Open Source Alternatives to Twitch

A video platform for live streaming that focuses on gaming, creative content, and music. The service allows content creators to broadcast live video to an audience, who can interact in real time via a chat interface. It is used by streamers to build communities and by viewers to discover live entertainment across various categories. The platform is deployed as a web application and mobile app.

Whether you want to cut software costs or escape vendor lock-in, these open source alternatives to Twitch give you an option you fully own. You can self-host them, so your data stays on infrastructure you control. This page lists 1 open source alternative to Twitch. The most popular is Owncast. It uses the MIT license and ships an official Docker image.