Stage Studio

The Stage Studio blog

Building a streaming studio for the Mac.

Engineering notes, product thinking, and honest guides to streaming from a Mac.

Comparison · 30 June 2026

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 · 28 June 2026

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…

Comparison · 27 June 2026

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…

Engineering · 26 June 2026

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…

Dev blog · 24 June 2026

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…