Streaming Buyer’s Guide

Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for live streaming and recording. It is powerful enough for just about any type of broadcast and can broadcast from webcams, attached USB cams and more.

It features and intuitive audio mixer and you can setup multiple streaming scenes to toggle between during your stream. The OBS community has also created various plugins that can be installed with some versions of OBS.

MimoLive is a great solution for Mac users looking for easy to use streaming software. This software works great with our streaming solution and provides great tools for green screen as well as other advanced streaming tools. MimoLive provides education specific pricing.

MimoLive makes it easy to create professional looking morning announcements, school events, and more. It is easy to learn and helps foster essential skills such as collaboration, problem solving, creativity, decision making and more.

This camera is small but packs a punch. This is our go to USB camera due to the quality and the built in Microphone. It comes with a clip that helps stabilize it a table, and can even clip on to a laptop. The picture quality is great at this price point and is a vast improvement on most built in web cams.

This is one of the best microphones you can buy. It has received numerous awards and is used by a number of the most popular streamers on the web. It is easy to use with streaming software like OBS. It works with Windows and Mac and the stand does a great job of position and many angles.

This is the little brother to the previous mic, but the quality is just a touch below the yeti. It includes a stand and also works with Windows or Mac. It is the best budget microphone.

In many situations you may need a lapel microphone instead of a desktop microphone. This items will fulfill that purpose, but the sound quality is not quite as clear as the options above. We would recommend a USB extension cable as well.

Are you looking for a wireless USB mic? This may be exactly what you are looking for. For the price, you are not going to find a better wireless option. You may need to get a USB extension cable to be able to position the dongle in a good location for maximum reception.

If you are looking to build a more professional setup, this is a nice audio board that you could use to connect a variety of audio inputs. This mixes those audio inputs and outputs them to USB which can work with most streaming software such as OBS. This packs a ton of features into a small form factor.

Although these devices are marketed for gamers, they are great to broadcast from any device that has an HDMI output. That would include many of the HDMI camcorders that you may already have. This hardware provides a way for your HDMI device to connect to your computer like a USB camera. It works with OBS as well as other streaming software.

Although these devices are marketed for gamers, they are great to broadcast from any device that has an HDMI output. That would include many of the HDMI camcorders that you may already have. This hardware provides a way for your HDMI device to connect to your computer like a USB camera. It works with OBS as well as other streaming software.

This specific model is for a desktop computer with an open PCIe slot.

This is an interesting system. This is a device that connects via bluetooth so should be used with something like our iOS app for broadcasting. This would allow you to have physical microphones that would be great for a special event.

Bluetooth headsets comes in many shapes and sizes. These types of headsets work great with our iOS streaming application to provide clear sound when the camera is not close to the presenter. This headset is light and is great to use when you don’t want others using your personal bluetooth headset.

This is a great item if you are looking to stream from an iPhone or an Android phone. This includes an adapter that can connect your phone to any tripod, as well as a small tripod to use on a small table.

The included tripod can even wrap around a pole or just about any surface. It is the perfect size to throw in your computer bag, and is great to hold your phone in a variety of situations.

If you are looking for an expensive tripod for your tablet, this has all the basic features you will need. It includes a carrying case and should hold your tablet snug for streaming.

This is a pretty unique item, but with some configuration can become an amazing tool. This works with OBS and provides you the ability to create button shortcuts for common tasks. Therefore if you are looking to switch cameras in OBS, and are not sitting by the machine you can setup a button shortcut for this task. With some configuration, this tool gives you most of the tools of a high end encoder which are dramatically more expensive.