--- title: "OBS Studio Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of OBS Studio. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if OBS Studio is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/obs-studio-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Screen Recording Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/screen-recording/) / [OBS Studio](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/obs-studio-profile/) / OBS Studio Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/obs-studio-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/obs-studio-profile/alternatives/) # OBS Studio User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 1,076 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.1/5 - Customer support: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 4.8/5 - Functionality: 4.6/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 767 reviews (71%) - 4 stars: 264 reviews (25%) - 3 stars: 35 reviews (3%) - 2 stars: 4 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 6 reviews (1%) ### Most mentioned pros - OBS Studio also provides good control over privacy and security because everything runs locally on your computer, giving users more confidence over their recordings. - The access to free tools that let anyone go live and stream to the biggest streaming platforms on the internet - A practical, easy to install solution with a lot of headache if you are not a nerd and want an easy plug and play solution to stream and record your videos. ### Most mentioned cons - It is a fight to configure the docks in the space you want them and many times the configuration is not supported so it wastes precious screen space. - It's concerning it's open source as well as all the plugins, which could easily lead to viruses being placed on devices by hackers. - Has a tough time handling inconsistent internet speeds, and can fail to recover a stream if the internet drops out for a second. ## OBS Studio customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 1,076 (page 1). ### A great tool for the starter streamer - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jeremy H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Entertainment - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I can quickly and easily make changes to my set up to adapt with whatever I may be wanting to stream that day #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The access to free tools that let anyone go live and stream to the biggest streaming platforms on the internet #### Cons The user interface feels like it can still be improved to make new users understand all the tools that are actually available --- ### The Best Screen Recording and Video Capture Software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Stanley M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered OBS Studio is by far the best screen recording software I have ever used. That in #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The output compression of files is amazing and happens almost instantaneously as you record. The final Output of a HD session is very small at 60fps and this is awesome. #### Cons Forward compatibility for plugins is a major drawback for OBS Studio and it's very irritating to be force to rollback to a previous version due to a failed plugin. #### Reasons for choosing OBS Studio OBS Studio is not resource intensive as compared to vMix and the price price. #### Reasons for switching to OBS Studio Price of the license was a bit high and final render took a lot of time to generate. --- ### Best Software App For Gameplay Streams - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Gift B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Music - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Very good experience, always my top choice for streaming purposes. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The most I like in the software is the ease of the interface and user-friendly features. It is very easy to learn and compared to other screen recording apps I used, it has more detailed features. I also like the shortcut keys for any commands I need while streaming. #### Cons The small fonts sometimes that I have to read and there must be a way to enlarge them but I haven't found out where. #### Reasons for switching to OBS Studio OBS Studio offers more and is more advanced. --- ### Best screen recorder and video editing software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Charles Boampong K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered As an open-source software that offers an extremely high screen recording and video recording for professional work, I will recommend OBS for everyone, especially new YouTubers, Facebook content managers, and other digital marketers. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It has a great configuration and advanced tools for video streaming, recording, and editing. #### Cons It can be a little complicated as a first-time user, but you soon discover that it's easy to use. #### Reasons for choosing OBS Studio A friend recommended OBS to me. #### Reasons for switching to OBS Studio I found it easier and much more convenient to use OBS. --- ### Best streaming software?! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Entertainment - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I've been using this program for years now for streaming, recording clips and podcasting and I can't find anything better! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love that it's easy to integrate the platforms I'm going to use to stream, it's easy to update stream information (stream information dock), it's really easy to record and use it as a studio software for podcasting, it seems pretty safe when it comes to security, it's pretty quick and reliable and allows me to add as many features to my scenes as I see fit. All of this for free! #### Cons Some of the features are pretty technical so some homework is needed to fully take advantage. It's not as intuitive and I don't remember it having like a tutorial run through of the program. --- ### OBS Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Void D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Graphic Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered OBS is generally a really great program. It has a little bit of a learning curve, but I think that is more than made up for with its robust set of features, being free and open source, and the massive amount of community made plugins #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros OBS is a great free, open source software that allows recording and streaming of video, as well as many community-made plugins to help improve experience and provide additional features #### Cons OBS pushes out extremely frequent updates. While this may seem helpful, it's annoying to have to constantly update the software. I'd rather have an auto-update feature or have updates be consolidated in to larger, less frequent ones --- ### Save yourself explaining things repeatedly! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Amber L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall for a free software I am really impressed. It is easy to use out of the box. I have recommended to several colleagues who have also enjoyed using it for tutorials and walkthrough videos. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is simple to record video SOPs to upload to our intranet and share with colleagues. This saves me a lot of time answering the same questions repeatedly. #### Cons It can be difficult to set the audio levels at first. I filmed some videos that were way too quiet (whilst using a headset microphone) and I had to refilm. --- ### OBS: Objectively, the Best Video Recording Software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Caleb D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience with OBS has been nothing but positive. It's free, open-source, easy to learn, and quick to use, and it produces high-quality video and audio recordings. I appreciate that it's so simple but allows you to customize the audio levels of different audio sources. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I use OBS to record video and audio from client calls. I prefer OBS to system-default recording methods because I can set OBS to record specific screens and audio sources. When multiple programs are contributing to recorded audio, I can use OBS to raise/lower the volume of audio pulled from certain programs. It's handy when multiple people are on a call and talking over one another; I can keep change their individual volumes without altering the volume of their voices in the recording. #### Cons There is very little that I don't like about OBS Studio. Sometimes I have to reset the folder that files are automatically saved to. It changes back to the default option more often than I'd like. --- ### Obviously a Big Solution - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Simone B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It has been a big help during the pandemic season when I discovered it and I started to do many useful things for my job by remotely on a streaming platform. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is free and this is a huge difference for people who wants to start their streamer experience #### Cons Only that maybe it can be easy to restart a streaming service without doing so many steps, maybe automatic when sometimes the network fails and then is reconnected after a second. --- ### Highly customisable, very well written screen recording software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: David B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have a very positive experience of OBS Studio. We use it to record tutorials, mainly, but I've occasionally tested its other functions. I've never known it to break, and I love that there are so many settings to customise. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Highly customisable screen recording software. It's possible to use as a web-cam for videoconferencing. #### Cons The interface is a little fiddly to get used to at first, but after a little practice, this isn't an issue. --- ### The Recorder and Broadcaster's Homeland: OBS Studio, the Free Resource - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Roya R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Entertainment - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered OBS Studio is the successor to the original Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) application, delivering a lot of serious Quality of Life benefits to the software and allowing for a more Professional Grade look while also not having nearly as many problems as the original OBS suffered from; while OBS Studio suffered in its earlier years because many of those who adopted to this from the original OBS were on noticeable lower end hardware (such as myself), the performance handicaps that it suffered from have only dissipated over time as computer hardware evolved and allowed for more accessibility; now plentiful games, applications, and videos that were attempted to be recorded and/or aired using the software five years ago are noticeably easier to run now and that is essential towards the future of its life going forward. In 2016, I personally used OBS Studio to get back into Live Broadcasting, with me even recording the first and only North American commentary of Star Cruiser (Sharp X68000) on the application in July of 2019, and with the improvements that have come as it evolved, I can easily recommend OBS Studio to anybody getting into any form of Yellow Collar work; it may require some messing around with the settings to optimize certain projects, but the end result will always pay off far better than anticipated, it's not often that one finds free resources such as this and OBS Studio will forever remain on your person if you need to record or go on the air without a hitch. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros ~ Virtually Lossless recording quality when capturing footage locally in any available framerate and resolution provided by the software. ~ Plentiful visual effects and the ability to layer multiple images and clips allows for a Broadcast Quality and Professional Grade template and appeal for any project or Live airing. ~ Customization of User Interface themes allows for proper Eye Care when in Dark Mode. ~ Users of the software who are running an Intel CPU that has QuickSync will see a reduced load on their Graphics Card by about 05% to help improve performance and stability in GPU~intensive workloads. #### Cons ~ RAM consumption is high and not meant for modern systems with 016 GB or less without the proper CPU and Graphics Card combo. ~ Users who have a CPU and Graphics Card with a low core/thread/pipeline count, frequency, and VRAM can expect noticeable framerate dips and massive performance instabilities, especially when using hardware that is running on older architectures. ~ Footage may occasionally get inexplicably cropped Horizontally when imported into Vegas Pro and other video editing software for Post~Production. ~ Not fully compatible with all forms of Video Capture devices, Webcams, and Professional Grade Cameras (though there are workarounds for some forms of hardware). #### Reasons for switching to OBS Studio As stated, I upgraded to OBS Studio from the original OBS, the latter of which was optimized better for lower end CPU/GPU/RAM combos while Studio handled the more Heavy Duty workloads on HEDT (High End Desktop) systems; while there are some production elements that make OBS Studio feel a bit more limited than Classic OBS (certain features in Classic OBS were not carried over to Studio), the upgrade to Studio was ultimately a mandatory situation, as the original was getting discontinued at a certain point and many users had to force themselves to get used to the new platform in a similar fashion to how many websites may change their layout and API every year or few. Overall though, the transition from Classic OBS to OBS Studio was a smooth one, though I am still critical of the fact that Studio lacks certain features and display mechanics that were done better in the original; in the event that these are ever brought back, then I will happily change my mindset on Studio as it is at the time of typing, both incarnations of the software are good in their own right and a Hybrid of the two would be an ideal change for the software going forward. --- ### OBS Studio Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. As a Graphics designer I have to create some content for my business, and Obs studio helps by screen recording. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - If you are looking for the best quality screen recorder software Obs studio is your answer.- High quality screen recording and it doesn't even crush your computer. #### Cons No complaints here, This software is the best and well designed/ made. #### Reasons for switching to OBS Studio Obs studio Is way more better than bandicoot in terms of performance and overall quality. --- ### Easy to use and get started - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tanner B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Online Media - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Simple to use out of the box with limitless customization. I’d recommend this to anyone looking to get started live-streaming or recording from their PC. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Open Broadcast Software is an out of the box, easy to use software to get started live-streaming to your desired platform. The vast amount of customization offers unlimited creativity and fun to add to your stream. #### Cons OBS offers what can seem overwhelming of an amount of features. I’ve been using this service for 5+ years and I still find something new every week. --- ### The best for both seasoned streamers and amateurs - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Cynthia B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Professional Training & Coaching - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered As mentioned above, I use it for both work and personal endeavors. I keep coming back to it and prefer it over other media management software. Until something better comes in the horizon (which hasn't been the case) I'll stick to it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This is great for personal media management or large broadcasts. The great stuff is personalization as it adjusts to the needs of every event or stream that you need to prepare, keeping the settings in a single machine. #### Cons It could be a bit more intuitive or implement some automatization. --- ### OBS Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Julian A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros What I liked most about OBS was that I was able to use the program to livestream events here and keep control of all of my cameras and microphones easily. #### Cons It is a bit too much going on the screen for people who are new to technology or have no experience with this type of software. --- ### obs:a powerful screen capturing tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Timothy N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Graphic Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overally i can say OBS Studio is a great application especially for my live streaming purposes both on facebook and youtube #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like OBS Studio because its quit easy to use and we normally use it for our church live streamings and vedio recording. #### Cons Recently i have seen that the latest version of OBS Studio does not accept the NDI plugins. #### Reasons for choosing OBS Studio i chose OBS because it quite easy to learn and use it than other products --- ### The Go To Solution for Millions of Streamers and Content Creators Everywhere - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: William B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I use the program often and am a huge fan. It's simple once you know what's going on. It makes video editing easy to a point as it is limited in some ways. As a screen recorder it is the perfect solution. As a streamer, it is the go to program that has incredible customisation options. I give this a overall 9. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love that I can stream to Facebook, Youtube or Twitch at any given time. I love that I can add overlays to make my video capturing look more appealing to the eye. The quality of audio and video is superb and you get multiple choices at bitrates and presets for recording and streaming reasons. I love how simple it is to setup and customise the program. I love that I can monitor everything that I'm recording from one program. This includes sound, Frame loss, CPU usage to name a few. #### Cons Its not beginner friendly and I did need to watch a few youtube videos to figure out what's going on. --- ### OBS Studio is the best Free Computer Screen Recording Software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. At first I could not understand the settings of OBS Studio, but after practicing it several times, doing live broadcasts, adding effects and adjusting settings each time, I was able to get an excellent experience from it, it is enough that it is free and offers very high quality sound and picture #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Yes, there are many programs that offer screen recording, but the problem is that some of them are free and paid and the free programs do not contain enough features to inspire you to use them, so I will shorten the topic for you and tell you about the wonderful OBS Studio program that contains features that I love and use a lot on my device and all of this Open source and free An easy-to-use and flexible program that offers you high-quality audio and video, and does not take up much space on the device as it is very light and does not pose any weight on weak devices, and supports live broadcasting on more than 20 different platforms, before saving the broadcast, you can also use various video editing tools to edit it. One of the features that I liked and used a lot is the feature of adding audio filters directly during broadcasting without the need to use external programs, in addition to the presence of many filters for image improvement, color correction, and others. #### Cons Sometimes while doing a live stream with OBS Studio, the stream gets stuck from minute to minute, after which it goes back to working fine There is also difficulty in the beginning to adjust the settings, but after practice you will get used to it --- ### Best streaming software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: David M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered All in all OBS is an exceptional software, very stable and I would easily recommend it to other users. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros OBS provides all the necessary tools for content creators such as being able to stream straight to the most common websites like Facebook and YouTube, it also provides editing tools so that even without third party softwares I can record and edit my video all inside OBS. #### Cons The only shortfall for me is that OBS can sometimes be CPU intensive and so I high earned laptop is recommend when using this software. --- ### OBS The Social Inclusion Tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: João d. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Entertainment - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall OBS is an excellent software for both recording and live broadcasting, besides being free it offers the best features available on the market, it is worth mentioning that the negative points are related to the difficulty that the software presents for certain settings and for the user who is starting, as well as the lack of a profile setting that saves the scenes and styles so that the user doesn't bother changing computers. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Excellent quality recording with a quick response to capture, making the transition smooth and sharp.The input and output audio quality settings are impeccable, bringing a better experience to live broadcasts. Excellent response on connections to other servers for live broadcasts.Excellent compatibility with third-party tools that integrate many new features into both recording and broadcasting.Easy to manage the location of the recording files, as well as the formats. #### Cons Difficulty to make some integration settings.Difficulty applying the configuration saved in the software when reset.Lack of an option to save all the integrations and scenes configured in the profile, so that regardless of the computer the user uses, the user always keeps the configuration saved. --- ### OBS is our go to tutorial maker - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, our experience of OBS has been fantastic, and I’d highly recommend this piece of software for any users that need something to make tutorials or just record what they are doing for future purposes #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Oh so I was just a quickly screen record it allows you to highlight the cursor which lets us highlight why uses which part of the screen we are working on and we use it for all of our tutorial making now it is an excellent #### Cons It can be quite tricky to set up if you are a new user, but once you’ve set it up a few times you will quickly get the hang of it --- ### OBS Studio Review as a Streamer and daily user - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: David Jonathan D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It is good, OBS made me a lot of money from using this platform to stream at Twitch #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I can use OBS Studio to record my content and stream my gaming #### Cons The latency or the lag of the server when it comes to streaming --- ### Why OBS Studio is the best - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tholang M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have had the best experience ever. Im not planning to change to another software anytime soon. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Some OBS tools can be used offline and free without any costs. The quality of their captures are the best. It is an all in one video capturing and live streaming software. #### Cons I dont remember it having a free trial for the premium version. --- ### Great streaming tool and simple interface - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Aniss L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall OBS Studio is a simple, very complete solution for content creators, it works with other tools as well such as stream elements and different social media platforms for streaming (Twitch, Facebook, Youtube). Really recommend it, I tried Streamlabs Obs thinking it is simple but OBS is less heavy on the CPU and GPU so I definitely recommend it if you want a smooth experience. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use, straight to the point, very powerful yet so simple that you don't think it is as powerful but once used, you can see the results and you are very happy on what you can do with it. #### Cons I would say the settings sometimes are not really easy, I had to go to youtube multiple times to set it up also the frame drops despite having a good connexion in both download speed and upload speed. Still, very good tool for streaming and for content creating. #### Reasons for choosing OBS Studio For how easy and less heavy it is on the computer performance #### Reasons for switching to OBS Studio SLOBS had a lot of themes for streaming but very heavy on the hard drive and CPU/GPU, so I chose OBS Studio and most of my problems disappeared. Really recommend it for streaming and recording. --- ### The Mount Rushmore of open source love streaming software. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jimmie G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Events Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Amazing. I still cannot believe that this SUITE of software is free and that there are so many people that contribute to it, and care for it with constant updates and improvements. If you have a question about OBS there are hundreds of videos and communities you can join. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's Free and ridiculously robust software. You can put up a great live stream with little understanding of all the tech under the hood. #### Cons OBS is Open Source software, as such, there will be bugs. It is not uncommon for functions to suddenly stop working. 99% of the time such problems are solved by quitting and restarting OBS. It's an occasional inconvenience well worth the price...which is FREE. #### Reasons for choosing OBS Studio It is free, robust, and offers pro-level live capture and screen recording capabilities. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/obs-studio-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- OBS Studio Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice