Version 0.1.2 for Mac
Take it into a rehearsal
before you take it into a show.
This is the build ahead of the December release. It is complete enough to run a real show, and it is free. What it needs from you in return is that you tell us when something goes wrong.
Downloading and installing CueMonkey means you accept the terms and the privacy policy.
What it needs
- macOS 10.15 or newer
- Catalina and everything after it. One file runs on Apple Silicon and on Intel, so there is nothing to choose between.
- About 300 MB on the disk
- The app itself, plus room for the media you import. Shows carry their own copies, so a season of them adds up; there is a button in Settings that says how much and clears it.
- A screen for the audience, if you want one
- It runs perfectly well on a laptop on its own for building and rehearsing. Output goes to any screen or projector the Mac can see.
- No internet during a show
- Signing in needs the internet once. After that CueMonkey runs with no signal at all, which is the normal state of a booth.
How it installs
- Signed and notarised by Apple
- It opens like any other app. No right clicking, no warning about an unidentified developer, no trip into Security settings.
- Nothing else to install
- It carries its own copy of ffmpeg, so importing sound, video and images works on a Mac that has never had Homebrew on it.
- It updates itself, carefully
- It looks for a newer version once, when it opens, and never while a show is on. Installing one is always a button you press.
- Removing it is dragging it to the bin
- There is no installer daemon and nothing outside the app and its own folder in Application Support.
Other software in this app
CueMonkey carries ffmpeg and ffprobe, built with x264, and runs them the way you would run them yourself from a terminal. Both are free software under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. Neither was modified. The full licence text travels inside the app, beside a note saying which versions these are.
The source is ffmpeg.org and code.videolan.org/videolan/x264, unchanged, and exactly how it was configured and compiled is in tools/build-ffmpeg.sh. If you would rather be sent a copy than fetch one, write to hello@cuemonkey.app and you will be sent it. None of that applies to CueMonkey itself, which is a separate program.