QLab AlternativesTop Projection Mapping & Theater Show Control Apps like QLab

One of the most popular alternatives to QLab is Linux Show Player, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Go Button, Show Cue System, Millumin and Christie Pandoras Box. Theater Show Control Apps like QLab are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and iPad.

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    Linux Show Player

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    Linux Show Player (LiSP) is a free cue player designed for sound-playback in stage production. The goal of the project is to provide a complete playback software for musical plays, theater shows and similar.

    16 Linux Show Player alternatives

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    • Linux
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  2. Go Button icon

    Go Button

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    Go Button is a mobile audio app designed to provide professional playback of music and sound effects for live shows. It provides a creative, self-contained show control system that runs on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

    13 Go Button alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • iPhone
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  4. Show Cue System icon

    Show Cue System

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    The Show Cue System has been designed to playback sound cues such as sound effects and music cues for live theatre productions.

    23 Show Cue System alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  6. Christie Pandoras Box icon

    Christie Pandoras Box

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    Media Server used for multiscreen media playback, 3D projection mapping and interactive video.

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    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    HeavyM

     3 likes

    Add an amazing visual dimension to your events with HeavyM, video mapping software. Download for free, on Mac & Windows.

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    • Freemium
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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  9. Smode Studio icon

    Smode Studio

     4 likes

    Smode is a real-time 2D/3D creation, compositing and video-mapping engine developed by D/Labs. Everything with Smode is real-time: you can change any parameter at anytime without having to make expensive re-renderings.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  10. Watchout icon

    Watchout

     2 likes

    WATCHOUT multi-display software is your fast track to creating spectacular shows. Use WATCHOUT to compose and manage all the different media elements in your show – video, still images, animations, graphics, live feeds, sound – and then play it back on multiple displays.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    • European Union flagEU
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  11. MadMapper icon

    MadMapper

     7 likes

    The MadMapper provides a simple and easy tool for video-mapping projections and LED mapping. It removes a lot of the confusion related to this medium, effectively demystifying the process, allowing you, the artist or designer to focus on creating your content, and making the...

    21 MadMapper alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Isadora

     8 likes

    Isadora is the award winning, interactive media presentation tool that allows you to follow your artistic impulse. Whether you are an artist, designer, performer, or VJ, you can quickly and easily harness the limitless potential of digital media and real-time interactivity with...

    24 Isadora alternatives

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    • Mac
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  14. Kommander T1 icon

    Kommander T1

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    This software is compacted all essential functions like NDI,MIDI ,present PPT with animation and so on,it is power ,mostly been used in LED broadcast filed,it can achieve pixel to pixel display and his price is very appealing.

    23 Kommander T1 alternatives

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    • Windows
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