LIGHTBOOKSHOW — the digital show bible for stage lighting

Phone — iPhone and Android

Draw on photos

• Mark what matters right on the frame: five colours, freehand, line, arrow, ellipse. Hold the stroke to straighten it. Two-finger tap undoes, three-finger tap redoes, pinch zooms.
• Marks are a separate layer: the photo stays untouched, and the marks print on the sheet.

Groups

• Fixture groups, as on the console: number, name, fixtures, photo, notes. Hold PRESET to switch to GROUPS and back.
• Type the fixtures on the keypad — 1+2+5, or 10 THRU 13. In a group, hold a fixture to open its card; on a fixture card, hold a group number to open the group.
• Groups come from the console: grandMA2 as a third export file, ETC Eos together with the patch.

Files

• OPEN and IMPORT show files as tiles with icons — where each came from and when. SELECT FILE always opens this screen; BROWSE FILES opens the system picker.
• Shows are shared with LIGHTBOOKPHOTO through a common folder: on Android it is Download/LIGHTBOOK. Merging a LIGHTBOOKPHOTO run into a show, you choose six frames per cue from everything it shot.
• Settings › Your shows › BACKUP ALL SHOWS saves every show into one file; OPEN restores it.

Also on the phone

• After updating, a WHAT'S NEW screen appears once; it is also in Settings › About.
• The built-in demo show is replaced with a new one that has groups and drawings.
• A new show's poster keeps its drawing, edit and crop when they are made before CREATE.

Desktop — Mac and Windows

• A GROUPS tab: number, name, fixtures, photo, notes. Cmd/Ctrl-click a channel in a group to jump to that fixture.
• Groups from the console: the import window shows a GROUPS tile, and MERGE shows your groups next to the console's before anything changes.
• Draw on photos: line, arrow, ellipse, five colours. Hold Shift for straight lines, 15° steps and circles.
• Numbers are checked in every tab: a duplicate cue, preset, group or fixture address opens a window with the same choices as on the phone.

All platforms

• The sheet: new order — cues, presets, groups, fixtures — and you choose which sections and photos go on paper. The choice is remembered.
• Console export help: one grandMA2 macro for patch, cues and groups, with COPY MACRO. Eos warns when an export has lost Cyrillic labels.
• Importing the same console export again no longer adds duplicate fixtures.
• Console commands are a softer green, warning words are orange — the same on phone and desktop.

File format

• The .lightbook file is now format 11. Shows saved by 0.13.0 open in older versions without drawings and groups — update every device you share shows with. Older shows open in 0.13.0 exactly as they were.

Phone — iPhone and Android

Six frames per card

• Every fixture, preset and cue holds six photographs instead of three. Frames 1–3 go onto the printed passport (SHEET), frames 4–6 are spare (SPARE) — a shot you are not sure about no longer has to replace a good one.
• FRAMES — a button on every card and in full-screen view — shows all six frames at once. Hold a frame and drag it onto another to swap them, or onto an empty slot to move it. Tap an empty slot and the camera comes on; after each shot the selection moves to the next empty slot, so a series is six frames in six taps.
• On the card itself: an empty photo page turns the camera on by itself; on a page that already has a photo, RETAKE and GALLERY replace exactly that photo. After the third shot the card says SHEET FULL · SPARE IN FRAMES.
• Viewing a card, swipe through all six frames — sheet first, then spare — round and round, without a jump at the end. A spare frame glows at the edge and is labelled SPARE 5; slots in FRAMES are labelled sheet 1 … spare 6.
• A “+3 spare” strip on a list thumbnail tells you the row has spare frames.
• Only frames 1–3 are printed; the PDF and HTML passport look as before.

Desktop — Mac and Windows

• Six photographs per fixture, preset and cue instead of three: 1–3 print on the passport (SHEET), 4–6 are spare (SPARE).
• The FRAMES window replaces the old photo editor: the big frame on top, six slots below. ADD puts a photo into the first empty slot, DELETE leaves a gap. Drag a frame onto another to swap them (hold, or press with Alt); undo works.
• The window is not modal: the table under it stays live, a click on a thumbnail in another row retargets it; drag it by the title, snap it to a side, resize it from the corner.
• Click the frame to zoom: wheel, + − 0, drag to pan, Esc leaves the zoom.
• A “+3 spare” strip on the third thumbnail when a row has spare frames; every slot in FRAMES is labelled sheet 1 … spare 6.
• New start screen — the beam, LIGHTBOOKSHOW letter by letter, the slogan. “Favorite” is spelled correctly in the pickers.
• Windows installer: remove the previous test build first (Settings → Apps), otherwise Windows keeps both copies.

All platforms

File format

• The .lightbook file is now format 9. Shows saved by 0.7.2 open in older versions without photos — update every device you share shows with before exchanging files. Shows saved by older versions open in 0.7.2 exactly as they were. Only frames 1–3 go onto the printed sheet on both platforms.

Also on the phone

• A .lightbook opened from Files, Mail or AirDrop lands in the app, not on an empty “Unmatched Route” screen.
• “Favorite” is spelled correctly everywhere (it used to read FAVORIT).
• The built-in demo show, Waiting for the Focus Call, now has spare frames and real cue times. It arrives with a fresh install; on a phone that already has it — delete the demo and tap RESTORE DEMO SHOW in Settings.

iPhone

• Large system text no longer breaks the layout. With a bigger Text Size or Larger Text in iOS settings, labels, show titles and keypad digits keep their size and fit their tiles and buttons.
• The screen title runs on one line across the full width.
• Fixture card: the open keypad for channel or location takes all the free space down to the bottom row — no empty gap under it, and the keys grow to fill it.

Android, Mac and Windows stay on 0.6.2: Android already had the text fix, the desktop apps were not affected.

Both apps — iPhone and Mac

Cue time — complete, the way a console shows it

• Delay and Follow are now visible on the cue card and in the list, not only while editing.
• Time is shown line by line: TIME 10/5, DELAY 5, FOLLOW 6 — full words, only what is set.
• New time entry: a display on top, four fields TIME UP · TIME DOWN · DELAY · FOLLOW, and a keypad with console DELAY and FOLLOW keys. Key order doesn’t matter.
• Split fade (5/10) and split delay (d2/3).
• Follow without a time, as on grandMA (go when the fade completes), is shown simply as FOLLOW and entered with the FOLLOW key alone.

Console import (grandMA2, ETC Eos)

• MERGE shows what replaces what: changed rows open as MINE / CONSOLE pairs — choose per row, or ALL MINE / ALL CONSOLE.
• Import no longer overwrites your text — console text and yours are combined.
• Cues and presets no longer duplicate (Q1 and 1, 1.5 and 1.50 are the same cue).
• Fixtures are no longer lost on import; re-importing from Eos updates gel, purpose, brand and model.
• ETC Eos: first cue list, split fades, Follow and Hang with times, down delay, cue notes.
• grandMA2: Time triggers arrive with their time.

Reliability and printing

• Channel numbers up to five digits.
• A show opens even if a photo is missing; a damaged or foreign file no longer crashes the app.
• Fonts are embedded in the show sheet: HTML, print and PDF look the same, even offline.
• Compound gels (L201+L202) print one line per filter.
• Console commands in the cue line are highlighted more precisely.
• Gobo search is much faster.
• Free trial — 45 days from first install. Everything is unlocked during the beta.

Mac

• The app runs in the macOS sandbox — getting ready for the Mac App Store.
• Saving and the RECENT list work after a restart.
• One keypad in every entry window (gel, location, address, time): one font, one key size, a clear delete key.
• Time window: display on top, four fields in a row; keyboard — digits, “.”, “/”, D — DELAY, F — FOLLOW, U — TIME UP, Enter — APPLY.
• The display above every entry window uses one colour; the channel address reads more compactly.
• Refreshed document icons.

iPhone

• OPEN button on the Home screen — a show someone sent you opens right away.
• DUPLICATE replaces SAVE NEW: copy a fixture, preset or cue with one tap.
• Swipe in lists: EDIT · DUPLICATE · DELETE.
• Fixture card: PURPOSE and FOCUS no longer shrink under the keyboard.
• iOS 27 compatibility.

Android

• The first Android build: 0.6.2 goes to the open test in Google Play.

• Public beta opens: iPhone and Mac through TestFlight, Windows as a direct download.