About us

We built the thing we could not afford

Skynat Live started because a room full of capable people were being kept off the air by the price of equipment — not by a lack of skill, and not by a lack of anything to say.

The problem

Forty thousand rand to switch four cameras

A switcher, an encoder, a recorder and a handful of converters. Then a mixing desk for the audio. Then a computer for the graphics. Then, if you wanted replays or separate camera files, more boxes again.

Every one of those is a computer in a metal case doing one job. We could not see a reason they had to stay separate, or cost what they cost.

A traditional hardware production setup
What we did

Put all of it in one application

The switcher, the audio console, the colour suite, the graphics machine, the replay unit, the multitrack recorder and the caption service — built properly, not sketched in.

Then priced it as one payment, because a venue that could not afford the hardware cannot afford a subscription either.

The Skynat Live switcher
How we work

Three things we will not do

Charge you every month

You buy it once. Updates are included. If we ever build something so substantial it warrants its own price, it will be an optional thing you can ignore — not a wall across what you already own.

Hold features back for a higher tier

There is one version. The person running a wedding on a laptop gets the same grading suite and the same audio processing as the largest venue on our list.

Take your content anywhere

Your video, audio, recordings and settings stay on your machine. Nothing you produce passes through us. The software works with no internet connection at all, apart from the stream itself.

Where we are

Built in South Africa

Used by venues, event companies, broadcasters and people streaming from a spare room. If you want to talk to us, we answer our own email.

Contact us
Per year

Everything above, for $99 a year

Or $19 a month. Affordable, and everything is in it — every update in the year included, nothing renews on its own. Max, with the heavy GPU features, is $599 a year or $79 a month.

Windows 10 & 11 macOS — Apple Silicon macOS — Intel, back to 2013