# Alternatives to Meerkat

Live streaming that lost to Periscope. Meerkat has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.

None of its 9 checklist rows are verified yet.

Source: https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/meerkat/
Category: Screen recording

## Overview

- **Who it's for**: Twitter users in 2015 who wanted to broadcast live video to their followers in real time, particularly early adopters, journalists, and public figures experimenting with live streaming.
- **What you get**: Meerkat let anyone start a live video broadcast from their phone with one tap, with the stream posted as a link in their Twitter feed. Viewers could watch live and comment in real time, but broadcasts were not saved or rewatchable after they ended. It integrated tightly with Twitter's social graph, notifying a user's followers when they went live.
- **How it works**: A user tapped a button in the app to start broadcasting from their phone's camera, Meerkat posted a link to the stream on their connected Twitter account, and followers could tap in to watch and chat live until the broadcast ended. Meerkat faded and pivoted away by 2016 after Periscope's rise.

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## Ranked alternatives

| # | App | Alt Score | Licence | Platforms |
|---|-----|-----------|---------|-----------|
| 1 | [Bandicam](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/bandicam.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows |
| 2 | [Camtasia](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/camtasia.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS |
| 3 | [Cap](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/cap.md) | building | AGPL-3.0 | Windows, macOS |
| 4 | [Kap](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/kap.md) | building | MIT | macOS |
| 5 | [Loom](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/loom.md) | building | ? | Windows, macOS, Browser extension |
| 6 | [OBS Studio](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/obs-studio.md) | building | GPL-2.0 | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| 7 | [Screen Studio](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/screen-studio.md) | building | Proprietary | macOS |
| 8 | [ScreenFlow](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/screenflow.md) | building | Proprietary | macOS |
| 9 | [ShareX](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/sharex.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | Windows |
| 10 | [Streamlabs](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/streamlabs.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | Windows, macOS |
| 11 | [Tella](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/tella.md) | building | Proprietary | Web, macOS, Windows, Browser extension |

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