mubo vs ActThread

mubo is a dance formation maker for choreographers, dance teams, cheer squads and marching bands. Lay out every formation on a timeline, sync it to your music, and hand the whole crew a plan they can actually follow. CURVED TRANSITION PATHS Dancers don't walk in straight lines, so mubo doesn't draw them that way. Tap a dancer, drag the handle, and bend the path between two formations into an arc, a swoop or a circular walk. Your team sees the route they actually take, not just where they start and where they stop. BUILD THE FORMATION - Drag dancers around the stage and set keyframes to morph one formation into the next. - Start faster with 14 adaptive formation templates, including lines, staggered rows, V shapes, arcs, circles, diamonds, grids and groups. Preview routes before applying, while keeping every dancer's name and color. - Stage props: place stairs, speakers, mics, a DJ booth, arrows, shapes and text labels so the stage on screen matches the one you will perform on. - Give every dancer a name and a color, group them, and move a whole group at once. - Save a project per song and reopen it whenever the choreography changes. MUSIC SYNC, FREE FOR EVERYONE Load a track and mubo draws the waveform for you, so every formation change lands on the beat. Preview in real time, and slow playback to 0.5x or push it to 2.0x while you learn the counts. Music sync is included free—no Pro subscription required. REHEARSE WITH A REFERENCE VIDEO Add an MP4, MOV or M4V rehearsal video from your device. It stays muted and follows the same timeline and playback speed as your formation, so you can compare choreography and spacing without juggling two players. The video is copied into mubo's local storage and never uploaded. SHARE IT WITH THE TEAM - Rehearsal sheet (PDF), new in this version: one printable A4 page per formation, each with its formation number, its timecode and your notes. Print it, hand it out, mark it up at practice. - Export video (MP4) of the routine playing back with your music. - Send an animated GIF of a transition, or a still image of one formation, straight into the group chat. WORKS OFFLINE Everything lives on your device. Build formations on the bus, in the studio or backstage with no signal. mubo Pro removes the watermark and the ads, and unlocks HD export, MP4 video, stage props and unlimited projects. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cleverlywittyapps.notion.site/Privacy-policy-28bc23508849809b8a18fd07bbb45bf9

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.