Alternatives to zap.stream
An open-source live streaming site built on Nostr, with Bitcoin Lightning payments to streamers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
zap.stream
An open-source live streaming site built on Nostr, with Bitcoin Lightning payments to streamers.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as zap.stream.
Owncast
Open-source software for running your own live video stream with built-in chat on your server.
Owncast runs live streams with built-in chat on your own server using standard streaming software, without Nostr identities or Lightning payments, and you pay bandwidth costs.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
PeerTube
Federated video platform that shares bandwidth peer to peer.
Damus
A Nostr social network client for iOS, Android and desktop that needs no email or phone number.
Primal
A social client for the Nostr protocol on the web and mobile, with a built-in wallet.
nostr-rs-relay
A self-hosted Nostr relay written in Rust that stores events in SQLite.
strfry
A self-hosted relay server for the Nostr protocol that stores and forwards events for clients.
