mimoLive vs OpenBroadcaster
mimoLive
mimolive.comOpenBroadcaster
openbroadcaster.comSide by side
| Figure | mimoLive | OpenBroadcaster |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $70/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 0 |
| Spec score · Live TV streaming services | 9.4 (#1) | 7.5 (#117) |
| Spec score · Live Streaming Software | 9.4 (#1) | 7.4 (#117) |
| Spec score · Live streaming software | 9.4 (#1) | 7.4 (#114) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Headquarters | Germering, Germany | Tagish, Yukon, Canada |
| Integrations | The maker lists destinations including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, LinkedIn, Zoom, RTMP services, and others on its homepage. | The FAQ describes support for Icecast and Shoutcast streaming, YouTube and Twitch video streams, and Barix receivers for alert audio streams. |
| Intended users | The maker describes use by educators, event producers, community broadcasters, creators, corporate media teams, studios, and broadcasters. | The company says its solutions are for individuals, small-to-medium-sized businesses, and communities distributing media over air or the internet. |
| Security | The maker warns that the HTTP API is not well protected and advises against exposing it directly to the public internet. | OpenBroadcaster says remote access uses certificate-based security and that it provides basic security updates for the product’s life, approximately three or more years. |
| Self-hosting | The application runs locally on the licensed Mac and is not offered as open-source or as a separately deployable server product. | The company describes a self-hosted platform and says television automation can run in-house, in virtual machines, or in the cloud. |
| Streaming integrations | Native or RTMP workflows cover YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Periscope, Twitter, BoxCast, Screen9, Smashcast, Restream and custom RTMP servers. | The streaming page names YouTube, Roku, Twitch, Livestream, Icecast, and SHOUTcast among its platform or service integrations. |
| Support | The pricing page lists community support for Free, professional support for Studio, and priority support for Broadcast. | The support page lists manuals, free training outlines, webinars, and assistance by phone, email, or live chat. |
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In their own words
mimoLive
mimoLive is a live video production application built around a many-in, many-out engine. It combines switching, graphics, DVR playback, ISO recording, streaming, transcoding, scaling, keying, multiview, and audio and video routing. Its graphics engine uses customizable layers that can be rearranged and saved as sets and variants. The software can stream and record to separate destinations and record independent tracks from input sources. It supports real-time chroma keying for green, blue, or other backgrounds, and multistreaming to as many as six destinations. Listed destinations include YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, LinkedIn, Zoom, and RTMP services. Zoom participants can be sources, and mimoLive output can be sent to Zoom through a virtual camera. NDI input, output, and source conversion are also supported. Version 6.18 requires an Intel or Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 13.0 or higher; it is not a browser-based studio. The Free plan costs nothing and includes the full feature set, with a watermark.
OpenBroadcaster
OpenBroadcaster has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.