How to use Stream-It

When the app opens for the first time it asks What do you want to do?

• Go live / produce: a production with cameras and graphics. Most people start here.
• Go live from this phone: just this phone's camera, straight to your platforms.
• Use this phone as a camera: send this phone's picture to the production phone.
• Control a production: a remote for the Windows production PC (coming soon).
• Just explore: look around a demo production with sample cameras.

You can change your choice any time. Next, log in:

1. Pick your country code and type your mobile number, then tap Continue.
2. In India (+91) we text you a 6-digit code. In other countries you log in with your password.
3. New here? Tap Create an account. Forgot your password? Reset it with a code.

Depending on your country and what is switched on, you may also see Use a login code (emailed to you), Continue with Google, or on iPhone Sign in with Apple. No Google button? It is not switched on for your phone yet: log in with your mobile number.

1. Shape: 16:9 for YouTube and Facebook; 9:16 for Instagram, Reels and Shorts; 1:1 square.
2. Starting style: how your overlays look, for example Cricket Basic (score bar and logo) or T20 Pro. Picking a style re-dresses your Screens.
3. Screens to start with: tick the ready-made Screens you want. Main is ticked for you; add Camera only, Split, Picture-in-picture, Starting soon, Be right back or Ended. Only the Screens you tick are added. At least one stays.

Need more later? In the control room, Screens → + New screen → Ready-made adds the ones you did not tick.

Tick the platforms for this production, or tap + Add platform: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram (vertical 9:16) or Other platform (any server with a stream link and key). This step is optional: Skip for now and add platforms later.

To connect YouTube: choose YouTube, then Use server URL and stream key. In YouTube Studio open Create → Go live → Stream, copy the Stream key and paste it into Stream-It, then tap Save platform. Sign in with Google is coming soon.

Stream keys stay only on your phone and are hidden unless you tap Show. Never share them. Streaming to your own channels is free.

Open Connect cameras in setup, or Manage cameras in the control room. Tap + Add camera:

• On this Wi-Fi: camera phones on the same Wi-Fi are listed. Tap one to add it.
• Scan QR: scan the QR code on the camera phone.
• Enter code: type the code shown on the camera phone. 6 digits = same Wi-Fi, no internet needed; ABC-123 = over the internet, from anywhere.
• Camera link: paste a link the camera phone shared with you.
• This phone's camera: the production phone's own front or back camera.
• USB / HDMI camera: a camera plugged into the phone's USB-C port.

The camera phone then taps Allow to finish. Each camera shows Connected (green) or Not connected (yellow). Swipe a camera to the left to remove it. Each camera can also have its own overlays.

Any spare Android phone or iPhone can be a camera. On the camera phone:

1. Open Stream-It and tap Phone as camera on Home (or Use this phone as a camera on the first screen).
2. Allow the camera, and the microphone and nearby devices when asked.
3. Pick what you are filming, a camera name (the producer sees it, e.g. Bowler End) and the video quality. Tap OPEN CAMERA.
4. Choose Same Wi-Fi or Over internet. The phone shows a QR code and a camera code.
5. On the production phone: + Add camera → Scan QR or Enter code.
6. On the camera phone, tap ALLOW when the request appears.

• Same Wi-Fi works without internet. If the Wi-Fi blocks phones from seeing each other (common on public and hotel Wi-Fi), use Over internet.
• Shared the code with the wrong person? Tap New code: the old one stops working.
• Keep the camera phone on charge for long matches; Stream-It warns you when its battery is low or it gets hot.

This is where you run the show. From the top:

• READY · NOT LIVE / ● LIVE and the time on air. GO LIVE, and while live PAUSE and STOP.
• The health bar (for example Needs attention): tap it, or swipe left from the right edge, for Status.
• Rotate turns the control room sideways; Menu has the production's other options.
• PROGRAM · WHAT VIEWERS SEE, with ● REC to record.
• PREVIEW · UP NEXT and TAKE LIVE.
• Transition: Cut, Fade or Logo wipe.
• Screens · tap to preview and the cameras.

The tabs at the bottom: Control, Screens, Overlays, Audio, Streams.

Switch what viewers see

1. Tap a Screen. It becomes NEXT in Preview; viewers see nothing new yet.
2. Tap TAKE LIVE. It goes on air with the transition you picked.

Prefer one tap? Turn Instant on: a tapped Screen goes on air at once.

Swap the Main camera with the camera buttons: every Screen that shows the Main camera follows, and the Screen stays the same.

A Screen is one ready look: cameras, overlays and its own sound. The Screens tab shows them all with ON AIR and NEXT.

• Tap a Screen to set it as Next, then TAKE LIVE.
• Tap Edit to change its cameras, overlays and sound.
• Tap + New screen to start from Blank, 1 camera, 2 cameras, Picture-in-picture, a Ready-made Screen you did not tick in setup (for example Ready-made · Ended), or From my Screens (a Screen you saved).
• In the editor you can rename a Screen, Set as next, duplicate or delete it, and set Then switch to: e.g. Starting soon switches to Main after one minute by itself.
• Save to my Screens keeps a Screen in your account for every production.

Open the Overlays tab, pick a Screen at the top, and tap + Add overlay:

• Camera · full or Camera · small (picture-in-picture).
• Browser link: paste the overlay link from your scoring or auction app (CrickHunt, CricHeroes, your own site). Pages with a transparent background sit on top of the camera and update live.
• Image (logo, poster), Video (intro, ad, loop), Sticker (SIX!, OUT!, SOLD!), Text.
• Logo slider: sponsor logos that change every few seconds. Ticker: scrolling lines of text.
• Use an existing overlay from another Screen, or one from My overlays.

The eye shows or hides an overlay; drag the rows to put one in front of another.

• Move: drag the overlay on the preview, or pick a quick spot (corners, edges, centre).
• Resize: drag one of the 8 yellow handles. An edge changes only that side (wider or taller); a corner changes both. Two fingers anywhere on the preview also resize it.
• The W/H lock keeps an image's shape. Text always resizes freely, so a text box can be made wider, taller or both.
• Small overlay hard to grab? Tap ⤢ Full preview: the picture fills the screen, with the same handles.
• Exact sizes: type the width and height in pixels under Size.

Text overlays

Type your text, then pick the font size (or Auto, which fills the box and shrinks to fit), the font (Condensed, Regular, Mono), Bold, Italic, CAPS, the colour and the background.

Go live

1. Check your platforms in the Streams tab. Each one says Ready and "Starts when you go live". Add or edit platforms here too.
2. Tap ● GO LIVE. A 3-2-1 countdown starts; tap anywhere to cancel it.
3. You are ● LIVE. One platform that fails never stops the others, and Stream-It reconnects by itself when the internet comes back.
4. Watch the platform cards under the top bar: they tell you when YouTube, Facebook or Instagram shows your live to viewers (see below).

Record

Tap ● REC to record what viewers see, live or not. On Android the recording is saved in Gallery › Movies › Stream-It; on iPhone in the Stream-It album in Photos. A recording cut off when the app closed is saved too.

Pause and stop

PAUSE holds the stream; STOP, then End stream, finishes it. The recording is saved, the cameras disconnect and the summary opens. Before going live, Back to setup is in the Status panel (swipe left) under Production; after a live, Close production is there too.

Only one camera? Go live from this phone on Home is the quickest way: no setup steps, no other phones.

1. Type a title, pick the shape (hold the phone sideways for 16:9, upright for 9:16 Reels and Shorts) and the quality, and tick where to stream.
2. Tap OPEN CAMERA.
3. Along the bottom: Flip (front / back camera), Mic, GO LIVE, Record and Overlays. Tap a Screen above them (Starting soon, Main, Be right back, Ended) to change what viewers see.
4. Need another app while live? Tap ⌄ at the top left: the live goes on in the mini window (see Leave the live screen).

Plan streams ahead, with or without a scoring app. Tap Schedule in the bottom bar, then + Schedule:

1. Type a name and pick what it is (cricket match, auction, event…).
2. Pick the day, the start time and about how long it runs.
3. Choose where to stream and your reminders, then tap Schedule stream.

Your streams are listed by Today, Tomorrow, This week and Later. When one starts soon, Home and Schedule show it with Set up cameras now ›, which opens setup with its details filled in.

• Light mode: a brighter look for daylight at the ground. Camera screens stay dark.
• Advanced mode: shows bitrate, encoder, network and protocols.
• Open on start, Switching (Preview then Take live, or one tap), Video quality, Smoothness (frames per second).
• Default mic, Reduce ground noise, network and recording defaults: each new production starts with them.
• Report a problem opens an email to us with your app version and a short log you can read first.

My account (the round button on Home): your name, number and email, change password, log out, My overlays and My Screens. To delete your account and data, see Delete your account.