Records the lives and the money — video with gifts, gifters, chat and USD on one timeline.
TikMonitor is a TikTok Live analytics product that also records. Turn the Record switch on for a creator you track and every live they run afterwards is captured server-side from the first second. What makes it different from the recorders on this list is what sits next to the video: the gift feed with sender names, the full chat, the concurrent-viewer curve and the running diamond-to-USD total, all lined up against the same timeline. You can jump to the minute a big gift landed instead of scrubbing. If you only want a video file, this is the expensive option and you should buy one of the others. If you want to know what actually happened in the room, nothing else on this list does it.
- Best for
- Anyone who cares who sent what and what a live earned, not just what was said.
- Pricing
- Recording is on Studio, $24.99/mo — 10 recording slots, 30-day video retention, 50 tracked creators. Watching lives in real time is free for 1 creator.
- + Gifts, gifter names, chat and USD earnings synced to the video timeline
- + Recording starts from the first second, server-side
- + Go-live, keyword and gift-spike alerts on the same creators
- + MP4 download, no watermark
- − The most expensive per recording slot on this list
- − 30-day retention, so anything you want to keep must be downloaded
- − Recording needs the Studio plan — the cheaper tiers show the toggle but can't use it
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TikRec
Cloud recorder delivered as a Telegram bot. The cheapest way to collect raw MP4s.
TikRec watches your creator list and drops the finished MP4 straight into a Telegram chat when the live ends. Because Telegram does the storage, the recordings never expire — which is the single biggest advantage over every other cloud option here, all of which delete on a schedule. There is no dashboard and no analytics; you get files in a chat. The free tier records only the first hour and checks for new lives every 15 minutes, so it will miss short streams.
- Best for
- Archiving a lot of creators cheaply with no expiry date.
- Pricing
- Free for 2 creators (first hour only). Basic €3.99/mo for 25 creators, Pro €5.99/mo for 100 — both capture full length.
- + Recordings never expire once they're in Telegram
- + Cheapest per creator by a wide margin
- + Nothing to install; works on any device
- + Original-quality MP4, no watermark
- − No analytics, no gifts, no chat — files only
- − Free tier stops after one hour and polls every 15 minutes
- − Everything lives in Telegram, which not everyone wants
Browser-based recorder covering 18 streaming platforms, with a usable free tier.
StreamRecorder records automatically across Twitch, TikTok, Kick, Douyin, YouTube and 13 more platforms, which makes it the obvious pick if you follow people who stream in more than one place. It is browser-based with nothing to install, and it publishes per-creator VOD pages. The free tier is genuinely useful — three streamers at 720p — but five-day retention means it is a catch-up tool rather than an archive.
- Best for
- Following creators across several platforms, or trying cloud recording for free.
- Pricing
- Free for 3 streamers at 720p with 5-day retention. Premium raises it to 100 streamers, 60-day retention and up to 8K; the price isn't published on the homepage.
- + 18 platforms, not just TikTok
- + Free tier records 3 streamers automatically
- + No install, runs in the browser
- + Higher resolutions available on premium
- − Free recordings are deleted after 5 days
- − Premium pricing isn't shown upfront
- − No gift, chat or earnings data
TikTok-only cloud recorder sold on storage volume and profile count.
Live Archives monitors profiles and records their TikTok lives to cloud storage with unlimited downloads and replays. The tiers are structured around how many profiles you watch and how much storage you get, which suits people recording a large roster continuously. There's a three-day free trial rather than a free tier, and the site doesn't publish a retention period, so ask before committing a large archive to it.
- Best for
- Recording a large roster of TikTok creators where storage volume is the constraint.
- Pricing
- Lite $9.99/mo (10 profiles, 250 GB), Basic $19.99/mo (50 profiles, 500 GB), Pro $29.99/mo (100 profiles, 1 TB). 3-day free trial.
- + Generous profile counts at the mid tiers
- + Unlimited downloads and replays
- + Storage allowances stated clearly
- − Retention period isn't published
- − Trial only, no permanent free tier
- − TikTok only, and no analytics layer
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Olived
Desktop app that records TikTok lives to your own machine.
Olived installs on your computer and records lives from creators you follow to local disk in HD. Because the files are yours, there's no retention clock and no storage bill. The trade is the one every desktop recorder makes: your computer has to be switched on and connected whenever a creator might go live, so an overnight stream in another timezone means leaving the machine running.
- Best for
- People who want the files on their own disk and keep a machine on anyway.
- Pricing
- Free download with paid tiers; the site doesn't publish prices on the TikTok landing page.
- + Files stored locally, no retention limit
- + No ongoing storage costs
- + Records several creators at once
- − Your computer must be awake and online to catch a live
- − Pricing isn't published upfront
- − Desktop only, no analytics
Free Python CLI that pulls the source stream. Zero cost, all maintenance.
This is the tool most of the paid services are quietly built on top of. It captures the stream directly rather than filming a screen, so quality is as good as it gets, and it costs nothing. In exchange you run it yourself: Python on a machine or VPS that stays up, your own scheduling, your own storage, and your own fixes when TikTok changes something upstream and recordings start failing.
- Best for
- Developers who'd rather run a script on a VPS than pay a subscription.
- Pricing
- Free and open source (MIT). You pay for hosting.
- + Free forever, no account, no limits
- + Source-quality capture, not a screen re-encode
- + Fully under your control
- − Requires Python and a server that stays online
- − Breaks when TikTok changes things until someone patches it
- − No interface, no alerts, no analytics
Which one should you pick?
For raw archiving on a budget, TikRec wins: €3.99/mo for 25 creators and recordings that never expire. For multi-platform coverage or a free starting point, StreamRecorder. If you're technical and have a server, the open-source CLI costs nothing and captures best. TikMonitor is the pick when the video alone isn't the point — when you need to know who sent what, what the live earned, and what the chat was doing at that moment, because it's the only tool here that puts the money and the video on one timeline.
What's the cheapest way to record TikTok Lives?
The open-source CLI tool is free if you have somewhere to run it. Among hosted services, TikRec's free tier records 2 creators (first hour only) and its €3.99/mo tier covers 25 creators at full length. StreamRecorder's free tier records 3 streamers but deletes after 5 days.
Can any of these recover a live that already ended?
No, and be wary of anything that claims otherwise. A live has to be captured while it airs. The only exception is a replay the creator themselves saved before going live, which sits on their profile's LIVE tab for about 30 days.
Do TikTok live recorders notify the creator?
No. None of these tools notify the broadcaster, and TikTok gives no indicator when a viewer records. They read the same public stream every viewer's device receives.
Which recorder keeps videos the longest?
TikRec, because Telegram stores the delivered files indefinitely. Among services that host the video themselves, StreamRecorder Premium keeps 60 days and TikMonitor keeps 30. StreamRecorder's free tier keeps only 5.
Which one shows how much a live earned?
Only TikMonitor. The others return video files; TikMonitor also records the gift events behind the stream and converts diamonds to USD at TikTok's $0.005 creator rate, so each recording carries the earnings and the gifter names alongside it.