A remote guest studio built right into OBS Studio.
Guests join from a link. You produce the show from an OBS dock. OBS gets finished, branded video and audio, then streams and records it as usual.
Coming soonMost remote guest tools send your show through somebody else's servers. Studio Host runs on your own computer, as a native OBS plugin. Guests' audio and video go directly from their browser to you, peer to peer over WebRTC, and never pass through a middleman. You keep your OBS streaming and recording setup exactly as it is. Studio Host just adds the guests.
Guests join from any modern browser. They don't install anything or create an account. One invite link works for everyone. Each guest types their name and lands in a green room that checks their camera and microphone with a live level meter. The link refreshes itself after an hour by default, so a link that gets passed around stops working.
Guests wait backstage until you bring them on. You can hide a guest from the picture while keeping their voice in the show, or send them backstage with one click from the Studio Host dock. Only producers can put people on stage.
There are four layouts for guests only and four for showing content alongside your guests. Studio Host switches between them automatically and re-flows the picture as guests come and go. See Layouts below.
Feature a guest's shared screen, or any OBS source or scene: a display capture, a game capture, a media file or another camera. Your banners and logo stay on top.
Add name tags with an optional title line (like "Founder, Acme Co."), banners, a scrolling ticker, your logo, a custom background, overlays and video clips, all controlled live from the dock.
Each guest gets their own volume, mute and talkback controls, plus their own strip in the OBS mixer with a live meter. The fader and mute stay in sync with the dock. A mix-minus return feed lets every guest see and hear the actual show without hearing themselves.
You get the composited stage as one source, every guest as a separate source with an optional separate audio track, and the featured screen share at full frame. Built-in scenes (Studio, Guest Screen Share and one per guest) are created for you, and program audio sits in the OBS mixer.
Message any guest privately from the dock to cue them, give them a heads-up or sort out a problem without interrupting the show.
Paste in a Streamlabs, StreamElements or similar widget link for alerts, goal bars or event lists. Studio Host adds it as a Browser Source on your studio scene. You can show or hide it from the dock, and its sounds go through the OBS mixer.
Each guest's card shows their resolution and bitrate and flags a weak connection. You can cap what a guest sends, which is useful for anyone on a limited data plan. Each guest also gets their own copy of the show, adjusted to their connection, so one slow guest doesn't hold back the others, and caps keep the return feed from eating into the upload your live stream needs.
Save the stage as it is, including the layouts, who's on stage and in what order, the content, the banner and the ticker. Bring it all back with one click. Guests are remembered by name, so a preset still works after someone rejoins.
Count down for a set length of time or to a clock time, or count up, with an optional label. Pause it, add or take off minutes, and place it in any corner or along any edge.
Bring guests on or off stage, mute them, show the next banner, toggle the ticker, switch layouts, recall presets 1–9 and pause the timer, all from OBS hotkeys. A Stream Deck can press them with its Hotkey action.
Guests can blur their background, turning it on in the green room or in their settings. It runs in the guest's own browser and works best in Chrome or Edge.
Studio Host composes your show into a single 1920×1080 picture. Layouts come in two families: one for when only guests are on screen, and one for when you're showing content, such as a guest's screen share or an OBS source. You pick one layout from each family in the dock. Studio Host switches between them by itself, so the moment you show content the picture moves to your content layout, and the moment the content goes away it moves back. The layout currently in use is marked in the dock.
Guest Content
These layouts are used while no content is showing, and the guests fill the frame.
One guest fills the frame: whoever is first in the stage order. Everyone else on stage stays out of the picture, but their audio stays in the show.
Everyone on stage in a grid of widescreen tiles, sized as large as the frame allows. When a row isn't full, it's centered. This is the default.
The first guest in the stage order is shown large on the left, and everyone else is stacked in a column on the right. Ideal for a host with a panel of guests.
Two to four guests in equal, tall columns across the full height of the frame, like a head-to-head debate. With one guest, or five or more, it uses the Group grid instead.
These layouts are used while a screen share or OBS source is showing, with the guests arranged around it.
Guest 1 sits in the top-left corner, and the other guests stack down the right edge from the top, shrinking to fit when there are many. The content fills the middle, centered between the two sides, so it stays put as guests come and go. This is the default.
The content is shown large on the left, with the guests stacked in a single column on the right. It's a good fit for presentations and walkthroughs.
The content fills the entire frame, edge to edge, with the guests placed on top of it the same way as Guests on sides: guest 1 in the top-left corner and everyone else down the right edge. Ideal for gameplay and full-screen demos.
Just the content, with no guests in the picture, while their audio stays in the show. Studio Host also switches to this automatically when content is showing but no guests are visible. Picture-in-picture is the exception: it stays as it is.
Pick it from the Content picker in the dock, or with Show screen on a guest's card:
To go back to the guests-only layout, choose None. Studio Host also goes back on its own when the sharing guest stops their screen share.
A setup wizard walks you through getting guests connected. With Automatic setup, Studio Host:
The wizard shows each step as it finishes. If a step fails, it tells you why and how to fix it.
If you'd rather manage things yourself, Manual setup lets you use your own domain and certificates, choose your ports, set the guest limit and add your own STUN/TURN servers (such as coturn) for guests on strict networks.
Studio Host does one job well: bringing guests into your show. It doesn't stream, record, collect audience comments or run webinars. OBS and other tools already handle those, so Studio Host stays out of their way.
It runs on Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Ubuntu Linux with OBS Studio 31 or newer. Node.js is bundled, so there's nothing else to install.
Studio Host is in early development (v0.5). Check back here for the release.