Product
Equipment lists for rental houses, laid out properly.
Free
Lighting diagrams with LightList Pro — €4.99
LightList helps you build professional and organised equipment lists. It turns the gear you type into a clean equipment list for the rental house or production — instead of a Word doc, an email or a WhatsApp message, with nicer formatting and predictive suggestions.
Every list you send is numbered — v1, v2, v3 — and each revision shows exactly what changed. When the quote comes back, LightList checks it for you.
Start typing — "pro 11", "8x8 silk", "3x c stand" — and press Enter. It knows 1,700+ items from the big rental catalogues, puts each one in the right section, and adds anything it doesn't know exactly as you wrote it.
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Add two Pro-11 packs and LightList offers the ProHeads. Add a frame and it offers the ears and corners; scaff poles get Big Bens, and flash gets a matching trigger. Press Tab to add it, or just keep typing. It counts what's already on the list, and it learns the order you build lists in.
Turn any suggestion off, change the quantities, or add your own — "whenever I add a B10, suggest two spare batteries". Your rules stay on your Mac.
Sections, quantities, notes and tags like "Remove if studio provides", your contact details and page numbers on every page. Your logo if you want it, and your message at the top — such as "No substitutions without contacting me first". Export a PDF, a Word file, or copy it as text for WhatsApp or email.
See a sample list (PDF)
Change a sent list and it becomes the next version. The PDF opens with what changed since the last one, and you can compare with the original after a few rounds of budget cuts.
Drop in the quote or picking list the rental house sends back — PDF, Excel or Word, English or French. LightList shows what's missing, what has a different quantity, what's been substituted, and writes the reply for you.
Paste a list from Word, an email or a PDF. LightList reads the quantities and headings, matches every line, and shows you what it found before anything is added.
Save the kits you take every week — a location kit with scrims, swatters and a beach cart, a studio beauty base with your favourite beauty dish — and build a new list from one or more of them, tailored to the job.
Get the free LightList app for iPhone and iPad from the App Store. Lists, kits, diagrams, studios and settings sync through iCloud — no account, nothing on our servers. Without iCloud, everything stays on the device.
Mac
Apple Silicon
macOS
macOS 11 or later
iPhone and iPad
iOS / iPadOS 16 or later, with the free LightList app from the App Store
Internet
For new gear, updates and iCloud sync; lists and PDFs are made on your Mac
iCloud (optional)
Signed in with iCloud Drive on, to sync lists, kits and diagrams between devices
LightList Pro
Using your list, plan the light — or record it on the day — on a top-down plan of the room, with your gear. Then send one PDF with the diagram and the list, or the list on its own. Keep a clean, organised archive of your equipment list, lighting diagram and job notes in one place.
Lights, modifiers, frames, fabrics, gels, polys, stands, booms and scaff from your list, at their real size.
Run the power from wall sockets or a distro: the load on each one, and the extensions you'll need.
Distances to the subject, heights and angles, and your own measurements, in the key.
Anything on the plan that isn't on the list shows up, ready to add.
Save the studios you work in, and start each setup in the right room.
The diagram and its key on one page, the list on the next — or the list on its own, the way the rental house wants it.
Optional: include labels, measurements and cabling
Get LightList first (free) — Pro unlocks inside the app.
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