Tips and digital tip jars
Streamlabs is for the stream. GigTag is for the venue.
When you play to a room, there is no chat, no overlay and no alert. You still need what those gave you: requests, a way for people to follow, a way to come back. GigTag gives a live act all of it from one code on the mic stand, plus booking enquiries. Streamlabs, which you know, is built for the stream.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
What Streamlabs does on stream, GigTag does in the room
Streamlabs equips a broadcast. GigTag equips a gig: one printed code that opens your song list for requests, your dates, your channel links and a booking enquiry form, with nothing installed. If you are a streamer taking a first booking, it is the part of your setup that goes with you.
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Requests without a chat window
A fan scans the tag, chooses from your list or types a song if you open requests, and it joins a live queue on your phone. You read it as you would read chat. It is the interaction streamers are used to, moved into a room. Requests are part of Pro.
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No kit, no install, no login
You bring a tag and your phone. The audience brings a camera. The page opens in a browser, with no app and no account. Streamlabs is software for a computer, a phone or a console. GigTag asks for nothing to be set up at the venue.
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Viewers and diners find each other
Your GigTag page carries your socials, website and music links, so the room can find your channel after the gig. Your gigs and residencies are listed for anyone to add to their calendar, which gives a diner a reason to come back.
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A room full of possible bookings
People at a restaurant gig have parties to plan. The booking enquiry form lets them ask from their table, and on Pro you invoice them in your own design, paid online. GigTag takes no commission on bookings. It is paid work that starts with someone hearing you in person.
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Free until you need more
The page, tag design, links, gigs and booking form are on the free plan for one act, which suits a first residency. Pro adds song requests, invoices and more than one act. It adds tips too, into your own Stripe or Ziina account, with 0% taken by GigTag.
In short
Streamlabs and GigTag, in four lines
- Streamlabs is a suite of streaming tools: broadcasting software, overlays, alerts, widgets and a tip page.
- GigTag brings requests to a room with no chat: a live queue on your phone from one scan.
- You carry a tag and a phone. The audience needs only a camera and a browser.
- Our recommendation: use GigTag for in-person gigs and their tips, and Streamlabs for the stream.
Side by side
GigTag vs Streamlabs, topic by topic
Where the audience is
Built for the people in the room
The audience is in the room. They scan the tag on your mic stand and the page opens in their phone's browser.
StreamlabsViewers watch on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook and other platforms, and its Multistream feature can send one broadcast to several at once.
When someone tips
Keep Streamlabs for stream tips; GigTag for the room
A fan tips by card or Apple Pay on your page, into your own Stripe account, or your own Ziina account in the UAE, with 0% taken by GigTag.
StreamlabsA customisable alert appears on the stream, and widgets such as a tip jar, a ticker or a goal can show it too.
Regular support
A weekly residency fans can save
GigTag has no recurring payments. What repeats is your weekly residency, listed on your page for fans to add to their calendar.
StreamlabsIts tipping page describes monthly tips, which let a streamer's most loyal viewers give their support automatically, month after month.
The look of it
A tag and invoices in your design
You design the tag yourself, and invoices go out in your own design. The tag design and print file are on the free plan.
StreamlabsOverlays and themes style the stream itself, and its site says the tip page can be personalised to match as well.
Kit you need
Just the tag and your phone
The tag and your own phone. Nothing is installed at the venue, and the audience needs only a phone camera.
StreamlabsIts site offers Streamlabs Desktop for Windows and Mac, a mobile app for iOS and Android, and a console product for streaming without a desktop.
The quick view
| GigTag | Streamlabs | |
|---|---|---|
| A QR code your audience scans | Yes, one that never changes | – |
| Song requests from the crowd | Yes, on Pro | – |
| Tips by card or Apple Pay | Yes, on Pro, into your own Ziina or Stripe. GigTag takes 0% | Yes |
| Booking enquiries | Yes, on the free plan | – |
| Your gigs and weekly residencies | Yes, on the free plan | – |
| Invoices for bookings | Yes, on Pro | – |
| A printed tag for your mic stand | Yes, in your own design | – |
| Works without an app for the audience | Yes, it opens in the browser | – |
A dash means we did not confirm it for Streamlabs, not that it is missing: see what Streamlabs offers above, or ask on its site.
A Streamlabs alternative
Where GigTag is different from Streamlabs
A stream overlay and a mic stand
Streamlabs lives on the viewer's screen: the alert, the overlay, the tip jar widget. GigTag lives on your mic stand. It is a small custom tag with a QR code that never changes. Someone in the room scans it, your page opens in their browser, and they are looking at your act, your song list and your next gig. All you need on stage is your phone.
A chat window and a request queue
On a stream, viewers talk to you in chat and tips arrive with alerts. In a room there is no chat, so GigTag gives the audience a way to ask. They choose from your song list, or type anything if you open requests, and it joins a live queue on your phone. You work through it during the set. Requests are part of GigTag Pro.
Viewers anywhere, bookings nearby
A stream reaches viewers anywhere. A gig reaches people who live nearby and have parties, weddings and venues of their own. GigTag has a booking enquiry form on your page for them, and on Pro you can send an invoice in your own design that the client pays online. Your page also lists your gigs and weekly residencies, which a fan can add to their calendar.
A night with GigTag
A streamer's first restaurant residency
On stream you have a chat window, alerts and regulars who know every song. Tonight you are in the corner of a restaurant with a keyboard and a mic, and none of that exists. What you do have is the GigTag tag on the mic stand. A diner scans it. Your page opens in the browser and they pick a song from your list. It appears in the live queue on your phone, which sits where your stream dashboard would be.
It feels familiar: a request arrives, you acknowledge it, you play it. The difference is that the person is four metres away and smiling. Other tables look at your gigs and see that you are here every Wednesday, because the residency is on your page, and add it to their calendar. The manager's cousin sends a booking enquiry for an engagement party. Your channel is among your links, so the room can find the stream. A couple of tables tip by card from the same page.
About Streamlabs
What is Streamlabs?
Streamlabs is a suite of tools for live streamers. At the centre is Streamlabs Desktop, broadcasting software for Windows and Mac, and around it are overlays, alerts, widgets, a mobile app for streaming from a phone, and a browser studio for streaming with guests. Its site sums it up as simple tools for going live, talking with viewers, styling the stream and building an audience. Multistream sends one broadcast to several platforms at once.
Tipping is one part of that. You set up a tip page, connect PayPal, and share the page with viewers, who can tip once or every month. When a tip arrives, an alert appears on the stream, and widgets such as a tip jar or a goal bar make it part of the show. The site also describes editing tools for clips, video and podcasts.
- Where
- Worldwide
- Website
- streamlabs.com
How Streamlabs works
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Install the software. You download Streamlabs Desktop for Windows or Mac, or add its plugin to OBS Studio if that is the software you already use to broadcast.
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Design the stream. You choose overlays and set up alerts and widgets, so the picture viewers see has your own layout, your goals and your notifications on it.
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Set up tipping. You create a tip page and connect PayPal. The site says viewers can then tip once or set up a monthly tip, and you share the page with your audience.
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Go live. You start the broadcast, to one platform or several with Multistream. When a viewer tips, the alert you designed plays on screen for everyone watching.
Who Streamlabs is for
Streamers on the big platforms. The core audience is people broadcasting on Twitch, YouTube and Facebook. For them the suite covers the whole job: the software that sends the stream, the look of it, and the ways viewers can take part.
Streaming from a phone or console. Its site lists a mobile app for going live from iOS and Android, and a console product for streaming to Twitch without a desktop computer. Those are for creators who broadcast away from a desk.
Creators who repurpose content. Around the streaming tools are editors for video, podcasts and short clips, and a browser studio for recording with guests. The site describes moving from recording to editing in one workflow, under a single login.
The verdict
GigTag or Streamlabs: which should you choose?
The bottom line
For playing in person, choose GigTag. The strongest reason is that it gives a room the same ways to take part that a stream gives viewers, requests above all, using nothing more than a printed code and a phone camera. It also brings booking enquiries, which is one way a gig leads to another. Streamlabs remains the right tool for broadcasting and for tips from viewers, a job GigTag does not do, while GigTag takes the tips in the room. Streamers who gig need both.
Yes, if you do both kinds of show. Stream with Streamlabs for viewers at home and take their tips on stream. At a venue, hang the GigTag tag on the mic stand for requests, dates and bookings. At the venue, fans can tip on your GigTag page too, into your own Stripe or Ziina account, with 0% taken by GigTag.
- Step 1
Keep streaming as you do
Streamlabs stays your broadcast setup, with its alerts and its tip page for the viewers at home. GigTag does not touch any part of that.
- Step 2
Make a page for venues
Put your song list, your gigs and residencies and your channel links on a GigTag page, and design a tag to hang on the mic stand.
- Step 3
Tell each audience about the other
Mention your gigs on stream and keep your channel in your GigTag links, so viewers can come to a show and diners can find the stream.
Choose GigTag if
You play to a room and want the people in it to request songs, find your next gig and enquire about booking you, with nothing to install.
Start freeStreamlabs may still suit you if
You perform on a live stream and want tips, alerts and overlays on screen for viewers at home.
GigTag FreeYour page, your tag design, every gig and residency, a booking form. One act.
GigTag ProSong requests, tips, invoices, more than one act. AED 30, £11.99 or $15.99 a month.
GigTag Printed tagFrom AED 100 in the UAE, £24.99 in the UK or €28.99 in the EU, delivered free, with a large size for more; $32.99 elsewhere, plus postage from the UK. Or print your own, anywhere, for free.
Questions
Streamlabs and GigTag: what people ask
Something else? Ask us. A person reads every message.
Is GigTag better than Streamlabs for in-person gigs?
Yes, because it is made for them. GigTag is a printed code on your mic stand and a page the audience opens in the browser: requests in a live queue, your gigs and residencies, your links and a booking enquiry form. Streamlabs is made for broadcasting. Keep it for your stream and for viewer tips, and let GigTag take the tips at the venue.
I stream with Streamlabs. Why would I need GigTag?
You need it the day you play to people in a room. There is no overlay there, so GigTag gives the audience a code to scan for requests, your next date, your channel links and a booking enquiry form. The free plan is enough to start: page, tag design, links, gigs and the enquiry form for one act.
What is Streamlabs?
Streamlabs is a suite of tools for live streamers. It includes Streamlabs Desktop for broadcasting, overlays, alerts and widgets, multistreaming, a mobile app and a tip page. Viewers can tip once or monthly, and an alert appears on stream. See its site for prices and the platforms it supports.
Can I use Streamlabs for tips at an in-person gig?
Streamlabs is made for live streams, where a tip triggers an alert on screen. For an in-person gig, GigTag gives you a QR code on your mic stand instead. Fans can tip from it by card or Apple Pay, into your own Stripe account, or your own Ziina account in the UAE, and it handles requests, gigs, links and booking enquiries in every country.
Does GigTag show requests on screen like Streamlabs alerts?
Requests appear in a live queue that you see on your phone, in the GigTag app or on the website, while you play. GigTag is not a streaming tool: it is a page for the people in the room. If you stream your gigs as well, keep Streamlabs for the broadcast side.
I stream and gig. Do I need both Streamlabs and GigTag?
They cover different audiences. Streamlabs is for the broadcast: going live, alerts, tips from viewers. GigTag is for the venue: one permanent QR code, a page for requests, your next gig and residencies, and a booking enquiry form. If you do both kinds of show, each tool has its own job.
How do I take song requests at a live gig without a chat?
Use a code the audience can scan. With GigTag, a fan scans the tag on your mic stand, picks a song from your list or types one if you have opened requests, and it joins a live queue on your phone. It works much like reading requests from chat, without the screen. Requests are part of Pro.
Can I link my Twitch or YouTube channel on GigTag?
Yes. A GigTag page carries your socials, website and music links, so your channels can be listed there. Someone who scans the tag at a gig can then follow you online. Links are part of the free plan, together with your page, gigs, residencies and the booking enquiry form.
Does Streamlabs work with PayPal for tips?
Its tipping page says you connect a PayPal account to accept tips, and that availability may vary by region. GigTag is separate and uses a different route: tips by card or Apple Pay, into your own Stripe account, or your own Ziina account in the UAE, with 0% taken by GigTag.
Is GigTag useful if I only play live now and then?
It can be, because the tag keeps. The code never changes, so a tag printed for one gig works at the next, however far apart they are. The free plan covers the page, links, gigs and the booking enquiry form for one act, which is enough for an occasional player.
Looking for Streamlabs itself?
This page is GigTag's. Streamlabs's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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Streamlabs is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about Streamlabs here comes from its own public website, checked on 7 October 2026. Products change: if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
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One code on your stand. Requests, tips and the next gig behind it.
No app for your audience, nothing to download. Free to start.