GLP KNV Designer vs ActThread
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GLP KNV Designer
Design and visualize lighting setups using a virtual LED system. Create custom structures with pre-set designs or by typing text, and see how they look on your stage with augmented reality.
- Virtual LED system exploration
- Custom design creation
- Text-to-structure transformation
- Augmented reality stage visualization
- Design dimensions and weight information
- Minimum parts calculation
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GLP KNV App is your tool set to virtually explore the Creative LED System KNV from GLP. Built your own design with some finger swipes. For a jump start use our presets or just see your typed in text being transformed into structures built out of KNV Cubes and KNV Arcs. Want to see how it looks on your stage? Just take a picture and add it to your sketch. You also have all the information about the minimum parts needed and the designs dimensions and weight.
ActThread
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ActThread is a focused theatre blocking workspace for directors, stage managers, drama teachers, performers, and small companies. Organize a production into editable acts and scenes, build a clear ground plan, add character tracks, and save each important stage picture as a blocking beat. Duplicate a beat, move performers, shape directional routes around the set, attach the exact script trigger, and follow the scene with timed one-pass auto-step. BUILT FOR THE REHEARSAL ROOM • Edit production details and create, rename, duplicate, reorder, or delete acts and scenes • Start from production-default or scene-specific proscenium, thrust, in-the-round, traverse, black-box, or blank stages • Keep actor-perspective stage directions and audience orientation visible • Name and position entrances; edit walls, furniture, doors, set landmarks, and labels on a lockable ground plan • Track characters separately from optional performer names • Drag, snap, zoom, pan, nudge, undo, and redo with precision • Draw straight, curved, or waypoint movement routes with cues, directional arrows, explicit offstage entrances, and scenery-intersection feedback • Record trigger phrases, page or line references, and rehearsal notes • Step manually or use timed auto-step, which advances one beat at a time and stops at the final beat • Share one editable production through Apple’s share sheet; a friend imports it as a new, independent copy • Export polished PDF blocking packets with complete rehearsal-note appendices when notes are included, plus PNG diagrams • Separately export and restore an editable JSON backup of the full library through a Files or document-provider destination you choose PRIVATE BY DESIGN ActThread works locally with no account, ads, analytics, tracking, or developer cloud. Before replacing a valid primary library, it preserves that library as one on-device recovery copy and uses the copy if the main file becomes unreadable. The copy normally contains the previous valid save, so recently edited or deleted content can remain until a later valid save replaces it. Production copies, full-library JSON backups, PDFs, and PNGs leave the private container only when you request them. Send through Apple’s share sheet with Messages or AirDrop, or save to iCloud Drive in Files and share from there; the destination you select governs its copy. A friend imports a shared production as a new independent copy. Later edits do not sync or merge, and there is no co-editing. Restoring a full-library backup remains a separate confirmed replacement of every production in the current library. The included original sample, The Clockmaker's Lantern, demonstrates a complete scene without using copyrighted script material.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: GLP KNV Designer at 9.0 against ActThread's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | GLP KNV Designer | ActThread |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 365 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | German Light Products | Sam Anand |
In-app purchases
GLP KNV Designer
No in-app purchases
ActThread
No in-app purchases
Questions
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