Streamlabs under fire from rival software owners and streamers following release of new product

Streamlabs is a company that focuses on providing live streamers and content creators the tools and software programs needed to broadcast their content onto the internet, including the popular and free Streamlabs OBS. Today, the company announced it has partnered with Twitch and Xbox to unveil Streamlabs Studio, a web-based, broadcasting studio designed to help home console players stream their games online. Streamlabs' new livestreaming tool offers streamers a new way to make money — and it won't even be taking a commission. The Logitech-owned company has launched a monthly tipping service called Streamlabs Creator Subscription, which (as you can probably guess from its name) gives streamers a way to set up a subscription service for viewers. Streamlabs says creators will get 100 percent of the tips fans give them after PayPal takes its usual processing fees. The Streamlabs Podcast Editor provides resizing tools to quickly reformat content for other platforms like TikTok and Instagram.

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Streamlabs is banking on you normally having a web browser open and any number of other applications. In a very simple test between this and the program I'm most familiar with, XSplit, I found some definite differences. Streamlabs OBS, with the same exact stream setup as XSplit, used 300MB less RAM on my PC. That's quite a lot, with XSplit almost pushing 1GB at times while Streamlabs OBS was much less taxing at sub-700MB. On the landing page, Streamlabs makes a bold claim about its version of OBS regarding CPU usage. The developers say its could see performance could be improved by as much as 25 percent which, if true, is reason alone to use it for your streams.

So many features

Streamlabs since developed SLOBS – a fork of the OBS software which is neither endorsed nor supported by the OBS team, despite the similarities in their names. Streamlabs has partnered with Twitch to launch Streamlabs Studio, starting on Xbox platforms. Both are free to use, so there's no reason not to play around and see which suits you best. Paste the URL you copied, and your overlay will appear in your XSplit window. Each element you customize in Streamlabs will give you a custom URL, which you need.

• Mixer is now in there, too, so we're taking a look at what it can offer your streams.
• It's and the convenience of managing your Streamlabs stuff in with your stream from one application is extremely enticing.
• Although legally, Streamlabs has obeyed the terms of OBS’ general public license, OBS devs claim they have “disregarded the spirit of open source”.
• The program is meant to offer Xbox streamers the means to access Streamlabs suite of tools and services and utilize it for boosting stream quality.
• The web-based studio will also include any customized widgets, overlays, or webcams set up by the streamer.

Creators

Streamlabs has teamed up with Twitch to help streamers improve broadcasts from an Xbox — without the need for a capture card. The web-based Streamlabs Studio will let streamers customize their broadcasts with widgets and overlays, such as a chat panel or live stream alerts. Today’s announcement is designed to make Streamlabs stand out against similar, rival streaming products like OBS Studio, and help streamers diversify their content and publish to multiple platforms.

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• So far this exodus has included Apple, Disney, Paramount, Sony, Warner Brothers Discovery and others.
• A restricted version of the tool that allows users to edit up to one hour of content each month will also be available for free to all Streamlabs Starter users.
• Streamlabs will also be adding leaderboards and badges in the coming weeks to encourage fans to support their favorite creators.
• One of the neatest tools in Streamlabs is direct integration with Extra Life.

Both sites appear to feature incredibly similar layouts, with streamer iamBrandon pointing out that the user reviews were near-identical across both sites. One of the more fascinating parts of live-streaming culture is its penchant for raising money for charities; it’s a regular feature across sites and streamers. Today, the live-streaming toolkit Streamlabs is launching its own charity offering, which is built right into the software. On Tuesday, Streamlabs launched a new console Twitch streaming tool called Streamlabs Studio for Xbox.

While Streamlabs has technically honored the terms of the GPL license used for OBS, it allegedly "disregarded the spirit" of open source software. Elgato, meanwhile, even implied Streamlabs' Stream Deck was borrowing at least the name (if not features) from its Stream Deck Mobile app. For the most part, setting up your stream is similar to the regular version of OBS, and we have a guide on getting going with that for you. In the wake of this, streamers have been threatening to move from Streamlabs to OBS.

Pokimane, one of the most popular creators on Twitch, is one such streamer. "Streamlabs better resolve this entire thread of issues or i'll be asking them to take my face off the platform + look to use another donation service," she wrote on Twitter. As streaming has grown more and more popular, so too has the need for tools to do it on consoles like Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch, as well as PC. Normally it requires a capture card and that doesn’t even include the effort that goes into creating a quality-looking production. Streamlabs has partnered with Twitch to offer a suite of tools to console-based streamers to help with just this.

Lightstream team is great and we’ve reached out directly to them to apologize. Streamlabs has come under fire from streamers and streaming platforms who claim Streamlabs Studios is similar to other products. Streamlabs Studio is a subscription service and begins at $4.99 USD a month or $49.99 for a year. If it expands to further platforms, we’ll cover the update here at Shacknews. The tool allows users to edit, resize, and caption video clips to publish to platforms like TikTok and YouTube.

Former Streamlabs employees have also come forward, claiming that the company's work practices were unethical in a long Twitter thread. Here, the user reviews for Streamlabs Studio clearly resemble the reviews gathered by Lightstream for its own similar product. Twitch recently announced that it would be partnering with Streamlabs to launch Streamlabs Studio – allowing Xbox Twitch users to create custom overlays, alerts, and presets. TJ Denzer is a player and writer with a passion for games that has dominated a lifetime.