Comparison

Swae vs stuffchat

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Swae

Transform your iPhone into a professional live streaming studio. Stream to multiple platforms simultaneously with advanced effects, scene building, and real-time stats. Collaborate with guests and integrate external hardware for enhanced broadcasts.

Highlights
  • Multi-platform simulcasting
  • GPU-accelerated effects
  • Scene building and switching
  • Guest integration
  • External hardware support
  • Real-time stream stats
  • Apple Watch controls
Features
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Build any stream you can dream. Your iPhone is a broadcast studio. Stream IRL to every platform - at once. No desktop. No capture card. No OBS. Swae turns your iPhone into a professional live streaming rig. Just your phone, your audience, and a tap. WHAT YOU GET • Stream RTMP, SRT, and HLS - adaptive bitrate over unstable cellular • SRTLA bonds WiFi + cellular for unstoppable uploads • Simulcast to multiple platforms at once • 30+ GPU-accelerated effects — chat overlays, beauty filters, color grading, background removal, draw-on-stream, polls, scoreboards, alerts • Build scenes like OBS, switch them live with one tap • Real-time stats: bitrate, FPS, viewer count, uptime • Background streaming, landscape and portrait support GO LIVE WITH FRIENDS • Invite a guest onto your stream with one tap, over WebRTC • Picture-in-picture composited directly into the broadcast • Audio mixed automatically — zero setup USE YOUR HARDWARE • GoPro — wireless WiFi capture as a stream source • DJI drones — broadcast aerial footage straight from the controller • Meta Glasses — first-person streams from a head-mounted camera • External display monitoring on a second screen APPLE WATCH • Read live chat on your wrist • Monitor stream health during IRL streams • Quick controls for mute, scenes, and effects PRO STREAMING. ZERO SETUP. Walk out the door, hit Go Live, and you're broadcasting. Swae handles the encoding, the network bonding, the effects pipeline, and the multi-destination push. You handle the content. Stream live, from your pocket.

About

stuffchat

A self-hosted team chat application offering full control over conversations. It allows users to join channels, send messages and files, search history, react with emojis, and participate in voice calls.

Highlights
  • Self-hosted chat and voice
  • Public and private channels
  • Message and file sharing
  • Searchable conversation history
  • Emoji reactions
  • Voice calls
Features
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stuffchat is a self-hosted team chat app for people who want full control over their conversations. Join public or private channels, send messages and files, search past conversations, react with emojis, reply to threads, and hop into voice calls from your iPhone. stuffchat brings the feel of popular, centralized apps to your own server, so your chat stays on infrastructure you control.

Screenshots

Swae4 screens
stuffchat3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Swae at Free against stuffchat's $0.99. Swae also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). stuffchat's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On rating, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Swae is free to download; stuffchat costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Swae against 5.0 for stuffchat. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Swae ships an update monthly, stuffchat weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Swae versus stuffchat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwaestuffchat
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size126 MB17 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSuhail SaqanWilliam Morong

Customer experience

Swae

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

stuffchat

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Swae

No in-app purchases

None

stuffchat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Swae free?
Swae is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is stuffchat free?
stuffchat costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Swae or stuffchat?
Swae and stuffchat are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Swae or stuffchat have ads?
Neither Swae nor stuffchat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Swae or stuffchat?
Swae ships an update monthly, and stuffchat weekly. Most recently, Swae was updated on October 7, 2026 and stuffchat on October 1, 2026.

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