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Alternatives to Meerkat

Live streaming that lost to Periscope

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

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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

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01

Lightweight Windows game and screen recorder.

Proprietary Windows
02

Screen recording with built-in course-style editing.

Proprietary WindowsmacOS
03
Cap

Open source Loom alternative.

AGPL-3.0 WindowsmacOS
04
Kap

Open source Mac screen capture.

MIT macOS
05

Async video messages with instant links.

WindowsmacOSBrowser extension
06

The open source streaming and recording standard.

GPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinux
07

Beautiful auto-zoom screen recordings.

Proprietary macOS
08

Mac screen recording and editing.

Proprietary macOS
09

The Swiss-army capture tool for Windows.

GPL-3.0 Windows
10

OBS fork with streamer conveniences.

GPL-3.0 WindowsmacOS
11

Polished screen recordings in the browser.

Proprietary WebmacOSWindowsBrowser extension

FAQ

Yes. Cap, Kap and Loom have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.

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