Aggressive Ultra upsell gating features streamers expect for free
Streamlabs has progressively moved features that were once free (or free in OBS) behind the $19/month Ultra paywall, including some multistream destinations and the Highlighter tool.
OBS-based desktop streaming software with a large creator tooling ecosystem
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Sourced from public platforms across US, UK, and global markets — each report links to the original source.
| Platform | Reports | Who's reporting |
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| 2 | US & global users |
Streamlabs has progressively moved features that were once free (or free in OBS) behind the $19/month Ultra paywall, including some multistream destinations and the Highlighter tool.
Multiple major rewrites have introduced performance regressions. The 2022 Electron-based rewrite was particularly criticized for CPU and memory usage compared to the previous version.