NextCue

Every live show runs on time — until it does not. NextCue gives conference operators, stage managers and broadcast crews a dependable timing backbone: countdowns, count-ups, time-of-day clocks and complete cue stacks, all driven from one clean operator screen built for fast hands under pressure.

Build your running order as a cue stack with per-cue durations, notes and auto-follow. Fire cues with hotkeys or the numeric pad, nudge time live when a keynote overruns, and let colour thresholds shift the display from green to amber to flashing red as the clock runs out — the universal language every presenter understands without a word being spoken.

Stage displays are first-class citizens. Send a full-screen timer to any physically connected output, or run the free NextCue Viewer on any Windows machine on the LAN: confidence monitors, lectern displays and green-room screens all stay in lockstep, with presenter messaging and attention flash one keypress away.

NextCue speaks the language of your control room. A documented OSC and HTTP API means Bitfocus Companion, Stream Decks and existing show-control rigs can start, pause, reset and adjust timers without anyone touching the operator console — exactly what you need at a FOH position where the timer is one of twenty things you are running.

Built for venues, not for the cloud: NextCue runs entirely offline on a closed show network. No accounts, no sync services, no surprise updates mid-season. The licence is validated once and cached, so a dropped internet uplink never stops the show.

Try the full application free for 14 days, then pick the licence that matches your operation — from a single FOH laptop to a ten-seat company licence covering every venue and rental rack you run.