Starts within seconds
Monitors check TikTok every 60 to 90 seconds. When a creator goes live, recording starts straight away and runs until the broadcast ends, then a new one starts if they go live again.
New in v1.15 Search a live's chat, and every stream you recorded, ranked
Record TikTok Lives automatically, to your own drive.
Add a creator once. StreamStash watches for them to go live, starts recording within seconds, and saves the MP4 on your Windows machine. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is shared, and the free tier never expires.
2 live monitors free · Saves locally · No TikTok login needed
StreamStash · Live monitors
Live monitors
Checked every 60 to 90 seconds.
@creatorLive for 1h 12m · 4,318 watching
Recording @nightstreamsLast live yesterday · 2h 41m saved
Watching @battle.queenLast live 3 days ago · 6 recordings
Watching Why this exists
A TikTok Live is gone the moment it ends.
TikTok has no save button for lives and most creators never post a replay. Screen recorders need you at the keyboard, and browser-tab recorders miss the start. StreamStash is a monitor that runs in the background and records the whole thing while you do something else.
Best available stream, local MP4
StreamStash records the best stream TikTok serves for that broadcast, typically 720p or 1080p, and saves an MP4 to your drive. NVENC, QSV or AMF compression, on by default and switchable off, keeps big archives small without pegging your CPU.
Your library never leaves your machine
No TikTok login is needed to record public lives, so nothing is liked, followed or viewed on your account. Recordings are files in a folder you own, not entries in someone else's public archive.
How it works
Add, forget, replay.
Install StreamStash Free
Run the Windows installer and open Live monitors. Free includes two monitors with no card, no account and no expiry.
Add a creator
Type a username, or click the Add from Browser bookmark on their TikTok profile. StreamStash starts watching immediately and, on Personal and above, can ping Discord when they go live.
Replay in the built-in player
Every recording lands in the library with a thumbnail and duration, plus peak viewers when events are captured on Power. Trim it, crop a battle, or export a clip.
Power tier · Live events
Recordings that play back the way the live looked.
Gift alerts, the big animations, hearts and the battle score bar are drawn on your screen by TikTok; they are not part of the video, so an ordinary recording keeps the camera and loses everything else. StreamStash captures those events while the stream is live and draws them back over the recording in time.
Chat replay Power
The live chat scrolls alongside the recording exactly as it happened, with gifts in line, so a reaction makes sense because you can see what it was reacting to.
Gifts and top gifters Power
Every gift plays back with its artwork, sender and coin value. A ranked list shows who spent the most on the stream, and can sit over the video as it stood at that moment.
Battle scores Power
Both creators named, running scores, the split between them and the win, lose or draw animation when it closes. Crop a 1v1 back to full size without re-encoding.
Auto-clip highlights Power
When a recording ends, StreamStash scores the chat and gift activity and cuts the busiest moments into clips automatically, so a four-hour stream comes with its highlights already cut.
Export burned in Power
Write the overlay into a copy of the recording so it plays the same on a phone, in an editor or wherever you send it, with the live chat in a panel beside the video if you want it. Works with a trim and never touches the original.
Stream summary
Duration and like count on every recording. With events captured on Power: peak viewers, total comments, gifts, diamonds spent, new followers and an estimate of what the stream earned the creator.
Laptop, or at work?
StreamStash Cloud records while your PC is off.
The desktop app records from your machine, so it has to be on. If that is not an option, StreamStash Cloud watches the same creators from hosted servers, records their lives, and keeps them for 30 days for you to pull down into your local library. From £8 a month, cancel any time.
Free vs Power
Start with two monitors. Upgrade when the archive matters.
Free is for a couple of creators
- 2 TikTok live monitors, recorded automatically
- Best-available-stream MP4 with hardware compression
- Built-in player, library, thumbnails and stream summary
- Also records Twitch streams, and Quick Download for TikTok, YouTube, X, Twitch and Reddit
- No card, no account, no expiry
Power is for the whole roster
- Unlimited live monitors and feeds, every supported platform including Kick
- Chat, gifts, battle scores and top gifters replayed over the recording
- Auto-clipped highlights and burned-in export
- Discord notifications when a creator goes live (Personal and above)
- AI search across your saved media, cross-platform dedup, same-day updates
FAQ
Questions before you download.
Yes. StreamStash Free includes two live monitors with no expiry, no card and no account. Personal (£20 one-time) raises that to five and Power (£40 one-time) removes the limit and adds chat and gift capture, auto-clipping and the live overlay.
Monitors check TikTok every 60 to 90 seconds. When a creator goes live the recording starts within seconds of detection. You will typically miss under a minute at the start, never the middle or end.
The best stream TikTok serves for that broadcast, usually 720p or 1080p depending on the creator's setup. TikTok does not serve 4K lives, whatever a recorder's marketing says. Optional hardware compression reduces file size without a CPU-heavy re-encode.
No. Public lives are recorded without signing in, so nothing is liked, followed or viewed on your account. Age-restricted lives need a signed-in session, which you provide by signing in to tiktok.com in Firefox.
Yes, on Power. Chat, gift and battle events are captured while the stream is live and drawn back over the recording in time. They have to be captured live, so they appear on recordings made with capture switched on. TikTok chat capture runs through a signing service with a daily allowance: 100 connections a day, or 2,500 with a free Euler Stream key added in Settings.
For the desktop app, yes. It records from your machine to your drive and runs happily in the system tray. If you cannot keep a PC on, StreamStash Cloud records from hosted servers and you pull the files down later.
On your Windows machine, in the recordings folder you choose, organised by creator. Nothing is uploaded to StreamStash and nothing is published to a shared or public archive. Multi-drive libraries spill over to the next drive when one fills.
Never miss a live again.
Two monitors free, forever. Add a creator and let StreamStash do the waiting.
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