Frequently asked questions

Yes. Streamer Garden, including Garden Desktop, is free to use while the product and community grow. Download the app, bring your viewers, go live. There is no card or trial clock.

Just Garden Desktop, the stream studio for Apple Silicon Macs. OBS is built in, so there's no separate OBS install to wire up. Viewers, mods, and Stream Dock run on the web and need no download.

It's the app you stream from. You set up scenes and sources, add live widgets like polls and the hype meter, then go live or record. It's built on OBS and runs on Apple Silicon Macs.

Garden Desktop streams to Twitch and YouTube. For Kick and other sites, go through Restream. Native Streamer Garden stats, chat, and alert connections currently support Twitch and YouTube.

No. They scan the QR code on your stream and your viewer page opens in their phone's browser. Nothing to install, no account to make. They can vote, hype, ask, and draw right away.

From their phone's browser they can vote in polls, tap the shared hype meter, and send questions you can feature on screen. They can also draw doodles, which show up after you approve them, and play soundboard sounds. There are goal bars and a BRB arcade too.

No. Questions and doodles only show up after you approve them. You choose when voting and hype are open. If things get weird, the panic control pauses everything in one click.

It's a private phone controller for Garden Desktop. Sign in, scan the controller QR, and approve the device in Desktop before using its saved buttons.

Yes. Add a phone camera in Garden Desktop and scan the one-time pairing code with your phone. It shows up as a wireless camera in your scene. No extra capture software needed.

Yes. Garden Desktop can run a landscape and a portrait (9:16) output side by side, each with its own layout. Your vertical stream gets a real layout, not a squeezed 16:9 frame.