Streamplace vs Roll
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Streamplace
Watch live development streams and receive notifications when broadcasts begin. This application provides access to ongoing project updates and ensures you don't miss live events.
- Watch development livestreams
- Receive live broadcast notifications
- Stay updated on project progress
- Access video content
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Streamplace is live video and on-demand video for the open social web. Watch, stream, and publish with an account you already own, on a platform nobody can lock you into. WATCH ANYWHERE Live streams and full video libraries, in cinema-grade quality that adapts to your phone, your tablet, and your connection. Fast on the subway, sharp on Wi-Fi, with playback that keeps up when everyone shows up at once. GO LIVE FROM YOUR PHONE Start a broadcast in seconds. Stream to Streamplace and multistream to other platforms at the same time, then keep every broadcast in your archive as on-demand video your audience can watch later. SIGN IN WITH THE OPEN SOCIAL WEB Streamplace is built on the AT Protocol, the open network behind Bluesky. Log in with the account you already have. Your identity, your followers, and your videos live on the open web, not inside our app. Follow creators, share streams, and take your audience with you wherever you go. EVERY VIDEO IS SIGNED Each stream and video carries a cryptographic record of who made it and how it was edited, from the moment it leaves the camera. In a feed full of synthetic content, Streamplace lets viewers verify that a video is real and lets creators prove their work is their own. NO LOCK-IN, EVER Streamplace is open source and self-hostable. Your content and your audience are portable. Move to another provider, or run the software yourself, and everything comes with you. FREE, WITH NO ADS Public video on Streamplace is free to watch and free to publish. Video is delivered across an open, decentralized network, so anyone can run a node and help serve the streams they care about. MADE FOR EVERY SCREEN The same open platform runs natively on iOS, Android, web, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Start watching on your phone and pick up on your desktop, with your identity and library intact. FOR CREATORS AND STUDIOS Streamplace is the same infrastructure independent filmmakers, musicians, and studios use to build their own branded video platforms. Whether you are streaming to a few friends or publishing a catalog to a paying audience, it starts here. Streamplace is built in the open by a small team that believes open social will win. Read the code, run a node, or file an issue at stream.place.
Roll
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Share everyone’s photos with the whole group, in 5 minutes flat. When you’re all in one room - hotel, kitchen table, wedding venue, kid’s birthday - open Roll. Each person picks the photos they want to share. Tap Share. Everyone’s photos merge into one roll and save to every camera roll, full quality, no cloud. No accounts. No upload. No compression. The photos go straight from phone to phone. For the planner of trips. The friend who runs the group chat, books the place, and takes most of the photos. Roll fixes the “wait, can you send me that one of the sunset” moment for the whole group at once. Why Roll * Originals, not re-compressed copies. Full quality. * No ads, ever. No cloud. No accounts. No uploads. * One tap saves everyone’s photos to your camera roll. * Duplicates merge, so the group selfie does not multiply. * The photos you contributed are not re-saved. They are already in your library. * Nothing to set up. Open the app and the room is there. * Works with no internet and no Wi-Fi network. Phones connect directly to each other. What you need * An iPhone on iOS 16.4 or later. * A small group in the same room. * Bluetooth on, and the local network permission granted when iOS asks. What Roll is not * Not a cloud album. * Not a chat app. * Not for sharing with people who are not in the room. Every past roll stays available, with no 48-hour clock. Save past rolls to your camera roll whenever you need them. The transfer experience is identical for everyone. Premium unlocks additional capacity and access to more past rolls. Terms of Use: https://roy-yogev.github.io/pages/roll/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://roy-yogev.github.io/pages/roll/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Streamplace at none against Roll's 1. Roll's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Roll sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Streamplace asks for nothing beyond the download.
Streamplace ships an update every 2 months, Roll every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Streamplace | Roll |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aquareum Inc. | Roy Yogev |
In-app purchases
Streamplace
No in-app purchases
Roll
- Roll Premium Yearly$9.991 Year









