Free trial
Try the whole thing without a bucket. We're hosting.
Setting up cloud storage is the most "wait, what am I doing again?" part of archiving Twitch streams. So we're skipping it for you. Sign up, link your Twitch account, and your next stream goes into our shared bucket — no IAM policies, no API keys, no buckets to name.
Free tier
What you get
Enough rope to actually evaluate VOD Manager — without us going broke hosting your full streaming career.
VODs
10 archived at a time
When the eleventh shows up, the oldest gets purged to make room. Each VOD up to 8 GB — about 3 hours of 1080p at Twitch's 6 Mbps cap (~2.7 GB/hour), longer at lower bitrate or 720p.
Clips
10 archived at a time
Same drop-oldest rule. Clips are tiny so the 1 GB-per-clip cap is mostly a safety net.
Retention
~72 hours each
Purge runs once a day, so your archive lives at least 72 hours and at most ~96. Plenty of time to grab the file or set up your own storage.
Notifications
Heads-up email
Roughly 24 hours before purge, we send a single summary email listing every archive going away tomorrow. One email per day, not one per VOD.
Same product
Everything else, unchanged
EventSub detection, bulk-import queue, share links, notes, tags — same product, same archive flow. We're only changing where the file lands.
No lock-in
Easy upgrade later
Connect your own storage any time. We migrate every free-tier archive over to your bucket automatically.
Tradeoffs
What you don't get
We're not pretending free storage is the same product as your own.
No keep-forever toggle
Only makes sense when you own the storage. On the free tier, the toggle is grayed out with a note pointing to "connect your own storage."
No oversize streams
VODs over 8 GB get marked skipped — typically anything past ~3 hours of 1080p at the standard 6 Mbps cap, or longer streams at 720p. Hook up your own storage if you stream marathons.
No retention extensions
72 hours is the deal. We're not selling a "free tier plus" upgrade — connect your own storage when you want files to stay.
Migration
When you're ready, we move everything over
The moment you connect your own storage profile (Cloudflare R2, AWS S3, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive), we queue background jobs to copy every free-tier archive over to your new bucket. The free-tier purge skips anything mid-migration so a copy can't race a deletion.
- Auto-migration runs when your configured quota fits everything. No bandwidth charges or anything weird — same Flysystem stream copy your future archives use.
- If your new quota is too small, nothing is silently lost. The storage page shows a red banner; the moment you delete enough VODs (or raise the quota), migration retries on the next purge cycle. Manual "Migrate now" button is also available.
- Migrated archives count toward your new storage's quota, so a Twitch VOD coming in mid-migration won't blow you past your cap.
Translation: you don't have to commit to a storage provider on day one. Try the product, see what an archive looks like, then connect your own when you know how much space you actually want.
Why we made this
"Set up cloud storage" hides about an hour of decisions
Pick a provider. Pick a region. Generate API keys. Paste them somewhere. We've all been there. It's a hard ask before you even know whether the product is worth your time. So we hold the bucket while you decide.
End a stream, walk away, come back the next morning, watch your archive show up, decide if you want it forever — and if you do, set up your own bucket without losing anything.
When the runway is useful
Should I just bring my own storage from day one?
Honestly? If you stream regularly and already know you want a permanent archive, yes. The free tier is a runway, not a destination. But here's when the runway is genuinely useful:
- You're evaluating VOD Manager and want to see one full archive cycle before deciding.
- You're between providers and don't want a forced choice in your first 30 minutes.
- You stream rarely and just need a 72-hour buffer to grab files manually.
- You've never set up cloud storage before and want to play with the product first.
If you stream more than a few times a week and want everything kept, our storage decision guide walks you through picking a real provider in about two minutes.
No bucket required
Try it. We're hosting.
Sign up, link Twitch, opt into free-tier storage from the storage page. Your next archive lands in our bucket while you decide whether to stay.
Free-tier limits and retention windows may change with notice. Anything you've already archived to your own storage is unaffected by free-tier policy changes.