Streamlabs vs Podcast Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Streamlabs
This app enables creators to broadcast live video from their mobile devices to various platforms like Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook. Stream mobile games or your camera feed, customize your stream with themes and widgets, and engage with viewers through alerts. Monetize your content with tips and ensure stream stability with advanced features.
- Stream to multiple platforms
- Live stream mobile games
- IRL camera streaming
- Stream customization with themes
- Add alerts and widgets
- Collect viewer tips
- Disconnect protection
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Streamlabs is the best free video live streaming app for creators. Stream mobile games or your camera to platforms like Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Facebook, Instagram, and more! STREAM OR MULTISTREAM TO ANY PLATFORM Connect your channels to live stream to the most popular platforms or your custom RTMP destination. With an Ultra subscription you can broadcast video to multiple platforms at the same time, maximizing your growth potential. LIVE STREAM GAMES Share your mobile game skills! Whether it’s Monopoly Go, PUBG Mobile, Call of Duty Mobile, Among Us, Clash Royale, Rocket League Sideswipe, Pokemon GO, World of Tanks, or any other mobile game, the app makes it easy to go live and share gameplay with your fans. IRL STREAM Swap between front and rear cameras to stream high quality video to your community. Whether you’re a travel vlogger, musician, podcaster, or just chatting, the app lets you take your audience with you on the go. PERSONALIZE YOUR STREAM Customize your stream’s look with themes in a few easy taps. You can also add your logo, images, and text to your stream. ADD ALERTS & WIDGETS Interact with your viewers and drive audience engagement with Alert Box, Chat Box, Event List, Goals, and more. DISCONNECT PROTECTION With Streamlabs Ultra, your stream won’t go offline even if you lose connection, so you don’t lose your viewers. GET PAID WITH TIPS Set up a Streamlabs Tip Page to start collecting tips directly from your viewers. Plus, thank your tippers with fully-integrated on screen tip alerts. Your fans are waiting! Privacy Policy: https://streamlabs.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://streamlabs.com/terms
Podcast Studio
Easily record, edit, and publish your podcasts with an all-in-one solution. This app simplifies complex audio tasks, allowing you to add music, sound effects, and ads seamlessly. It offers non-destructive editing and professional audio enhancement to make your podcast sound polished and ready for distribution.
- Record and edit podcasts
- Add music, sound effects, and ads
- Non-destructive audio editing
- Automatic audio enhancement (AudioMagic)
- Direct publishing to hosting services
- Participant connection via companion app
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Podcast Studio is the all-in-one way to record, edit, and publish your podcasts. Instead of managing “tracks”, “effects”, and spending time with repetitive editing, Podcast Studio can do all the work for you and make podcasting easy and fun. Connect your participants to your podcast by adding them as people — not as “tracks”. You'll get easy confirmation that everything is working before recording starts with helpful headphone and microphone checks. You can easily include theme and bumper music, sound effects, and ads to your podcast episode. They’ll get included gracefully into the conversation. Podcast Studio supports all known podcast metadata, including Chapters. Podcast Studio rethinks audio editing by being completely non-destructive. By using Jumps and Skips, you can edit your episode without losing access to a single word. Podcast Studio includes AudioMagic, a feature that transforms your raw recorded podcast into a professional-sounding, publishable podcast quickly, handling complex tasks like compression, EQ, crosstalk, speech clarity, appropriate clip playback, and more. Podcast Studio makes publishing your podcast easy by letting you share it to others with Mail, AirDrop, and other sharing services, as well as submitting directly to hosting services like Buzzsprout, Libsyn, Podbean, Spreaker, Captivate, Blubrry, and Dropbox with just a few clicks. With the companion app Podcast Studio Remote for macOS and iOS, participants can connect to your podcast directly from with security and privacy. Podcast Studio functionality is available for free for the first two weeks, then requires signing up to an auto-renewable subscription to continue. For more details, please refer to the Terms of Use at https://podcaststudioapp.com/terms-of-service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Streamlabs at 3.9 against Podcast Studio's 3.0. Streamlabs also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 9 months). Podcast Studio's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.2). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Streamlabs sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Podcast Studio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Streamlabs holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Streamlabs has 1.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Streamlabs's written reviews are positive against 13% of Podcast Studio's.
Streamlabs ships an update every 2 weeks, Podcast Studio every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Streamlabs | Podcast Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (1.3K ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 29.2% of reviews — better | 13.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Streamlabs | INTJ Software, LLC |
Customer experience
Streamlabs
Podcast Studio
Bugs and requests
Streamlabs
Reported bugs
4 issues- Attempted to start invalid broadcast session
- Streaming stops unexpectedly
- Overlays not working as expected
- Microphone/audio issues
Requested features
4 requests- Add screen recording support
- Improve audio settings and quality
- Allow more customization and overlays for mobile
- Provide better tutorials and documentation
Podcast Studio
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Streamlabs
- Monthly Ultra$4.991 Month
- Monthly Ultra2 variants$9.991 Month
- Monthly Ultra$18.991 Month
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- Monthly Ultra$27.991 Month
- Yearly Ultra$49.991 Year
- Monthly Ultra+$79.991 Month
- Yearly Ultra$99.991 Year
- Yearly Ultra$119.991 Year
- Yearly Ultra$149.991 Year
- Yearly Ultra$189.991 Year
Podcast Studio
- Bronze$7.991 Month
- Silver$11.991 Month









