TestFlight
Mac
- Install TestFlight from the Mac App Store.
- Open the Mac invitation on that computer.
- Click Install — the app lands in Applications.
Public beta · version 0.13.0
The same show bible on a large screen
The whole patch in front of you, cue lists side by side, printing and export prepared calmly at a desk rather than on a phone in the dark.
Windows
macOS
The editor opens the same project file the phone writes. Nothing is converted and nothing is uploaded anywhere — the file is opened, worked on, and saved back.
Windows
For the production office and the console desk, where the show file is prepared before the focus call and tidied up after it. The patch, the fixture cards, presets and cue lists open in one window.
System
Windows 10, 11
Architecture
64-bit
Network and account
not required
macOS
For the lighting designer's own machine, where the show bible is assembled, read and handed on. Several project files merge into a single show bible when the focus was written down in parallel.
System
macOS 13 and newer
Processor
Apple silicon and Intel
Network and account
not required
I · Entry
Every field is a picker
A fixture card is not a form you type into. Address, location, type and model, gel and gobo each open a picker that already knows the catalogue: the patch goes in the way it is read off a console — by number and by name.
Location
Type and model
Gobo
II · The check
Photographs at full size
The frames shot on the phone during the focus call open on the large screen at the size they were taken, next to the console data they belong to. That is the check the show bible exists for.
What the large screen adds
The whole patch at once
Hundreds of fixtures in one table instead of a scrolling list, with sorting and search across every field.
Printing and export
PDF for the archive and for the folder that travels with the production; HTML for reading on any machine.
Merging files
Several people write the focus down in parallel; the files come together into one show bible without retyping.
Console import
Patch, presets and cues from grandMA and ETC Eos — together with timing values and the console's text notes.
Public beta
Where to get it
Mac through TestFlight, Windows as a direct download.
Direct download
Windows
- Download and run the installer.
- On the blue “Windows protected your PC” screen: More info, then Run anyway.
- Answer Yes to the unknown-publisher prompt, then Next, Next, Finish.
The test build is not signed with a publisher certificate, so Windows warns about it. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
Already installed an earlier test build? Save your shows, remove the old LIGHTBOOKSHOW first (Settings → Apps), then install 0.13.0 — otherwise Windows keeps both copies side by side.
0.13.0 adds drawings and groups. A show saved here opens in older versions without them — update every device you share shows with.
SHA-256 checksum
b02d3054cf78227bcd114aee029fa98eef22c727823d1c83706937c12d6923fe
The beta is open
The Windows build can be downloaded now, the Mac build is arriving in TestFlight. Leave your email and we will write when the release is out.
How to install →Or write to info@lightbookshow.com