FOH
Front of House
Receive plots that match your input list. Patch from the channel sheet, not from squinting at a phone photo of a phone photo.
Built by a FOH engineer · v0.1 · Beta
Stage plots, settled.
Built for FOH engineers, music directors, and production managers. Replaces the PowerPoint plots, the back-of-napkin sketches, and the half-broken rider apps. One tool that does the work.
Try every feature free · Pro from $9.99/mo
StagePlot Live Concert Hall
One plot, every role that touches it.
MD
Music directors
Build orchestral sections by desk pair. Number them like a real first-violin section. Recolor the whole group without redrawing.
TM
Tour managers
Send the same plot to every venue, with inputs, notes and dimensions in one PDF. Stop emailing eight versions.
A few of them. Stage managers, theatre sound designers, school ensembles, rental shops — if a plot crosses your desk, it works for you.
From the maker Valerie Gard FOH ENGINEER · MAKER · STILL ON TOUR
I'm a front-of-house engineer. I've tried every stage plot tool out there.
They all had something missing. Always.
So I built the one that doesn't.
Built between line checks.
On tour buses, in production offices, mostly while a guitarist re-strings.
Not a hobby project.
Used by the person who built it on real shows. Every shortcut earns its keep.
Zero rider apps were harmed.
But several PowerPoint plots were retired in the making of this product.
Built for stages like
Royal Festival Hall, Your nephew's garage, Glastonbury, The Holiday Inn ballroom, Brixton Academy, A barn in Wiltshire, Coachella, Your aunt's 60th, Roundhouse, Behind the Aldi, Konzerthaus Wien, The pub up the road, Roskilde, Some warehouse in Berlin, Bowery Ballroom, A field in Somerset, Sziget, The community center, Olympia Paris, A wedding marquee, 9:30 Club, That festival nobody knows, Concertgebouw, A cruise ship, probably, Primavera Sound, The school gym.
What's actually in the tool
Three things StagePlot Live does end‑to‑end. No half-shipped features.
Not chasing 200 bullet points. Build the stage, link the channels, export the PDF — every step is the one a working pro reaches for, ten times a week.
01 · The editor
Build any stage. Edit anything on it.
A real editor — not a one-trick template. Drag from a library of 100+ objects — instruments, performers, risers, monitors, wedges, DIs, amps, flight cases — that keeps growing every release. Group what belongs together, edit a single chair inside that group without ungrouping, multi-select with shift-click or marquee.
- 100+ objects and counting · the library keeps growing
- Groups + multi-select · rotate, flip, recolor as one rigid body
- Multi-layer order · bring forward, send back, exact stacking
- Per-object label fonts, sizes, positions
- Custom canvas size + free-form silhouette (thrust, runway, in-the-round)
- Cmd+Z forever · every action is undoable
02 · Input list, pasted and linked
Paste from anywhere. Drag to link.
Copy your channel sheet from Excel, Numbers, a rider PDF, an old plot — paste straight into the spreadsheet. Columns auto-detect; phantom and pad flip to checkboxes. Then drag any row onto a chair on the canvas to link them. The chair gets the row name. The link is two-way and survives renames, regroups, copy/paste.
- Paste from any document · columns auto-detect
- Phantom / pad columns flip to booleans on the fly
- Drag a row onto a chair to link · drop on a section, every chair links
- Two-way · rename either side, both update
03 · Export, your way
One PDF. Stage and inputs together.
Export the way the show needs it. PDF with stage on its own, or stage plus the input list — pick which side, pick which columns, pick whether long lists span pages. PNG export at any zoom. Watermark-free on Pro. The whole thing fits an A4 sheet without anyone squinting.
- Stage only, or stage + input list · left / right / bottom / new page
- Custom column picker — print exactly what FOH needs
- Auto-paginates long lists · 56 rows per column, 2 columns per page
- PNG export at any zoom · PDF metadata for archiving
- Pro: clean exports, no watermark
See it printed
How it fits in your workflow
Three steps. Done before the bus pulls in.
- 01
Paste your input list
From Excel, Numbers, a rider PDF — anywhere. The spreadsheet figures out the columns. Phantom and pad columns auto-detect.
30 seconds. Maybe 25.
- 02
Drag rows onto the stage
Each chair gets the row's name. The link is two-way and survives renames. Drop on a section, every chair links.
It works on the first try.
- 03
Export the PDF
Stage on one page, channel sheet on the side. FOH can patch from one document. Watermark-free on Pro.
Send it. Drink water. Soundcheck in ten.
SIGNAL · LIVE
Stage plots, settled.
Free to start, no credit card. Pro from $9.99 a month.
Build your first plot in less time than line check.
Made by a FOH engineer · Patch-tested in real venues