Should YOU Use Streamlabs Or OBS? (Best Streaming Software, Alerts, And More)

if you ask me what streaming software you should use to go live 3 years ago I probably would have said streamlabs without a doubt it is straightforward and the easiest to get set up with and go live but then 2 years ago I probably would have said OBS because it works for stream elements and it's just overall better and now in 2024 if you ask me again well so much has changed there are so many options for streaming software alerts platforms and they all do very different things today I want to break down four years worth of streaming and content creation experience to cover the major streaming software their Pros cons are they good for beginners will other streamers bully you for using them do they make your game lag can they make you grow faster what alert platforms go well with them what drama have the brands gotten into and of course which is the absolute best for you to use and I don't think there is a simple answer anymore all of that and more is coming up but first thank you to 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don't even know that OBS or open broadcasting software is the standard for recording and streaming from your desktop and because it's open source software it means anyone can use it study it change it and distribute the software and it source code this is meant to help encourage industry growth and Innovation which OBS has absolutely done streaming would not be where it is today without OBS and their team but this also means streamlabs who were originally an alerts and label platform were able to take the source code for OBS and use it as their bones and then they built a skin around it and not just the skin but they also built teeth hair sweaty feet in the form of a alert widgets their chat boxes and a lot of other features they've built on top that is why it's called streamlabs OBS or why it used to be called streamlabs OBS before the drama which I will cover the drama soon cuz I think it's important you understand it but first what are the pros and cons of streamlabs who should use it and why streamlabs OBS has added a lot of features over the years and weirdly also removed a lot of features that OBS built in for some reason and I'll cover those soon in short it does almost everything OBS does but it also has built in the alerts widgets the chat widgets the stream label widgets and have taken all those things who used to need other software for and integrated it into just the one tool this was great for beginners as well and they've been very focused on helping beginners which is why they also added the overlay tool essentially a designer like myself or owned create overlays and they set them up in streamlabs and Export them out as overlays this means anyone can download that dot overlay and install it with literally one click which is kind of amazing whereas OBS requires you to set it up manually piece by piece they've also added an amazing tool called selective recording meaning when I'm live I can say hey record my stream for editing later but don't record my alerts that pop up on screen meaning I'll just have my gameplay and my webcam which is much better for editing but it's not all good news all these features are great for beginners yes which means mostly beginners use the software and that means they can't fix the issues it has for example streamlabs just being open uses on average a minimum of 8% more CPU than OBS this is before you even try stream or record it's just so bloed already 8% sounds small until you click go live or until you realize that the beginners who use it don't have be PCS not to mention it's incredibly buggy these days with constant glitches alerts lagging their Widget theme resetting and so many other things it's such a shame because often new streamers come to our Discord for help and our group of professional twitch partners and streamers who volunteer to help these beginners will spend ages trying to and sadly because streamlabs is just so strangely unstable the solution often tends to be hey can you try this out in OBS and does the problem still exist and well they usually always say no OBS works perfectly and then we just link them the videos that I've made on OBS and they're set up and streaming perfectly in seconds and this of course isn't even mentioning all the drama which again when streamlabs asked OBS if they could use OBS in their name the OBS team asked politely not to and then uh they did it anyway or another example is when they paid for ads to appear above the original OBS project website to intercept new people looking for OBS or when they stole an entire website and product word for word of light stream or taking free tools that people can use and locking them behind a pay wall to make new creators subscribe to their premium version version because they don't know that these tools exist for free already genuinely it hurts to see how it's all gone down because I know several of the streamlabs team and I've worked with them in the past even been sponsored by them in the past but that doesn't mean you the user shouldn't know all the facts which is why you should also know the OBS devs have sort of forgiven them in short a few days after the biggest parts of this drama came out OBS quietly added Logitech as a member of their highest tier sponsor which if you don't know Logitech owns streamlabs and for some reason nobody really talked about that so maybe we should just move on and talk about OBS instead look this is the OG this does everything you will need and anything it doesn't do there is a plugin for it that can be installed with one click these days it will be as resource intensive on your PC as you make it in the settings it's not bloated it's easy to use and it has the most passionate community of content creators and developers working to make it the best tool for every streamer out there OBS will always work better than streamlabs of course if you set it up right the only major drawback is that to a beginner it is very daunting to open OBS there is there's no quick installs as I said so it has to be done manually but I would argue this means that you get more experience as a Creator there has no alerts chat labels or other widgets built in so you'll need third party software which I will cover soon but as we've seen this also could be a probe because if they'd integrated all those things it could have cause the software to become unfocused and Bloated and because you'll need an alert platform let's get into that as well first up streamlabs yes it is an alert platform but they've also made it so that a lot of their alerts and widgets barely function unless streamlabs is also open and you're streaming from it it's also quite glitchy and the way they have the setup and customization is quite archaic and behind the times there's no visual scene or alert editor which should be industry standard but hey at least it works with YouTube and twitch stream elements is next and this truly is the go-to for many streamers it works with YouTube and twitch and it uses a visual scene editor approach to let you customize alerts chat stream labels and everything else visually making it easier for beginners it isn't resource intensive and it does a great job slotting directly into OBS but be aware if you use stream elements they will will spam you with to be honest predatory payper performance sponsorships these will come through constantly and if you accept them well it means you're going to spend a lot of time advertising a brand that will likely not pay you at the end because you didn't reach their performance goal next is Twitch alerts while they lack chat widgets stream labels and all the other bells and whistles that these other tools have I love them they are built directly into twitch so they don't work with YouTube obviously but the amount of customization and generally cool you can do with them is next level finally stream Abbot this is the comp Lex bastard child of some Geniuses and it has to be the all-time greatest tool for streamers you can create not just alerts but make it so viewers donations Channel points bits Subs follows whatever it is can trigger all sorts of things from changing your lights behind you turning on sources in OBS playing songs literally anything you can think of streamer bot can pretty much do it it's just also very confusing to look at when you start but it's worth it because it has to be the all-time deepest platform and finally before I tell you the best software and the combo you should be using I should say own Pro who yes sponsor to this video is an alert system it's a scene editor it's everything I mentioned in the ad read so I won't go over it again I just think it's important to mention it is an option so which should you use well I have a dirty little secret about this entire debate these days if I were to start again from scratch I would like to be told to go with OBS and twitch alerts personally or if I was on YouTube OBS and stream elements now I mentioned a dirty little secret well let me tell you something that I wish people would say more often in this industry whichever you choose to use doesn't matter if your stream does everything you want it to that's all that matters at the end of the day the two programs are practically identical and a viewer can't tell you're using one or the other in film making we used to say it doesn't matter how you get the shot it doesn't matter what camera you use it only matters what's in the frame because that's what makes the viewer feel if your stream is high quality if it's clear you sound good and does everything you want it to for your audience then use whatever the hell you want stop the idiotic debating and if you want to learn how to use OBS click here if you want to learn twitch alerts click here if you want to become a member to support the content for just $1 click here or or here I'll put I'll put on one side I really appreciate it I'll see you guys next week

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Length: 8min 34sec (514 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 07 2024