# Alternatives to Periscope

Twitter's live streaming app. Periscope 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/periscope/
Category: Screen recording

## Overview

- **Who it's for**: General smartphone users and public figures/broadcasters who wanted to share or watch live video from wherever they were, streamed via Twitter.
- **What you get**: Periscope let anyone broadcast live video from a phone camera to followers in real time. Viewers could send hearts (likes) and post live comments visible to the broadcaster and other watchers. Broadcasts stayed available for replay for a limited time after ending, and streams could be shared as tweets. It integrated tightly with Twitter accounts and followers.
- **How it works**: Users opened the app, tapped to go live, and their Twitter followers were notified and could join to watch and comment in real time; after 2016 broadcasting also became accessible directly from the Twitter app. Twitter shut down the standalone Periscope app in March 2021.

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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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