How Callsheet Pro works
Callsheet Pro turns any call sheet into an instant, interactive shoot day: crew, locations, schedule, and scenes at your fingertips. One tap to call. One tap to navigate. This page walks through every feature.
The app is the same on iPhone, Android, and the web at app.callsheetpro.app. Features marked Pro are part of the Pro subscription; everything else is free.
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Getting started
Download the app from the App Store or Google Play, or open it in any browser at app.callsheetpro.app. Sign in with one tap using Apple or Google, or with email and password. Your call sheets stay on your account, so everything syncs across your phone, tablet, and computer.
On first launch a short tour shows you around and asks for your language, your role on set, and which navigation app you prefer. You can skip it, and replay it any time from Settings under App tour. A demo call sheet is included, so you can see a full shoot day before you upload anything.
The app follows your phone's own text size setting, so if you have set larger type system-wide, the call sheet comes up in larger type too.
Adding a call sheet
There are several ways to get a call sheet into the app. Whichever you use, the app reads the document and builds the interactive day for you: call times, crew, locations, schedule, scenes, and notes, in any language.
Upload a file
Tap Upload call sheet and pick a file. PDF, Word, and Excel all work, up to 10 MB. You can select several files at once and they are processed together.
Snap a photo
Got a printed sheet pinned to the wall? Point your camera at it. A photo of a paper call sheet parses just like a PDF.
Share from another app
Wherever the call sheet lands, in your email, WhatsApp, or Files, tap the system share button and choose Callsheet Pro. The file is picked up and parsed without you having to save it first.
Email forwarding
Every account gets a personal forwarding address, found in Settings under Email Forwarding. Forward any call sheet email to it and the attachment appears in the app automatically, parsed and ready. You can reset the address whenever you want.
Setting up automatic forwarding in Gmail. Gmail will not forward to an address it has not verified: when you add your forwarding address under Gmail's Settings, Forwarding and POP/IMAP, it sends a confirmation code to that address. Because that address is the app, the code arrives in the app: open Settings, Email Forwarding, and it is waiting for you there. Copy it back into Gmail, or use the confirmation link shown next to it, and Gmail starts forwarding.
Add a schedule or scene list to a day Pro
Got a revised schedule as a photo or a separate file, on a day you already have? Open the Shooting schedule or Scenes section in edit mode and tap Import from file. The upload sheet opens on that day, reads the rows out of the document and appends them, so you do not have to type a new schedule or start a new sheet. It uses one upload from your monthly allowance.
Several days in one file
Have one planning document that covers the entire shoot? Pick Several days in one file in the upload sheet, or start from New production in All Days, and the app builds a day for every shoot day it finds, with a shared crew list across all of them.
Parsing happens in the background
You do not have to wait. Uploads are processed on our servers, so you can close the app; on your phone you get a push notification the moment the day is ready. In-progress uploads show at the top of the Today screen, with a retry option if a document could not be read.
Monthly limits
The free plan includes 10 call sheet uploads per month. Pro raises that to 100 per month. Viewing, searching, and opening sheets shared with you are always unlimited.
Your shoot day
The Today tab is home. If you have a shoot today, it opens straight into that day. If not, you see your full call sheet history, searchable by title, crew member, location, or date.
On the day itself, the view is built for a dark set and a quick glance:
- General call and your call. The big time at the top. Once you have told the app who you are on the sheet, it shows your personal call time, not just the general one.
- Expected wrap, plus sunrise and sunset when the sheet includes them.
- Live weather for the shoot location, with a tap to refresh.
- What's shooting now. During the day, a scene strip follows the clock: what's done, what's now shooting, what's up next, and how many minutes until it starts.
- Tomorrow preview. On multi-day shoots, the next day's call time and forecast are one glance away, and you can page between all days of the production.
The All Days tab lists every shoot day you have, grouped by production, including sheets shared with you. Swipe to delete, reorder, or move days between productions.
Everything on a day
Each parsed call sheet is organized into clear sections. Sections only appear when the sheet actually contains that information.
| Section | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| Locations | Every location with its address, call time, parking instructions, and on-location contact. One tap opens your preferred navigation app with the route. Scene chips show what shoots where. On iPhone, Pro members with a home address set also see a live travel time estimate from home. |
| Shooting schedule | The day in time order. Filter it by team so you only see what applies to you, and check items off as the day moves along. |
| Key crew contacts | Names, roles, and numbers. Tap to call, message, or email; messages open in the chat app you chose. Phone numbers are handled with the shoot country's dialing code so they just work. |
| Scenes | All scenes with number, description, cast, scheduled time, and location. |
| Cast | Per cast member: pickup, makeup, wardrobe, call, and on-set times. |
| Transport | Cars, trains, and flights from the sheet. If someone is picking you up, the app tells you who. |
| Gear and camera settings | Equipment lists and camera settings, pulled straight from the sheet. |
| Emergency | The nearest hospital with route and call buttons, first aid on set, and the confidential counselor when listed. |
| Important notes | Production warnings from the sheet, visible to everyone the day is shared with. The owner can pin one note of their own as the first row, for the whole crew. |
| Documents | Attach scripts, shot lists, maps, or reference images to a day (up to 15 MB each) and open them right in the app. |
| Production notes | The sheet's small print in one place: synopsis, client and agency, catering with its dietary lines, suppliers, and any links printed on the sheet. |
| Invoice info | Production company, invoice email, and project number extracted from the sheet, shown inside your work log so the paperwork sits with the hours. |
Your personal call time
Open a day and tap Your call time, then pick yourself from the crew list. From then on the header shows your call, your name is highlighted in the crew list, and the team filter knows which schedule items are yours. It's one tap, once per production.
Ask your callsheet
Tap Search on any day and ask in plain language: "What's my call time?", "When's lunch?", "Where do I park?", "Which day is the hospital scene?". The app answers from your call sheets, including past shoots, and you can ask follow-up questions. Search is unlimited on every plan, free included.
Editing a call sheet Pro
Schedules change. Tap the pencil on any day, then tap any row to fix it: call times, locations, parking, schedule items, scenes, crew, cast, notes, gear, anything. Shift a schedule item and the app offers to shift everything after it too. Changes save automatically, sync to all your devices, and reach everyone you have shared the sheet with within seconds. No re-upload, no new PDF.
Productions
A production groups every day of a shoot in one place. Create one from All Days, then add days by uploading sheets, starting blank days, or attaching days you already have. Multi-day productions carry a shared crew roster and defaults across days, page between days inside the shoot, and can be shared as a whole. Building multi-day productions with a default crew roster is a Pro feature.
Sharing with your crew
Open a day or production and tap Share. You get a share code, a link, and a QR code. Your crew sign in once with Apple, Google, or email, enter the code (or scan the QR), and the call sheet opens straight in their app, on their account, on every device.
- Live shares. Share a production and recipients follow it live: every edit you make lands on their phones within seconds.
- Single days. Share one call sheet and your crew get a full copy they can view offline.
- See who joined. The share screen lists everyone on the share. You can promote a crew member to admin so they can edit too, or take that back.
- Stop any time. Revoke a share and the link and code stop working immediately. Share links expire on their own after 30 days.
Private things stay private: your work log and its notes are never included in a share.
Notifying your crew Pro
When something changes, tap the bell on a shared production to push a message to everyone following it: a schedule change, a location change, a warning, or a general note. You choose whether it applies to the whole production or one day, see a preview, and afterwards see how many crew members received it.
Stealth Sharing Pro
For sheets that cannot leak. Stealth Sharing is a controlled way to share sensitive call sheets:
- Named access, approved per person. Every viewer enters their name and email, and you approve or deny each one individually. Revoke anyone at any time.
- You hear about requests right away. When someone asks for access, your phone gets a notification and a bell appears at the top of the app. Approve or deny straight from the bell; the full dashboard keeps the details and the log.
- NDA on entry. Each viewer must accept your NDA before seeing anything; acceptance is recorded with name, email, device, and time.
- Traceable watermark. The viewer's own name, email, and the date are woven across the sheet, so a leaked image points to its source.
- Screenshot protection. On iPhone and Android the sheet blocks screen capture at the system level, and capture attempts are detected and logged with the viewer's name.
- Kill switch. One tap and every viewer loses access instantly. The log stays.
- Audit log. Every code entry, NDA acceptance, open, view duration, and capture attempt is recorded.
We are honest about the limits: no app can prevent a second camera pointed at a screen. The watermark exists so that if a sheet does leak, you know exactly who leaked it.
Work log Pro
Track your working day for invoicing. The work log is private to you and never travels with a share. Its notes field is also the place for your own reminders on a day ("great take on scene 12"); notes written in the old private-notes section show up here, and their photos are listed under Documents.
- Hours. Start and end time with the total calculated for you, an unpaid break to subtract, overtime, and travel time.
- Distance. Either the distance you drove, or your odometer reading when you left and when you got back, whichever way you keep track. Tap km or mi next to the field to switch units; the app remembers your choice for every day after that.
- Expenses. A line per cost, with what it was for and the amount: parking, tolls, taxi.
- Daily fees. Flags for per diem, kit rental, and travel day, so your invoice reflects what the day actually was.
- Notes. Invoice number, or anything else accounting needs.
When it's time to invoice, tap Send my work log and the app builds a branded PDF of the whole log, with the call sheet attached, ready to send to accounting.
Audio frequencies
A shared wireless frequency list for the sound department, free for everyone. List each channel with its name, group, and frequency; apply it to one day or the whole production; and copy it between productions. Everyone the sheet is shared with sees the same list.
On a computer
Everything you have on your phone is also at app.callsheetpro.app, on the same account. Open it in a browser on a computer and four extra destinations appear in the sidebar, built for the production office rather than the set. They are web only: on a phone the app stays the focused shoot day view.
- People. Your own crew book. Everyone from your call sheets is offered here, and the ones you save can be searched by name, role, or number, marked as favourites, and added to any future day in one click. Nobody is stored on our servers unless you save them.
- Locations. The places you shoot at, kept with their address, parking notes, and gate contact, on a map. Save one once and reuse it on the next production instead of typing the parking instructions again.
- Calendar. Every shoot day in a month view, so you can see your year at a glance. Days whose date could not be read from the sheet are listed underneath, ready to be fixed.
Settings
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Your Profile | Your name and role on set, used to find you on crew lists. |
| Home Address Pro | Enables travel time estimates from home to each location (iPhone). |
| Production company | Your company name and details, named as the disclosing party on the NDA used by Stealth Sharing. Set it once and every protected share is prefilled. |
| Email Forwarding | Your personal forwarding address for call sheet emails. |
| Navigation App | Which app opens when you tap a location: Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, and more. |
| Chat App | Which app opens when you message a crew member. |
| Weather units | Celsius or Fahrenheit. Automatic follows the country the shoot is in, so the number matches what the crew around you is saying. |
| Language | App language: English, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). Your call sheets keep their original language. |
| Plan & Usage | Your plan, how many uploads you have used this month, and subscription management. |
| Redeem a code | Have a code from a friend or your production company? Enter it here to unlock Pro. |
| User manual | Opens this page. |
| Data & Privacy | What we store and how, plus the privacy policy and terms. |
Developer API Pro
Building scheduling software, or does your production office use its own tools? Call sheets can be pushed straight into Callsheet Pro accounts through a simple REST API, no PDF needed. See the developer documentation. Keys are issued on request; email support@earlystudios.nl.
Free vs Pro
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Call sheet uploads | 10 per month | 100 per month |
| Interactive shoot day view | Yes | Yes |
| Call sheet search | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Open shared call sheets | Yes | Yes |
| Share with your crew | Yes | Yes |
| Offline access | Yes | Yes |
| Audio frequencies | Yes | Yes |
| Edit any field | Yes | |
| Multi-day productions with crew roster | Yes | |
| Notify crew push messages | Yes | |
| Stealth Sharing | Yes | |
| Live weather on location | Yes | Yes |
| Email forwarding | Yes | Yes |
| Work log with branded PDF | Yes | |
| Invoice info extraction | Yes | Yes |
| Travel time from home (iPhone) | Yes | |
| Developer API access | Yes | |
| Priority support | Yes |
Upgrade from Settings under Plan & Usage, with monthly and yearly options.
Callsheet Pro Studio (teams)
Production companies can put their whole team on Pro with Callsheet Pro Studio: from 10 seats, billed yearly per seat, one invoice for the company. Buy and manage it on the web at app.callsheetpro.app/studio.
- Joining: the company shares one invite code. Enter it once in Settings under Redeem invite code and your account gets full Pro for as long as the company subscription runs.
- Managing: the buyer sees the team roster on the Studio page, can remove someone to free their seat, and can generate a new invite code at any time (the old code stops working immediately; current members keep their seats).
- Members who already pay for Pro personally keep their own subscription; a Studio seat never replaces or shortens it.
Privacy
Your call sheets are yours. They are private to your account, encrypted in transit, and never sold. Sharing is always explicit: nothing leaves your account unless you create a share, and you can revoke any share at any time. Full details in the privacy policy.