QueIt vs ActThread

Que-It is an organizational iPad application for stage managers and designers. The application allows the users to load a PDF of a script and then organizes the Q’s into categories, such as lighting, sound, deck, and projection, however categories are defined by the user and any system or organizational style can be used with the application. The application also has the ability to create a prefix for each list as well as the ability to hide and show individual lists. This application has the capability to auto number or letter each Q list, or allow the user to load in a number or letter. It also allows the user to enter data as to what the purpose of the Q is. Once the information is set, the application will auto stand-by the script. All of this data can be manipulated within the application allowing the user to edit a cue's data as well as allowing the user to change the location of the cue or remove the cue from the script. At each stage of the work the file can be saved to a cloud or server for back up. Once the information is set to the users needs the application can auto stand-by the script if desired or the user can create a standby cue list . If using auto stand-by's the user can then leave these stand-by’s individual or combine them across cue lists. The application allows the user to customize settings giving the choice of color for each category. Additional features of the application are managing a set of bookmarks for quick navigation, exporting and importing individual cue lists as well as entire shows for sharing, storing contact information for each designer as well as the venue the show is being produced in. Que-It also has the ability to map a PDF page number to a user defined page number, which will allow for better compatibility with rehearsal scripts.

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.