How LiveReplays works
What actually happens between a creator going live and you watching the replay.
A DVR for streams you would otherwise miss
You tell us which creators to watch. We watch for them going live, record the stream while it runs, and keep the replay so you can open it whenever you want. Nothing is installed and your computer does not need to be on — the monitoring runs on our machines, not yours.
Step 1
You choose the creators
Add the creators you want followed — three on the free plan, fifty on Pro. Adding someone unlocks their most recent past replay along with every stream we record from that point on.
Step 2
We watch for them going live
There is no notification a service can subscribe to that says a creator just went live, so we check on a rotating cycle instead. Expect a few minutes between a stream starting and our capture beginning, and longer when many creators are being checked in the same round. When you add a creator we check them straight away instead of waiting for their turn in the cycle, so someone who is already mid-stream is picked up without a full cycle’s delay.
Because the check is periodic rather than instant, the opening of a broadcast is often not part of the file.
Step 3
We record the stream
Capture runs over MPEG-TS, a broadcast container built to survive packet loss, and is then remuxed to MP4 so it plays in a browser. Nothing is re-encoded at any stage: the video and audio the platform sends are copied through untouched, so we never add a second round of compression on top of theirs.
Corrupt packets are discarded rather than written into the file.
Step 4
You watch it, or keep it
Replays stream straight back in the browser. Free accounts get full, uncapped playback of the creators they follow. Pro accounts can download any recording as an MP4 — the only way to hold a copy that is entirely yours, on your own disk.
When a stream drops
Live streams are not reliable, and we would rather describe that accurately than promise perfection. If the connection to the platform blips, the recorder reconnects in place and keeps writing to the same file. If the recorder stops while the creator is still live, we notice on a ten-second cycle and start a fresh capture, closing whatever was already recorded as its own playable file first.
A restart like that costs the moments at the seam. We keep retrying while the creator is still live, and when a live leaves no replay at all we tell you it is unavailable rather than leaving you guessing.
What happens to a recording over time
There is no fixed retention period, and how long a recording lasts does not depend on your plan. Every recording is scored on peak viewers, length, age and file health, and the lowest-scoring ones are removed on a recurring cleanup cycle — when disk space runs short, the score needed to survive goes up. Pro accounts can save a recording, which exempts it from that cleanup.
Takedowns are the exception to all of it: a valid DMCA notice or a creator opt-out removes a recording whether or not it was saved.
Who can see what you record
Every recording sits behind sign-in, and none of it is search-indexed. Clips you cut are private by default — publishing one is a deliberate Pro action that mints an unguessable link, and switching it off stops new visits from resolving. Those share pages carry a no-index tag and never appear in our sitemap.
Free accounts see only the creators they follow. The platform-wide catalogue is a paid surface.
Start with three creators, free
No card, nothing to install. Add the creators you do not want to miss and let the monitoring run.