ClipHearth vs OBS Studio
Both record and stream your screen and camera from your own computer, on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The difference is how much you build yourself.
| Topic | OBS Studio | ClipHearth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free and open source | Once, or monthly |
| Scenes | You build them from sources | Ready layouts and cards |
| After the stream | Another app for editing | The Studio in the same app |
ClipHearth gives you ready scenes, several places at once, an upright stream, live captions, and an editor in one app, without plugins. OBS Studio is free and open source, and with its plugins and scripts it can be built into almost anything.
At a glance
| Topic | OBS Studio | ClipHearth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free and open source, under the GPL. | 39 € once for a lifetime licence on one computer, 12 € for each further computer (up to 10), or 9 € a month. |
| Systems | Windows 10 and 11, macOS 13 or later, and Linux. | Windows 10 or later, macOS 12 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel), and Linux (.deb or tar.gz). |
| Scenes | Unlimited scenes built from sources, custom transitions, and Studio Mode to preview a scene before it goes live. | Ready layouts for the screen, the camera, and the chat, cards for Starting soon, a break, and the end, transitions, timers, and a shortcut for each scene. |
| Several places at once | Its pages don't describe streaming to several services at once. | Twitch, YouTube, Kick, your own server, and more places at once, as many as your upload carries. |
| Chat and alerts | Alerts and a chat box from alert services, added as browser sources. | Twitch chat and alerts when you sign in with Twitch, tips from StreamElements and Streamlabs, your name, a goal, and alert sounds, chosen per scene. |
| Recording | Records while streaming, a replay buffer, and several audio tracks. | Both streams and records, a clip of the last 30 seconds, instant replay, and each sound on its own track. |
| Editing | No editor. Its knowledge base points to other apps for post-production. | The Studio: a timeline, cut by text, captions, zooms that follow the pointer, and a vertical Short from the same recording. |
| Extending it | Plugins, scripts in Lua or Python, and VST audio plugins. | No plugins. What it does is built in. |
| Also in the app | Built for recording and streaming. | Screenshots with marks and text recognition, a converter, AI subtitles, and a shared box between your computers. |
Choose ClipHearth if
- you want ready scenes, alerts, and a countdown without setting up browser sources;
- you want several places at once and an upright stream built in;
- you want live captions made on your computer;
- you edit the recording afterwards in the same app.
Choose OBS Studio if
- you want free and open source software;
- you like building scenes from sources and extending them with plugins and scripts;
- you need Studio Mode or an audio chain with VST plugins.
Try both
OBS Studio is free. In ClipHearth the first 3 minutes of every stream are free, and the trial covers three longer tasks. The guides Go live to Twitch, YouTube, or your own server and Set up scenes, chat, and alerts for a live stream show the same workflow in ClipHearth.
OBS Studio's details are from its own pages as of . Prices and plans change, so check its pricing page before you decide. Sources: OBS Studio, OBS download, OBS Studio overview, Post-production tools, Licence.