Live streaming apps let you communicate your live stream and tune into what others are communicating everywhere throughout the world. Nowadays, lots of companies — including the technology giants Facebook and Twitter, are putting resources into building up their live gushing stage. This is on account of live gushing stages can help individuals and brands associate with their companions or adherents continuously. Meerkat, a live streaming app, took the web by storm when it was launched back in 2015 but was shut down shortly after a year. This left a void in this segment, which, in turn, led to a heated competition in the mobile space for a live streaming platform. Hence, there are a lot of viable alternatives available today. Today, I’ll be doing a round-up of the 10 best live streaming apps for Android:

1. Periscope:

Periscope is Twitter’s interpretation of the live streaming platform. Periscope gives you a chance to communicate a video either to a particular gathering of individuals or openly. You can share the connection to communicate on Twitter, Facebook or other informal communities. It makes it super-simple to find drifting live streams by posting them out on a guide. It highlights live 360-degrees recordings, however the choice to stream 360-degrees video is accessible to “select accomplices” just starting at now. While you can’t make, and stream a 360-degree video at this moment, you can surely observe any of those on your telephone.

After the live stream ends, it lets you see the highlights of the live stream, so people who wasted out can easily catch-up. You can also see some other statistics such as live viewers, replay viewers, total time watched, etc. Finally, it also has a web-based interface you can access. Overall, Periscope is one of the best live streaming apps right now and if you are an avid Twitter user, you shouldn’t even give a second thought and download periscope right away.

Download: (Free)

2. Live.ly:

Launched in 2016, Live.ly is conveyed to you by the same guys behind the well-known Musical.ly application.. It lets you broadcast your life live, as it happens and lets you view live streams across the globe. While watching a live stream, it gives you a chance to send “loves” and join the discussion by distributing remarks. You can even send them “gift points “, which you can buy with real money.

It includes an everyday leaderboard that sorts the channels by the quantity of “loves” got or by the top contributors. You can peruse profiles, tail them and see the quantity of “emoji-love” got. It likewise interfaces with your Musical.ly record and demonstrates your Musical.ly posts on your profile page. You can find friends using their username or using your phone contacts. With everything taken into account, I observed the Live.ly people group to be fair and a practical approach to live stream from your Android gadget.

Download: (Free, with in-app purchases)

3. YouNow:

YouNow lets you broadcast your live video and discover live streams from all around the world. You can interact with broadcasters by liking and commenting on their live streams. It supports a few comments stickers because you know, a picture speaks a thousand words! Moreover, the app lets you share the broadcast to Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and Snapchat.

The explore area gives you a chance to find beat supporters, fans, minute producers in the group. Likewise, there’s a choice to add a hashtag to your communicate, in order to help individuals find it. You can likewise share specific minutes from a communicate to your profile. There’s even an online interface to give you a chance to observe live streams in the program when you don’t have a telephone lying adjacent..

Download: (Free, with in-app purchases)

4. Streamago:

Streamago gives you a chance to communicate live video either secretly to your Facebook companions or openly. While watching a live stream, it lets you most loved them, include a remark and send them virtual blessings utilizing, you know once more, genuine cash. The leaderboard include finds the most well-known and slanting communicates. You can share the live stream interface on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, and so on.

The replay feature comes in handy as it lets you replay a live stream after it has ended. You can also follow people so you do not miss out on their next broadcast. While you are broadcasting, you can select the broadcast quality to be low, medium or high.

Download: (Free, with in-app purchases)

5. Stream – Live Video Community:

Stream is yet another live video group which lays unique accentuation on client encounter. You can find slanting communicates, communicates with most likes or even better, browse hand-picked staff proposals. You can hit a discussion with any individual who tails you and import contacts from your Facebook or Twitter in the event that you like. You can like and remark on the live stream, and make a stride advance and give “Stream coins” to your most loved supporters. Another incredible component of Stream is that — other than individual video, it can likewise screencast your Android gadget and communicate from outside gadgets like GoPro 4+ and iVue Horizon master glasses.

As already mentioned, besides an awesome community, Stream lays special emphasis on user-experience. One fine example is a switch to toggle dark mode, so all your night owls out there can rejoice! The Stream is, undoubtedly, one of the best streaming apps available for Android right now.

Download: (Free, with in-app purchases)

6. Facebook Live:

Facebook had been testing Facebook Live in a separate app dubbed as “Mentions”, and after thorough testing, made it available to the “regular” Facebook app. Zuck says that it’s an entirely new way to communicate and while Facebook is certainly not the first in this field, unlike other apps, it has an important advantage of a massive user base.

Besides personal profiles, Facebook Live is also allowed for groups and events, so you can broadcast selectively to the public in a specific group. To start a live broadcast, open the Facebook app on Android/iOS and tap the place where you would write a status update. (It’s “What’s on your mind” usually, but may be different sometimes). Next, describe your live video and click on the “Go Live” option. Easy, right?

Download: (Free, with ads)

7. Instagram Live Stories:

Instagram launched the Live Stories feature in late 2016, but it was only this year that it saw a global roll-out. The Live Stories feature comes baked into the default Instagram app. To broadcast a live video, just swipe over to the right in Instagram and tap on “Live” option. If you don’t see it, you must update to the latest version. While watching a broadcast, you can like and comment on your friend’s live streams.When you start a live video, Instagram shows a notice to some of your groups. Others can see a “Live” tag on your Instagram story and watch the broadcast. You can share live videos for as long as one hour and they become unavailable as soon as the broadcast ends.

Download: (Free, with ads)

8. Hang w/:

Hang w/ is yet extra live streaming app for Android. The app interface is not the prettiest, but it comes with loads of features. It lets you broadcast privately or publicly. You can explore several categories like what’s hot, what’s most popular, music, sports, etc. There’s an option to send “digital tip” to your favourite broadcasters. Another great feature of Hang w/ is that it lets you create a “digital ticket”, wherein you set the price and time, then interested people can purchase this ticket and tune-in to your broadcast.

It is full of new features, but the reason why it wouldn’t be my first approval is this: the broadcast looks to be largely unmoderated. Upon first start-up, it showed me a dozen of NSFW videos and there wasn’t even a way to filter broadcasts. Also, the app seems to be having some server issues recently, but that’s nothing time cannot fix. So, if you’re going to use it at all, be mindful of it.

Download: (Free, with in-app purchases)