A stage timer for every screen in the room, on the same second.
Run the countdown, the rundown, and the cues from one browser tab. Speakers, crew, and audience follow on any screen with a link, with nothing to install.
No sign-up: a room with 3 timers in one click. Sign up free to keep it.
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The controller on the operator's laptop, and the screen the speaker sees.
Within a tenth of a second
On wired or Wi-Fi with a round trip to CueStride under 200 ms, its two directions within 40 ms of each other, any two screens are that close 95% of the time.
Keeps counting offline
A screen that drops off keeps time and catches up when it is back.
Any screen, no install
Laptop, tablet, phone, or TV: a browser and a link are all it needs.
Nothing lost on a restart
Running timers are still running, at the right second, after our server restarts.
Features
Everything a show caller reaches for, one click each.
No confirmation dialogs and no hunting through menus. CueStride is built for the moment the speaker runs long.
Timers and rundown
Plan the whole programme, then run it one key at a time.
Every segment of the show is a timer in the rundown, with its speaker, its start, and what the screens do on the way to zero. Change anything while the clock runs; it never restarts.
Start by hand, straight after the previous segment, or at a scheduled time
Count down, count up, show the time of day, or count to a finish time
Time warp: the speaker's clock runs faster or slower than the real one
Green, yellow, and red wrap-up times, with a chime and a flash at each
Add or take away time live; the progress bar rescales
Several days in one rundown, reordered by dragging
OBS Studio and vMix show a room's Timer link as a browser source, on the same second as the stage. A transparent link draws only the timer, its bar, the message, and your logo, with no black box around them.
A Timer link with no background, its text shadowed to read on bright videoPro and up
Clear a source already in OBS from Live connections, or bring its black backPro and up
No corner buttons and no chimes on the transparent linkPro and up
OBS's own blending mode or color key, on every plan
Switch what every TV shows, without walking to it.
Pair a venue's TV once, with a code it shows. From then on you choose what it shows from the Screens tab, and its address never changes, so a TV that restarts comes back to what it showed.
Switch a TV between a room's timer, agenda, and backstage board, in a second or twoPro and up
Put an event's board or its attendee agenda on a TVPremium and up
Put a sponsor screen on a TVPremium and up
Identify a screen, reload it, rename it, or unpair it from your seatPro and up
Pair a TV that already shows a link, without going to itPro and up
Play an event's sponsors in a loop on the screens you give them, such as a lobby TV or a screen at a room's door. You name the tiers as your prospectus does, and every screen of a group shows the same slide at the same moment.
Tiers you name, each with its own slide or a shared slide and its seconds on screen, or kept off the screensPremium and up
Choose which rooms show which sponsorsPremium and up
A change you save reaches the screens within about two minutesPremium and up
Your logo on the stage, your colours on the agendas.
Screens carry your event, not ours. Themes are checked for contrast before you save, and their fonts come from CueStride, so no screen calls a third party.
Your logo on every screen, with or without the CueStride wordmarkPro and up
6 themes, your own colours, and 13 fonts for the agenda screensPremium and up
Space starts and stops, N and P step, plus and minus add a minute, B blacks out, F flashes.
A timeline you can drag
Jump the playhead to any moment without changing the length of the segment.
Overtime you can see
Past zero the clock keeps counting, in red, with a minus sign.
Right after a sleep
Correct again at once after a background tab, a sleeping device, or a wrong system clock. Screens ask to stay awake.
Late joiners are on time
A screen opened mid-show shows the right second on its first frame, not the full length.
Time zones and formats
Each room keeps its own time zone and a 12 or 24 hour clock for time of day.
Notes only you see
Cue notes on a segment stay on the controller and never reach a screen.
Links, not logins
Screens need no account. The controller link carries a token you can revoke.
How it works
From an empty stage to a show on time in three steps.
1
Create a room
One click, no account needed. Build the rundown: each segment's length, speaker, and start. You get a controller for you and a link for the screens; sign up free to keep the room in your account.
2
Open the link on every screen
Confidence monitor, laptop, tablet, TV browser: open the viewer link and go fullscreen. No login and nothing to install. Put the agenda link in front of the audience.
3
Run the show
Start, next, add a minute, push a message to the stage. Every screen follows at once, a late joiner shows the right second on its first frame, and the keyboard does it all.
Every plan syncs to the same accuracy and has every timer and cue. The plans differ in how many rooms, timers, and screens you run, and in the extras below. Pro and Premium grow with you: add screens to every room in packs, and admins one at a time. Prices are in US dollars and include tax. Every open view counts as a screen, including your controller and moderators; a sponsor screen counts in no room.
Payments are handled by Paddle, our merchant of record; taxes are included at checkout. Plans are bought and changed from Account settings in the app. Compare the plans in full.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Do the screens need an account or an app?
No. A screen opens the room's viewer link in its browser and goes fullscreen; it never signs in and installs nothing. Running the room takes only its controller link; an account keeps your rooms in one place and lets you invite a moderator, who signs in to send messages.
Do I need an account to try it?
No. Create a room in one click and run a show with it on the free plan: 3 timers and 3 screens. Your controller and any moderators count as screens too. Its controller link is your way back to it, so keep it. Sign up free whenever you like and the room moves into your account with everything in it; a room without an account is deleted after 90 days without use.
Which devices can be a screen?
Anything with a current browser: laptops, tablets, phones, and TV browsers or sticks. CueStride supports the last two versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge, and Safari on iPhone and iPad. A screen asks the device to stay awake where the browser allows it.
How closely do the screens agree?
On wired or Wi-Fi with a round trip to CueStride under 200 ms, its two directions within 40 ms of each other, any two screens show the same second, within a tenth of a second of each other 95% of the time. Cellular data, on any device, and a slower or less even network are not covered by that figure. A screen opened in the middle of a segment shows the right time on its first frame, and one that was asleep or in a background tab is correct again at once.
What happens if a screen loses its connection?
It keeps counting from what it last knew, so the speaker never sees a frozen clock. When the connection comes back it catches up within seconds, including anything you changed while it was away.
Can someone send messages without being able to touch the timer?
Yes. Invite a producer as a moderator: their page sends, shows, and flashes messages, and cannot start, stop, or change a timer.
Can the audience see the programme?
Every room has an agenda link showing what is on now, what is next, and projected start times that move when the show runs late. For a conference, an event puts all its rooms on one board and on an attendee agenda laid out in time slots (Premium and up).
Can I import my programme from a spreadsheet?
Yes, into an event (Premium and up): a CSV with a row per session, giving the day, room, start, length, title, and speaker. You see what will be created before anything is, and rooms that do not exist yet are created with their timers.
Can I mirror the timer for a teleprompter?
Yes. A screen flips horizontally, vertically, or both, from its own toolbar or from the controller's list of screens, and remembers it across reloads. A viewer link can carry the flip, so a teleprompter opens mirrored.
Can I put my logo on the screens?
Yes (Pro and up): your logo on every screen, with or without the CueStride wordmark. The agenda screens also take a theme, your colours, and a font (Premium and up).
Is the free plan really free?
Yes, with no card and no time limit. Starter gives you 3 rooms, each with 3 timers and 3 screens, with your controller and any moderators counted among the 3, and every timer, message, and cue feature.
How do I pay, and can I cancel?
Paddle, our reseller and merchant of record, handles payment and includes the tax at checkout. Pro and Premium are each monthly, yearly, or a pass for a single event (30 days). You change or cancel from Account settings in the app, and a cancelled plan runs to the end of the period you paid for. Refunds follow our refund policy.
What happens to my rooms when a paid plan ends?
Nothing is deleted. Until you remove others or move to a plan that covers them, rooms and timers beyond what the free plan allows are disabled, and a disabled room's screens say so and are disconnected. In rooms that stay in use, screens beyond the free plan's allowance can no longer connect; those already open stay until they disconnect. Before you cancel, CueStride shows you exactly what changes and from when.
Do you track visitors or screens?
Screens are never measured: a screen carries a random id so the room's controller can tell screens apart, tied to no person unless someone names the screen. The app's other pages, where you set up and run rooms and manage your account, are measured with PostHog: page views and a few actions, such as creating a room or starting, pausing, and resetting a timer, never what a room contains or what you type. When you are signed in, what it records is linked to your account's id and your organization's id, never to your name or email address. Where the law asks for your agreement, or where we cannot tell whether it does, it runs only once you give it; elsewhere it runs until you turn it off, with the app's banner or with "Cookie settings" under "Privacy" in the app; and it never runs while your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. Visits to this site's pages, apart from its timers, are counted with Cloudflare Web Analytics, except for visitors in the EU; it sets no cookies and, Cloudflare says, collects no personal data. We also count them ourselves, with Counterscale on Cloudflare, under the same choice as the app's analytics and never while your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control: the page, the site that linked to it or a source named in its address, campaign tags, country, and browser, with no cookie and never your IP address. We advertise with Google Ads and Meta's ads, and never in the places where we ask first. Elsewhere, Google's tag and the Meta pixel run on this site's pages, apart from its timers, and never in the app, unless you turn advertising off or your browser sends Global Privacy Control; each sends its platform the page, the page that linked to it, your IP address, your browser's details, the ad you clicked, and a click on "Sign up free". When you sign up or first buy after clicking one of their ads, our server tells each platform whose ad click your browser kept, with the ad click's id, an id for the report, your email address in hashed form, and for a purchase the amount paid; Meta also receives your browser's user agent, and the browser id its pixel keeps when it has one. The privacy policy has the details. We send no marketing email. A room's contents are visible only to the people who hold its links.
How do I reach you?
Write to hello@cuestride.com. Enterprise plans, invoices, and questions before you buy go to the same address.
Your next show, on time.
Put a room's link on a screen and run the show; sign up free when you want to keep it.
