Touch Portal Reviews

by Play098123

The only thing I could get it to do was sync with TouchPortal on my PC. Now what? A bunch of nested if/then statements that will do what? That mean what? I use Xsplit and selected the pre-made Xsplit buttons to be added. Click on the “Stream” button, and it says OBS. Nothing at all intuitive to lead you to have this button do anything with Xsplit.

If anyone has issues with TouchPortal here, they just tell you to go to their Discord, another awful app. What do I do there? Scream help?

by Leon T

Love this thing. Really makes me want to buy an actual stream deck or just pay the $10 bucks for the full version. TouchPortal will do everything that you need, but the issue is the UI/UX, It’s horrible. Also, everytime TouchPortal update, it’s like installing a whole new app. It even try to create a brand new page for you. So right now I am sitting with 2 pages that are the same.

Just can’t get myself to pay for it. Maybe I will wait a little longer.

by 8BitRetrograde

After trying Touch Portal in Jan 2020, I was less than impressed. Appears many changes and quality of life improvements have made Touch Portal a real competitor to products such as stream deck. Amazing control for anything and everything you need to trigger, in my case obs studio and media controls for live streaming. Definitely makes workflow better. Keep it up!

by TheFatherless

I have been noticing a few things that need fixing.
I had touch portal on my PC before I had to wipe it and I loved it. I still think it’s a great alternative app to a stream deck. I have been experiencing some issues lately and even then.

Issue 1: (The most important) I am unable to connect my twitch account. I go to connect it, press the login button, it loads for about half a second and the screen does not move. I have tried following the road of “Having trouble logging in” but nothing fixes it.

Issue 2: When my twitch was connected before some of the twitch functions did not work. The main one I remember would be the Stream Marker.

Issue 3: sometimes when creating a switch button, like using the same button to mute and unmute a mic, it will get stuck in one position.

Please get these fixed so I can go back to using this while creating content. But like I said, fantastic app just a few issues. Thank you!

by Jrndneksksbbdkdjs

When every I tried to open TouchPortal it would just crash on me

by Jonathansteele27

There are so many incredible tricks you can do with OBS to make your stream pop, but they’re really only possible with a separate interface to make them function. I simply don’t have the money for a Stream Deck, and their app doesn’t support iPad, so I turned to Touch Portal.

I’ve spent the past couple months testing the limits of what it can do with basic programming logic and various plugins, and I’m floored. It’s so powerful. So far I haven’t been able to throw anything at it that it couldn’t handle. It’s also super stable. Never crashes or freezes. I’m in love. It was well worth the one-time purchase to unlock the extra features. Now my stream is capable of all kinds of fun tricks, and it makes me look good. Thanks for TouchPortal!!

by Grizzogor

I use it with my iPad mini 1st gen, which would be pretty useless otherwise. It doesn’t need to be used for streaming, I also use it as a presentation remote with my iPhone. Highly recommended to get the $8.99 upgrade.

by Pragmatist 2

As a Stream Deck user too, I can judge the two systems. I mostly use TouchPortal for controlling Hue lights, which it does very well. The potential is huge though, even having preformatted text to drop in to forms, etc., such as addresses, directions, or signatures. I would like to see more presets for other software.

by EasyTarget74

I love TouchPortal. I have it running on a second PC that I’m using to record my gaming PC. I have buttons set up to start OBS, start game recording, start streaming to Twitch and send text to the Twitch chat. You can do event monitoring with buttons. Very cool app and the developer is super quick on answering questions on the discord channel. Buy this and help the developers out. You won’t be disappointed

by Mirandope

Whether you need it for streaming, macros, work, or even just for media keys TouchPortal is amazing and does the job. Connecting it to my pc was seamless and their customer support is very helpful and responsive! 10/10 recommend. The free version is more than enough but if you want to have more options the pro version is well worth it comparing to the $150+ price tag for the stream deck.

by EhrickWho

Affordable Elgato Stream Deck replacement, plain and simple. I can’t imagine streaming ever again without it. Its hard understand how people are having so many issues using it when its so simple to understand and theres so many videos explaining how things work. 10/10 would recommend to anyone who streams and wants to level up.

by LittleDT4

I’ve been using TouchPortal for quite a few months now and it’s amazing. So much customization. So easy to use. Plus it’s FREE. If you want to save your money from buying a stream deck this is the best alternative there is. It does everything a stream deck can do if not more! Plus it works with Streamlabs OBS aswell which is a huge plus. So what are you waiting on? Hit that download button and maximize your productivity.
~DontDoItDan

by P*s*h

I've been interested in Stream Deck but was not eager to pay for the hardware or the overpriced iOS app. Touch Portal on an iPad is a perfect solution. The program is elegant and simple to use and also quite powerful, and it works great.

At first I had the same issue as others have had: after buying it in TouchPortal store, it still behaved like the free version. I clicked "restore full version" and that did the trick.

Thanks for a super-useful app!

by BlinKAlliance

I’ve seen a lot online about TouchPortal and I wanted to try it out. I kept getting one error message after another. I worked with two of the apps support agents and both were extremely friendly and helped me a lot. I let the co founder use my pc in team viewer and he found out that my error was being caused by having two IPs due to my virtual box. A+ for the quick thinking and talent from these people.

by Bill_Dee

I use OBS as a video switching front end while doing video conferencing and teaching. Especially now that we are all locked down because of COVID-19 virus, I am doing MUCH MORE distance teaching and conferencing. Using OBS helps lots and without Touch Portal it would be extremely difficult to switch scenes and run various media clips.

Love the flexibility and with a little extra effort on my part I have a touch device with custom controls and buttons! Thanks!

by DiggsDarcey

This a great option for streamers to make streaming much easier and for the lowest cost. This software can do almost everything you could desire for streaming and with every update something new is added. I’ve been using it for months now and it’s worth more than the $10 for the full version. You can really add some great thing with complex commands to make unique transitions or carry out multiple commands at the touch of a single button!

by Zewt

I have been using touch portal on my ipad/pc for about a year and it has become invaluable to me. I use it for games as a tool to echo macros into, photoshop, as a sound panel to trigger an extensive library of sound clips from my pc into OBS and Discord, and numerous other small but very convenient functions. Gotten my moneys worth many, many times over.
It is extremely versatile. If you can’t get it to do what you need you’re doing it wrong.

by MattMONTANEZ

The devs here thought of everything and continue to improve TouchPortal to make things better. This isn’t an app just for steaming. It can be used for just about anything. I’m huge on automating things and I was able to automate a very long and tedious work process that would take an hour or two. I can click a button and well walk away and it’ll it perfectly. Thanks Touch-Portal for making my life easier haha.

by Rdv09

I love TouchPortal. I use it to control OBS, and have recently made new pages to use as button boxes for games. Its a great alternative to using a Stream Deck.

It does take a bit to setup and get working, but once its working its absolutely fantastic!

If you are having trouble with TouchPortal , or cant get TouchPortal working, the dev team has a discord server where you can get help. They go out of their way to make sure to resolve your issue. The community on the discord server is also very helpful and many times they can help get you on your feet quickly. You can find the link to the discord server on their website.

by P.Butts

I’ve been streaming for about six months and learned about touch portal from one of my viewers. I’m so glad I used it. After testing it out I immediately got the paid version. So worth the Money. I use it for all of my sound effects, Scene switching on stream labs, toggling Custom animations that I’ve made and popping up animation of my social media pages. I know there’s so much more that can be done with it so I’m messing around more trying to see how far I can push it. I can’t recommend this any more than five stars otherwise I would. I am a real Streamer, I’m ProfessorButler on Facebook gaming and twitch. I use it every stream. Come ask me about it.

by RoninRed

Setup wizard doesn’t do anything but try to connect to the default app settings, which is IP Address 0 Port 0 on the iPhone app. I finally figure out how to change this and then the desktop app says I need to update my phone app. I do this and now TouchPortal crashes when I try to launch it. I’ve reinstalled both and it continues to crash on my iPhone.

Edit: just tried installing on my other phone and it won’t even launch. Crashes immediately. Glad I didn’t pay for this.

by Dhxhugsbkyec

I love TouchPortal. I have it running on a second PC that I’m using to record my gaming PC. I have buttons set up to start OBS, start game recording, start streaming to Twitch and send text to the Twitch chat. You can do event monitoring with buttons. Very cool app and the developer is super quick on answering questions on the discord channel. Buy this and help the developers out. You won’t be disappointed

by WireJunky

This is a fantastic alternative to the Elgato StreamDeck. I have been using this in my streaming setup now for a bit and don’t think I could live without it now. The developer is super responsive and has already implemented some of the suggestions I submitted to their website. Great app and great dev!