CrewCast puts every department — camera, lighting, sound, art, transport — one message away. Broadcast changes by SMS and email in seconds, and watch the dots turn green as your crew actually sees them.
📱 Works on Android and Apple phones & tablets.
Productions run on hundreds of people split across constantly shifting departments. Call times move, locations flip, weather rewrites the day — and the news travels by a patchwork of group texts, radio chatter, taped-up call sheets and word of mouth. When one department misses the memo, the whole set waits. And a waiting set burns budget by the minute.
CrewCast turns the crew list you already have into an organized, reachable production — no accounts for the crew to create, no app for them to install. They just get the message.
Drop in the production's Excel sheet and tell CrewCast which columns hold the department, name, phone and email. It validates every row, flags the bad numbers by row, and builds your entire crew structure in one pass — 300 people in under a minute. Prefer to type? Manual entry works too.
Day players in, wrapped crew out, a grip jumping to second unit — rosters shift daily. Add, remove, and move people between production groups in two taps, so the right people are always in the right group when the next message goes out.
Tap a group, type once, hit send. Every member gets the message as a text and an email at the same moment — because a text gets seen on the van ride in, and an email survives for the record. Need one person? Direct message anyone on the production the same way.
Every recipient gets a live status dot. Blue means the message reached their phone or inbox. The moment they open the email or tap the message link, the dot turns green. Red means both channels failed — so you know exactly who to chase on the radio, instead of re-texting all of basecamp.
Every screen designed for gloved hands, pre-dawn light, and people in a hurry. Scroll through the full production flow. →
The AD opens CrewCast, taps Camera, Grip and Electric, and reroutes them to Stage 4 — one message, both channels, 40 seconds.
Before the coffee's poured, 34 of 36 dots are green. The two blue ones get one radio call each — not a blast to everyone.
Production moves him between groups in two taps. He's in the right group for the right messages by lunch.
Direct message — SMS and email — without touching any group. Green dot in 90 seconds.
Every department gets it before they're off the lot. No forwarding chains. No "check your email." Wrap.
Use the crew list you already maintain. Row-by-row validation tells you exactly which entries need fixing — the rest import clean.
Add, remove and move crew between departments in seconds as the production evolves. No duplicate groups, ever.
One tap reaches an entire department on two channels simultaneously — texts for speed, email for the paper trail.
Reach any single crew member on any team the same way — searchable by name or department.
Blue when delivered, green when seen, red when both channels fail. Know who to chase before it costs you a setup.
Your crew receives normal texts and emails. Only the people running the production need the app.
Designed for basecamp at 4 AM and stage corners at midnight — never a blinding white screen on set.
One wrong phone number never blocks a group send. Everyone else gets the message; the failure is flagged for follow-up.
Runs on the devices your office and ADs already carry — no special hardware, no seat licenses per crew member.
Any operation with large, shifting groups of people who all need the right message at the right moment has this exact problem. CrewCast fits wherever the org chart changes faster than the group chat can keep up.
Vendors, staging, security, catering — coordinate every wedding, gala and corporate event crew from one roster.
Ride ops, food service, entertainment, maintenance — reach one zone or the whole park before the gates open.
Stage crews, artist liaisons, medical, gate staff — broadcast schedule slips across a mile of grounds instantly.
Booth teams, AV, registration, floor managers — move hundreds of temp staff through a three-day build and strike.
Trades rotate daily. Weather calls, inspection changes and site closures reach every sub, verified.
Departments across decks and properties, staff turnover every season — one grouped roster, always current.
Game-day operations, camera crews, venue staff — coordinate the whole show from load-in to lights out.
Student productions rotate crews weekly. Teach professional communication discipline from day one.
Phones & tablets
iPhone & iPad
Tell us a little about your operation and we'll reach out to walk you through CrewCast on your own crew list — film, TV, events, parks, or anything with more people than one group chat can handle.