LiveCatch for Windows
Version · released · free plan included, no sign-up.
Get the app
A zip folder – unzip anywhere (Desktop, Documents, a second drive) and run LiveCatch.exe. Nothing is installed system-wide; delete the folder to uninstall.
By downloading you agree to the terms of use.
- System
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
- Size
- about 90 MB unzipped (includes the recording engine)
- Internet
- Needed while recording; a 1080p stream uses ~2–3 GB per hour of disk
- Account
- None. Pro users enter a licence key inside the app
- Privacy
- No telemetry. See privacy
macOS – coming soon
LiveCatch is Windows-only today. A native Mac version (Apple silicon and Intel) is in the works, with the same free plan and the same Pro licence – buy once, use on either. Want to know the day it ships?
Windows says "Windows protected your PC"?
That's SmartScreen warning about a new, not-yet-common program – it appears for most small independent apps until Microsoft has seen enough installs. Click More info, then Run anyway. You only see it once. If your antivirus quarantines the file, restore it and add the LiveCatch folder to its exclusions.
First run
- Unzip the folder and open
LiveCatch.exe. - Paste a live link (or a channel link) and click Add & Watch.
- Recordings land in
Videos\LiveCatch– change it with the Change button.
get_tools.bat in the app folder. It refreshes the recording engine in seconds, no reinstall.What's new
- 2.2 – Real 4K on YouTube lives, resolution shown on every finished recording, TikTok reliability fixes, recording/newest-first queue.
- 2.1 – Free plan, Pro licences, TikTok LIVE direct engine, channel watching, Twitch full-VOD backfill.
- 2.0 – Twitch, Kick, TikTok and Facebook support; quality picker; wait-for-live on every platform.
- 1.0 – YouTube live recording with scheduled-stream waiting.