CueController
Live show cue lists, in sync
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
CueController is the cue-list manager for live shows that run audio from QLab and fire it from a Stream Deck through Bitfocus Companion.
CueController is free to download. Using it requires a CueController Pro subscription ($69.99 per year, with a 2-week free trial). Every feature described below is part of CueController Pro.
Build the show in one place — every sting, walk-in, voice-of-god and music bed — and CueController does the tedious part: it creates the cues in QLab on your Main AND Backup Macs, builds the matching buttons in Companion, copies the audio to each machine, and keeps all of it in sync as the show changes.
GO LIVE
Press Go Live and the whole show goes out: cues created (or linked, if they already exist) in both QLabs and put in show order, deck buttons created and laid out page by page, and the audio delivered to every QLab Mac. From then on every edit syncs — rename, renumber, reorder, add or delete a cue and QLab and the deck follow.
A CUE EDITOR BUILT FOR SHOW CALLING
• Import audio and cue numbers are read straight from the filenames
• Drag to reorder — the numbers follow the new order
• Group, renumber a selection, or fit cues evenly into a number range
• Copy, paste and full undo
• Pre-wait, infinite loop and "married" cues that fire together
• Retarget a cue to a new audio file; QLab and the deck button follow
• Set a cue's QLab output and level, for one cue or many at once
YOUR NUMBERING, YOUR RULES
Define your own cue types — STING 001–099, MUSIC 200–299, VOG, BED, SFX — each with its own number range, increment, colour and default Start/Stop or Start-only behaviour.
SEE YOUR DECK
A live mirror of your Stream Deck, one Companion page at a time. Buttons turn green while a cue plays. Drag buttons to rearrange them, drop them off the grid to delete, add Spotify Previous / Play-Pause / Next buttons for walk-in music, and a PANIC button that stops everything.
MAIN + BACKUP, DONE PROPERLY
Every cue goes to both QLab machines, and every deck button fires both. Audio is copied to the same folder on each Mac, so both workspaces point at identical files. Running one QLab Mac? Turn the backup off with one switch.
PREFLIGHT
Before the show, Preflight checks for missing audio files, duplicate numbers and numbers outside their type's range.
ONE FOLDER PER SHOW
Each show lives in its own folder on your Desktop with all its audio — easy to back up, zip, or carry to another Mac.
SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED
CueController is free to download, and a CueController Pro subscription (an in-app purchase) is required to use it. New subscribers get a 2-week free trial. After the trial, CueController Pro is $69.99 per year, charged to your Apple ID, and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://claude.ai/artifact/2ZByHw9C9yKAtmVgKqv9k5#privacy
REQUIREMENTS
• QLab 5 on each playback Mac, with OSC enabled
• Bitfocus Companion (free) for Stream Deck control
• Macs on the same network; File Sharing on the other QLab Mac to send audio to it
• Optional, for Spotify buttons: the free Spotify Controller app and Companion's Spotify Controller connection
Deck buttons are created for you — nothing to build by hand in Companion. The built-in Help walks through the full setup.
QLab is a trademark of Figure 53, LLC. Stream Deck is a trademark of Corsair Memory, Inc. Bitfocus Companion is a product of Bitfocus AS. CueController is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Ratings & Reviews
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- Opening a show keeps its Stream Deck button layout.
- Go Live asks whether to keep Companion's button layout or CueController's, and shows how many buttons would move from the chosen start page.
- With "Use a backup QLab machine" on, Stream Deck buttons fire both Main and Backup QLab. Existing buttons are repaired the next time you Go Live.
- Renumber Selected: type the start number and increment.
- While live, the Stream Deck page shows which buttons are playing.
- Fixed a freeze when opening Connections.
The developer, Paul Caccamo, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Paul Caccamo
- Size
- 2.6 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- CueController Pro $69.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Paul Caccamo
