Castream vs StreamNow

Castream makes going live incredibly easy — turning your phone into a complete live broadcasting studio. Whether you're a creator, musician, pastor, journalist, gamer, or anyone with something to share, you can stream to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and any RTMP-compatible platform — including TikTok Live and Instagram Live — simultaneously, straight from your phone. Now with screen capture, real-time overlays, AI-powered tools, and scheduled broadcasts. Perfect for anyone who wants professional multistreaming without the complexity. What’s inside: • Multistreaming — Go live to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, TikTok Live (RTMP), Instagram Live (RTMP), and custom destinations simultaneously • Screen Capture — Broadcast your phone’s screen for gaming, tutorials, presentations, and more • Picture-in-Picture (PIP) — Use front and back camera together and position it on screen • Live Broadcasting Studio — Add overlays, lower thirds, and customize your stream in real time • Live Location Overlay — Show where you’re streaming from or set a custom location • Camera Filters & Voice Effects — Add visual styles and experimental voice filters • Unified Live Chat — View messages from YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch in one feed • Chat Insights (AI) — Get post-stream summaries and insights across platforms • Chat Operator Mode — Separate streaming and chat moderation across devices • AI Title & Description Generator — Instantly improve your stream metadata • Scheduled Video Broadcasts — Upload a video, set a time, and go live automatically • Stream Recording — Every stream is recorded and saved for 30 days • 1080p or 720p — Choose your preferred resolution • Portrait & Landscape Support — Stream in any orientation • Ultra-Low Latency — Smooth, reliable video • Synced Audio & Video — No drift • Auto Bitrate — Adapts to your network automatically • No Watermarks — Clean, professional output • Mobile-First Design — Built for performance on your phone • Public Profile — Share your streams at castream.io/@handler and view insights Free to use. Upgrade only if you need more. Go live everywhere with one tap. By using this app, you agree to Apple’s standard [Terms of Use (EULA)](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/).

Go live from your phone in three taps. No desktop, no capture card, no encoder box StreamNow sends your camera or your whole screen straight to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, TikTok or any RTMP server you own. Overlays, logos and sports scoreboards are composited into the outgoing video by the native engine, so your viewers see a finished broadcast instead of a raw phone camera. HOW IT WORKS 1. Add a destination pick a platform preset, or paste your own RTMP / RTMPS URL and stream key. 2. Choose your source front camera, back camera, or your entire screen. 3. Tap Go Live. Bitrate, frame rate and connection health update every second while you stream. CAMERA STREAMING • Front and back camera with instant flip, pinch zoom and torch control • 720p or 1080p at 10, 30, 50 or 60 fps you choose resolution and frame rate separately • Adaptive bitrate quietly steps quality down and back up when the network dips, instead of dropping you • Automatic reconnect if the connection breaks mid-broadcast • Privacy shield blanks the video without ending the stream • Mute the mic or pause the whole broadcast with one tap the connection stays alive • Noise suppression and front-camera mirroring toggles SCREEN BROADCASTING • Stream everything on your screen: gameplay, tutorials, app demos, classes, presentations • Portrait and landscape, both fully supported • App audio and mic go out together, so viewers hear the game and you • Starts from the system broadcast picker and keeps running while you play • Your overlay layout travels with the broadcast arrange it before you go live OVERLAYS AND SPORTS SCOREBOARDS • Text, image and logo layers, dragged and sized exactly where you want them • Live scoreboards for football, basketball, tennis and billiards • Two skins per scoreboard clean glass, or a full TV-style broadcast bar • Control the score, the clock and the period from the same screen you are streaming from • Save any arrangement as a preset and load it for the next match • Separate preset sets for vertical 9:16 and horizontal 16:9, so nothing lands off-canvas RECORD WHILE YOU STREAM Keep a local copy of the broadcast on your device while it goes out live useful for highlights, reuploads and reviewing the game afterwards. BUILT FOR SMOOTHNESS Capture, encoding and the network socket all live in native code. Video frames never pass through the interface layer, which is why the frame rate holds steady, the battery lasts, and switching screens inside the app never disturbs a running broadcast. WHY CREATORS CHOOSE STREAMNOW • No account and no sign-up a stream key is all it takes • No watermark burned into your video • Stream keys are kept in the device keychain, never uploaded anywhere • Works with any RTMP or RTMPS ingest, from the big platforms to your own server • Dark, one-handed interface designed to be used while something else is happening Whether you are calling a Sunday league match, streaming a mobile game, running a class or going live to your followers, StreamNow puts the whole broadcast in your pocket. EULA This app is licensed under Apple's Standard End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ DISCLAIMER StreamNow is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by YouTube, Google, Twitch, Amazon, Facebook, Meta or TikTok. All trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners. Streaming to a platform requires your own account on that platform and is subject to that platform's own terms.