One app, two sizes.

I live on iPad and iPhone. Same buttons, same show, same reaper. The iPad shows more at once; the iPhone stacks it.

Which one am I on? Tap it.

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Everything in this walkthrough works on both. I'll show you the screens for yours.

You are the performer and the whole booth

I've stood at the back of enough rooms to know what a solo show takes. Here is what I came to kill.

So you juggle. You look down. The reveal lands after the laugh. Two seconds of dead air, and the audience sees the seams. Unforgivable.

And where I don't.

A cue app that only plays sounds is a jukebox with a nicer button. I'm the whole booth. Seven places the others stop and I keep going.

Every one of those gets its own step in this walkthrough. Hand me the show. Go be the talent.

Every moment is a cue.

A cue is one thing that happens on stage: a slide appears, a song starts, the camera cuts in, the lights go black. Your show is those cues in one list, in the order they happen. Three apps walked in. One button walked out.

You press one button. I fire the next cue. Then the next. Your timing, my blade. That is your whole job on stage.

A clicker, a foot pedal, a Flic, your voice, even a prop held up to the camera can press GO for me. We get to all of that. First, the basics.

Works with the gear you already own.

Whatever is in your bag right now can be my GO button. A MediaStar Pro, an Audio Ape, a foot pedal, a Flic, a presentation clicker, a game controller, a MIDI pad, a Bluetooth keyboard. I'm not picky. I'm hungry.

Even remotes that were never meant for media. You do not need a "cue app" remote. Press any button on any remote and I tell you what I heard: a keyboard key, a media key, a volume key, a game-controller button. Then tap Learn and that button is yours. Mine, technically. Ours.

More out of every button

One button can do up to five things: a tap, a double tap, a triple tap, a quadruple tap, and a hold. So a one-button clicker runs GO, BACK, blackout, kill audio and camera, without changing anything about the clicker.

No remote at all? Any phone on the same Wi-Fi opens a web remote in its browser: GO, BACK, camera, panic, behind a pairing code. A friend at the back of the room can drive. Greg, even. Supervised.

Bring your show with you.

Running on Go Button today? Export the show from there and open the file on me. It comes in as a Cue Killer show with every track already linked. Nothing to rebuild. I don't make you start over; that's Greg's move.

1. In Go Button, export the show as a Show Bundle. That is the file with all the audio packed inside.
2. Get the file to your iPad: AirDrop, iCloud Drive, Dropbox, anything Files can see.
3. On my home screen, tap New, then Import show, and pick the file.

Your cue order, volumes, fades, crossfades, pre-waits and auto-follows all carry over. Pick up on cue 1 and keep going.

Get me on your device.

Grab your iPad or iPhone. We do this part together. It's the only part where I need you to type.

1. Open the App Store and search for Cue Killer, or tap this: Get Cue Killer on the App Store
2. Install me, then open me. You land on my sign-in screen.
3. Sign in with Apple (one tap, no password to remember) or with your email.
4. Pick a plan. Your first month is free. A card is needed to start it, and each account gets one trial.

Open my tutorial show.

This is home. Every show you own is a card here. I already built one for you, so you can press buttons without killing anything that matters.

Tap the card called Killian's Tutorial. It opens the console: the screen you run shows from, with the cue list, the program preview, and the big GO button. You cannot break anything in there. Press whatever you like.

Press GO.

This is a working copy of my console. Let's run a little show right here on this page before you touch the real one.

Program on the big screen

Nothing live yet

◀◀ BACK GOQ 1 · Welcome slide LIVE

Four cues, in order. Nothing is on the screen yet. Standby.

And... gone. Cue 1 turned green. It is on air: the welcome slide is on the big screen. Cue 2 turned amber. It is next: the one GO fires when you press it again.

BACK never fires anything. It only moves the amber NEXT marker up one. Tapping a cue does the same thing: it makes that cue next. So you can skip around a show without playing a thing. No dead air, no accidental sting.

Now do it for real. In my tutorial show on your device, press the green GO button. Keep pressing. Every cue teaches you one thing.

The big screen.

Your audience never sees the console. They see the program: the box at the top of your screen that says "on the big screen". The console is ours. The program is theirs.

Two ways to get it on a screen

When nothing is live, I show your default screen, never dead black. Out of the box that is my own card. Put your logo there instead; we do that in the branding step.

Output mode (that first button) fills your own screen with the program too, and hides every control. One tap anywhere = GO. Use it when you run the show from a remote and want nothing on your iPad but the show.

Two consoles, one twist.

Hold me upright and I'm the building console: the full list, the editor, every control. Turn me sideways and I become Perform mode: a running console you can read from across a dark stage.

In Perform mode the side panel has a small button at its top: Cues swaps in the full running order (tap any cue to make it next), Now & Next swaps back to the giant view. On iPad, drag the divider to make the cues as big as you like. I remember the size.

Rotate back upright any time to keep building. Nothing fires, nothing changes. The show just turns with you.

Build your own show.

You have pressed GO on mine. Now make one of yours. Three moves: new show, add a cue, pick what the cue does. The first two are on this screen.

1. New show

Go back to home and tap New, then New empty show. Give it a name.

2. Add a cue

In the empty console, open the three-dots menu (top right), tap Add, then Add cue. Or press and hold anywhere in the cue list to open Arrange, where a + adds cues.

Build it anywhere. Turn on iCloud sync in Settings on each of your devices (same Apple account) and every edit you make on the iPhone shows up on the iPad, and the other way round. One show, every device, nothing to re-edit. Off by default; it takes effect the next time you open me.

Pick what the cue does.

A new cue opens the cue editor. The first row, Type, is the heart of every cue. Pick a type and the rest of the editor reshapes itself around it.

The types you will use most, one at a time:

• Slide. One image on the big screen.
• Video. A clip, with its own sound.
• Audio. A song, a sting, a voiceover.
• Slide Deck. A PDF. GO pages forward, BACK pages back.
• Camera. Cut the live camera onto the screen.
• Text. Big words on screen.
• Blackout. Kill the screen to black. My favorite word, used responsibly.

Try it now: set Type to Slide, tap Slide / media, pick any photo. Tap Done. Tap your new cue so it turns amber, then press GO. Your photo is on the program.

Feed me.

Everything you give me lives in one library, shared across every show you build. Drop it in once. I keep it.

Tap + and pull in:

• Photos. Any image or video from your camera roll.
• Files. Songs, videos, PDFs from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, a USB stick, anywhere Files can see.
• Generate with AI. A voiceover, a music bed, a sound effect, a title card. Made here, on the spot.

Slides from Keynote or PowerPoint: export the deck as a PDF, bring it in, and add a Slide Deck cue. GO pages forward through it. BACK pages back. Builds and animations do not survive the trip, so put each reveal on its own page.

You can also do this inside a cue. In the editor, open Slide / media or Audio file and tap "Search, rename & preview". Import or generate right there without leaving the cue.

What happens after a cue.

Every cue has one setting called After this cue. It decides whether I wait for you or keep going on my own.

Delay before firing holds a cue for a beat after you press GO. A built-in dramatic pause. Transition in on any visual cue crossfades the big screen into it instead of cutting.

Build a trick once.

A trick is never one cue. It's the intro music, the title slide, the camera cut, the sting, the blackout. Eight cues, in order. A routine is those cues saved as one block, so adding the trick to a show, or pulling it out, is one move.

1. Open Arrange (press and hold the cue list).
2. Tick the cues that make up the trick.
3. Tap Group. Name it ("Card to Wallet"), give it a color. It folds into a colored folder in the list, and it is saved as a routine in a library shared by every show you own.

In any other show: three-dots menu, Add, Insert routine. Pick it. All eight cues land in order, media attached, timing intact. Cut a trick from tonight's set? Select the folder in Arrange and delete. One block, in or out.

Change a cue inside a routine and I ask whether to update the saved routine too. Fix it once, fixed everywhere.

Fire something off-script.

Not everything happens in order. The heckler needs a rimshot. The music has to stop now. An impromptu cue is a button that fires any time, without moving your place in the show.

1. Three-dots menu, Add, Add impromptu cue. Pick what it does: a sound, Stop Audio, a slide, a camera cut, anything.
2. It lands on the strip above GO. Tap the chip and it fires. The amber NEXT marker stays exactly where it was.
3. Put it on a remote button. In Remote settings, find it under "Your impromptu cues", tap Learn, press the button. Now the sting lives under your thumb all show.

One chip, several things. Open the chip and use "Also do" to stack actions: show a slide and play a sound, with a delay on either if you want them staggered. The chip shows a small number when it fires more than one thing.

Jump to Cue is a cue type made for this. As an impromptu, it leaps the show to any cue you pick and carries on from there. Skip a trick that isn't landing without scrolling a list in the dark.

Run it from your pocket.

A MediaStar Pro, an Audio Ape, a foot pedal, a Flic, a presentation clicker, a game controller, a MIDI pad. Any of them can be my GO button so you never touch the screen on stage. Press a button and I tell you what I heard, whatever kind of remote it is.

1. Pair it with iOS first. Open the iPad's Settings, Bluetooth, and pair the remote there like any accessory. (Flic buttons are the exception: they pair inside me, under Connect a device.)
2. Open Remote settings. Three-dots menu, Setup, Remote settings. Or the Remote Settings button on the home screen.
3. Press any button on the remote. The "Press a button to test" row names what it heard. If nothing shows up, the remote is not reaching the iPad yet. Fix that before anything else.
4. Map it the one-tap way. Under Set buttons, "Auto-map a known remote" has presets: Audio Ape, MediaStar Pro, a presentation clicker, Logitech. Pick yours and forward is GO, back is BACK.
5. Or teach it button by button. Next to GO, tap Learn, press the button you want. Single, double, triple, quad and hold are all separate, so one button can do five things.

Before every show: the Pre-show remote check lists every remote your mapping uses. Press each one and it turns green. Clickers cannot tell me when they drop, so this press-test is the only way to truly know they are alive. Ten seconds. Do it.

Make the console yours.

Left-handed? Big thumbs? Hate clutter? One screen lays the whole console out your way: Settings, Customize, Customize controls. The big BACK, GO and LIVE row never moves. That path is sacred. Everything else is yours.

One Reset all puts everything back to how I shipped. Nothing in here can break the GO path.

Put your name on it.

Three places the audience sees you, not me. Set them once and every show wears them.

A Lower Third cue is a name card over the program: your name, a title, a subtitle. Add one to your opening and the room knows who walked on.

Before you walk on.

The worst time to find a missing file is in front of an audience. This takes one minute, and it is the difference between a show and an incident.

1. Pre-show check. Three-dots menu, Setup, Pre-show check. It lists every cue whose file has gone missing and puts a Relink button next to each one. Red turns green.
2. Press each remote button. Green means alive.
3. Look at the audience screen. Your default screen should be up, not a desktop.
4. Lock it. Tap the padlock up top. Long-press, swipe-to-delete and drag-to-reorder all switch off, so a stray thumb on a dark stage cannot rearrange your show. GO still works.

If something goes wrong

• Stop all (red button) stops every sound and clip. Slides stay up.
• Kill Audio (in the program panel) silences everything instantly.
• Panic: press and hold LIVE. The screen goes black and every sound stops. Then take a breath and press GO on whatever comes next. I've already queued it.

Now the fun part.

Four power features, each its own short section. None of them is required; the basics already run a show. Pick where to start. I'm patient. I have all the time in the world.

Fire a cue with your voice.

Any cue can carry a phrase from your script. When I hear it, I fire the cue. No clicker, no tap, no looking down. You say the line you were going to say anyway.

1. Open a cue and tap the Trigger row, right under Type.
2. Open Voice trigger and type a phrase. Something from the routine: "show me the money".
3. Tap the MIC button on the console so I am listening.
4. Say it. The cue fires. Another dead cue. Good.

Live Text puts what you say on the big screen, live. Turn on Between and give it a start phrase ("the number is") and an end phrase ("right"). Only the words spoken between them land on screen. Perfect for a reveal that has to land on the beat.

Show me a prop. Or a gesture.

The camera can fire a cue when it sees an object, or when it sees you move. Hold up a watch and the sting plays. Put a hand on the spectator's shoulder and the lights change. I'm watching. In the good way.

1. Open a cue, tap Trigger, open Prop trigger (camera).
2. Pick Description and type what I should look for: "watch", "playing card", "red rose". Category-level words work. "Three of diamonds" does not.
3. Turn on DETECT on the console. This is the step everyone misses.

A prop trigger needs the camera running, not on screen. If a prop trigger "does not work", DETECT being off is almost always why.

Gestures, not just props. Under Action trigger (camera), pick a movement: a hand on a seated spectator's shoulder, both hands overhead, arms out wide, hands brought together. Or tap Train a custom pose, strike it for the camera, and capture it. I fire it wherever you stand.

Tap LIVE.

The amber button next to GO. Tap it and the camera is on the big screen. Tap it again and you are back on your slide. No crew. No cable snake. I came for your cables, and I'm pleased to report there aren't any.

Press and hold LIVE to pick which camera: front, back, a USB capture card, a Browser Cam, a Peer Camera. Hold it longer still and that is Panic: black screen, silence.

Any phone as a wireless camera

Your spare iPhone. A friend's Android. An audience member's phone, handed to them for the close-up and handed back after. Two ways in, no cable either way.

Run an audience poll.

One cue type does it. The room scans a code, answers on their phones, and the votes land on your screen live. Two hundred people, zero clickers to hand out.

1. Add a cue and set its Type to Audience.
2. Pick the activity: a Poll (you name the options), Pick a number, or a Word cloud.
3. Type your question. For a poll, add a few options.
4. Press GO. The QR code and your question jump onto the program.

They can be on any network, even cellular. Poll bars fill, the popular number pops, words swarm in. Fire the next cue to move on, like any other cue. The join page wears your branding, not mine.

Let me do the typing.

Three things. A show from a sentence, media from a prompt, and answers from me. I'm no wizard. I just worked in AV long enough to know what you'll ask.

1

Build a show with AI

On home, tap New, then Build a show with AI. Describe your act in plain words. I draft a full cue list: slides, music, camera cuts, timing, grouped into routines. Preview it, then add it and make it yours.

3

Ask me anything

The question-mark button up top opens a chat with me. I know your show, what is live and what fires next, so "why isn't my mic working" gets a real answer. For some questions a Show me button appears and I walk you through the real controls, hands-on.

Things you'd never think to ask for.

You can run a show with what you already know. This is the rest of the booth, one line each, with where it lives. Skim it now, remember it later.

Every one of these has a home in my help sheet. Tap the question mark in the app and ask me by name.

That's the whole console.

Here is everything, in one breath. Mine, not yours. I don't need the air.

1. Your show is one list. GO fires the next cue. Green is on air, amber is next. iCloud sync keeps it on every device you own.
2. Get it on a TV with an HDMI adapter or AirPlay. The audience sees only the program.
3. Upright builds the show. Sideways runs it, with a giant NOW and NEXT.
4. Add a cue, pick its Type, attach its media. Slides, songs, videos, decks, cameras, voiceovers.
5. "After this cue" decides whether I wait for GO or keep going.
6. Group a trick as a routine. Add it to any show, or pull it out, as one block. Impromptu cues fire off-script without moving your place.
7. Any remote you own, five gestures per button. Press a button to test, map it, press-test before every show.
8. Customize controls lays the console out your way. Branding: default screen, per-show screen, audience join page.
9. Pre-show check, then the padlock. Hold LIVE to panic.
10. Hands-free means no remote: a voice phrase, a physical gesture, or a prop I recognize fires the cue. DETECT lets me watch without going on screen.
11. Tap LIVE for the camera. Any phone is a wireless camera. An Audience cue runs a poll from their phones.
12. Stuck? Tap the question mark. I'm in there. I'm always in there.