The Restream Alternative That Streams Landscape and Vertical at Once

Restream is a good relay, and its browser studio covers simple shows. Creators usually look elsewhere when the show itself gets more ambitious: more people on air, viewers calling in, a producer running the desk, or revenue that does not depend on platform ads.

• You want viewers to call in, with someone screening them before they reach the audience.
• You want a producer to manage guests privately while the host keeps talking.
• You want to sell tickets or paid fan access without adding a separate ticketing site.
• You want your vertical stream laid out for phones, not just a different crop of the landscape one.

ShowUs is better than Restream for multistreaming when the show needs production as well as distribution. Both send one show to many platforms. ShowUs adds a screened caller queue, private producer talkback, ticketing with a 95% revenue share, and separately laid-out landscape and vertical scenes in the same studio.

StreamYard is a browser studio for interviews with invited guests. Restream is a multistreaming relay with its own studio added. ShowUs is a browser studio built for shows where the audience takes part, with multistreaming in landscape and vertical built in. Choose by what your show needs most: easy interviews, the widest relay, or audience participation and paid access.

For a closer look at the first pair, see ShowUs vs StreamYard.

Every ShowUs scene has a landscape layout and a portrait layout built from the same cameras, guests, and graphics. When the producer presses TAKE, both outputs change together. You decide which output each destination gets, so YouTube and Twitch receive the 16:9 show while TikTok and Instagram receive the 9:16 one.

Because the vertical version is laid out rather than cropped, you can stack two guests, enlarge whoever is talking, and keep lower thirds readable on a phone. Both versions record in the cloud for clips and replays. Read more about multistreaming in landscape and vertical.

You can, but most shows do not need to. ShowUs already sends your show to every destination your plan allows, so a separate relay adds a second subscription and a second place for a stream key to go stale. The case for keeping both is narrow: a destination ShowUs does not support as a custom RTMP target, or a workflow your team has built around Restream's analytics.

The more common path runs the other way. Teams that produce in OBS and relay through Restream move the production into the ShowUs studio, keep OBS available through Self-stream mode for shows that need it, and drop the relay.

Restream prices mainly by the number of channels and the features unlocked at each tier, with a free plan to start. ShowUs prices by the size of the production: the number of shows each month, destinations, people live on screen, and team seats. Starter is $19.99 a month, Pro is $79.99 a month, and Enterprise is priced per seat. ShowUs also earns a 5% share of what you sell on the platform, so you keep 95% of ticket, Super Chat, tip, and merch revenue. Compare ShowUs plans.

Restream is the better pick if all you need is a relay: you already produce in OBS or vMix, you are happy with your setup, and you want the widest list of supported channels with a free plan to start. Its long history with chat and channel integrations is a real strength for streamers who only want distribution.

ShowUs is the better fit when the show needs production too: callers, a producer, graphics, tickets, and a vertical version that looks designed for phones.