Twitch's Desktop App Has Arrived

Heads up, gamers: the Twitch Desktop app has arrived.

Afterwards launching a beta version of the app this leap, Twitch today released the full version for Windows and Mac. "Our fully armed and operational app gives you access to all the Twitch you know and love, plus a ton of exclusive tools," Twitch's Brian Petrocelli wrote in a Thursday blog mail. "And of course, how could we forget… Twitch in Nighttime MODE."

The blackness-and-imperial dark style, "makes everything you do on Twitch much more friendly to your eyes," Petrocelli wrote, which should exist helpful when you're streaming tardily into the night.

The app besides offers vox and video calls, servers, friend sync, and "a ton of neat mods for your games."

"From streams to memes, everything you love about Twitch on web is available within the desktop app," Petrocelli wrote. "Plus, because it's an app, information technology'south all lightning fast. Watch all your favorite VODs, clips, and of grade, live streams, consummate with Twitch chat in all its glory."

Yous can also support streamers while you're watching with Subscriptions and Bits.

With the desktop app's servers, communities tin can stay connected even after a stream goes offline. The desktop app also features the game mod community CurseForge, where you tin detect thousands of mods and add-ons for World of Warcraft, Skyrim, Minecraft, and more.

This new desktop app comes afterwards Twitch in June rolled out an overhaul of its mobile app. Twitch also recently nabbed sectional third-party live streaming rights to select Blizzard eSports content including more than than xx major eSports events taking identify throughout 2022.

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Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag'south good on fitness and smart home products. Teaching yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, middle rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela besides tests smart domicile devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.