What the person performing sees — large, readable from a distance, and nothing else.
Three display modes. Counting up shows time elapsed, counting down shows what is left of the planned length, and clock mode replaces the timer with the time of day. Switch mid-show, from the phone.
The timer turns amber five minutes before the goal, orange at two, and red at the goal itself — on its own. The person on stage reads the situation without anyone having to send a message or wave from the wings.
Any colour on the spectrum, and three sizes up to full-bleed edge to edge. Big room, long sightline, big numbers.
Before the timer starts, the screen shows the performer, the venue and your notes — or a full background image, with complete control over how it is positioned and cropped.
Optionally pin the time of day below the big number, so the stage knows the hour without losing sight of the timer.
In long shows the seconds are just noise. Past the one-hour mark the screen switches to 1:23 instead of 1:23:45 and stops ticking.
The heart of OnCue: telling the person on stage something without the audience sensing that anything happened.
Type on the phone and the message appears large on the screen on stage. Frequently used messages are saved to a single tap, so you are not typing mid-show.
A brief flash of the screen when you need attention right now, without a single word. Send it to one specific screen or to all of them.
Four unmistakable states — standby, go, hold and clear — in full colour across the whole screen. The language of a control room, without the control room's cabling.
With several screens on stage you can address just one of them. The rest carry on showing the timer.
Messages and colour cards with no timer at all. For anyone who only needs to talk to the stage — a host, a producer, a director — rather than manage time.
The phone in the manager's hand is the remote. Everything is one tap, without leaving the screen.
The basics, instant and synchronised across every connected screen.
Ten seconds or a minute, forwards or back, without stopping the timer. When the show started two minutes late you correct it — you don't reset it.
Set a time and the timer on stage starts by itself at exactly that moment, even if the phone is in a pocket and your hands are busy with something else.
A countdown on the screen to the start of the show, so everyone knows how long is left — not just whoever is watching a watch.
Locks the tablet onto the timer view. An accidental touch during a show opens no menus and changes nothing.
Blacks out the screen on stage between segments and brings it back with a press — a tablet survives a whole evening off the cable, and nothing glows in the dark for nothing.
Give a screen a name ("stage left", "green room") so you know who you are addressing, and disconnect one you no longer need — all from the phone.
A tool that runs live has to hold up when something goes wrong. It was built around that assumption.
Type a code into the tablet and you are paired. No cabling, no adapters, no dedicated hardware — the screen on stage and the phone in your hand.
A device trying to join your room waits for approval from the manager's phone. Nobody gets in simply because they guessed a code.
A basement venue with no reception? Flip the switch on the phone and on the stage screen, type the code once, and the two connect straight to each other — no router, no cloud. From the phone you keep the timer, the messages, all four cue lights, the flash and the screen lock. Both devices need Bluetooth and Wi-Fi switched on, but no network to join.
If the connection drops mid-show the timer on stage keeps running locally — it does not reset and does not stop. The devices re-sync on their own when the connection returns.
The running timer appears on the phone's lock screen, on iOS and on Android. You can follow it without opening the app.
The phone vibrates and alerts at the points you choose — five minutes before the goal, two, at the goal and five minutes past it. Exactly the points where the colour on stage changes.
The stage screen opens in a browser with nothing to install — a tablet, a laptop or an old phone. The controlling side runs in the app, from the App Store and Google Play. The interface is available in full Hebrew (RTL), English and Russian.
What happens around the show, not only during it. These tools are part of OnCue Pro, with a 30-day free trial.
Every show in one place — date, venue, performer, fee and notes. Each show has its own page and a journal only the manager sees.
The venues you keep coming back to, with the details you have already gathered — and the contacts for each one, so you are not digging through WhatsApp every time.
A personal link for each crew member with their own schedule. They see what concerns them, and money never appears there.
Record expenses and reimbursements per show, travel included — so at the end of the year you have a real number rather than an estimate.
How much you performed, where, and what it brought in. A yearly picture that builds itself from the data.
Your shows are written to your calendar automatically and appear on your phone, computer and watch. With Google the sync is two-way: shows are written to your primary calendar, and events already in it are pulled into OnCue. With Apple a dedicated calendar named "OnCue Stage" is created, and the sync is one-way.