Best YouTube Live Streaming Tools in 2026

OneStream Live

OneStream Live is a cloud service for creating, scheduling, and streaming prerecorded or real-time video to social platforms and the web.

Riverside

Riverside is an online studio for recording remote podcasts and video interviews.

Streamlabs Multistream

Streamlabs Multistream sends one live stream to multiple platforms, with Streamlabs servers splitting the incoming stream into separate feeds.

Streamster

Streamster is a multistreaming service for sending broadcasts to as many as four destinations.

OnTheFly.Stream

PRISM Live Studio

PRISM Live Studio is a broadcasting and media creation tool for live streams, video recording, and photos with effects, stickers, images, and music.

Larix Broadcaster

Streamlabs Talk Studio

Castr

Castr is paid live-streaming software with a browser-based studio, web playback, and Android and iOS support.

EchoStream

Gyre

Cinamaker Director Studio

OBS Studio

OBS Studio is free, open-source software for recording video and live streaming on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Upstream

Upstream is cloud live-streaming software for browser-based broadcasts, multistreaming, and always-on channels built from uploaded videos.

LiveReacting

LiveReacting is a web-based studio for cloud streaming, with tools for multistreaming, scheduling broadcasts, and looping or replaying streams.

Meld Studio

Meld Studio is a desktop app for streaming and recording, with a free plan and paid plans starting at $20 a month.

SplitCam Multistream

SplitCam Multistream is a free streaming tool for sending a stream to multiple destinations using an encoder-based setup.

XSplit Broadcaster

XSplit Broadcaster is a Windows application for creating and controlling scenes for live streams, recordings, podcasts, presentations, and virtual-camera workflows.

StreamNeo

Ecamm Live

vMix

Lightstream

Lightstream Studio is a cloud-powered broadcast studio that runs in a web browser.