Obskura vs StreamRecorder.io
StreamRecorder.io hosts your recordings publicly and deletes them after 60 days. Obskura records to your PC and keeps everything forever.
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| StreamRecorder.io | Obskura | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | ~$9.99/mo (≈100 accounts) | $7.99/mo, or $4.99/mo on a locked OG seat |
| Recording capacity | Hard 100-account ceiling | No artificial cap, limited only by your hardware & connection |
| Where recordings live | Their cloud servers | Your PC |
| Public visibility | Recordings publicly browsable on their site | Private, never uploaded |
| Recording retention (Free) | 5 days, then deleted | Unlimited |
| Recording retention (Paid) | 60 days, then deleted | Unlimited |
| Max creators tracked (Free) | 3 | Unlimited |
| Max creators tracked (Paid) | 100 | Unlimited |
| Recording quality (Free) | 720p only | Source quality |
| Recording quality (Paid) | 1080p+ only if another premium user also records that streamer | Source quality, always |
| Account required | Yes, Google login pushed | No |
| Retroactive recordings | Free users: no. Paid users: yes | N/A. You record from day one |
| Payment record shows | "StreamRecorder.io" | "Obskura" |
| Platforms supported | 14 cloud-side | 10+ via local recording |
The 60-day problem
StreamRecorder.io's premium plan stores your recordings for 60 days. After that, they're deleted unless you manually download them. You're not paying to keep content. You're paying to delay deletion. Free users have it worse: 5 days, then gone. Obskura records directly to your hard drive when the stream is captured. Nothing expires, nothing to download before a deadline, nothing on someone else's server.
About that quality ladder
StreamRecorder.io's free tier records in 720p. Their premium tier is advertised at "up to 8K," but their own FAQ states that premium users only get 1080p+ if another premium user is also recording the same streamer. If you're the only premium user recording someone, you're still capped at 720p. With Obskura, every recording is captured at the source quality the platform broadcasts. No tiered quality, no shared-recording dependencies.
What "private" actually means
StreamRecorder.io's homepage features a live-updating feed of recordings their users have just captured: TikTok streams, Twitch streams, everything, publicly browsable in real time. Their FAQ claims the recording process is "completely confidential and untraceable," which is true at the streaming platform layer but not true on their own site. The recordings sit on public URLs. With Obskura, recordings are written to your local machine. There is no feed. There are no public URLs. Your recordings exist only on your drive.
When StreamRecorder.io is the better choice
StreamRecorder.io is the right tool if you don't have a computer that can stay online all day. Because it records server-side, it keeps capturing while your machine is off, a genuinely more passive, hands-off experience, and their cloud handles the proxy infrastructure for high-volume monitoring so you never touch it. It's also the better fit if you want a browser-based no-install experience, you're comfortable with public hosting, and 60-day retention works for you. Obskura is local-first: you trade always-on convenience for recordings you fully own, at source quality, that never expire and never sit on someone else's server.
Your recordings. Your drive. Forever.
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