Your channel survives a dead zone

Every IRL streamer knows the moment: you walk into a tunnel, the bar hits zero, and the stream is simply over. Viewers leave, the VOD is cut in half, and getting people back costs you the rest of the night. This is the one problem a streaming app genuinely cannot solve on its own — so we solved it somewhere else.

Why an app alone cannot fix this

When the network is gone, nothing leaves your phone. Not your camera, not a be-right-back scene, not a single packet. Any feature that promises to show viewers a fallback card from the phone itself is promising something physically impossible. The handover has to happen on a machine that still has a connection — which is exactly what the cloud services charge $10 to $129 a month for.

What actually happens

Your stream goes to our relay, and the relay forwards it to Twitch, Kick or wherever you broadcast. The relay watches your feed continuously. If it stops arriving, it waits a few seconds — brief hiccups should not make viewers see a BRB flash — and then starts sending a be-right-back card in your stream's place. Your channel stays up. The moment your phone reconnects, it cuts straight back to your camera.

Turning it on

One switch in Settings, under Keep my channel alive. It reuses the stream keys you already entered, so there is nothing new to copy or paste. It needs OneTap Cloud as one of your destinations, because the relay can only take over for a stream that goes through it — if you send straight from the phone to Twitch, the relay never sees your feed.

About your stream keys

For the relay to keep broadcasting while your phone is offline, it has to hold your stream keys. This only happens if you turn the switch on — never by default. They are encrypted where they are stored, they are never sent back to any app or shown to anyone, and switching the feature off deletes them immediately rather than merely disabling them. If that trade is not one you want to make, leave it off; everything else in the app works exactly the same.

Honest about the limits

Each handover opens a fresh connection to your platform, which relies on the platform allowing a short gap before it ends the broadcast. We have tested this on our own channel, but platforms differ and change their behaviour without notice, so try it on a quiet stream before a big one. It also cannot help if the relay itself is what you lose — and it holds your channel open, which is not the same as capturing what you filmed while offline.