The show-control rack — in software

Networked, synced show control for multi-machine presentations.

KueSync folds the show-control rack — Perfect-Cue-style advancing, cue lights, a fleet show timer, and a confidence monitor — into software on your own Macs and PCs, with a live backup running in lockstep and automatic failover built in. Keynote & PowerPoint, in sync to the frame, driven from a phone, a presenter remote, or Bitfocus Companion. Runs entirely on your network — nothing on the cloud.

Free 7-day beta · no card  ·  run your own failover drill first  ·  macOS (M-series) & Windows 10/11 · Keynote & PowerPoint · Bitfocus Companion optional
Slides, the show timer, cue lights, presenter notes, and the run-of-show — every output on every machine, moving together on one cue, with a backup machine locked to the same slide.
Redundancy and automatic failover are built in and in active testing during the beta — as with any show-control system, run your own rehearsal and backup plan. KueSync is live multi-machine presentation sync for Keynote & PowerPoint — it is not a file-sync or backup tool, and is unrelated to QNAP Qsync.
What it replaces

A rack of show-control hardware — in software

One app on your own Macs and PCs stands in for the advancer, the cue lights, the show timer, and the confidence monitor — with a live backup and automatic failover so a dead playback machine doesn't have to take the show with it. Drive it from Bitfocus Companion, a presenter remote, or any phone. Keynote & PowerPoint, in lockstep to the frame.

Move the fleet to the next show NEW

Set up your Leader and Followers once, then take the whole rig to the next show and just plug into the new network — it re-stabilizes itself. Every Follower is remembered by a stable identity, not its IP, so when the subnet changes the Leader finds each one again on its new address automatically: no clearing, no re-scanning, no re-adding. It's the Dante-style "set it and move it" behavior for your slide-sync fleet. The Leader settles on the best network (a PTP/Dante-locked one is preferred), your Priority and Ignore choices are always honored, and a Follower reachable only on a different subnet still works — with a subtle indicator so you can decide whether to move it over. Additive to the proven core; a beta capability under active testing.

Built-in redundancy & failover

Nominate backup machines by priority; a live backup runs locked to the same slide, and if a playback machine drops, control fails over automatically — a recovered primary only reclaims once it's provably stable, with split-brain protection. The redundancy a show-critical rig needs, in software instead of a spare deck and a nervous operator. In active testing through the beta — prove it in your own rig.

Master show control NEW

Number your decks in the KueSync Link folder (e.g. 006 Welcome) and launch any one full-screen across every machine with one tap — from a clean KueSync Control page on phone, iPad, or desktop, or from Companion. Drive the fleet (or just chosen screens) with go/back, jump-to-slide, a cue lamp, a sync-roll auto-advance, and close-deck. No Companion required.

KueSync Timer show clock NEW

A show-caller limit timer that propagates to every machine at once — countdown, count-up, or time-of-day, with an optional yellow warning and a choice of finish: blink or hold 0:00 in the colour you pick (red / amber / white / green / blue), blank the screen after a 5-second hold, or count red overtime. Set timings from KueSync Control or a stream deck — with a button for every option and at-a-glance status from Bitfocus Companion — and show a big, rock-steady full-screen clock on any machine, with a selectable background (black / white / chroma green / blue) to PIP or key it over your program feed. Keep a talk on schedule with a presenter-facing countdown that lands exactly on the out-time — and trim or extend the remaining time mid-talk with no visible jump, while the operator always sees the true time left.

KueSync Notes display NEW

Put the speaker's notes on a confidence monitor at the front of stage — the same notes from Keynote or PowerPoint, read straight off the running deck. The display fills the screen at a large, legible size that auto-sizes to each note, with the slide count tight at the top and long notes scrolling for the backstage operator. Pin any machine as the source, tuck the show timer and Kue Lights into the corner, key it over a program feed on a chroma background, and hide the deck file name when it's internal.

Your content never leaves your machines

Private by design — built for locked-down corporate networks. KueSync runs entirely on your own machines and LAN. Decks, slides, and presenter notes are read locally and synced directly between your machines — never through a cloud and never off your network. Your content is never uploaded, never stored on our servers, never used to train or run AI, and never sold or shared. The only thing that ever leaves your network is a small license and update check that carries none of your content and works fully offline — so KueSync fits inside strict IT and security policies, even on isolated show networks.

Secure on any network

On a shared or house network, set one Fleet Password on the Leader — it's pushed to the whole fleet automatically, no per-machine setup. An optional PIN guards remote access to settings, and the control surface is hardened against outside tampering. On an isolated show LAN, leave it open.

Status you can trust

See the whole show at a glance: a FLEET indicator turns red the instant any screen drifts, alongside per-machine slide, a healthy-machine count, the current Leader, and live presenter notes, slide names, and presentation name — so you always know the fleet is locked.

KueSync Link shared folder NEW

One shared content folder across the whole fleet. Drop a deck or video on any machine and it lands on every other automatically — pre-load the next show everywhere and run straight off the local drive. Two-way, deletes recoverable, one checkbox to enable.

Macs & PCs, one button

Drive any number of presentation machines — Mac or Windows, Keynote or PowerPoint — from a single connection. Advance the whole fleet, a group, or one screen from the same button page, in lockstep.

Builds & animations

Every machine steps through in-slide builds and animations together — not just slide numbers. Press once, all screens advance one build.

Network-clocked sync

KueSync disciplines timing across your network so every machine fires together — the same idea that keeps a pro-AV network like Dante locked in step. Every screen flips on a shared, network-disciplined deadline, not a guess.

Cue lights, built in NEW

Turn Stream Deck keys into a hardware-style cue light — green on a forward move, red on a back — mirroring the presenter's clicker. Or open Kue Lights: a full-screen Perfect-Cue-style light on any spare display or comfort monitor, flashing green forward and red back in step with the fleet. One key, a whole panel, or a whole screen.

Clicker links

Any phone becomes a wireless advancer from a scannable link — no app. Hand the cue from speaker to speaker, and a master can take control at any time.

Works with Perfect Cue

Already running a hardware advancer? KueSync drives the fleet from the same forward/back any USB presenter sends — so a DSAN Perfect Cue or any industry-standard USB advancer keeps working, now advancing every screen at once. Keep your gear; add the sync.

How it works

Agents on the machines, control from any surface

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KueSync Agent

A tiny app on each presentation Mac or PC. It drives Keynote / PowerPoint locally, keeps the fleet locked to the same slide, and reports live status. Self-contained — install and forget.

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Built-in show control — or Companion

KueSync ships with its own show-control GUI: a clean operator page that runs the whole fleet — slides, cues, the show timer, and notes — from any phone, tablet, or browser. Prefer to drive from a Stream Deck? Drop the KueSync module into Bitfocus Companion and run the fleet from there. Either way, one press moves every machine in lockstep.

License

Per-seat pricing — buy the rigs you run

A seat is one control machine that independently leads a fleet. Every screen it drives connects free, a pure Follower needs no license, and an in-fleet backup for redundancy doesn't cost a seat. The per-seat price drops as you add rigs. Try it free first: every install includes a 7-day trial, no card.

Seats (control machines)
1 = a freelancer · add rigs for a company
1
$150 / year
$150 / seat / year · 1 seat
✓ Every playback machine free
✓ Backups/failover cost no seat
✓ Offline-verified keys
✓ Change seats anytime

Volume pricing per seat / month: 1 → $15 · 2–4 → $13 · 5–9 → $11 · 10+ → $9. Annual is ~2 months free.

Running 20+ seats, reselling/integrating, or need a PO / invoice? That's Enterprise — contact sales.

Keys arrive instantly by email and verify offline. Auto-renews; cancel anytime from the Stripe billing portal in your receipt. Existing subscribers keep their current price. By subscribing you agree to the Terms & License. Secure checkout by Stripe. Need a PO / invoice? support@kuesync.com.

Get started

Download KueSync

v0.12.67 · Beta

Free 7-day beta — no card required. A pre-release build under active testing, for macOS and Windows. Both installers are code-signed — Mac notarized, Windows Authenticode. Install the Agent on each presentation machine, then drive the fleet from Bitfocus Companion or machine-to-machine from a presenter remote. Full setup steps are in the included Read Me.

macOS — optimized for M-series chips & Windows 10/11Bitfocus Companion 3+Keynote or PowerPointSigned & notarized / code-signed