Picarto: Live Stream & Chat

Is it really hard to make something that works properly? The “forgot password” feature doesn’t even work most of the time. It keeps asking to open the browser for no reason. Streams randomly die. It’s awful.

It claims to have a streaming option For the iPad but there is no camera button or way to stream.

The app feels like it was designed by someone who barely has a grasp on designing a phone app. Everything feels very basic and a lot of the buttons are pretty much unusable if your using any iPhone that has a full screen, since those buttons are end up being covered by the battery and clock icons and therefore cannot be pressed. Please redesign this app, or hire someone who actually knows how to design one.

It barely works. Opening a stream floods you with five to ten “open in browser” requests. You can’t even reset your password since the “reset password” feature takes you to some dead stream for some reason, so tough luck if you forget it. It randomly crashes for seemingly no apparent reason. If you thought the website barely functioned, this is even worse.

Your app is very bad fist it crash on me second it won’t let me in with my account that I registered and my email didn’t exist what the heck is you App Store is broken won’t let me on o sent a email waiting to reply to fix it it’s frustrated and annoying you should do better to sent my email to the proper way NOT in my stupid spam mail I deleted those annoying garbage

If I could put 0 stars I would

As title says, pressing a stream pulls up the chat and info but it’s black or forever loading. Screen isn’t fixed for iPhone 14 pro max so it’s almost impossible to press some buttons. And despite turning on mature content none of it works, even in the past when I downloaded it on my old phone where non mature streams did work.

While the app may work for some, the UI is nearly completely incompatible with newer iPhones due to the search bar being hidden underneath the built-in notch. Furthermore, the app asks to send the user into the phone’s browser to watch the stream, which seems fo nullify the very reason why one would want to use the app in the first place. The most glaring issue is the fact that streams simply do not load. Only the chat loads. There is no workaround I could find outside of uninstalling altogether and using the web client.

I still don’t know how to make PiP to work, but when it accidentally does it does not play

Picarto was once a wonderful streaming app for artists, and it had great potential. Both android and iOS app versions have been without updates for two years. However, where android at least has a go live feature in-app, Picarto on iOS does not. Even the stream keys can’t be accessed except on the Safari browser. I have tried using the third-party app, Streamlabs, to work with Picarto on iOS. I was consequently met with a cut stream and an error message stating: “Invalid screen-broadcasting session.” This occurred multiple times and is apparently common with Picarto on iPad. There is no consistent, clear method for streaming to Picarto from iPad as of now. While the app can be used to let iOS users watch streams, it should only be advertised as a viewing app, not a streaming one. If Picarto for mobile has been abandoned, okay. If it has been discarded in favor of desktop, okay. That is up to the discretion of the owners and the company. It just feels like such a loss when iPads are used so often in the digital art industry. Rest in peace, Picarto for iOS. You had such a bright future.