Why Everything Is Completely Free During Early Access

What free actually means right now

We are in early access, and that is not a watered down trial. The full
editor is open, all 297 equipment icons are available, and there is no
watermark on your exported PDFs. There is no cap on how many stage plots
you can save, and shareable links work exactly the same as they will once
a paid plan exists. If you build a plot today, it stays yours. Nothing
about the early access period puts your saved work at risk or behind a
future paywall.

Why we are doing it this way

We would rather have real bands stress test the editor on real gigs, catch
the input list edge cases, and tell us what is missing, than launch behind
a paywall and find out later that the core workflow does not hold up under
actual load-in pressure. Early access is us trading revenue now for a
product that actually works the way gigging musicians need it to, before
we ask anyone to pay for it.

What is planned for later

We do have a paid plan planned. It is not live yet and we are not promising
a launch date, but the shape of it is public on our pricing
page: a Pro plan at $9 a month, or $69 a year if billed
annually, which works out to roughly $5.75 a month. Pro is built around the
features that matter most once you are running the tool across multiple
bands or gigs regularly: unlimited saved stage plots, X32 scene export,
custom equipment icons, watermark-free PDF export, and custom PDF branding.
A Free tier will continue to exist alongside it, with the full drag and
drop editor, all 297 icons, and auto-generated input lists and monitor
mixes. At launch, Free is planned to include a modest saved plot limit and
a watermark on exported PDFs, but neither of those limits exist today.
Anything you save during early access is not retroactively locked or
deleted when that day comes.

Nothing to sign up for beyond an account

There is no trial clock running and no credit card required to use any
part of the editor today. Open the Stage Plot Pro editor,
build a plot for your band, and export it. If you want a fast starting
point instead of a blank canvas, our templates library has
lineups from a solo acoustic guitarist
to a full worship band,
all free to use during early access the same as everything else.

Tell us what you actually need

The best thing you can do during this phase is use the tool for a real
gig and tell us what got in your way. Early access exists so the paid plan
we eventually ship is built around what working bands actually need, not
what we guessed they might want from a feature list.

Where to start

If you have not built a plot yet, our why your band needs a stage
plot post covers the actual
problem this tool solves before you even get to pricing. And if you are
curious where Stage Plot Pro came from in the first place, the Stage Plot
Pro story has the background on why we
built a free web version of a tool bands used to rely on. Either way, the
cost of trying it today is nothing.