GearCue: Gear & Shoot Planner

Ever arrived at a location only to realize you left a vital memory card, audio receiver, or spare battery on your desk? GearCue is a dedicated camera gear manager and shoot-planning checklist app built specifically for videographers, filmmakers, YouTubers, drone pilots, and photographers. Whether you’re prepping a solo travel vlog, a wedding, or a commercial shoot, GearCue helps you organize your equipment inventory, assemble reusable kits, and follow a foolproof 4-stage packing checklist so you never leave gear behind on set. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 THE 4-STAGE GEARCUE WORKFLOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ STAGE 1: PLAN & PREP Schedule your shoot with call times, locations, and project budgets. Assign individual equipment or full kits, and let GearCue warn you of overlapping shoot schedules before you double-book gear. ▶ STAGE 2: PACK OUT WITH CONFIDENCE Step through an interactive packing checklist before heading out. GearCue separates physical packing from operational readiness—verify the camera is in the bag AND confirm batteries are charged, cards are formatted, and sensors are clean. ▶ STAGE 3: LIVE SHOOT MODE Stay organized on set with a clean, distraction-free interface. View current production status, elapsed shoot time, expected wrap time, and your gear manifest. Quickly add ad-hoc temporary equipment if plans change on set. ▶ STAGE 4: PACK BACK — ZERO LOST GEAR When it’s time to wrap, GearCue asks one vital question: Did everything make it back into the bag? Reconcile every lens, cable, and battery with a single tap before leaving the venue so nothing is left behind. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 CORE CAPABILITIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✓ COMPLETE GEAR INVENTORY: Catalog cameras, lenses, drones, audio, lighting, rigging, power, and storage. Track serial numbers, purchase prices, and total equipment replacement values. ✓ MODULAR SMART KITS: Bundle go-to packages (such as an "Interview Audio Rig", "Run-and-Gun Kit", or "3-Point Lighting Bag") and attach entire kits to upcoming shoots in one tap. ✓ AUTOMATED REMINDERS: Receive local notification reminders 24 hours before your shoot to prep gear, 2 hours before departure to pack out, and at scheduled wrap time to pack back. ✓ 100% OFFLINE & PRIVATE: Operates completely offline with fast local storage. No mandatory cloud accounts, no lag, and zero internet connection needed on remote shoots. ✓ BACKUP & DATA PORTABILITY: Secure JSON database backups and CSV equipment import/export to keep your inventory safe. Take complete control of your production workflow with GearCue. Plan it. Pack it. Bring it back.