Owncast Alternatives

Owncast Alternatives

With Owncast you can host your own streams. Owncast is a free and open-source, self-hosted live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software. Owncast includes a web interface to your video with built-in chat that is ava.. read more.

According to people there are many software similar to it, and the best alternative to Owncast is Twitch which is both free and proprietary. Other highly recommended applications include Facebook Live (Free).
In total people have suggested 2 alternatives to Owncast that share similarities by use case and feature set.

Twitch

Twitch is a video live streaming service design for gamers. On Twitch, streamers can share their gaming sessions via video streaming and gain subscribers and receive donations from their audience. Twitch is primarily focused on video game live streaming and eSports, but also provides sections for general streaming and real-life events. Since 2014, Twitch is now owned and operated by Amazon.

Free & Proprietary

Facebook Live

Facebook Live is a video streaming and broadcasting service launched by Facebook in August 2015. With Facebook Live users can stream live video that will appear in Facebook users news feed and users can comment and interact with the streams through the Facebook platform. All broadcasts made by users are automatically saved on the streamers page and can be accessed by anyone for later reference.

Free & Proprietary

How Are These Owncast Alternatives Generated?

Information found on this page is crowd-sourced by the community and contains the most agreed upon Owncast alternatives. You can use this information to find similar software to Owncast for specific platforms with various pricing options and licenses. Anyone that have previously used Owncast can suggest alternatives, vote on the accuracy of other users claims, and help more people in the process of doing so.

This page was last updated on Sun 23 Jan 2022 (3 weeks, 1 day ago).