What teachers, choreographers and coaches ask before trying Stancz: the price, the free plan, the devices, sharing with the team, and what the app does not do.
The product
Stancz is choreography software for placing dancers on stage. You draw each formation on a to-scale stage, chain the formations over time, and the app animates the transitions between them. You check the result in 2D, in 3D and from the audience’s seat, synced to the show’s music. It is built for dance teachers, choreographers, cheer coaches, majorette and baton teams, K-pop cover crews and musical theatre directors.
No. Stancz works on the stage itself: dancer placement, formations, transitions and music. It does not handle student enrolment, class schedules, invoicing or attendance. Those belong to studio management software, a different category of product. The two complement each other: one runs the school, the other prepares the show.
Yes. The Stancz timeline locks each formation to the imported music: you place changes on the counts, and playback shows dancers moving in time. A dedicated track programs backdrop images and videos, cue by cue, for an LED screen. Everything replays in the audience view before the first rehearsal.
Yes. A formation is a formation: lines, V’s, circles, diagonals, pyramids or blocks are drawn the same way whatever the style. K-pop needs many fast position changes, cheer needs exact spacing on the mat, majorettes need figures on the march: in all three cases, animated transitions and the audience view reveal crossings before rehearsal.
Stancz is made in France by Martin Bernard, an independent developer. The app is available in French, English, Spanish, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese. Support is by email at support@stancz.com; the privacy policy and terms of use are published on the site.
Pricing and plans
Yes: Stancz is free for up to 3 projects and 6 formations per project, with no time limit and no credit card. The free plan includes 2D, 3D and audience views, animated transitions and music sync — enough to prepare a full show. Beyond that, the Pro subscription is €3.99/month.
The free plan costs €0. The Pro subscription is €3.99/month, or €29.99/year billed yearly, with a one-month free trial. Schools and associations have a dedicated plan at €99/year for up to 15 members, or €149/year with no member limit, billed once a year. Full details are on the Pricing page.
Yes, with the Organisation plan: every member gets Pro, projects live in a shared workspace, and roles (owner, editor, viewer) decide who edits what. Comments are anchored to dancers right on the stage. The plan is €99/year for up to 15 members and €149/year beyond, and is set up by writing to support@stancz.com.
They stay accessible. Stancz never deletes or locks work you have already done when a subscription ends: you simply return to the free plan limits for new creations. The one-month trial and the subscription are cancelled from your App Store or Google Play account, without going through us.
Devices and installation
Yes. Stancz is a web app: it opens in a recent browser on Windows, macOS, Linux or Chromebook, with nothing to install. Projects are saved in the cloud and follow you across devices with the same account. The 3D view needs a browser with WebGL support, which recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari all have.
Yes. Stancz ships as an iOS and Android app with the same projects as the web: what you prepare on a computer is on your phone in the rehearsal room. Present mode shows formations full-screen; Follow mode highlights one dancer’s dot with a halo so they can learn their spot. A loupe follows your finger while dragging, down to the centimetre.
Day to day
From the app, you share a project with your team: each dancer views the formations and transitions on their phone and can follow their own dot in Follow mode. In an organisation, members work in a shared workspace with distinct roles. A project also exports as a `.stancz` file, which re-imports into another account or serves as a backup.
Not today. Stancz exports a complete project as a `.stancz` file that re-imports into the app; it does not produce PDF, image or video files. To hand a choreography over, team sharing and Present mode replace the printed sheet: dancers see animated formations, not a frozen picture.
Yes. The Stancz stage is to scale: you enter the stage dimensions, the downstage, upstage, stage-left and stage-right markers are set, and every formation becomes a readable stage plot. The difference from paper: transitions between two plots are animated, and the 3D view shows what the audience will see from the house.