The Stage Studio blog
Building a streaming studio for the Mac.
Engineering notes, product thinking, and honest guides to streaming from a Mac.
The best OBS alternatives for Mac in 2026
The best OBS alternatives for Mac in 2026 are Stage Studio for a native, efficient, keynote-grade studio with built-in multistreaming; Ecamm Live for polished…
How to stream to YouTube and LinkedIn at the same time on a Mac
Yes. You can stream to YouTube and LinkedIn at the same time from a Mac by multistreaming. You encode your video once and send that single stream to both…
Stage Studio vs OBS on Mac, an honest comparison
For most Mac users who want to start streaming quickly, Stage Studio is the easier, lighter pick. It's a native Swift/SwiftUI app built for Apple silicon, it…
How Stage Studio streams 1440p on less than one CPU core
Stage Studio stays light because it hands the expensive work to the right silicon. Compositing happens on the GPU, and the H.264 encode runs on Apple silicon's…
Why we built Stage Studio
I built Stage Studio because I wanted to livestream my coding sessions and have them look like a keynote, and every existing path to get there cost me either an…