OBS Studio
Full-featured screen recording and live streaming software for Mac, Windows and Linux.
- Free • Open Source
- Screen Recorder
- Screenshot Capture
- Screen Casting
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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- FreeBSD
- Steam
What is OBS Studio?
OBS Studio (also known as Open Broadcaster Software, or OBS) is a screen-casting and live-streaming software available across multiple platforms including macOS, Windows and Linux. Boasting features typically only found in commercial screen recording apps, OBS also provides one of the simplest workflows with an intuitive and easy-to-learn interface that makes recording and streaming a breeze. It's also totally free and open-source.
With its long standing history of continued updates and considering its ease of use and free cost, it's no wonder OBS is one of the most popular and highest recommended apps for screen-casting and live streaming.
NOTABLE FEATURES:
Cross-platform (available for Mac, Windows and Linux). Encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC. Support for Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV), AMF and NVENC. Unlimited number of scenes and sources. Live RTMP streaming to Twitch, YouTube, Mixer, DailyMotion, Smashcast and more. File output to MP4, MKV or FLV. GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming. DirectShow capture device support (webcams, capture cards, etc). Windows 8 high speed monitor capture support. Bilinear or lanczos3 resampling. Light and dark themes to support various working conditions and preferences.
Features Vote on or suggest new features
- Capture Video
- Live Broadcasting
- Ability to select a source
- Live Streaming
- Screen Recording
- Game Streaming
- Low CPU usage
- Video Streaming
- Virtual camera output
- Customizable
- Video Editing
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Audio Recording
- Night mode/Dark Theme
- Record desktop activity
- Twitch integration
- Audio Track Split
- Youtube integration
- SMS Messaging
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
Supported Languages
- English
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- Screenshot Capture
- RTMP
- broadcasting
- recording
- Screen Casting
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Summary
Our users have written 62 comments and reviews about OBS Studio, and it has gotten 889 likes
- Developed by OBS Project
- Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
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- Average rating of 4.4
- 137 alternatives listed
GitHub repository
- 39,255 Stars
- 6,003 Forks
- 662 Open Issues
- Updated Jun 27, 2022
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- Ambratolm liked OBS Studio3 days ago
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- joao_renato liked OBS Studiojr10 days ago
A great opensource software for screen recording and streaming. When I use it for screen recording on mac, I found that obs can't record computer audio. But after I installed BetterRecorder, I can do it now. This is how I did, Step1 Install BetterRecorder and its audio driver. Step2 Set 'BetterRecorder Audio Device' as the computer output device. Step3 In OBS add source 'Inout audio capture' and select 'BetterRecorder Audio Driver'. Then start recording.
• Edited 6 months ago
OBS Studio is probably my favourite software of all time. You may think that OBS would be used exclusively for gaming purposes... far from it! Yes, you can easily set it up for streaming content to YouTube, Twitch, and the like, but it's also a great screen recorder software for educational videos and a great podcast recorder! It allows for extensive audio input configuration and easy stereo-mix recordings (remember that?) for a podcast session.
The software performs incredibly well even in outdated computers. My almost-10-year-old laptop can pull some recordings at lower resolutions.
Sadly, they make what ought to be really simple stuff look far more complicated than it should be.
Did you already look for tutorials? That's what you should always do.
Reply written almost 2 years ago
er... that's precisely what I'm saying! When you have to resort to watching tutorials to do really basic stuff, you know there's something wrong with the software! Sure, I'm all for tutorials when you have to do complex stuff, not basic stuff.
Reply written almost 2 years ago
Nice to have not only for gamer, but also to record Webinars, Meetings and many more. Thanks for the good job!
Great free software for recording your screen or games. It was made for streaming, but I think most people use it for recording.
OBS is powerful, with support for hardware encoding, CQP, replay buffer and recording to multiple audio tracks. It may take a while to learn, but it's well worth doing so.
The OBS app is awesome.
Easy to use and simple to pick up, alsoboth open source and free.