OBS Studio
Open sourceOBS Project
- Category
- Video
- Version
- 32.2.1
- Size
- ~152 MB
- Licence terms
- Open source (GPL) · free for personal and business use
- Supported OS
- Windows 11 · 10
- Install method
- Automatic install supported
- Developer
- OBS Project
- Downloads via this site
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What it is
The standard open-source tool for screen recording and live streaming. It composes several sources — screen, webcam, microphone, images — into scenes and either records them to a file or sends them to YouTube, Twitch or another service. Free for personal and commercial use with no watermark and no time limit.
When to pick this
For game recording, lecture capture or live streaming. For a quick clip with no setup, the Windows Game Bar (Win+G) is enough.
Details
Scenes and sources
Build layouts from screen captures, a webcam, images and text, and switch between them mid-recording.
Recording and streaming
Save to a local file or stream to YouTube, Twitch and others. Both can run at the same time.
Load on the PC
Recording while gaming uses CPU and GPU. Hardware encoding (NVENC, QuickSync) reduces the impact considerably.
Distribution
- winget ID
- OBSProject.OBSStudio
- Redistribution policy
- Open source licence
- Last checked
- 2026-09-09
- Official site
- https://obsproject.com/