Gigsmith
The gig manager app for comedians and working performers. Book, organize, and track your shows with built-in venue database, contact management, and Night Watch lone worker safety.
Book • Manage • Perform • Stay Safe
Professional Features
Everything you need to manage your comedy career
Gig Calendar
Visual calendar with all your bookings, travel times, and venue details. Never double-book or miss a show again.
Venue Database
Searchable database of comedy venues with capacity, pay rates, contact info, and your personal performance notes.
Contact Management
Keep track of bookers, venue managers, fellow comics, and agents. Import contacts and log all communications.
Financial Tracking
Track payments, mileage, expenses, and tax-deductible costs. Export reports at tax time.
Night Watch Safety
Check-in reminders for late-night gigs and the drive home. Set an interval before a show and Night Watch prompts you to check in, escalating its reminders if you don’t. It’s a personal reminder tool, not a monitored service — it doesn’t track you or contact anyone on your behalf.
CloudKit Sync
Keep gigs, venues, and contacts in step across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Cloud sync requires an active subscription or lifetime access.
App Modules
Integrated tools for the working comedian
At-a-glance view of upcoming gigs and earnings
Full gig calendar with booking management
Comprehensive venue database and search
Booker and industry contact management
Check-in reminders and safety contacts you prepare yourself
Who Uses Gigsmith
The business side of comedy, in one place
Working Road Comics
Performers tracking bookings across cities, with travel time, pay, and venue history in one calendar instead of a text-thread archaeology dig.
Open Micers Going Pro
Comics at the point where the number of rooms exceeds what memory handles, who need a real pipeline.
Feature & Headline Acts
Performers managing booker relationships and pay negotiations who need last-paid history before quoting a rate.
Comedy Bookers & Producers
People running rooms who need venue and contact records that survive a phone upgrade.
Musicians & Variety Performers
Anyone gigging in venues at night with the same booking, pay, and safety needs as comics.
Comics Who Travel Alone
Performers driving home from unfamiliar rooms late at night who want a check-in habit they control.
Gigsmith for Web
Run the business side from your desk. Gigsmith for Web is a companion to the app, included with Pro: your gigs, money, venues and contacts in any browser, synced with Gigsmith on your iPhone through iCloud.
Calendar and gigs
See every booking by month and add or edit gigs when the email comes in.
Money
Earned, received, still owed and expenses by year, with a CSV export for tax time.
Venues and contacts
Search and update the rooms you play and the people who book them.
Requires Gigsmith Pro with iCloud sync on. Start in the app: once Gigsmith has synced your first gig, venue or contact, you can add and edit from the web too. Sign in with the Apple Account your iPhone uses for iCloud. Your records go straight between your browser and your private iCloud; nothing is stored on our servers.
Common Questions
What people ask before downloading
What exactly does Night Watch do?
It's a personal check-in reminder for late-night gigs and the trip home. You set an interval, and Gigsmith prompts you to check in, escalating its reminders if you don't respond. It is deliberately not a monitored service: it does not track your location and it does not contact anyone on your behalf. You can prepare a contact and a message in advance, but sending is always your action. In an emergency, call 911.
Why isn't Night Watch automatic?
Because an automatic system that fails silently is worse than no system. Background location monitoring and automated alerting are unreliable on a phone that's in a pocket, on low battery, or out of signal at 1am. Gigsmith is honest about being a reminder so you don't build a false sense of coverage around it.
Can I track income and expenses?
Yes. Payments, mileage, expenses, and tax-deductible costs are tracked per gig, with reports you can export at tax time. Pay history per venue is kept so you know what a room paid last time.
Does it sync across my devices?
Yes, across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Cloud sync requires an active subscription or lifetime access; without it, your data stays on the device and is included in your normal device backup.
Can I import my existing contacts?
Yes. Import bookers, venue managers, fellow comics, and agents from your contacts, and log communications against each so the history stays with the relationship.
Is there a free version?
Yes. Gigsmith is free to download and use for core gig, venue, and contact management. Paid access adds cloud sync and advanced features, with a veteran and military discount honored in-app.
Can I use Gigsmith on a computer?
Yes, with Pro. Go to gigsmith.fouledanchorsafety.com and sign in with the Apple Account you use for iCloud to see your gig calendar, money, venues and contacts, and to add or edit gigs. Changes sync with the app through your own iCloud.
Screenshots
See it in action on iPhone
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