How to IRL Stream on Kick or Twitch from Your Phone

What you need

• A phone and a streaming app. Moblin on iPhone or IRL Pro on Android. Both are free and support SRTLA bonding.
• Mobile data. An unlimited plan if you can get one. A second SIM or a hotspot lets you bond two connections.
• Power. Streaming drains a phone fast, so bring a power bank.
• Optional: a camera. A DJI Osmo Pocket or Action camera can send its picture through your phone. See our DJI with Moblin guide.
• Optional but recommended: a cloud OBS server, for overlays, alerts and a stream that survives signal drops.

Two ways to go live from your phone

1. Straight from the app to Kick or Twitch

Paste your Kick or Twitch stream key into the app and go live. It's the quickest way to start, but what viewers see is only what your phone sends: no full overlays or alerts, and when your signal drops, so does your stream.

2. Phone → cloud OBS server → Kick or Twitch

Your phone sends video to a cloud OBS server, and the server sends the finished stream to Kick, Twitch or both. The server adds your scenes, overlays, chat and alerts, and when your phone drops it keeps the stream live with a BRB scene until you're back. This is how most full-time IRL streamers set up.

Step by step with a cloud OBS server

1. Get a cloud OBS server

   Pick an IRLhosting plan. We set your server up for you, usually well within 24 hours.

2. Install Moblin or IRL Pro

   Moblin from the App Store on iPhone, or IRL Pro from Google Play on Android.

3. Connect the app to your server

   Use the one-tap import in your client area, make a setup QR code with the Moblin QR code generator, or follow our Moblin setup guide or IRL Pro setup guide to enter your SRTLA address.

4. Add your Kick or Twitch stream key

   On Kick, copy the stream URL and key from your creator dashboard settings. On Twitch, copy your primary stream key from Creator Dashboard → Settings → Stream. Paste them into your server's destinations in IRLstudio.

5. Set up your scenes

   Add your overlay, chat and alerts in IRLstudio's Overlay Maker. Your BRB scene already plays clips from your channel. Running your own OBS instead? The NOALBS config generator sets up automatic BRB switching, and the bitrate overlay puts your bitrate on stream.

6. Go live

   Start sending from the app, then press Go live in IRLstudio or IRLremote. Walk a test lap around the block before your first real stream.

Bitrate and data usage

Start at around 4–6 Mbps for 1080p and let the app lower it when your signal gets weak. Data use is roughly bitrate multiplied by time:

With SRTLA bonding the total is shared between your connections, but the overall amount is the same. Work out your exact numbers with the bitrate calculator and the data usage calculator.

Tips for staying live

• Bond two connections from different carriers, so a dead zone on one network is covered by the other.
• Keep the phone cool. Phones lower performance when they overheat, so keep yours out of direct sun.
• Let disconnect protection do its job. Don't restart the stream when you drop. The server keeps viewers on your BRB scene until you're back.
• Check the platform's rules for IRL streams in your area and category before you go out.