We analyzed 381 negative reviews from the top 5 Live Streaming apps on the App Store. Here's what users hate most.
Ranked by frequency — how often each complaint appears in negative reviews.
35% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"There is always a chance that your stream will end randomly"
"it will randomly stop my stream due to a 'insufficient broadcast' or whatever it says"
28% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"When I try and do that, the app just crashes"
"it always starts acting up and begins to start giving me alerts on how screen recording failed"
22% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"In reality when I went to stream with a live audience it didn't stream to either platform"
"when I press go live it does not even go live from twitch let alone everything else"
18% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"after I purchased the ultra+ package now it won't work at all doesn't even start my lives"
"I paid 18.99 to have my streams on twitch to have themes…it doesn't even apply it. I paid for NOTHING!"
15% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"all of the widgets and adding to the stream DO NOT work on IOS"
"I've tried two days in a row to live stream and have my kick chat show up on the screen. No matter what I do the chat doesn't show up"
12% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"you can't see chat when screen sharing. I don't really have another device to my disposal to check chat"
"we can't even see the amount of people watching the stream let alone see if the"
Design and usability issues driving negative reviews.
Users consistently report being unable to end streams normally, forcing them to kill the app and manually end streams on desktop
"EVERY time I livestream, I can never end the YouTube session—it throws errors and I have to kill the app, then reopen Streamlabs and re-login to YouTube"
App forces users to enable camera even when they only want to do screen recording without facecam
"it forces me to constantly use my camera when I just wanna stream games, and when I go back to the app to stop the stream it records the camera"
Birthday input requires scrolling through each month individually in a calendar instead of using a date picker
"The way the have you enter your birthday is about the stupidest sht I've seen in a LONG time. I even made a video about it YouTube : yeah it's that STUPID. They give you a calendar you have to scroll through each month to reach your birthday"
Mobile app lacks the scene selection and customization options available on desktop
"The customization is very limited. I wish this app resembled the Desktop version in terms of scene selection and widgets"
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