Amazon Live Creator vs Collabs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Amazon Live Creator
This app enables brands and influencers to broadcast live video streams directly on Amazon.com, allowing real-time product showcasing and shopper interaction. Users can easily create, shoot, and produce streams from their mobile device, with integrated analytics to track performance and progress towards creator level rewards.
- Livestream on Amazon.com
- Showcase products in real time
- Interact with shoppers via chat
- Add products to feature
- Built-in analytics
- Track creator level progress
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Using the Amazon Live Creator app, brands and influencers can livestream and reach customers on Amazon.com. Livestreaming allows you to showcase products and interact with shoppers in real time. Use the app to create your livestream, including adding products to feature, and then use the built in camera to shoot and produce the stream in minutes. Analyze your performance and improve your next livestream with our built-in analytics. As you use the Amazon Live Creator app, your performance is counted towards your creator level. Use the app to track your progress towards leveling up your creator level and unlock even more rewards and benefits by leveling up. Features: • Streaming with the Amazon Live Creator app is free. • Currently available to: Amazon Sellers that are enrolled in Amazon’s Brand Registry, Amazon Vendors that have created and published a store on Amazon’s Advertising Console (https://advertising.amazon.com) and influencers in the Amazon Influencer Program (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/influencers). • Getting started only takes a few taps; stream directly from your phone or stream with broadcasting software and a professional camera. • Products you choose to feature in your stream can be found next to the video player, making it easy for shoppers to add them to their cart. • During your livestream, shoppers can chat with you and with other shoppers. • Analyze your performance and improve your next livestream with our built-in analytics. For feedback and assistance, please visit our support center: https://www.amazon.com/live/creator
Collabs
This invite-only app helps creators maximize earnings from brand partnerships. It provides tools for content planning, insights into top-selling products, and seamless management of brand collaborations and payouts. Drive sales and unlock exclusive incentives.
- Brand partnership management
- Content planning insights
- Sales analytics
- Product collection organization
- Gift management
- Payout tracking
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The invite-only brand partnership app. Smarter tools, better insights, and more money from your partnerships. Approved for a partnership by a Shopify brand? Download the Collabs app to help you earn more. You’re the future of shopping—now get paid like it. Grow your brand partnerships • Decide what to post next with insights like your top sellers and key alerts from brands you’re working with. • Get invited to earn more from current brand partners and new Shopify brands. • As you drive sales, unlock higher incentives and gifts. Optimize workflows • Organize your favorite products into collections. Easily grab the details when you’re asked for a relink. • Receive gifts from your brand partners seamlessly. No back and forth conversation required. Track results • Understand what’s working with detailed sales analytics. Since we power every storefront, you can trust the stats. • Manage your cash flow with clear upcoming payouts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Collabs at 4.8 against Amazon Live Creator's 2.8. Collabs also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (340 vs 94). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Collabs holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 94 and 340 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 26% and 27% positive.
Amazon Live Creator ships an update every 3 weeks, Collabs weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Amazon Live Creator | Collabs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (94 ratings) | 4.8 (340 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.1% of reviews | 26.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 94 | 340 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AMZN Mobile LLC | Shopify Inc. |
Customer experience
Amazon Live Creator
Collabs
Bugs and requests
Amazon Live Creator
Reported bugs
61 issues- App not allowing password
- Internal error try again later
- App keeps looping
- App keeps looping onto password not correct
- App won't accept email
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- Always violating policy
- Issues starting live-streams on iPhone or iPad
- Need to change frame rate
- App is responding most of the time
- App gets offline suddenly
- Cannot log in
- Technical error
- Blocked from writing reviews
- Customer service is rude
- No sound on live with iPhone 15 Pro
- Technical issue please try again later
- Stuck on 'preparing to go live'
- Live Show Crashed 3rd Time
- App is very unstable
- Not user-friendly
- Won't let me sign in
- Suddenly not working
- Keyboard disappears in less than one second on login
- Cannot find where to report this issue
- Seller email not recognized on regular Amazon login
- Takes forever to enter the sign in page
- Cannot go live anymore
- Frozen, cannot return to home
- No option for forward or back
- Keep getting 'We're having technical difficulties' message
- Cannot login
- App always says it's experiencing technical difficulties
- App takes me to regular Amazon login
- App keeps telling me to update but no update available
- Livestreams are ended just stating technical difficulties
- Cannot review the stream to see what the difficulty being seen was
- Practice mode has also not been working
- Practice mode playback says 'video unavailable'
- Amazon India is full of fake reviews
- Worst platform for online shopping
- Amazon is doing nothing to tackle fake and biased reviews
- Sellers have WhatsApp group for fake reviews
- Big racket is running in India to fool buyers
- Crashes
- Can't login with it glitching
- Major glitch issues with analytics with sales and hours streamed
- Happening on a daily basis
- Support can't deal with practice mode glitch for 4 months
- Cannot post any video
- Login page works very poorly with keychain
- Continuously refreshes every few seconds on pro max, causing anything you type to go away
- Impossible to log in
- Technical difficulties prevent login
- Crashes a lot
- Doesn't work very well
- Not available for Vendors
- Video stopped recording because we supposedly violated some policy which it won't tell us
- Won't even let us see or download or video we put so much effort into making
- Need access code
- How to get an invite code?
- Violated Policy
Requested features
3 requests- Front and rear camera capability split screen
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
Collabs
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Amazon Live Creator
No in-app purchases
Collabs
No in-app purchases
