Frequently Asked Questions.

It talks to OBS over OBS WebSocket v5 — the same official interface OBS exposes for external control. The connection runs entirely on your local machine (localhost), so there are no plugins to install and nothing routes through a server. The Auto-Hype Director uses that same local link to switch your scenes automatically when the stream peaks.

Yes. streamerOS is zero-cloud by architecture: there is no account and no backend. Your chat, audio and stream history are processed and stored on your own PC and never uploaded to us. The app only connects out for things you switch on — reading Twitch chat, your own YouTube channel stats if you add an API key, AI model downloads, Google Fonts in an overlay, a Discord webhook you set up, and opt-in update checks. The privacy policy lists every one.

Both. YouTube Live chat is read from the stream page open in your own browser, so there is no YouTube API key or Google sign-in to set up. Twitch chat is read through an anonymous, read-only connection. Very fast chats — 20 or more messages a second — can outrun the YouTube browser reader, so a few messages may be missed, though chat velocity and hype detection keep working.

streamerOS is built on Windows-specific pieces: it reads YouTube chat through Windows UI Automation, detects your foreground game with Win32 APIs, keeps API keys in Windows Credential Manager and captures audio through the Windows audio stack. Porting those is real work, so macOS and Linux are out of scope for the v1.0 release.

Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), with 16 GB of RAM and an 8-core CPU recommended, plus OBS Studio 28 or later. The local AI features — AI Sidekick, Sentiment Horizon and the Viral Engine — want an RTX 3060-class GPU and a free Ollama install; everything else runs without one.

Free for 7 days with every feature and no card. After that a licence is $29 once — not a subscription, no account, verified offline on your PC. Pre-register before the February 2027 launch and your trial is 3 months instead of 7 days. If you do not buy, your own data stays readable and a free tier keeps working: the dashboard, Clip Library, Chat Archive, your last stream’s report and 10 AI chat messages a day.

No. streamerOS runs on a Rust core profiled against a live 1080p60 game, where it holds a 1.8% CPU footprint. It is built to yield spare cycles to your game — your frames stay with the game, not the tooling. Heavier jobs you start yourself, like encoding a Short, are meant for after the stream.

It is a visual, node-based automation engine. You wire trigger nodes (chat velocity, Super Chats) through logic gates (AND / OR) into action nodes — switch an OBS scene, play a sound, change your overlay mood, mute an input, save a replay clip or post to Discord. When the live conditions you set are met, streamerOS fires the action.

No. The AI Sidekick, Sentiment Horizon and the Viral Engine run on Ollama on your own PC — no cloud model and no per-message cost. You download a model once; after that it works offline.

Yes. Sentiment Horizon’s local model is built to read Hinglish — Roman-script Hindi mixed with English — so “Bhai sahi hai” reads as positive and “Cringe yaar” as mildly negative. The AI Sidekick currently answers in English.

When you buy, you send the Installation ID shown in the app, and your key is made for that PC. It is verified offline, so there is no activation server, no login and nothing to renew.

No. Despite the name, streamerOS is an ordinary Windows desktop application that runs alongside OBS Studio on Windows 10 and 11. You do not install it instead of Windows and it does not replace or modify your operating system — the name describes the job it does for a stream, acting as the control layer over OBS, chat and clips.

No. streamerOS is proprietary software and the source code is not distributed, which the terms state plainly. It is built on open-source foundations — Rust, Tauri, OBS WebSocket v5, Ollama for local AI and an open speech-recognition model — but the app itself is closed. Since you cannot read the code, the trust page lists every claim we make with a way to verify it from outside the app.

Block it in Windows Defender Firewall and keep using it. Everything except the optional connections listed in the privacy policy keeps working, because there is no streamerOS server for it to reach. You can also watch its live connections in Resource Monitor under the Network tab. The full list of checks is on the trust page.

Yaseen Khatib, an independent developer, has been building it since May 2026. There is no public build yet — v1.0 launches in February 2027 — so any site offering a streamerOS installer today is not us. At launch the SHA-256 checksum of every installer will be published on the trust page so you can verify what you downloaded.

No. streamerOS at streamerosai.com is a Windows desktop app for Twitch and YouTube streamers, built by Yaseen Khatib, that automates OBS from live chat on your own PC. It is not affiliated with other projects or websites that use a similar name, such as the StreamerOS hackathon project on Devpost, streameros.com or getstreameros.com.

Reach out through the contact page and a human will answer. Bug reports are welcome — streamerOS runs entirely on your machine, so a description of what you were doing and your OBS version is usually enough to reproduce it.