# obsproject/obs-studio

> OBS Studio is free software for capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video. It is used by streamers, educators, and anyone who needs to record their screen or webcam.

- Magnitude: 3.6 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 78,025 total · +14 stars measured 2026-10-24, 07:31–08:55 UTC, ≈ 42 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: C · License: GPL-2.0 · Created: 2013-10-01 · Last push: 2026-10-23
- GitHub: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio · Homepage: https://obsproject.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/obsproject/obs-studio

## Useful for

- Start a live stream of gameplay to Twitch or YouTube
- Record the screen with a webcam to create a tutorial video
- Set up scenes and sources to switch between windows during a stream

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-24 (UTC), 07:31–08:55: 78011 → 78025 stars (+14). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +42 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Hacker News: “OBS Studio 33” — 113 points, 4 h ago.
- About 20 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 10,821
- Issues and pull requests: 13,465
- Watchers: 1,564
- Average over the last week: 53 per day
- Usual pace: 57 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 10
- Latest release: 33.0.0 (2026-10-23)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-25 … 2026-10-24: 36, 36, 56, 44, 46, 34, 38, 38, 44, 36, 59, 45, 50, 62, 58, 59, 72, 68, 76, 62, 72, 56, 58, 45, 50, 59, 60, 66, 51, 14

## Hacker News

- OBS Studio 33 — 113 points, 30 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218430

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

## Similar by description

1. **michaelshimeles/rec-rs** — 1.2 · Steady · Apps · Rust · +1 star measured 2026-10-24, 00:09–09:01 UTC, ≈ 2 by evening
   Fast macOS screen and camera recorder in Rust, an OBS alternative for recording YouTube videos. Captures screen, system audio, microphone and webcam into a single .mov or .mp4, with replay buffer and RTMP/WHIP streaming.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/michaelshimeles/rec-rs.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-24 09:04 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.