ProRider Stage Plot Designer vs OnStage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ProRider Stage Plot Designer
Design detailed stage plots and tech riders for your performances. Collaborate with bandmates and sound engineers, specifying equipment needs for seamless setup. Export your finalized riders as customizable PDFs for easy sharing and printing.
- Create detailed stage plots
- Library of instruments and equipment icons
- Rotate and resize icons
- Specify equipment provision (band vs. venue)
- Collaborative project editing
- Automatic project syncing
- Exportable PDF riders
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ProRider is the ultimate app for designing stage plots and tech riders. Align your performance vision between band mates, sound engineers, and stage crew. ProRider allows you to build beautiful stage plots with a colorful library of instruments, microphones, monitors, and more. Every icon can be rotated and resized, so your plot can be crafted to your heart's content. Specify whether equipment is provided by the band or by the venue to keep a running list of everything the venue needs to provide to have your best possible performance. Share projects with your band and effortlessly collaborate on stage layout, accessory requirements, channel layouts, and more. All projects are automatically synced between devices and between collaborators. Finished your rider? Export it as a beautiful, customizable PDF that can be printed and shared! ProRider enables you to: -Collaborate in realtime on stage plots and tech riders -Sync projects across devices -Customize and export beautiful PDFs -Upload custom icons -Scale, rotate, flip, hide, lock, and label icons from our extensive icon library Terms of Use: https://prorider.app/terms
OnStage
Follow concerts live, song by song, directly on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Discover upcoming shows, revisit past setlists, and listen to recordings. Organizes your concert history in one place.
- Live setlist tracking
- Lock Screen integration
- Dynamic Island updates
- Browse artists and tours
- My Shows organizer
- Access show recordings
- Searchable show history
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Follow a show. Watch the setlist happen. OnStage puts the concert you’re at, or the one you wish you were at, on your Lock Screen. Follow a show with live coverage and watch the setlist fill in song by song, right in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen. No refreshing, no forum tab open in your pocket. Before the show Browse artists, tours, and upcoming dates. Follow the shows you care about and find your next night out in My Shows. During the show Live Activities keep the current song and setlist progress on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with updates as they’re reported by available sources. After the show Revisit setlists, show notes, and details from the sources fans trust. Listen back through available community recordings and official live releases. Your shows, together My Shows organizes the shows you follow into Upcoming, Past, and Recordings, grouped by date. Search by artist, venue, city, month, year, or song title to find a favorite night. Recording badges make it easy to spot shows you can hear again. Artist coverage Live setlist coverage is deepest for artists like Phish and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Other artists have varying coverage, including dedicated fan-run setlist sources, touring and show-history coverage, and fan-reported live updates when available. We’re adding sources over time. Sign in is optional. Recordings are available for select shows. Apple Music playback requires an Apple Music subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OnStage at none against ProRider Stage Plot Designer's 3. OnStage also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. ProRider Stage Plot Designer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. OnStage asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ProRider Stage Plot Designer against 5.0 for OnStage. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
ProRider Stage Plot Designer ships an update every 2 weeks, OnStage every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ProRider Stage Plot Designer | OnStage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Alexander Yanez | DANIEL JAMES MILLER |
Customer experience
ProRider Stage Plot Designer
OnStage
In-app purchases
ProRider Stage Plot Designer
- ProRider Monthly$9.991 Month
- ProRider Yearly$70.001 Year
- ProRider Lifetime$9.99
OnStage
No in-app purchases
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