No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is obsproject.com legit or a scam?
Official OBS Studio site for free open-source streaming software on a 13-year-old domain with zero security flags.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as the official home for OBS Studio, a well-known open-source tool for streaming and recording. Our antivirus network returned zero detections and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The domain was registered almost 14 years ago and the operator lists active registration for Wizards of OBS LLC in Wyoming. Independent sources confirm this is the genuine project site referenced by its own GitHub repository. No scam patterns, clone indicators, or complaints appear in the evidence.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
This is the legitimate OBS Studio official website with professional design and no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for obsproject.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- obsproject.com is the official domain for OBS Studio per GitHub.com/obsproject/obs-studio and obsproject.com/help
- Privacy policy references Wizards of OBS LLC as the operating company
- Multiple Reddit threads and forum posts confirm obsproject.com as legitimate; warn about fake sites like obsstudio.net or ad results
- Trustpilot page for obsproject.com shows 17 reviews with 2.3 score, mostly software feedback
- Domain listed in Microsoft Store app details with Wyoming US address
- Open source project under GPLv2; no payment required, warnings on site about paid scam versions
- No scam reports or malware detections tied directly to obsproject.com in search results
- Software Adviceopen
""Being able to create separate scenes with their own sources is very handy, as sometimes I want to use OBS for streaming (which would have a different scene setup), and sometimes just screen recording.""
Wizards of OBS LLC; address listed as 30 N Gould St # Ste N, Sheridan, WY, 82801-6317; LinkedIn lists OBS Project founded 2012, 2-10 employees
Our research found no scam reports or complaints tied to obsproject.com. The domain is repeatedly confirmed as the official OBS Project site in GitHub documentation and forum discussions. Active business registration exists for Wizards of OBS LLC in Wyoming, and the project is distributed under the GPLv2 license with warnings about paid fake versions elsewhere.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 10 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://obsproject.com/
- 2200https://obsproject.com/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on obsproject.com and not a lookalike like o-bsproject.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on obsproject.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- obsproject.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. obsproject.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 66 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- obsproject.com is 13.7 years old, registered on 10/1/2012 through Cloudflare, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report obsproject.com as clean.
- No. obsproject.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- obsproject.com resolves to an IP operated by OVH SAS in FR (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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