iPhone · iPad · Mac — Midnight Drive-In LLC
Run the whole show.
From your pocket.
Budgets, union rate math, call sheets, invoices, releases, scripts and contacts. Every department of a production office, in one app, on the device already in your hand.
Two weeks free · Games and trivia free forever · No account required
- Tools
- 11 + games
- Platform
- iOS · iPadOS · macOS
- On set
- Works offline
- Trial
- 2 weeks free
Why it exists
The tools were always scattered. One app for the budget. A spreadsheet for rates. A folder for releases. A group text for contacts. Nothing talked to each other — and all of it had to be right by call time.
One app.
Every department.
Production Kit does the thousand invisible jobs that never make the highlight reel. Rates that have to be right. A call sheet that has to go out tonight. A minor's legal hours in Georgia. The release nobody chased.
It's native to iPhone, iPad and Mac — not a browser tab — so the parts you need on set work where there are no bars.
Every department, one app
Budgets, rates, call sheets, invoices, releases, scripts, contacts. Most tools run one lane. This one runs the whole board.
A one-person studio
Not a faceless platform. One builder who has actually done the work, shipping a full production suite and taking notes from the people using it.
Native and on-set ready
Rate math and the fifty-state child labor reference work with no signal at all. Set is exactly where you need the answer and have no bars.
The toolkit
Eleven tools that already know each other.
A budget line pulls a crew member from your contacts. A call sheet pulls from the budget. An invoice lands in the payment tracker. Nothing gets typed twice.
Project hub
One folder. The whole job.
Every budget, call sheet, release, script and document tied to a production — organized, shared with the people working it, and backed up to Drive.
Film · TV · commercial
Bid it. Work it. Actual it.
Three live phases side by side, sub-phases for episodics, alt bids, fringes, and a Showbiz .mbb import that brings a whole budget over intact.
OT & day rates
Union rates, done.
Overtime, meal penalties, kit and travel, worked against state and local labor law. Save the week and it lands in the tracker.
Saved weeks
Know what you're owed.
Every week and invoice in one ledger with payment status, so the thing you chase in March isn't a mystery from a job in November.
Billing
Wrap the day. Send the invoice.
A branded PDF built on your phone before you've left the location — ten designs, your logo, your ACH block, your terms.
Contacts & history
Drop in a call sheet. Get a contact list.
Import a PDF call sheet and the crew, vendors and departments come out as contacts — with the productions and payments attached to each name.
By state · offline
Fifty states. No signal needed.
Entertainment child labor rules by state and age band — permitted hours, schooling, rest and meal requirements, and changes already on the books.
Appearance releases
Signed on set. Filed on set.
Fill, sign, number and file appearance releases digitally, plus a library of production legal templates. Covered when a distributor comes asking.
Screenplays & scripts
The script does the paperwork.
Twenty-nine formats across eight families. Cast, key props, graphics and a schedule assemble themselves from the draft — then export to PDF or Fountain.
Visual boards
Think in pictures first.
An infinite canvas for notecards, images and PDFs. Board a sequence, map a location, pin references — then attach the board to the job.
On-set downtime
Lunch is thirty minutes.
Five games and a film trivia library that runs back to the 1910s. Free for everyone, subscription or not — because waiting is the job too.
Budget Buddy
Three phases.
One grid.
Bid, Working and Actual sit side by side on the same line, so the variance is visible while you can still do something about it. Compare any two phases and the deltas fall out.
Rate Calculator
It finds the money
you'd have eaten.
Enter the time card and it works the day against state and local labor law — straight time, time and a half, double time, and the meal penalty nobody wrote down. Save the week and it lands in the tracker.
Child Labor Laws
Airplane mode.
Still works.
Entertainment child labor rules for all fifty states live in the app, not on a server. Pick a state, pick an age band, and get permitted hours, schooling, turnaround, permits and trust-fund requirements — standing in a parking lot with one bar.
Contact List
Yesterday's call sheet.
Today's contact list.
Import the PDF and the app reads it the way you do — across the row, not down the column. Crew, vendors, departments and numbers come out as real contacts, with every production and payment they're attached to.
Team plans
Share the budget.
Not the subscription.
Invite people from any project, budget or production report. Everyone you share with fills one collaborator spot — no matter how many items they're on — and none of them needs a subscription of their own.
A closer look
Three more, briefly.
Script Writer
Page eighths, not guesses.
Scenes, INT/EXT, day/night and page counts pulled out of the draft as you write it.
Whiteboard
Three nights, boarded.
Notecards, images and PDFs on an infinite canvas, attached to the job they belong to.
Call Sheet Generator
The one you'd actually send.
Cast, crew by department, scenes, weather, daylight and the nearest hospital — on one page.
Free forever · no subscription
Waiting is part of the job.
Five games and a film, TV and industry trivia library reaching back to the 1910s — free for everyone, whether you ever pay for a single tool or not.
Midnight Drive-In LLC
Built by one person who's actually done the job.
Production Kit isn't a platform assembled by a committee that has never stood on a set at 5 a.m. It's the app I always wanted and couldn't find — built in the open, one tool at a time, by someone who has done the paperwork it replaces.
That means the details are right for the reason details are usually wrong: because getting them wrong costs a real day. Meal penalty schedules resolve by name, so a correction reaches budgets you built months ago. The call sheet parser reads across the row because that's how a call sheet is actually laid out. Nothing here is a demo.
It also means it keeps moving. If there's something you wish it did, say so — a lot of what's already in here came from exactly that.
Plans
Pay for the part of the show you run.
Every plan starts with two weeks free. Each tier includes everything in the tiers below it — move up when the job does.
Tier one
Creative Genius
Write and sketch
- Script Writer — 29 formats
- Whiteboard — infinite canvas
- Nine visual themes
- Games & trivia (free for all)
Tier two
Working Pro
Run the day-to-day
- Rate Calculator
- Payment Tracker
- Invoice Generator
- Contact List
- Child Labor Laws
- Everything in Creative Genius
Tier three
Release Master
Releases and legal
- Release Central
- Legal template library
- Digital signing & filing
- Everything in Working Pro
Tier four
The Whole Package
Everything, budgets included
- Budget Buddy
- Production Central
- Call Sheet Generator
- Chart of Accounts
- Everything in Release Master
Team plans · billed monthly
Working with a crew?
Every tool in The Whole Package, plus shared collaborator spots so your team works inside the same projects instead of emailing versions around.
The Whole Crew 10
spots
$199.99 / month
$20.00 per spot
The Whole Crew 15
spots
$284.99 / month
$19.00 per spot
The Whole Crew 20
spots
$359.99 / month
$18.00 per spot
Prices in USD and subject to your App Store region. Team plans are billed monthly; the four solo tiers offer monthly or annual. Subscriptions bill through Apple and can be managed or cancelled in your App Store account settings. Games and trivia stay free whether you subscribe or not — and if you step down a tier, your existing work stays readable.
Production Kit
That's the call.
Now roll.
Put the production office in your pocket and get the night back.
Two weeks free · iPhone, iPad and Mac · Games and trivia free forever