Castio.live

Castio.live is a WordPress streaming and chat tool for running live or recorded video from a site’s own server. It is described as free and unlimited, with no external services, and it supports unlimited viewers, chats, and storage on the host server. The page also describes it as suitable for WordPress sites, memberships, pages, and themes.

The product includes browser-based streaming from Chrome, Edge, or Android Chrome, and it uses HLS streaming rather than WebRTC. It offers built-in real-time chat, message moderation for premium users, password protection, Stripe Checkout paywalls, automatic VOD replays, and recording that saves files locally under wp-content/uploads/castio/. It also supports logged-in access, auto-generated viewer pages with permalink support, and low-latency streaming. Access can be free or premium, and the page lists use cases such as live events, concerts, conferences, webinars, launches, tutorials, courses, workshops, coding or gaming sessions, adult streaming, fitness and coaching, and company town halls.

Castio.live is available as a WordPress plugin that can be installed and managed from the WordPress admin, and it is also offered as a standalone PHP/MySQL streaming app that runs on the user’s own server. The page says it is built into WordPress, uses admin-only endpoints with capability checks and nonces, and includes upload restrictions for security. It also notes that the standalone app does not require WordPress.