Vidyst vs OBS Studio
Invite guests with a link. Stream to many platforms at once. Go out wide and vertical together. No plugins needed.
Free for 14 days, no card needed. For Macs with Apple silicon.
Vidyst is a Mac app where streaming, recording, guests, chat and vertical output work together out of the box. You get OBS-level output without the plugin and setup work.
Podcasters, interview and live-coding shows, tutorial and music streamers.
Guests wait in a lobby, chat with you backstage, and each one arrives as their own source.
OBSNo remote-guest feature. Capture Zoom or Discord, or add a VDO.Ninja source.
Go out to 2 or 7 platforms, wide and vertical, from one take.
OBSBoth need third-party plugins. Twitch Dual Format setups use one too.
One merged feed with filters, paid-message highlights, pinning and on-screen chat.
OBSTwitch and YouTube chat docks only.
Guests on speakers or open mics don’t loop back into the show.
OBSNone built in. You rely on macOS Voice Isolation.
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Everything works together from the first launch, so your first show takes minutes instead of hours.
Guided setup checks your permissions and devices, and 15+ ready-made layouts are one click away.
Each guest arrives separately and records to its own track, ready to edit into a podcast.
If your Mac restarts mid-show, your recording is already saved. No setting to find.
A Stream Deck plugin you install from Settings, and credentials kept in your Keychain.
No plugins to track down, match versions for, or fix after an update.
With Vidyst it’s one app and one plan. The same show in OBS means three or more tools to set up and keep updated.
Plus echo control through macOS Voice Isolation, set in Control Center.
Common questions from people who stream with OBS today.
Not natively. You need a third-party plugin such as Multiple RTMP or Aitum Multistream. Vidyst streams to 2 places on Basic and 7 on Creator, built in.
Not built in. Most people capture a Zoom or Discord call, or add a VDO.Ninja browser source. In Vidyst, guests join from a browser link and each one arrives as their own audio source.
Only with the Aitum Vertical plugin. Vidyst sends both formats from one take, built in.
OBS plus a multistream plugin, a vertical plugin and a guest tool is three or more tools to set up and keep updated. Vidyst Basic is $10 a month with all of that built in, and you can try it free for 14 days.
No. Multistreaming, wide and vertical output, browser-link guests, merged chat and echo cancellation are all built in.
Any Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) running macOS 14.2 or later.
Bring a guest, go out to two platforms, and get a vertical version from the same take. Then decide.
Free for 14 days, no card needed. Apple silicon, macOS 14.2 or later.
