--- title: Lightstream Studio Reviews meta_title: 'Lightstream Studio Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 23 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Lightstream Studio works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 23 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-14' parent_category: name: Video url: https://www.g2.com/categories/video --- # Lightstream Studio Reviews **Vendor:** Lightstream Studio **Category:** [Live Stream Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/live-stream-software) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 23 ## About Lightstream Studio Lightstream allows you to start live streaming without the technical wizardry, downloads, or costly hardware! Start streaming from your console or computer with our cloud and browser-based software! ## Lightstream Studio Reviews ### 1. Easy to Use and Easy to Learn **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kellen L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** I was pretty green when I was getting into the world of streaming and making my channel my own. Lightstream was so simple to use and learn how to use, and their videos on how to help improve and make shortcuts were amazing. Not to mention when I did have an issue their customer service was so helpful and quick in helping me solve my problem or get things sorted out. **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** I constantly had connection issues and once I got my PS5 it was non existent and I had to unfortunately leave Lightstream. I wasn't able to get it connected and unfortunately we couldn't figure out why it wasn't working since I had a direct connection. There was always an error. **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped me not only learn how to use the software and figure out the direction that I wanted to go in, but making sure my stream looked great and ran really smoothly. ### 2. Everything you need in one **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adrian C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** The best thing about LightStream is it eliminates the need for a PC and another monitor. From my Xbox I can send the image directly to my LightStream account. **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** There truly is no down side to Light Stream. The mobile website is a little laggy but not too much. **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me for the fact I didn't have to buy a monitor or PC to run my feed to and then back to another program. It's an all in one. ### 3. Great for console streaming **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rodney J. | Content Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** I stream directly from console and lightstream has been the best that I've used so far. I love that I'm able to not only use overlays but I'm also able to use sound alerts and change scenes remotely. **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** I wish there was an app to control my stream from using the browser causes me to have to refresh from time to time **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's allowing me to add to the stream experience without needed a capture card and other things ### 4. Best place for streamers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacek B. | Boss, Computer Games, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** I love it that the use of Lightstream is so easy and it has so many options that everyone will find everything they need. It's almost intuitive and so easy to use **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** I didn't find anything i don't like but if i do i will let you know **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't have to use multiple programs or hardware to be able to stream from my console. All i need is in this one program and i love it ### 5. A fantastic tool for console streamers! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul P. | Sr. Front-End Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** Lightstream is what got me started into streaming. Along with my PS5 console I was able to change scenes, update my overlays, and engage with my budding community as I was just getting started. **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** I couldn't figure out a convenient way to do stinger transitions between scenes. Also occasionally I had a decent amount of lag on my streams, but some of that was probably my own bandwidth and problems my my ISP. **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** At the time I didn't have a capture card, and I was able to run a live stream from my console while incorporating overlays and camera input - all very seamlessly ### 6. Fantastic Streaming Service! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** Lightstream is very easy to use, especially for beginners. I appreciate the ease of integration with other services like Rainmaker.gg and others. 10/10 streaming service! **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** Lightstream being in a browser can be challenging if Google Chrome updates whenever it wants, as it will cut out stream and have you reset browser sources and audio capture. Turning off automatic updates fixes this issue! **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lightstream is a more accessible service than most other streaming platforms. Integration is simple, and going live is even easier. This is best for our stream as we have six different webcams up at once. ### 7. A great asset for console streaming **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** I never knew I would be able to stream through my console with the assets a great stream has. Thanks to Lightstream I was able to stream with ease and great additions to my stream such as graphics and alerts. **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** Lightstream is difficult to learn at first. There is not many instructions on their website. Their YouTube channel provides great tutorials though. **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lightstream allows me to stream with great quality, graphics and assets that allow my stream to be more interactive and engaging. It is easy to use once learned and allowed my channel to look top quality. ### 8. Console streaming **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lamar C. | Marketing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** I love how easy it is to stream from a console with the quality of the top steamers! **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** The only thing that was hard to use was integrating it with streaming to all platforms **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gave us an easy way to have a high quality video conferencing session that other software could not give us ### 9. Best console overlay with the best pricing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristopher W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** the affordable plans for twitch streamers to take advantage of it **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** Setting up for beginning start when you don't know how to use it **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** the issue with streaming to twitch and using overlays from my xbox ### 10. The best solution for Console streamers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shane B. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** This is the best tool to stream from your console and have all of the overlays without having to build a streaming pc with a capture card. The pricing is reasonable and they have plans for every level of streamer. **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** That this was not around when the PS4 launched. We have been streaming on Twitch for over 10 years and our primary community is PlayStation based. We would love the ability to control the system with Stream Decks. **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of our biggest wins by using the creator license is the ability to have multiple players feed their stream in so that we can mix and match the players on a single stream. **Official Response from Leah Koons:** > Thanks so much for the suggestion, we'll raise this with our team ASAP. Appreciate the support Shane! ### 11. Without Lightstream, All Hope Is LOST! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan F. | Streamer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** Ease of use and quality product! Without Lightstream Studio, my streams are disappointing. Now, with LS in my life I can produce quality content! Thank you so much for changing my life goals! **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** At times, I lose connection to server. The only thing that really bothers me about the software. During live streams I will lose connection to your servers. It's can't always be on my end. **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can't stream quality content from my Xbox or phone, without using Lightstream Studio! Without spending a ton of money I get superior results! **Official Response from Leah Koons:** > Thank you so much for the feedback Ryan! Next time you run into an issue, shoot our support staff a message, they would love to help!!! ### 12. Amazing service/product! Elevated my stream so much! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marie R. | Streamer m/content creator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** I love how easy it is to use and the functionality. It's very user friendly and really makes the streaming experience as a content creator smooth, easy and hassle free! **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** I don't dislike Anythibg about it. It's beena great service and the team at lightstream is great with customer service and helping with different issues one might have. **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lightstream has solved the issue of not having alerts and overlays on stream while console streaming. It has elevated the streaming game for many both on console amd doing **Official Response from Leah Koons:** > Thank you so much Marie!!! We're happy you've been loving it, please let us know if there is anything else we can do! ### 13. An amazing Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Flavio Emanuel C. | Testador de QA, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** The easy-to-use aspect of it an amazing software for all the streamers and content creators **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** as service for me works 100% so nothing i love every aspect of it and increased my streaming to 1000% **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** The fact that I don't have a powerful pc to work around to create my content and only streaming on Playstation 5 **Official Response from Leah Koons:** > We're super grateful for the review, thank you so much Flavio!!! ### 14. Excellent Creative Control for Creating Overlay Scenes for Streaming **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael J. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** One of the many benefits to using Lightstream Studio is the ability to create personalized overlay scenes for any customer that plans on having a professional streaming presence. Creative control is something that is very important in my industry. **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** One thing the application is lacking is the ability to package up a overlay scene that I've created and then be able to upload that overlay scene into another customers account. Currently we have to rebuild and start from scratch for each customer I setup overlay scenes for. **Recommendations to others considering Lightstream Studio:** This is a great application for setting up overlay scenes for streamers and podcasters! I highly recommend Lightstream Studio. **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to use Lightstream Studio to generate revenue in an area that I once never thought I would be able to manage. Now with all the tools and features that Lightstream offers, I'm able to offer graphic design services to streamers and podcasters! ### 15. Amazing experience! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dave B. | Head Football Coach, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** I have found the process of using Lighst **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** Lack of merchandise. I'd love to rep the brand on my podcasts. **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Podcasting ability! I'm able to produce and direct the podcasts I've dreamt about. **Official Response from Leah Koons:** > Love to hear it Dave!!! ### 16. User Friendly with awesome user interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayank M. | Marketing Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** The User interface is so good and easy to use for new users. Hassle free and fast streaming option . The option to control it remotely is awesome. And so much compatible with YouTube and Facebook. **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** Sound quality buffer . Sometimes the background is not properly blurred or can't detect motion in the video properly. With high FPS it lags a little bit. And sometimes gets disconnected from cloud server. **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using for streaming my gameplay of CS GO and PUBG and also to connect to my viewers better and the remote access gives me ability to use it in better ways to my viewers. ### 17. Great solution for streamers with low end pcs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick S. | SEO & ASO Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** I have a macbook that is not powerful enough to run a stream. Lightstream allows me to offload video encoding/browser source rendering so I can stream without the end result looking super choppy **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** COmpared to OBS, it's pretty limited. That being said, the ability to forward an RTMP source is really powerful and allows me to do most things I could only do with SLOBS/OBS **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** My computer just isn't meant for streaming anything. This is a low-cost solution that will hold me over until I can afford a better PC. My audience has commented on the improvement to my stream's quality. ### 18. Just amazing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitish k. | Senior System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** The Lightstream studio is totally amazing and User interface is so so good and very easy to use for any new users. Hassle free and fast streaming option is also available in Lightstream studio. **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** Sometimes sounds buffer for me. Some more features can be added **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped me alot in improving my gaming skills. Better visuals. **Official Response from Leah Koons:** > Glad to hear you're loving the product! ### 19. Great for a personalized stream **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Morgan T. | Assistant Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** Has tons of effects to choose from for an enhanced experience **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** A little confusing for the average user. Could be a little more streamlined **Recommendations to others considering Lightstream Studio:** Watch tutorials **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Taking my gaming to the next level. Great for going above and beyond. **Official Response from Leah Koons:** > Hey Morgan. Thanks for the review, and glad to hear you're liking the product. We now have a simpler workflow product called Studio 2 that you get access to with the Creator plan, check it out! ### 20. Lightstream **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** Having multiple people in my live streams. But that I can control the who when what where. I use the "green room" function as well. Overall it is well intergrated... **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** Nothing I can think of yet to be honest. **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting folks into my live video chats when I need them too without any extra hassle. ### 21. Very Easy To Work With **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan P. | Sales Associate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** I like that I was easily able to set up a stream and stream on twitch **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** I wish there was more customizable features on the software **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** No Problems, Benefits are that almost anyone can use the system to set up their first stream ### 22. Great product! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan Robert C. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** I really love how easy it is to stream and broadcast my content. Lightstream makes it effortless. **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** The interface can be a bit wonky, but once you get a hang of it it is second nature. **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being to easily stream my content to viewers. ### 23. Easy tools to go Live on Social Media without technical skills **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Lightstream Studio?** I'd like the possibility to go live with a professional branding layout without technical skills **What do you dislike about Lightstream Studio?** Sometimes the video stream quality go low although the speed connection is high **What problems is Lightstream Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helps me to go live on social media in a few minutes with a strong professional layout ## Lightstream Studio Discussions - [What is Lightstream Studio used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-lightstream-studio-used-for) - [View Lightstream Studio pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/lightstream-studio/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-17+03%3A43%3A25+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7d292a0d-6908-4196-8c27-ffedb0ee5423&secure%5Btoken%5D=29e55eb7d0390647385f6b2d5efe41a4bbd6b81baafe448b4475ed06517f5dfb&format=llm_user) ## Lightstream Studio Features **Software Options** - Social Media Stream - Multi-Platform Streaming - Embeddable **Audience Tools** - Live Chat **Agentic AI - Live Stream** - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning ## Top Lightstream Studio Alternatives - [Streamlabs](https://www.g2.com/products/streamlabs/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (57 reviews) - [StreamYard](https://www.g2.com/products/streamyard/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (289 reviews) - [Riverside](https://www.g2.com/products/riverside/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (1,721 reviews)