owncast
by owncast
Owncast is an open-source, self-hosted live streaming and chat server that allows users to control their content and streams independently.
Ready to useEstablished, openly licensed, and no red flags in its documentation.
- Stars
- 11.6k
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- A small server
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- Go
- Age
- 2346 days
What you can do with it
- Run your own live stream server
- Host your own chat for viewers
- Gain full control over your content
Could replace
- Livestream
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Ways a business could use it
- Reduce costs by self-hosting instead of using paid services
- Gain control over content and data
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Install prerequisites, clone the repository, and run the Go backend and React frontend.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Checked 26 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
