We're changing streaming forever.

One app builds and runs the whole show. Your switcher, overlays, chat, audio and guest calls are already one thing here, so the evening goes on the show itself. It is one running order you press through: cameras, guests, cues, polls, music, both audio channels and going live, in one place. From a hangout to a live performance, and everything is included at $2.99 or $12.99 a month. This is the easy way hosts have been asking for. And the people watching join in — they vote, they answer, they react, they end up on the stage.

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A new level of engagement

A show here is something the room is in. They are part of it from the first minute. They vote on what happens next and see the bars move as they do it. They answer the game show from chat and watch their name climb the leaderboard. They throw reactions across the stage. The best comment of the night goes up in lights. By the end they have played a part in the show, and that is the bit they tell people about.

They play along

Polls they decide with — 55 themes, the count moving live
Game shows answered A to D in chat, scored, with a leaderboard — 76 themes
A music quiz, predictions, rankings and tier lists to argue over
39 kinds of reaction flying across the stage, and celebration effects
Their comment on the stage, their name on the members wall, a shoutout by name
A QR code on screen — they scan it and their request lands with you
Giveaways drawn live, in 86 themes
A program guide of what is on next, and a merch board whose links land in chat as the card comes up

The show panel running a live show: three players on camera with solo and mute keys, a poll's numbers coming in, and the running order along the bottom — Press React and this is the host's hand: aim it, say something with it, pick the one that fits and send. It flies across the stage a moment later.

The reactions the host picks from: where it lands, a message for viewers, how long it stays, Send — and a named reaction for each thing that happens, from Bravo and Champion to Plot twist and Mind blown — Press React and this is the host's hand: aim it, say something with it, pick the one that fits and send. It flies across the stage a moment later.

Three musicians playing together on one stage, with a live poll of song choices under them and the vote counts beside each one — Those numbers are the room typing. Every answer lands here next to the host, who can put any comment of it straight on the stage.

The chat beside the glass: viewers answering with ::a and ::b, mods and subs in their own colours, a star beside each message to put it on the stream, and how long it stays up — Those numbers are the room typing. Every answer lands here next to the host, who can put any comment of it straight on the stage.

Tonight's running order

A show is a list of scenes. Build it before you go live, then press one key to move to the next. Everything opens together, already wired — and this is the one place all of it lives. Musicians first, and any host who runs a show: that is what the cues are for.

Open with something that moves

Title cards, countdowns, polls, giveaways, game shows answered in chat. Every one is a cue you drop on a spot.

556 animations, all included
Chat from YouTube, Twitch or Kick, on screen

Go live, record, send it anywhere

Three ways out of the app: go live to YouTube yourself, hand the finished show to any other app as a camera, or run the guests' server on your own machine.

Go live with us — straight to YouTube from the app, with the broadcast made for you
Or your own stream key — take the Stream URL and key out of YouTube Studio and paste them in. Nothing asks YouTube on your behalf, and the key never leaves your Mac. Save a new one mid-show and the stream moves to it without ending
Virtual camera — the whole show becomes a camera on your Mac, so your favourite streaming tool, or a call, just picks it up
Bring your own streaming server — your guests' video on your machine, your domain, your bill (the setup, written out)
Record to your Mac while any of that is happening
Snip cuts a piece out of the recording that is already running and puts it straight on a pad — the thing that just happened is a sound you can fire again before the song ends
Snap takes a picture of what is going out and puts it in your media
Mon, Rec and Live are set apart — A and B are your two channels after their effects, C is what comes back from your guests, Out is the finished blend. Hear one thing, record another, send a third

The panel running a show of five scenes, with Record, Go Live, Snip and Snap along the top and the Mon, Rec and Live rows beside the channel dials — Record, Go Live, Snip and Snap sit together on the desk. The link between the first two means one press does both.Mon, Rec, Live: what reaches your ears, what lands in the file and what leaves for the broadcast are three separate choices, made on one small grid.

Record, a link key joining it to Go Live, then Go Live, Snip and Snap — Record, Go Live, Snip and Snap sit together on the desk. The link between the first two means one press does both.Mon, Rec, Live: what reaches your ears, what lands in the file and what leaves for the broadcast are three separate choices, made on one small grid.

The Go Live to YouTube window with two ways to go live — MyStreamRunner makes the broadcast, or use my YouTube Studio stream key — and fields for the Stream URL and the Stream key

Pro audio tools, for everyone

The real tools, in the app that runs the show. Two independent channels, each with its own chain and its own loudness meter. Your own Audio Unit plugins. Audio and MIDI looped at the same time — and this is the one place you can. Shape your sound privately in the monitor, and keep the good bits. It is all here the moment you open the app, ready to run a show rather than build one.

Channels A and B, each with its own effects
Input gain, de-noise, hum, low cut, high cut, compression, EQ, width, chorus, room, limiter
LUFS and true-peak meters, and a goniometer
Audio Unit plugins, inserted in front of the chain
Audio and MIDI looper — footswitch or MIDI Learn on any control
Snips: keep the last few seconds off the back buffer, sound only or with picture, straight onto a pad
Record while you stream, and choose what it captures: A, B, guests, or the whole output
Sample pads and backing tracks, fired from the deck or a pedal
Ducking: one channel steps back while the other has signal
Talkback to a guest off air, and a mix-minus that sends each of them everything but their own voice
Monitor A, B, guests or the outgoing mix; one Mute takes the stream, the recording and the cans together
Chord charts, lead sheets, set lists, drums

The FX page in the app: thirteen named dials — de-noise, hum, low cut, high cut, compression, EQ, magic, sizzle, width, distress, chorus, room and limiter — each with its own A and B keys, and a plugin slot for each channel

Bring the band on

Send each player a link. They wait in the Green Room until you let them in, and you can talk to them off air before the song starts.

Up to 9 guests
Perform mode passes an instrument through clean, exactly as played
Playaround passes the spotlight from player to player
A co-host link hands somebody the Backstage controls — they run cues and cameras with you, from a browser or the app, while your running order stays yours

The Guests page: a QR code and link for a guest, another for a co-host, a field for your own link address, and a box to name a guest and make their link

One press, and the night moves

The Runner is your running order, down the right-hand edge of the desk. An event is a thing that happens and a length — how long until the next one. Press play and it walks the list and stops at the end. The clever part is what you can put on one beat, and what you can bind that beat to.

The panel running a show of five scenes, with the Runner open down the right-hand side holding a chained sequence — Switch to the song, swap the background, throw the reaction, start the pad — four events, chained, so they land on one beat. A chain link means the next event runs with this one and ends with it.Ringed along the bottom: this show's scenes. The red one is on air, the one you are working on is lit its own way, and the keys beside them are what puts your scene on the stream — so looking is never the same press as taking.

The Runner: Switch Scene to scene 3, then Background Swap and Reaction, both with their chain links lit so they happen on the same beat — Switch to the song, swap the background, throw the reaction, start the pad — four events, chained, so they land on one beat. A chain link means the next event runs with this one and ends with it.Ringed along the bottom: this show's scenes. The red one is on air, the one you are working on is lit its own way, and the keys beside them are what puts your scene on the stream — so looking is never the same press as taking.

Put the whole moment on one beat

An event is one of seven things: switch a scene, switch the camera in a spot, throw a reaction, hide or show something, swap the background, solo a camera, or play a track, a backing track or a snip
Chain an event and the next one runs with it and ends with it — so a drop is one beat, not four presses
Every event has a length: how long the show waits before the next one
Leave an event out of the run and it keeps its place and its own key, for the thing you only fire when the room asks for it
The arrows move the playhead without firing anything, so you can park the Runner where you want it before the song starts
Shuffle scrambles the order for that run only — what you saved is untouched
The running order belongs to the show, so next week it is already there

And a scene switch is just another event

Any event can name the scene it happens in: the show goes there, then the thing happens. Leave it blank and it happens on whatever is live
So the Runner moves the night from scene to scene as it goes — and a scene switch on its own is simply an event with nothing else in it
By hand: press a scene to bring it up in front of you, and the key beside them puts it on the stream. What you are looking at and what the room is seeing are never the same press
One MIDI note can run all of it. In the app, Learn binds a MIDI note — or a key — to any control on the desk, the Runner’s play key and each single event’s key included. Bind one to a pad and the sequence goes from your instrument, with both hands still on it

Easy to run, the same every week, and yours

And one person runs all of it live, on their own — then does it again next week from the same running order. That is what the app is actually for: the power of a production team, on one screen, driven by somebody whose hands are on an instrument — a MIDI foot controller takes the show from one moment to the next — and talking to the chat the whole time, because the chat is on the same screen as the show.

Run it with your feet

Learn binds any control to whatever is under your hands or feet — a footswitch, a MIDI controller, a MIDI keyboard, or a key on the computer keyboard. Arm Learn, press the control on screen, then play the thing that should fire it (desktop app)
Or type the trigger in: note or CC, its number, and the MIDI channel — set up from the keyboard, with the pedal left where it is
We run our own shows from a MIDI foot controller, hands on the instrument
The show IS the running order — one press moves it to the next moment
Give an event a length, chain the next one to it, and a whole moment fires together
Build it before you go live; it is all still there when you open the show again
Duplicate a show for next week's episode, or duplicate a scene to make the next one
Cameras stay in the spots you put them in, scene by scene, across restarts
Chat is a strip on the same glass: read it, answer it, put a comment on the stage, pause somebody — all from where you are running the show
A private thread with your guests backstage, in the same place
Your phone is a remote for it (Premium)

Make Your Show

Arrange the stage with the cameras live in it, then Save As your own template
Every spot: size, rounded corners, border, shadow, tilt, opacity, stacking
556 cues, each with its own themes and colours to set
Your own backgrounds, your nameplate style, a look on each camera
Or write the look yourself: the last filter in the list is a file on your Mac, and the app rebuilds it a couple of seconds after you save. If it will not build, the camera keeps the last one that did and the reason is written down beside it — so a filter you are still working on cannot stop a show
Hide or show anything mid-show, and the layout stays exactly as you built it
Hand Backstage to a co-host and keep the running order to yourself

Every bit of gear, going where you want it

Plug it all in at once. The MIDI page sits under Audio and does two jobs: it shows you every message going in and out, and it sends any of them somewhere else. Nothing on the monitor sends, changes, holds back or swallows a message, so you can leave it open while you are on air. The app is what your gear is plugged into, so this page lives in the desktop app — in a browser you can open it and look round it.

The MIDI monitor: In, Out and Clock switches, a Source and a Channel chooser, Pause and Clear, a row of message kinds, and eight lines of traffic naming the gear, the channel, the note and the raw bytes, each with a Map key

Every line names the gear it came from, the channel, the kind of message and what it says — with the raw bytes beside it. Narrow it to one source, one channel or one kind; Pause holds the list still while you read it.
Clock has a switch of its own and starts off: twenty-four messages a beat would bury everything else.
Every line that arrived carries a Map key. One press and that message is already a rule, with the Map tab open on it.

The MIDI map: Add a rule and Learn above a table with columns for Source, Channel, Kind, Number, Send as channel, Send as number and Where it goes. Two rules from an Alesis Nitro on channel 10 — note 46 sent as 38 and kept here, note 42 sent out of IAC Driver Bus 1

The table runs top to bottom and the first rule that takes a message is the one that applies — so the order on the screen is the order it happens in, and you can read it.
A rule can change the channel, change the note or controller number, or both. Where it goes is either keep it here, or straight out of one of your MIDI outputs.
A drum module that sends the wrong notes is put right once and stays right: the pad arrives as 46 and leaves as 38, every time, without touching the module.
Learn builds a rule by ear. Press it, play the note you want to hear, then play the note that should play it.
And a control can be learned to the beat of the bar rather than to a note — the beat’s own word is ::pulse.

A scene for this, a scene for that

A scene is a whole arrangement of the stage — where the cameras go, what shape they are, what is behind them, and which cues are standing by. Make one for the opening, one for the interview, one for the song, one for the game. Press its key and the stage becomes that. What you are looking at goes on air when you take it, so you can build the next scene in front of the audience and reveal it when it is ready.

S Solo — one person fills the stageB Backstage — over the top of whatever is live1 Cold open2 The interview3 The song4 The gameP Playaround — the jam's turn card

Each scene keeps its own cameras — who sits where is remembered per scene, across restarts
Each keeps its own background, its own spot shapes, and its own cues standing by
Reorder them and the keys renumber; duplicate one to make the next
Save any arrangement as a template and use it in another scene, or another show
Hide a spot on one scene and every other scene keeps its own
Backstage and Solo sit OVER the live scene, so you can change everything underneath and drop them when you are ready

Your own app on the stage, run from the desk

Write a web app — a game, a map, a scoreboard, whatever your show needs — connect it once, and it has a seat in the show. Pick it on a cue and the cue asks the app what it can do, then draws its buttons for you. You press them. So does the room.

The desk with GalaxyOne in the stage spot — a ship crossing the galaxy, its position and speed read out over the stars — and the cue sheet on the right holding the app's own buttons: Go, Stop, Faster and Slower under the heading Move — **GalaxyOne** in the spot, flying. The cue asked the app what it answers to and drew exactly that: Go, **Stop**, **Faster** and **Slower**, under the heading the app itself calls Move.

The same desk with MyDeep in the stage spot — a drawn map of Europe with each country's armies and fleets on it, and the table talk beside it — and the cue sheet holding its buttons: Map, Orders, Results, Centres, Deadline and Words under the heading Board — Nothing changed on the desk but the app. **MyDeep** sent a different set — **Map**, **Orders**, **Results**, **Centres**, **Deadline** — under its own heading, Board, and a second group that zooms the map to one country.

The same desk with MyAdventure in the stage spot — a lit dungeon room, the party's health along the bottom and the story of the last turn beside it — and the cue sheet holding the numbers one to six under the heading Choose — And **MyAdventure**, where the room votes: the numbers 1 to 6 under Choose, and the four heroes under another. This adventure has been won, so the app is showing the end of it.

The app fills in its own buttons

The app names its buttons and the groups they sit in, and they arrive in the order it listed them — so the sheet is organised by the app, not by us.
Every button has a play key: press it and the word goes to the app now, as you.
Chat can type the same words. Six go to every app whatever it is — ::join, ::status, ::quit, ::help, ::tip and ::pulse, which is the beat of the bar.
A word is signed with every key the app could be holding, best first, so an app you connected twice still gets one it will accept.
Solo puts the app on its own scene while the show carries on underneath it.
Account → Connections lists every app you have connected, where its page is and when it connected.
The cue tells you whether its app is connected, and a word the app refuses says so where you can read it — not as a number.
Each connected app’s page address is a link, and it opens in a new tab, so you can go and look at the app itself.

And what it puts on screen is yours

The On screen part of the cue sheet: switches for Words on screen, Panels on screen and Discord QR, all on, with a Discord link and a label reading Play on Discord

Panels on screen, off, takes every panel of the app away and leaves its picture alone, full screen.
Words on screen, off, takes the app’s chat words off the stage for an audience who already knows them.
Discord QR puts your invite in the top right, with a label you write or leave blank. The app reports its own invite, so picking a different app changes the code.

From the app itself

Screenshots of a real show running: the things you will find here, the stage an audience sees, and the panel you run it from.

Three dice landed on green baize showing four, three and one, with the total eight under them — Dice thrown in from above the table and landing on the number, for an audience to watch.

One player filling the stage with the other two tilted into the corner, each with a white border and a shadow — Give one player the stage and tuck the others into a corner — border, shadow and tilt are yours to set.

A QR code on the stage captioned Scan to request a song, with a guitarist in the corner — Put a QR code on screen and the room sends its song requests straight to you.

The stage layout editor with three live camera spots and a poll, and controls for corners, border, shadow and rotation — Arrange the stage with the cameras live in it: move a spot, round it, border it, tilt it.

The music library listing songs, with tabs for beats, MIDI rolls, chords, lead sheets, fretboards and set lists — Your songs, beats, chord charts, lead sheets and set lists live right here in the show.

The audio page: each input assigned to channel A or B with its own level, pan and talkback — Two audio channels: send every input to A or B, each with its own level, pan and talkback.

The All cams row with its Filter chooser set to Your own filter, a tint swatch, an On key and dials reading 100% Amount and 1.0 times Speed, with the Background row under it — Forty-one looks come with it — and the last one in the list is a file on your own Mac. Save it and the app rebuilds it while the show runs.

Two ways to run it

The desktop app

macOS 26.5 or newer (Apple Silicon) · Windows 10 or newer

Go live and record
Cameras, guests and the stage
Both audio channels, looper and plugins
Virtual camera

In your browser

Any modern browser

Build and run your cues
Chat, polls and game shows
Guest invites
Viewer pages for OBS

Pick your seat

Both plans start with 14 days of Premium, free. You pay through Patreon.

Starving Artist

$2.99 a month

Up to 6 guests
Every animation and every cue
Playaround and the music tools
Both audio channels, looper and plugins
Record, virtual camera, go live

Your animations show MyStreamRunner.com.

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Premium

$12.99 a month

You keep MyStreamRunner going.

Everything in Starving Artist
Up to 9 guests
A co-host for your shows
Extra cameras, including your phone or tablet
The StreamRunner Remote phone app
Your stage, unbranded
25 AI animations a month

Request an invite

And you can earn it free. Every host gets a link to share. Someone signs up with it and you earn a free month — one for each of them, used automatically at your next payment — and they start with a full 14-day trial, double the usual. It is in your Settings the day you join.

What the same show costs elsewhere

Premium$12.99

Restream$19

Streamlabs$27

Ecamm Pro$40

StreamYard$44.99

Lowest paid plan with guests, monthly, checked 15 September 2026. MyStreamRunner streams to YouTube only for now.

Feature by feature

Feature	MyStreamRunner	StreamYardSY	RestreamRS	EcammEC	StreamlabsSL	OBS StudioOBS
🎸 Playing Together
Guests join from a link	6 · 9	6 free · 10	6 free · 10	Pro: 10	1 free · 11	—
Green Room before going on	✓	✓	—	—	—	—
Musician mode (instruments pass through clean)	Perform mode	✓	—	—	—	—
Talk to guests off air	Talkback	—	—	—	—	—
Turn-taking jamsOnly us	Playaround	—	—	—	—	—
Co-host invites	Link or email · Premium	—	Business	—	—	—
A co-host runs Backstage with youOnly us	Cues, cameras and chat; your running order stays yours	—	—	—	—	—
🎚️ Sound
Independent audio channels	2, own effects each	—	—	2 mics + guests	Mixer	Mixer
Loudness meters (LUFS, true peak)	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Plugins	Audio Unit	—	—	Audio Unit	VST2	VST2
Audio and MIDI looperOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Footswitch and MIDI control	Learn	—	—	—	—	—
A MIDI monitor you can leave open on air	In and out, by source, channel and kind	—	—	—	—	—
Redirect MIDI between your gearOnly us	A table of rules, first match wins	—	—	—	—	—
Learn a redirect by playing itOnly us	Play what you want to hear, then what should play it	—	—	—	—	—
Turn one line of traffic into a ruleOnly us	Map, on the line itself	—	—	—	—	—
Effects on every channel	De-noise, hum, cuts, comp, EQ, width, chorus, room, limiter	Basic	Basic	Some	Filters	Filters
GoniometerOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Snips — keep the last seconds onto a padOnly us	Sound or picture	—	—	—	—	—
Record while you stream	Pick A, B, guests or the output	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Sample pads and backing tracks	✓	—	—	Some	Sound deck	—
Ducking between channels	✓	—	—	—	—	Sidechain
Mix-minus to guests	✓	✓	✓	✓	—	—
One Mute for stream, recording and monitors	✓	—	—	—	—	—
🎼 Musician Tools
Chord charts and lyrics, transposeOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Lead sheets (Nashville numbers)Only us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Set listsOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Drum sequencerOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
MIDI piano rollOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
✨ Animated Content
Animated cues	556	Overlays	Overlays	Overlays	1000+ themes	Browser sources
Giveaways	86 themes	—	—	—	Cloudbot	—
Title cards	77 themes	—	—	—	—	—
Countdowns	64 themes	—	—	✓	—	—
Polls	55 themes	✓	—	—	✓	—
Game shows answered in chatOnly us	76 themes	—	—	—	—	—
Music quizOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Players send pictures from their phoneOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
A private word to one playerOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Members and patron walls	55 themes	—	—	—	—	—
Friend shoutouts	41 themes	—	—	—	—	—
Reactions	39 types	—	—	—	—	—
Transitions	32 themes	—	—	—	—	—
Be right back	16 themes	—	—	—	—	—
Poll duels — two sides battling as chat votesOnly us	36 arenas	—	—	—	—	—
Predictions	10 themes	—	—	—	—	—
Rankings and tier listsOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Program guide of what is on nextOnly us	YouTube thumbnails pulled in	—	—	—	—	—
Merch board that posts its links to chatOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Banner for a copyright or licence line	Three looks	—	—	—	—	—
A card telling the room what to typeOnly us	Read off the live cues	—	—	—	—	—
Your own web app in a spot, driven by chatOnly us	Signed webhooks	—	—	—	—	—
A connected app fills in its own buttonsOnly us	In the app’s own groups and order	—	—	—	—	—
Send one of the app’s words yourself, mid-showOnly us	A play key on every word	—	—	—	—	—
The app’s picture alone, full screenOnly us	Panels on screen, off	—	—	—	—	—
A Discord QR that follows the app you pickedOnly us	The app reports its own invite	—	—	—	—	—
An app on its own scene while the show runsOnly us	Solo	—	—	—	—	—
Learn a control to the beat of the barOnly us	∷pulse	—	—	—	—	—
Celebration effects	12 types	—	—	—	—	—
💬 Chat
YouTube, Twitch and Kick chat	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	—
Put a comment on screen	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	—
Pause a chatter	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Chat vibe levelOnly us	Chill · Cozy · Lively · Hype · Chaos	—	—	—	—	—
Approve what chat puts on the stageOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Mute voting, exempt mods and membersOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
🎬 Show Production
Running order, one key to advance	✓	—	—	Scenes	Scenes	Scenes
Backstage scene	✓	Backstage	—	—	—	—
Presentation slides	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Lower thirds and nameplates	✓	—	—	—	—	—
QR codes on screen	✓	—	QR codes	—	—	—
Write your own camera filter	A shader the app rebuilds as you save it	—	—	—	—	—
Keyframe animation editor with AI	✓	—	—	—	—	—
📡 Output
Stream to	YouTube	Many + multistream	30+ platforms	10 destinations	Multistream	Any RTMP
Go live on your own YouTube Studio stream key	Stream URL and key, kept on your Mac	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Move the stream to a new key without ending	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Reload mid-show and keep the show and its chatOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—
Record	✓	✓	Pro and up	✓	✓	✓
Virtual camera	Mac	—	—	Pro	✓	✓
Phone remote app	Premium	—	—	—	Mobile app	—
Runs on	Mac · Windows · browser	Browser	Browser	Mac	Windows · Mac	Windows · Mac · Linux
Bring your own streaming server	Guide + AI prompt	—	—	—	—	Self-hosted
Earn free months by sharing your linkOnly us	A month per sign-up	—	—	—	—	—
Point a show at your own addressOnly us	✓	—	—	—	—	—

Checked on each product's own pricing and feature pages on 15 September 2026. “—” means we didn't find it there.

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