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Light Assistant is management software for live performance lighting design, labeled on the site as BETA 0.9.1. It is not a general-purpose project management tool; instead, it is built around the lighting design workflow for live productions such as theater, opera, and regional theater, helping designers manage cue sheets, followspots, instrument data, technical rehearsal notes, and standard paperwork output.
Its core modules include Cue Sheets, Spot Tracking, Notes, Instruments, Paperwork, and Data Exchange. Cue Sheet supports inserting cues in a storyboard-style format, dragging and dropping images as references, adding memos, and syncing labels, scene breaks, and page numbers with ETC Eos Family consoles. Spot Tracking can track up to 8 followspots and generate followspot sheets. During technical rehearsals, the software can listen to Eos console events via OSC, linking notes to cues in real time. For paperwork, it can generate cue sheets, followspot sheets, instrument schedules, channel hookups, address hookups, gel cut lists, Avery 5160 labels, and more, with export support for PDF, Excel/CSV, and other formats. Some import/export capabilities are still in beta or planned.
Light Assistant offers a free Limited version and a free Web App, both with restricted functionality, including Cue Lists, Instruments, Data Exchange, Notes, and Basic Paperwork. The subscription version costs $9.99/month via in-app purchase through the App Store or Microsoft Store and includes all features plus ongoing updates. The perpetual license costs $99 and includes updates for the purchased version for typically one calendar year, as well as critical security updates, but it does not automatically include future upgrades.
Its strengths are its strong vertical focus and genuine fit for lighting designers’ needs in technical rehearsals, cue sheets, followspots, and paperwork delivery. Integration with Eos consoles and Vectorworks also improves real-world production efficiency. Pricing is relatively accessible, and the free version makes it easy to try. The downsides are that the product is still in beta, so stability, long-term maintenance, and feature completeness need to be verified; the free version has noticeable limitations; and the website does not disclose common enterprise software capabilities such as team permissions, enterprise collaboration, data security compliance, or a public API.
It is best suited for theater lighting designers, production managers, academic theater production teams, and performance teams using Eos/Vectorworks workflows. It is less suitable for users looking for a general SaaS collaboration platform or an enterprise-grade permissions and compliance system. The site does not provide evidence regarding access from mainland China, so this is currently rated as unknown.
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