been on by default, which meant any other Dashboard on the network -- a classroom, a shared studio -- could put yours on standby in the middle of a performance. - The manual explains the House row in terms of what it does: Start switches the phones to that show's files and puts its poster up; Stop returns them to the idle screen and clears the title and any surtitle, which is why it also takes away a colour fill, a camera look or a shader. - Four chapters of the Russian manual had no translation and were shown in English. They are translated. ### 4.39 — 2026-10-15 Buzz the house, cue over TCP, and a folder for each augmented-reality set. - The cue strip has a Vibrate chip. Its row sets how long the buzz lasts and how long after the cue it begins -- both in milliseconds, up to a minute -- how hard it is, as a percentage of full strength, and whether it repeats until the instance is stopped. - Settings can send cues over TCP instead of UDP. The console then holds one connection open to each handset and sends every cue down it, which is what a venue that blocks or floods broadcast traffic needs. Both ways are described on the Settings page, the one in use is the one the cue port row is named for, and the audience app hears either without being told which. - An augmented-reality set keeps its files in its own folder inside the show, named after the set, so the show on disk reads like the delivery table. A show made before this is tidied into that layout when it is opened. - Settings can hide hand-over. Hidden, the console announces nothing, acts on no request from another console, and drives the show from the moment it opens, which is what a booth with a single console wants. - Settings is a page rather than an alert: labelled port fields, both transports described, and hand-over on a switch beside its explanation. ### 4.37 — 2026-10-13 A chip for each kind of media, not one door for all of them. - The delivery table has a separate button for video, for images, for audio, for an AR set and for an audio-reactive look. Each one opens a file panel offering only the kinds the audience app can present, so a file that cannot be shown can no longer be staged. - The demo show is a template. Opening it always gives you the canonical demo, fresh; editing it and saving asks for a new show rather than overwriting it, so the demo is still there the next time you want to show someone. - The demo stages its media in the order the chips are in, and one of every look alongside it. ### 4.36 — 2026-10-12 A new demo AR set, sets that carry their own sound, and a chip for each kind of media. The demo's AR set is now a figure in Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet costume vocabulary — cone skirt, spherical hips, ruff, ball head, brass cone hat, in the three primaries — rigged, swaying through a slow pavane, with two films behind it and an eight-bit loop of its own. The set it replaces was geometry with video on it and nothing moving. An AR set can carry a score. Put an audio file in the set's folder, or name one with the "audio" key in ar-set.json: it is staged, delivered and counted with the rest of the set, and loops for as long as the set stands. It is independent of the projections, so a set with no video surface at all can still have music — and it sits inside its set in the running order rather than beside it as a loose file. The cue strip opens with a chip for each kind of thing you can add: Video, Image, Audio, AR Set and Audio-reactive, each offering only the files it is for. One chip with a folder emblem used to accept everything, which said nothing about what it would take — and an AR set could only be added by dropping its folder on the list, which appeared nowhere but in a tooltip. A gap separates them from the built-in looks, which need no delivery. The demo is a template now, not a show. Opening it gives you a fresh, canonical demo every time: the same files in the same order, one AR set, one shader and one of every look. Anything you have made of it is kept with "Save the Demo as a Show…", or it goes — which is what keeps a demo worth showing someone. A Dashboard that is the only one in the building no longer says "ON STANDBY — another console is driving the show" while it starts up. It spends its first seconds listening for other consoles before taking the show, and now waits until it knows before saying anything. Help has a new section, "Creating an AR set", which walks the demo set from the figure to the folder and explains what an anchor is actually for. The website carries the same with the anchor on the page and the set downloadable, generator scripts included. ### 4.35 — 2026-10-08 Cues now arrive even when the Wi-Fi drops them. A venue's access point sends a broadcast once and never retries it. Measured in a real room, barely half of them were reaching the handsets. Every cue that can safely be repeated now goes out a second time, addressed directly to each phone that has reported in — and a direct message is retried until the phone confirms it. Anything else listening on the cue port sees exactly what it saw before. Update Assets works on the demo board. It used to give up before asking the house anything when no show was open, so the Delivered column sat at nought while the phones were holding the whole show. The iPad also sweeps by itself now, on launch and whenever a stage is loaded. A Dashboard that is not driving says so, plainly, across the top — and the controls that belong to the console holding the show are inert rather than mysteriously dead. It also shows that console's running order instead of an empty list. When the delivery column cannot hear the house at all, it says so instead of reporting nought. Pressing a chip scrolls to the row it just made. The Send buttons grey out where the script ends rather than a line early. And the demo's looping GIF is no longer a black screen. ## More apps by Vladimir Gusev - [Mulch Cam](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mulch-cam/id963910849) - [Mulch Tune](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mulch-tune/id1070973465) - [Augmented Theatre](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/augmented-theatre/id1135946050) - [nowucme – Share Live Location](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nowucme-share-live-location/id1299899588) - [What About Phase?](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/what-about-phase/id6785542900) All apps by Vladimir Gusev: https://appshunter.io/developer/963910848 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-21.*