Realtime read-along
Everyone on the same rundown sees edits the instant they happen. No emailed versions, no "is this the latest?"
Features
Everything you need to call a live show. Nothing you don't.
showrun is opinionated on purpose: it's the rundown, the timing engine, and the calling surface — built to be calm under pressure, fast to edit, and trustworthy when the connection isn't.
The grid
As fast as a spreadsheet, built for cues
Rows are cues, columns are whatever your show needs. It's a real, high-performance grid — paste a hundred rows, drag columns into a new order, colour-code by department, and it stays instant.
- Click any cell and type. Light rich text — bold, italic, underline, strikethrough and a full colour palette.
- Drag to reorder rows and columns. Hide, rename, insert or delete columns per person — your layout, shared data.
- Group cues into sections that total their own time and collapse out of the way.
- Find & replace across the whole rundown. Built to stay smooth at 800+ rows.
Timing & calculations
The clocks add themselves up
Enter durations and a start time; showrun derives every clock the moment anything changes — no manual re-timing.
- Time-of-day, running time, cumulative totals and total runtime — all live.
- Hard times and back-timing: set a hard end and showrun tells you where you're running long or short.
- Editable doors / start time right in the header — change it and the whole show re-times.
● Standby → Go
A calling surface, not just a document
Flip to Live and the rundown becomes the thing you run the show from. Arm the next cue, hit Space, and it takes — advancing with you.
- Standby & Go transport with a big, unmissable live countdown.
- Live status on every cue — ready, standby, live, done — and exact schedule drift.
- Click any cue to jump. Multiple showcallers can each run a different rundown at once.
Team & trust
Built for a crew, on site or off
Roles & private notes
Owner, showcaller, crew and viewer roles. A private notes lane only you can see — your blocking and cues stay yours.
Offline-first
Keep editing with no connection for hours. Changes sync automatically the moment you're back online.
Change history
An attributed, append-only log of who changed what and when — undo any single edit, no mystery changes.
Local autosave & backup
Automatic local snapshots plus an exportable .showrun file — recover your show even after a crash.
Client logo & PDF
Drop a client logo on each show; it rides the editor header and your PDF export. Hand something polished over.
showrun never fires your cues. It's the rundown and the calling surface — a human reads and calls the show. That's a feature, not a gap: no automation surprises five minutes to air. Integrations for teams who want them are on the roadmap below.
Honest roadmap
Live today vs. on the way
We'd rather tell you straight. Here's what's in your hands now and what we're building next.
Live now
- The grid: rich-text cells, drag rows & columns, sections, find & replace
- Derive-on-read timing, hard times & back-timing
- Live Standby/Go calling mode + schedule drift
- Realtime read-along, roles, private notes, change history
- Offline editing, local autosave, client logo, runs in your browser
● Coming
- Followers auto-tracking the caller's live cue across the team
- Native Mac & Windows apps for rock-solid offline calling
- Polished mobile read & follow layout
- Typed columns & shared custom colour palettes
- Phase 2: timecode, OSC & Companion for teams who want them
See it on your own show.
Free during the beta — build a rundown and call something.