Touch
Tap or drag to select the lights you want. Intensity, CCT, ± green, hue, saturation, and every other parameter the fixture has, on sliders you're already familiar with.
For all sets small to large
A lighting consolethat fits in
your pocket.
Patch your lights, build your looks, and run the whole setup from the phone already in your pocket. Not the iPad you set down somewhere by crafty. Or was it by camera?
- Sliders for familiarity and ease, a command line for quick precision
- Import the patch you already built in Blackout Lighting Console
- 20+ brands built in, every mode, from the manufacturer's chart
What it does
The whole console. Not a remote.
Most lighting apps on a phone are a remote for something else or lack the profiles or precision control. This one is the console. Sized for the interview in a small room, the commercial day that keeps moving, and the splinter unit on the other side of the mall that needs control.
Your profiles are ready to patch
Aputure, Astera, Arri, Nanlux, Godox, LiteGear, Kino Flo and a dozen more. Every mode of every fixture, taken from the manufacturer's own chart. No need to muddle through making your own profiles.
Bring your Blackout patch
Export your patch from Blackout Lighting Console and import it into Pocket Console. Pocket Console matches each profile and patches the lights for you.
No network, no problem
Bluetooth straight to a TimoTwo chip, either a transmitter or a light with the module already inside. No router or node needed. Art-Net and sACN are there when you do have a network.
Easily A/B a single light or three
Save your B states, add a little green on the backlight, drop the key a stop and lower the CCT on the practicals 500K. Select one light or all three, hold A/B and the selected lights show what they were; let go and your change comes back. A/B states are saved per fixture, within the location.
Two ways to drive it
Sliders you already know. A command line for speed and precision.
Tap a light, drag a slider, done. Nothing to learn, and you can hand the phone to someone else. When you want quick precise changes, the command line is your friend. Both write the same values, so use whichever suits the moment.
Command line
For when you know the number you want. 201 Thru 208 At 45 sets eight lights
without hunting for any of them.
- Fade a light over time.
201 AT 50 Time 5fades fixture 201 to 50% over 5 seconds - Enter keeps the line. Press it again to run it again, so
At /200doubles the level each press. - Copy a light onto another. Select one, press Copy, tap the targets. Swap trades them instead.
A look around
Four tabs. That's the whole app.
Try it
Light the interview from the keypad.
The app's own keypad and its own parser, wired to a seven-light interview setup. Press the keys the way you would on the phone. Tapping a light on the plot works too. That's the point of having both.
Plan view · interview setup
No selection
Console ready. Tap the keys, or tap a light on the plot.
Play one back:
The keypad has no Group or Look key yet, so
groups are on the chips under the plot. Full grammar is in the
manual.
Support & community
Questions get answered on Discord.
Discord is where support happens. Ask how something works, tell us about a light that isn't behaving, or ask for a fixture profile we haven't built yet.
Join the Pocket Console Discord
Free, no account on this site needed, and open before you ever buy anything.
- Support and troubleshooting, straight from the person who writes the app
- Request a fixture and it goes on the list for the next update
- Early word on what's coming, and how other people are shooting with it
The details
What you're getting.
- Output
- Art-Net · sACN · Bluetooth
- One active at a time, ~40 fps
- Universes
- 1 · 4 · 256
- By subscription tier
- Fixtures
- 20+ brands, every mode
- Import a patch from Blackout
- Platform
- iPhone · iOS 17+
- Works offline, saves as you go
It's on the App Store.
Everything on this page is what the app does today.