Comparison

Overlay Expert vs StreamNow

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

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Overlay Expert

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Turn your iPhone into a capture card and make your console streams look professional with Overlay Expert, the easiest way to add polished overlays and on-screen branding to your PlayStation or Xbox stream. It's not just for consoles: go live IRL with the same overlays and alerts, straight from your iPhone. KEY BENEFITS • Free to stream. Broadcast your console through the app to Twitch, YouTube, TikTok or Kick in 1080p at 60 FPS. No capture card needed. • Stream more than your console. Go live IRL from your iPhone camera, with the same overlays and alerts. • Talk with your party on stream. Join your Discord voice channel from the app and mix party chat straight into your broadcast. • Boost engagement. Overlays and animated alerts draw attention and keep viewers interacting. • Strengthen your brand. Consistent on-screen logos and graphics make your channel memorable. • Save setup time. Get a pro look in seconds, no design skills required. HOW IT WORKS 1. For console streams, connect your console and iPhone to the same Wi-Fi network. For PlayStation, use PlayStation Remote Play or our dedicated DNS server. For Xbox, use Remote Play. 2. Open Overlay Expert, choose your overlay, and go live. For console, your game stream appears on your iPhone; for IRL, use the front or back camera. 3. Broadcast to Twitch, YouTube, TikTok or Kick with your overlay live on stream. FEATURES • PlayStation Remote Play and DNS connection options, so you can pick whatever works best for your setup. • Xbox Remote Play support. • IRL streaming from your iPhone camera, with overlays and alerts. • Discord party voice chat. Link your Discord account, join a voice channel, and hear and talk with your party while you stream, with party audio mixed into your broadcast. • Stream in 1080p at 60 FPS to Twitch, YouTube, TikTok and Kick. • Customizable overlays, logos and on-screen graphics. • Animated alerts to drive viewer interaction. • Fast, no-PC setup so you can go live straight from your iPhone. FREE AND SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS Overlay Expert is free to download and stream, with an on-stream watermark. Optional monthly subscriptions unlock more: • Remove the on-stream watermark. • Add custom browser sources to bring overlays from tools like Streamlabs and StreamElements onto your console stream, no PC needed. Subscriptions renew automatically each month unless cancelled in your App Store account settings. Terms of use: https://overlay.expert/terms-of-use. Privacy policy: https://overlay.expert/privacy-policy. WHO IT'S FOR Overlay Expert is built for console gamers on PlayStation and Xbox who want a professional on-screen presence without a capture card, a PC, or hours of setup, plus IRL streamers who want the same polished look from their iPhone.

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StreamNow

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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.

Screenshots

Overlay Expert4 screens
StreamNow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StreamNow at none against Overlay Expert's 2. StreamNow also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Overlay Expert's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Overlay Expert sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. StreamNow asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Overlay Expert versus StreamNow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOverlay ExpertStreamNow
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOverlay Expert IncNiral Kabariya

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Overlay Expert

Subscriptions2
  • Partner7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Expert7 Days trial$9.991 Month
None

StreamNow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Overlay Expert free?
Overlay Expert is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StreamNow free?
StreamNow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Overlay Expert or StreamNow have ads?
StreamNow shows ads; Overlay Expert does not.

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