Comparison

Cue Killer vs JustMakeQ

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cue Killer

This app provides comprehensive show control for performers managing their own audio-visual elements. It allows users to create ordered cue lists for slides, sound, video, and more, with hands-free operation options. Designed for live performance, it offers features for audience interaction and efficient show building.

Highlights
  • Create ordered cue lists
  • Control slides, audio, video, and camera
  • Hands-free operation with external devices
  • Live audience interaction via QR codes
  • Import show files from other apps
  • In-app AI assistant for show ideas
Features
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Cue Killer is show control for performers who run their own AV. Build one ordered cue list, press GO, and let the next slide, sound, video, camera cut, overlay, blackout, QR moment, or transition land exactly on your beat. Made for magicians, mentalists, speakers, musicians, comedians, event hosts, worship teams, buskers, and anyone who has to perform and run the booth at the same time. WHAT YOU CAN CUE - Slides, PDFs, Keynote/PowerPoint exports, images, video, audio, live camera, text, frames, lower thirds, QR codes, audience polls, waits, groups, mic/listen mode, blackout, and stop-audio cues. - Audio cues include fades, crossfades, looping, trim, level control, and a dedicated kill-audio action. - Visual cues can use cinematic crossfades or dip-to-black transitions, plus branded overlays and big live text. RUN IT HANDS-FREE - Map GO, BACK, LIVE, blackout, deck navigation, and audio actions to Flic buttons, Bluetooth clickers, game controllers, MIDI, OSC, or the built-in web remote. - Add spoken trigger phrases so a line in your script can fire any cue. - Use the camera to recognize a prop and fire the matching cue while your hands stay in the routine. BUILT FOR THE BIG SCREEN - Send clean audience output over HDMI or AirPlay while your iPhone or iPad stays on the operator console. - Use live camera cues with zoom, picture-in-picture/split layouts, peer cameras, browser cameras, and overlays. - Fire audience interaction cues: the crowd scans a QR code or enters a short code at cue-killer.com, then votes in live polls, number guesses, or word clouds. BUILD FASTER - Import media once and reuse it across shows. - Import Go Button, StageCue, and CSV show files. - Use Killian, the in-app assistant, for setup help and for generating show ideas, cue drafts, images, sound effects, music beds, and voiceovers when you connect your own AI keys. CONFIDENCE UNDER PRESSURE Cue Killer is designed around the live moment: what is on air, what is standing by, what GO will fire next, and how to panic-silence everything fast. It is approachable enough for a solo performer, but serious enough for a real stage.

About

JustMakeQ

Features
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JustMakeQ App is the mobile companion of the JustMakeQ show control software (audio/video/lighting/network cue lists for live production). Connect your phone or tablet to the JustMakeQ desktop machine in seconds, on the same local network, and keep control of the show while you move around the venue. FEATURES • Real-time cuelist: view, reorder, add and edit all 21 cue types of the software (audio, video, image, text, network stream, live video and audio inputs, MIDI, OSC, HTTP, PJLink, VISCA and ONVIF PTZ cameras, group, fade, separator, wait...) right from the app, with their main fields. • Transport: Go, Pause, Stop, playhead selection, instantly in sync with the desktop machine and every other connected client. • Mixer: adjust the master and the 10 channels of the mixing console live. • Routing: view the video outputs, projection surfaces and audio outputs configured on the host. • Automatic discovery: JustMakeQ sessions visible on the local network show up directly, no need to type an IP address. • Permission levels: the host decides whether you get read-only access, transport control only, or full editing. • Interface adapted to iPhone and iPad, dark theme, multilingual. PRIVACY No account, no sign-up, no data collection: the app only connects to the local network of your JustMakeQ machine. JustMakeQ desktop is a show control software (cue player) for live audio/video/lighting operation. More information at justmakeq.com.

Screenshots

Cue Killer4 screens
JustMakeQ3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: JustMakeQ at every 3 days against Cue Killer's every 5 weeks. JustMakeQ also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cue Killer ships an update every 5 weeks, JustMakeQ every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Cue Killer versus JustMakeQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCue KillerJustMakeQ
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKalani HelekunihiBreizhzion

In-app purchases

None

Cue Killer

No in-app purchases

None

JustMakeQ

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cue Killer free?
Cue Killer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is JustMakeQ free?
JustMakeQ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cue Killer or JustMakeQ have ads?
Neither Cue Killer nor JustMakeQ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cue Killer or JustMakeQ?
Cue Killer ships an update every 5 weeks, and JustMakeQ every 3 days. Most recently, Cue Killer was updated on October 31, 2026 and JustMakeQ on November 6, 2026.

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