Castograph vs ActThread

Plan formations and movement paths more clearly before rehearsal. Place performers, set transition timing, and check curved routes and overlapping paths before your team steps on stage. Preview the full routine with music, then share the finished movement plan as a video or chart. Castograph is a visual formation planner for choreographers, dance teachers, directors, and performance teams. Build precise stage layouts, organize formations on a timeline, and see how performers move from one formation to the next at a glance. # Core Features • Visual stage planning Place and move performers on an 18 x 10 stage canvas. Use names and colors to keep every position easy to identify. Reuse saved crews to start new projects faster. • Curved movement paths and collision checks Move waypoints to shape smoother curved transitions. Check where movement routes overlap or where performers may collide before rehearsal begins. • Music-synced formation timelines Add and reorder formations, set hold and transition durations, import audio from Files or a video from Photos, and play the full sequence in sync with your track. • Video preview and export Review animated transitions before rehearsal. Preview the finished movement flow as a video and create shareable results your team can follow more easily. Castograph Pro unlocks PDF, image, and video export. # Built For • Choreographers designing routines and transitions • Dance teachers and studio teams preparing rehearsals • Cheerleading, color guard, and marching groups • Musical and theater directors planning stage movement # How It Works - Create a project or choose a saved crew. - Add performers and place them on the stage. - Add formations to the timeline. - Set hold and transition timing. - Import music and preview the full routine. - Preview and export as video, PDF, or image. # Start Free Create up to five projects with unlimited performers and formations. Music-synced playback, timing controls, undo and redo, notes, video preview, and export preview are included. Castograph Pro unlocks unlimited projects and actual PDF, image, and video file generation. #Subscriptions Castograph is free to download and offers optional auto-renewing monthly and yearly subscriptions. Eligible new yearly subscribers may receive a 14-day free trial. Trial, price, renewal, and cancellation terms are shown before purchase. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are available in the app. No account is required. Choreography projects and imported media stay on your device unless you choose to export or share them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://poised-snow-ca5.notion.site/Swallowtail-Privacy-Policy-2ed0fb1b7290807d97efdb7409aa8ad7

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.