Trim without editing
Set IN and OUT on any video and only that part plays — on the card, on the progress bar, on stage. The file never changes, and you never open a video editor to cut a ten-second clip.
[ macOS · Windows — public beta ]
Run the big screen
from one window.
A background that loops underneath.The slide you cued in front of it.Captions and logos over the top.Each one its own layer, each one a click away.
For the person at the back of the room.A laptop, a projector, two minutes before doors.
LayerCue
LayerCue is a live media player for the big screenBackgrounds · slides · captions · logos · musicFree while it’s beta
[ 02 — Layers ]
One screen.
Seven layers.
A background that loops underneath.The slide you cued in front of it — lyrics, video, image.Five overlays over it all: lower thirds, logos, alerts.Each one cues on its own.Change one, the rest don’t move.
| Background | video or image, looping underneath |
|---|---|
| Foreground | the slide you cue: lyrics, video, image |
| Overlays ×5 | lower thirds, logos, alerts |
Keep scrolling — the screen comes apart.
[ 03 — Cues ]
Click a slide.
It’s live.
Every row here is a layer, and each layer holds one slide at a time.Click one and it goes up with a crossfade.Take one down with its ✕, or all of them with Clear All.The layers underneath stay as they are. Try it, this one works.
QLayerState
Session 02
The Long Now
7:30 PM — Main Hall
Dana KimCreative Director
Annex
Screen is clear
In the app: one click sends a slide live · clicking it again leaves it up · ⌥ Option / Alt-click loads a slide into Slide settings without putting it on screen
[ 04 — Screens ]
One stage.
Every screen.
Add a monitor for every screen in the room — the main wall, the stage, the lobby.Each one shows only the layers you switch on for it.It is still one stage and one cue sheet: send a slide once, and every monitor that shows its layer has it.Each monitor has its own power switch, and LayerCue remembers how you left them.
01Audience
02Stage
03Lobby
In the app: the seven cells under each monitor preview — B, F and 1–5 — choose what that monitor shows. Add monitors in Settings › Stage › Output monitors; one can also be a virtual screen, a preview with no window. Docs
The showgoes out.Your desktopstays put.
Point LayerCue at the projector once and it takes that screen — nothing else.Video, images, music: out where you point them, as long as you want.
You’ve done this before.Or you haven’t. The room can’t tell.
No dragging windows across displays · no edit view on the wall · no “one second, sorry”
[ 05 — Toolkit ]
Bring it in.
Make it here.
Your material already exists — a PowerPoint, a PDF, a folder of clips.Bring it in as it is, finish it here,and line it up in the order of the night.
- 01
Libraries & cue sheets
Keep every presentation in a library — a real folder on your computer. Each event is a cue sheet: it holds the running order, not copies, so one song can sit in many events. ⌘F / Ctrl+F finds a title or a line of lyrics.
Docs→ - 02
PowerPoint & PDF
Open a .pptx and its slides come in as text and pictures you can still edit. A PDF comes in page by page as sharp images, up to 5120 pixels on the long side. Export any presentation back to PDF, with the text kept as text.
Docs→ - 03
Design it right here
Shapes, more than 1,500 icons, pictures, gradients and shadows — all in the slide editor, and all of it still editable later. No round trip to another app.
Docs→ - 04
Make it with AI, if you like
Connect Claude Desktop, LM Studio or Cursor from Settings with one button, reopen that app, then just ask: build a cue sheet, split these lyrics into slides. Each edit the AI makes is one undo. LayerCue talks to that app on this computer only; a cloud AI such as Claude or Cursor sends what it reads to its own servers.
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Music for the room
A music list that plays on its own, apart from the slides — start and end points and volume for each track, crossfades between songs. When a video plays, the music can keep going, lower itself or mute. A meter shows it all, and one master fader sets it.
Docs→ - 06
Safe on stage
Turn on “Lock editing while live” and no slide gets changed by accident mid-show. Esc never takes anything off the screen — each monitor has its own power switch above its preview. If a projector cable comes out, that output stops and tells you. Deleted the wrong thing? ⌘Z / Ctrl+Z brings back slides, presentations, even a whole library — unlock first if editing is locked.
Docs→
[ 06 — Details ]
Small things
that hold up
on stage.
Fit it without Photoshop
Scale and crop any video or image right where it sits: show the part you want, filling the screen without stretching it — or let a blurred copy of the picture fill what’s left over.
Screens you don’t have yet
Build the show against a virtual screen before you ever plug into the projector — 16:9 out of the box, and 4:3, vertical or any size you add in Settings.
Overlays that leave on time
Give a presentation an auto-dismiss time and its overlays go down by themselves — the speaker’s name leaves after eight seconds while you are already cueing the next thing.
Long text splits itself
Paste a whole song or a reading and LayerCue breaks it into slides for you. Style one of them the way you like, then paste that look onto the rest.
PowerPoint, still editable
Open a .pptx and every slide is rebuilt from LayerCue’s own text boxes, shapes and pictures — the words stay words. Spot a typo five minutes before you start and fix it right here: no PowerPoint on this computer, no going back to export it again.
Every presentation is a file of its own, and your libraries and media sit in plain folders on your computer — back them up, keep last year’s on a shelf. Your show stays yours.
[ 07 — Rooms ]
Rooms with
a screen.
If a screen faces people, somebody has to run it.LayerCue is for that somebody.
- 01
Concerts & theatre
Looping scenery behind the act, surtitles above it, and a blackout that lands exactly on the beat.
- 02
Conferences & events
Walk-in slides, speaker lower thirds, sponsor loops — cued in order, not fumbled between apps.
- 03
Worship services
Lyrics over moving backgrounds, scripture for the sermon, announcements — run by a volunteer, not a video engineer.
- 04
Talks & classrooms
One person, one laptop: your clips, your slides, your PDFs — in the order you’ll tell it.
- 05
Shops & cafés
Menu boards, promos, a notice in the window — on a TV, a monitor or an LED wall. Changed in ten seconds, not ten minutes.
[ 08 — Beta ]
Free
while it’s
beta.
The aim is to hold what the professional tools hold,at a price one person can pay without thinking twice.Right now it is beta, so there is no charge at all.Run a show with it and tell us what got in the way.No account is needed to run a show. Settings ask for a Googlesign-in once — turn on “Keep settings in my account” and they follow you.
- macOS
- 13 or later · Apple silicon & Intel
- Windows
- 10 (1809) or later · x64 · Microsoft Store
- Price
- free during the beta