What do creators use to make podcasts?
Twitch is the most-adopted tool for this among creators we track, used by 13 creators (100% of its mentions organic over the past 90 days). This ranking counts real, receipt-backed creator usage — no editorial opinion, no paid placement.
Spans: 2 categories · ranked by active tracked creators
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- 1TwitchScreen Recording & Live Production
Live streaming platform with chat, subscriptions and tipping, strongest in gaming.
13 active creators · 139 mentions · 100% organic (past 90 days)
“I Stream on Twitch” — ThePrimeTimesource ↗
- 2RiversidePodcasting
Browser-based remote recording studio that captures local, uncompressed audio and up-to-4K video per participant, then uploads progressively. Includes AI transcription, clips and text-based editing; standard kit for remote podcasts and interview shows.
8 active creators · 46 mentions · 41% organic (past 90 days) · Free tier; paid from ~$15/month
“Edit your videos with Riverside (use code jadebeason for 15% off!)” — Jade Beasonsource ↗
- 3OBS StudioScreen Recording & Live Production
Free, open-source software for video recording and live streaming on Windows, macOS and Linux. Scene composition, sources, filters and plugins make it the default streaming tool for gaming, education and creator broadcasts.
7 active creators · 23 mentions · 100% organic (past 90 days) · Free and open source (GPL)
“I’m giving AI the job of building my OBS Studio setup, from adding my camera and microphone to creating scenes,” — Justin Brown - Primal Videosource ↗
- 4LoomScreen Recording & Live Production
Async video messaging: record screen, camera and mic in one click, get an instantly shareable link with viewer insights, transcripts and AI summaries. Acquired by Atlassian in 2023; standard for async team communication and quick tutorials.
6 active creators · 6 mentions · 100% organic (past 90 days) · Free up to 25 videos; Business from ~$15/user/month
- 5Ecamm LivePodcasting
Mac-native live streaming and video production studio: scenes, overlays, multi-camera switching, guest interviews and local recording. Used for live shows, video podcasts and webinars without a hardware switcher.
1 active creators · 1 mentions · 100% organic (past 90 days) · From ~$20/month after free trial
FAQ
- What tool do most creators use to start a podcast?
- Twitch is the most-adopted tool for this job among the creators we track: 13 tracked creators have an active usage record for it. 100% of its classified mentions are organic, meaning no sponsorship signal was found in them (mentions we cannot classify are excluded from that ratio). Adoption counts, not editorial opinion, order this list, and the receipts behind it are linked above.
- What is the runner-up to Twitch, and when is it the better choice?
- Riverside ranks second with 8 active creators, against 13 for Twitch. The honest differentiation our data supports: Riverside sits in Podcasting, Twitch in Screen Recording & Live Production, so choose by which part of the job you actually spend time in. Pricing: Free tier; paid from ~$15/month. Where a creator has explained the choice on the record, the quote appears in the list above with a source link.
- How is this ranking decided?
- By counting creators, not opinions. Every mention we ingest carries a receipt: a source link, a timestamp or position, a verbatim quote of at most 120 characters, and a sponsorship classification (organic, sponsored or ambiguous). The list orders tools by how many tracked creators actively use each one; organic mentions weigh four times more than sponsored ones in scoring. Affiliate links on this page have no path into that computation. Full detail is on the methodology page.
- How fresh is this data?
- The scores behind this ranking are snapshotted weekly, and the data behind the current list was computed on 24 Oct 2026, the same date the stamp at the bottom of this page shows. After a recompute, the page refreshes within roughly ten to twenty minutes (two stacked 600-second caches). Recency also shapes the ranking itself: mention weight decays with a 14-day half-life, so current usage counts more than last year's.
- Are these affiliate recommendations?
- No. Some links on this page, marked with an arrow, are affiliate links, and if you buy through them we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That revenue has no path into the ranking: positions, trending scores and sponsorship labels are computed exclusively from creator-mention data. The full disclosure, in FTC wording and the German paragraph 5a UWG wording, sits on this page above the list.
- Where do these creator mentions come from?
- From public content by the creators we track: YouTube videos, podcast episodes, X posts and newsletters. When a tracked creator mentions a tool there, we ingest the mention together with its receipt: a source link, a timestamp or position, a quote of at most 120 characters, and a sponsorship classification. Rankings are computed exclusively from that mention data; money never changes them.