Chats for every team
Private one-to-one chats, groups anyone can start, a room for each department (its head picks who's in it, and can copy in another department), and a client room the crew never see. Each conversation only sees its own messages.
Only with the abby.
The conversation,
on set.
Everyone you approve can message: clients, producers, departments, one to one. Encrypted end to end.
Try it right here
This is Abby Monitor.
Have a go.
- Switch conversations. Clients, Camera, Producers: each one talks among itself.
- Type a message and someone on set answers.
- Rate the take. 👍 ⭐ 🔁, one tap.
- Pin a note to the take that's rolling.
- Ask for a take and watch Abby Video decide.
A pretend set with pretend people. In the real app, every request waits for a real person.
LIVE · ASC 42A · TK 3
How was that?
🔒 End-to-end encrypted · gone after 24 hours
Everything a set needs to say.
Nothing it shouldn't.
Notes pinned to takes
A note pins to the take and the moment it was written. Keep it private, share it with a conversation, or send it to Abby Video, where it lands on the take in the library with who wrote it.
Take requests you approve
"Can we see 42A/2 again?" arrives as a request, not a shout. People Abby Video allows can ask; nothing plays until Abby Video says yes, and then only for the person who asked.
One-tap reactions
When a take cuts, "How was that?" pops up for a one-tap reaction. Abby Video sees the room's mood without anyone saying a word.
Talk-back
For people Abby Video allows: tap to talk straight to Abby Video over the set's Wi-Fi, and tap again to stop. A big red banner shows while the microphone is on, and it stops by itself after a minute.
You decide who does what
Everyone you approve can chat. A direct line to Abby Video, take requests and talk-back are switched on per person or per section, such as Director.
For shoots nobody can talk about
Private by design.
- Encrypted end to end on every device, with Apple's own CryptoKit.
- Gone after 24 hours, on the Mac and on every phone. Edit or delete your own messages any time.
- Only people you approve can join, confirmed with a code on both screens. Remove anyone in a tap.
- Abby Video reads only what it's in. The Mac stores encrypted data it can't open, so a conversation Abby Video isn't part of stays private.
- We never see them. No accounts for crew or clients. On set, messages travel over the set's own Wi-Fi. From Abby Monitor 1.1, messages sent off the set pass through our relay still encrypted, and it can't read them.
- Report and block are built in, and Abby Video can remove anyone from a conversation or the set.
- Leak deterrents: each viewer's name can sit faintly on their picture, the picture blanks when someone screen records, and screenshots are reported to Abby Video.
How sets talk today.
And with the abby.
Usual video assistthe abby.
Clients give feedbackLeaning over the director's shoulderPrivate group chat on their own screen
"Can we see that again?"Shouted mid-setupA request that waits for your OK
Notes on takesScribbled, lost by lunchPinned to the take and the moment
Talking to Abby VideoWalk over, or a radio channelTap to talk, from anywhere on set
PrivacyGroup texts on personal phonesEncrypted, approved people only, gone in 24 h
Cost for clientsExtra monitors and cablesFree app on the phone they already have
Give your clients a voice.
Keep your set quiet.
Abby Monitor is free for everyone you let in. Abby Video runs the abby. on a Mac, and the first day is free.