What is a multistream?

Watching several Twitch streams at once is often called a multistream or multi-twitch. Viewers use it to follow a tournament from every player's point of view, keep an eye on friends streaming the same game, or watch a race from each runner's screen. Instead of one browser window per stream, all of them play side by side in one grid.

Tool description

Paste Twitch links into the box, one per line, and the streams appear in a grid under it. A channel link plays that channel's live stream, and a link to a past broadcast or upload plays that video. Plain channel names work too. The buttons under the grid play, pause or mute everything at once, and each stream keeps its own Twitch player controls, including quality and volume. Leave the columns on Auto or pick a number, drag the lines between streams to make the main one bigger, drag a stream's handle onto another stream to swap them, and drag the grid's bottom edge to make it taller or shorter. Full screen fills your whole screen with the grid.

Features

  • Live channels, past broadcasts and uploads in one grid
  • Play all, Pause all and Mute all buttons for every stream at once
  • Streams keep playing while you add, remove or swap links

Tips

  • Twitch sometimes refuses to start a stream from Play all, most often a small or hidden one. The note under the grid counts these streams. Click a stream to start it.
  • Clips aren't supported, because their player can't be played or paused from the page. Lines that aren't Twitch channel or video links are left out, and a note under the grid gives their line numbers.
  • A channel that isn't live shows Twitch's own offline screen in its place.
  • Swapping two streams also swaps their lines in the box, so the list always matches the grid.
  • Double-click a line between streams to make the columns or rows even again. Double-click the grid's bottom edge to bring back its starting height.
  • The lines and the bottom edge also move with the arrow keys. Press Tab until one is selected.