Private comms for the crew, made by the crew.
RogerDeck is push-to-talk for stagehands, riggers, audio and lighting crews, designed and tested by people who work in the industry. It carries the cue call, the spotter's call during load-in, and FOH talking to monitor world, on channels private to your production. You hear each other as you talk, and written messages are translated between English and Spanish. Spoken translation is in development.
Anyone can sign up, and the Talkie is free.
Private channels and clear audio work today, and so does translation of written messages.
The rest of the app serves these three.
Private comms
Channels belong to your production, and access follows role and department. Nobody with a scanner can tune in. Crew, Crew Leads and the Crew Chief see only the channels they're given for the day.
Clear audio
Your voice plays on the other phones while you're still talking, the way a two-way radio works. Hold to talk, let go to listen. Nothing sits waiting to upload like a voice memo.
Cross-language translation
It's the feature we're building RogerDeck around, so a mixed-language crew runs the show off the same channel. Type in English or Spanish and each person reads it in their own language. Channels for rigging and other hazardous departments keep the original, and if translation is unavailable, messages arrive as typed. Spoken translation is in development.
Hold the button, talk, let go.
The channel stays open. You don't dial, and nobody has to pick up. You press when you have something to say.
Pick your channel
Every department gets its own channel: audio, lighting, rigging and stage. A follow-spot op joins Lighting, and the other departments' calls stay off their radio.
Hold to talk
Press and hold, call the cue or the spot, let go. Everyone on the channel hears you live, like the radio on your belt. Gloves on, with the PTT button on a shoulder speaker-mic. Coming soon.
ROGER on assigned jobs
When your Crew Chief assigns you a job, one tap on ROGER tells them you've got it. Coming soon.
For the people running the show.
The app is what a hand reaches for mid-show, standing up. We built it around a call sheet, a rig plot and a cue-to-cue. Reports, staffing and billing belong in a separate dashboard, so the phone stays a radio.
The phone app runs the show. The dashboard is for the paperwork.
We keep them apart on purpose. A PM standing at FOH doesn't want a report open, and a report has no business on a phone screen.
The app
What the crew carries during a shift.
- Push-to-talk channels by department
- Emergency alert, held not tapped
- Crew presence and shift status
- Quick production: name it, tap Create production, and today’s day is open.
- Check people out by hand from the phone, for the day’s Crew Chief.
- A time limit on an open microphone, with a vibration 10 seconds before the cut.
The dashboard
What production and admins use around a call sheet, sitting down, at app.rogerdeck.com.
- Today: the open day’s figures, who is on the radio and who hasn’t been seen yet
- Shows, days and staffing by department
- Billable report for each day, with hours by department and a CSV export
- Day history, with the final numbers of every wrapped day
- Attendance, alarm and conduct reports, one day at a time
- Your company profile: legal name, logo, address and contact
In development
- Career history across productions
Where translation stands
Written messages are translated between English and Spanish on a server RogerDeck runs itself. Speech isn't yet: nothing records a call's audio, so what is said on the radio is not translated. We'd rather you hear that from us.
If your crew doesn't all speak one language, we want to hear about your show.
Anyone can sign up, and the Talkie is free. Tell us about your show and we'll write back.