Castdeck is one control panel and one set of OBS overlays for streamers who go live on several platforms at once. Go live, switch scenes, mute, and run your queue, chat votes, goals and breaks from one screen. The same overlays work on your wide OBS scenes, a vertical canvas and in TikTok LIVE Studio.
Windows 10 or 11. Free forever. Pro is one payment, no subscription. Version 0.1.0, an early release.
Use it on an iPad, a phone, a browser on the streaming PC, or as an OBS custom dock. Phones and tablets on your Wi-Fi log in with a passcode, with a lockout after wrong tries.
OBS browser sources for gameplay, just chatting, starting soon, be right back, ending and a celebration layer, in 1920 x 1080 and 1080 x 1920, plus pages for TikTok LIVE Studio's Link source.
A viewer queue with !request, chat votes with !rate 1-10 from every platform at once, lower thirds you write yourself, break and segment timers, and a chat box overlay.
A setup wizard walks you through OBS, scenes, chat and overlays. One-click OBS setup adds the overlay sources to your scenes for you. On the same PC, the OBS password is read for you.
Your name, colors, logo, texts, prices and scene names are all settings. Switch any module off and it disappears from the panel and the overlays.
No cloud account and no analytics. Overlays are served to your own PC only. A problem banner tells you in plain words when OBS or chat needs you, and your live state is backed up every 10 minutes.
There is one download. Free runs for as long as you like. A Pro key unlocks the Pro features in the same program.
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Control panel on iPad, phone, browser and OBS dock | Yes | Yes |
| Every overlay, wide and tall, and TikTok LIVE Studio Link pages | Yes | Yes |
| Queue, chat vote, lower thirds, break and segment timers | Yes | Yes |
| Built-in Twitch and YouTube chat, chat box overlay | Yes | Yes |
| One-click OBS setup, highlight markers for clips | Yes | Yes |
| Paid skips and random roll | No | Yes |
| Host scorecard and end of stream recap | No | Yes |
| Stream goal from tips, TikTok coins, Twitch bits and subs | No | Yes |
| Celebrations and follow and raid alertsTwitch follow alerts need Log in with Twitch. | No | Yes |
| Tips, gifts and subs counted in your currency | No | Yes |
| Chat points and leaderboard | No | Yes |
| Stream Deck, Touch Portal and Bitfocus Companion buttons | No | Yes |
| Discord member count and webhook posts | No | Yes |
| Built-in Kick and TikTok chatUnofficial. Kick is not working right now, TikTok is experimental. | No | Yes |
| TikTok LIVE Studio controlExperimental, off by default. Read the risk note first. | No | Yes |
| PCs | Any | 3 at once |
Optional and never automatic. Your key keeps working without it. If you renew after your updates ended, the new year starts on the day you renew.
Your key is shown on screen right after payment, with Copy and Save as a text file buttons. Save it. Keys are not sent by email; Stripe emails your payment receipt.
In Castdeck, open Settings > License, paste the key and press Activate. That needs the internet once.
The key page works for 30 days. After that, write to Joshua.amado@avalonpartner.com from the email you paid with and we send it again.
Payments are processed by Stripe. 14-day refund, no questions asked; a refund switches the key off. See the license agreement.
Castdeck 0.1.0 for Windows 10 or 11. Zip file, about 9 MB.
Castdeck-Setup-0.1.0.exe. It installs without admin rights.Windows SmartScreen may warn you. The installer is not code signed yet, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway.
Only do that for the file downloaded from this page. Code signing is planned.
No. You pay once. The price includes 12 months of updates. Nothing renews by itself.
Pro keeps working, forever, in every version released during your update year. Versions released after it ends run as Free until you renew updates for another 12 months for $15, which is optional. Settings > License always shows your updates date.
Up to 3 at the same time. To move Pro to another PC, press Deactivate under Settings > License on the old one. Phones and tablets that open the panel do not count, only the PCs that run Castdeck.
Only to activate your key once. After that the license is checked on your PC. Castdeck asks the license server for an update at most every 30 days, and if it cannot reach it, Pro stays on. Your platforms and chat need the internet as usual.
They are unofficial. Kick and TikTok do not offer a public chat feed for apps like this, so Castdeck reads Kick chat from the same feed the Kick website uses, and TikTok chat from TikTok LIVE Studio on your PC. Their terms may not allow it, and a change on their side can break it at any time. You use them at your own risk, after ticking the risk note. Right now built-in Kick chat is not working because Kick changed their feed, and TikTok chat is experimental and not tested on a real live stream yet. Kick and TikTok chat can also come in through Social Stream Ninja.
Plainly, there is a risk. TikTok does not offer a way for other apps to control LIVE Studio. The optional module presses LIVE Studio's own buttons from outside, through a debugging port on your PC. TikTok's terms do not allow automating their software, so TikTok could restrict your account or your LIVE access, and a LIVE Studio update can break the module at any time. That is why it is experimental, off by default, and only turns on after you tick that you read the risk note. Castdeck works fully without it. Showing Castdeck's overlays in LIVE Studio carries no such risk: that is a normal Link source, like any web page.
No. Twitch and YouTube chat are built in. Social Stream Ninja is a separate free app, not made by us and not bundled, for platforms Castdeck does not read itself. While a platform is connected in Castdeck, Social Stream Ninja's copy of it is ignored, so nothing counts twice.
The installer is not code signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen does not know it. Click More info, then Run anyway. Code signing is planned.
Castdeck is at version 0.1.0, an early release. The Free version is the same program, so try your own setup with it before you buy, and test before you go live.
Yes. Within 14 days of purchase, no questions asked. Write to Joshua.amado@avalonpartner.com from the email you paid with. A refund switches the key off.
Very little, and no analytics. The app only talks to us to activate, deactivate and refresh a Pro key, at most every 30 days. Free users who never enter a key never contact us. The privacy notice lists every connection.