Best Live Streaming Software

Muvi Live is a B2B live-streaming platform that lets businesses and individuals broadcast professional live video and audio in a fully do-it-yourself setup. It delivers ultra-low-latency streams across websites, apps, screens, and devices, with a built-in content delivery network so audiences get buffer-free playback.

The platform includes multi-DRM content protection, screen-record prevention, geo-blocking, and watermarking, along with live recording, adaptive multi-bitrate HD encoding, and multi-camera streaming. Creators can monetize broadcasts with a pay-per-view paywall and keep the large majority of their earnings, while analytics track viewer engagement. Muvi Live offers tiered monthly plans plus a pay-as-you-go option for bandwidth and streaming hours, making it suitable for events, media, and enterprise use.

BeLive, marketed at be.live, is a browser based live streaming studio built for creators and small businesses that want to broadcast to Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Amazon Live, and custom RTMP destinations without installing software. It offers branded overlays, logos, and lower thirds, an AI comment assistant that surfaces viewer comments on screen, and interactive widgets to boost audience engagement. Up to eight guests can appear on screen together, and a built in editor lets creators trim and repurpose recordings after the stream ends.

BeLive offers a free starter plan alongside paid tiers with higher guest limits and multistreaming, backed by a 14 day free trial that does not require a credit card. Exact current prices for the paid tiers could not be confirmed on the live pricing page, which relies on client side rendering.

Lightstream Studio is a cloud powered, browser based live production tool that requires no software download. Its standout feature is cloud capture for Xbox and PlayStation, letting console streamers send their gameplay feed straight to Lightstream and add overlays, alerts, and scenes without a capture card or a dedicated streaming PC. Creators can simulcast to up to five destinations at once, including Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook.

A free plan offers 720p output, three scenes, and a ten hour stream limit with a Lightstream watermark. The Premium plan, priced at $12 per month or $9 per month billed annually, removes the watermark and adds 1080p output, up to twenty scenes, a 48 hour stream limit, and support for up to ten guests.

Restream is a browser based multistreaming platform that broadcasts live video to more than 30 destinations, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, LinkedIn, and TikTok, from a single dashboard. Its free plan supports two channels with Restream branding, while paid Standard, Professional, and Business plans add more simultaneous destinations, removed branding, higher resolutions, and team features.

Restream Studio is a built in browser based production studio supporting up to ten on screen guests, branded overlays, backgrounds, and captions, with 4K recording and dual format streaming available on higher tiers. Restream Chat aggregates viewer comments from every connected platform into one feed, and the service avoids surprise overage charges by limiting features instead of billing extra usage.

vMix is Windows only live production software developed by Australian company StudioCoast for multi camera switching, streaming, and recording. It supports up to 1,000 video inputs on its higher editions, NDI routing across networked sources, instant replay, title and graphics overlays, virtual sets, and multi track audio mixing, with output resolutions up to 4K.

vMix is sold as one time lifetime licenses across four editions, Basic HD, HD, 4K, and Pro, each unlocking more inputs, callers, and production tools, plus a subscription option called vMix Max that includes Pro level features for a monthly fee. A free 60 day trial with no watermarks lets users test the full feature set before purchasing.

Wirecast is cross platform live production and streaming software owned by Telestream, now sold through the wirecast.io storefront after its original telestream.net product page began redirecting there. It captures, switches, and encodes video from unlimited sources for simultaneous streaming to platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and custom RTMP or SRT destinations, running on both Windows and macOS.

Wirecast is available in two tiers, Studio and Pro, priced as monthly subscriptions or annual licenses. Pro adds cloud multistreaming, ISO recording of individual feeds, PTZ camera control, sports production tools, multi track audio recording, and support for up to seven remote guests, compared to two guests on the Studio tier.

Ecamm Live is an all in one live streaming and video production studio built exclusively for Mac, with no Windows version available. It offers unlimited multistreaming to up to ten destinations at once, custom overlays and branding, picture in picture screen sharing, automatic high quality recording, and green screen support, all from a single Mac application.

The Pro plan builds on the Standard tier with Ecamm for Zoom, an Interview Mode for up to ten remote guests, virtual camera and microphone output for video call apps, 4K streaming and recording, and isolated audio and video track recording. Both plans include a 14 day free trial that requires no credit card to start.

Twitch Studio is Twitch's own free broadcasting application, built to help new streamers get live quickly without wrestling with complex settings. A guided setup wizard tests equipment and network conditions, then automatically configures bitrate and quality. It bundles Twitch chat, an activity feed, and alerts directly into the interface, along with background removal that does not require a green screen and access to Twitch's built in music library.

The app supports multiple scenes and sources such as webcams, game captures, and screen shares that streamers can switch between during a broadcast. It is aimed squarely at beginners and casual streamers rather than advanced users, who typically prefer more configurable tools like OBS Studio.

Riverside is a studio quality remote recording and live streaming platform for podcasts, interviews, and video content, founded in Tel Aviv, Israel. It records each participant locally in the browser at up to 4K video and 48kHz audio before uploading tracks to the cloud, which helps avoid the quality loss that can come from unstable internet connections during a call.

Beyond recording, Riverside includes text based editing, an AI editing and repurposing agent, automatic Magic Clips, podcast hosting and analytics, and multi platform publishing to YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. Higher tiers add live streaming with unlimited multistream destinations, webinars for up to 100 registrants, and enterprise features like SSO and API access on the custom priced Business plan.

Castr is a cloud based multistreaming and video hosting platform aimed at businesses, broadcasters, and content creators, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. It lets users broadcast simultaneously to up to 30 destinations, embed a video player powered by Akamai CDN, schedule pre-recorded content as a looping TV Playout channel, and gate content behind a paywall.

Castr's five paid tiers, Starter, Standard, Premium, Ultra, and Events/OTT Apps, scale up storage, bandwidth, concurrent streams, and multistream destinations, with advanced features like adaptive bitrate streaming, failover ingest, and dedicated eCDN reserved for higher plans. The top tier also includes white labeled OTT apps with content management and ticketing tools for building a standalone streaming app.