Stageplot Pro vs Stage-Plan for Fast Stage Plot Sharing

The short version

Stage-Plan is a free, no account needed browser tool for putting together a quick stage plot and sharing a read only link with a venue, festival, or school. Stageplot Pro is also browser based, works without forcing you through a paid tier for the basics, and adds an input list and monitor mixes that build themselves as you place gear.

Editor and free plan

Stage-Plan's free plan needs no account and no download, and gives you more than 200 instruments and stage equipment items plus complete band and orchestra templates to start from, up to 50 items on stage. The catch is persistence: the free plan's shareable link is read only and lasts 28 days, you cannot create a PDF, there is no autosave, and you cannot edit the plot again once you leave the site. Stageplot Pro's editor covers 297 icons and is free to try with no account; create a free account and your plots stay saved and editable, with PDF export included during early access.

Paid tiers

Stage-Plan's paid options start at "Pro On The Go," a $3.99 one time purchase with no subscription that raises the item limit to 150 and adds PDF export and autosave, though its share link is shorter lived at 24 hours. The Multi Plan starts from $4.96 as a subscription for five saved plots with links that last until you cancel, and Pro Services starts from $2.00 as a subscription scaled for one to fifty plots, aimed at venues, agencies, and schools managing several acts at once. Stageplot Pro has not announced pricing. Every feature, including PDF export and links that stay live, is unlocked for free during early access.

Input lists and monitor mixes

Stage-Plan's paid tiers add input and monitor lists you build manually alongside the plot. Stageplot Pro's input list fills in automatically from what you place on stage, with channel numbers and mic types generated for you, and monitor mixes get a dedicated view so each musician's wedge needs travel with the plot instead of living in a separate list.

Who each tool suits

Stage-Plan's pricing tiers are built around volume: a school booking a single assembly needs something different from an agency managing fifty acts across a festival weekend, and its Multi Plan and Pro Services tiers are priced for exactly that range. Stageplot Pro is built around a single band or engineer getting one plot right, quickly, without picking a tier first.

Choosing what fits

Stage-Plan's free plan is genuinely useful for a one off show where a 28 day link is enough and you do not need to edit later, no account required. If you want a plot you can keep coming back to, with a PDF and an input list that builds itself, try the free editor and see how it holds up past a single gig.

Start from a real layout instead of a blank stage. The jazz quartet and latin band templates are solid starting points, and festival stage plots covers what changes when you are one of several acts sharing a stage and a changeover window. See the rest of our tool comparisons for more options.