How to go live from an iPhone or Android phone without an app

What you need

• A phone with a current browser: Safari on iPhone (iOS 11 or later), or Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Brave on Android.
• A working camera and microphone, and your permission for the browser to use them.
• A reasonably stable connection, on Wi-Fi or mobile data.
• You must be at least 18 years old. The first time you broadcast, you confirm this and accept the Terms of Service.

Step by step

1. 1

   Find the QR code or the phone button

   On a computer or tablet, open LiveSnap.tv and scan the QR code next to “Start your broadcast” with your phone’s normal camera app. If you are already on your phone, tap “Broadcast from this phone” instead.

2. 2

   Open the link in your browser

   Tap the link that appears. It opens in your regular browser, with no app store page in between. Check that the address starts with livesnap.tv.

3. 3

   Allow the camera and microphone

   Your browser asks for permission once. Tap Allow. Without it, a web page cannot see or hear anything.

4. 4

   Take the stage

   Tap the button to take the stage. If the stage is free you go live straight away; otherwise you join the queue and wait your turn.

5. 5

   End the broadcast

   Tap the red button to stop. The connection closes and the camera is released. You can also simply close the page.

What happens once you are on the stage

LiveSnap.tv has one shared stage. At any moment exactly one person is broadcasting, and everyone visiting the home page sees that picture. Every broadcast gets a visible sequential number. Under the Terms of Service, a broadcaster without an account has 60 seconds of guaranteed airtime and a registered broadcaster has 600 seconds (10 minutes). After the guaranteed time the broadcast continues until someone else claims the stage.

Viewers do not need an account. They can watch, react, and report a broadcast that breaks the rules. Only logged-in users can post in the chat.

If the camera does not start

• Permission was denied. Open the site settings in your browser, allow Camera and Microphone for livesnap.tv, then reload the page. On iPhone, also check the Safari settings.
• The link opened inside another app. Some in-app browsers block the camera. Use the menu to open the page in Safari or Chrome.
• Another app is using the camera. Close video-call apps and try again.
• The picture freezes when you switch apps. Many phones pause camera capture for pages in the background. Keep the page open and the screen on while you broadcast.
• The picture is poor. Video quality follows your network. Move closer to the router or switch from mobile data to Wi-Fi.

Is anything installed or recorded?

Nothing is installed: the broadcast runs inside a normal web page using the WebRTC standard built into modern browsers. LiveSnap.tv does not record broadcasts and cannot replay a finished one. A viewer could still record their own screen with tools outside our control, so broadcast only what you are comfortable having seen. Camera access belongs to the open page and you can revoke it at any time in the browser settings.