There is competition of every aspect and turn of our lives. No matter what we do or create, there is always a fight to be fought in order to become number one. The same type of rivalry is between different applications and softwares. And with the new trend of live streaming, many developers and companies came forward to fight but there is only one winner in every race. So, the fight is now between meerkat and periscope - both applications make live streaming video easy among Twitter users. However they only work on iPhone and meerkat android or periscope android are very far from launch. In the meantime, an interesting new alternative comes from developers of spycam.io, offering similar functionalities but on all platforms and social media of choice.

While periscope is more warm and fuzzy, meerkat is elegant, very simple and basic. Meeerkat came to existence in February 2015 a month after Twitter acquired periscope in January quoting “Periscope lets you broadcast live video to the world. Going live will instantly notify your followers who can join, comment and send you hearts in real time”. Said by critics “Twitter’s Meerkat-Killer Live streaming App Just Went Live”. Applications like the periscope app are a source for people to share what and how they see the world by live streaming whatever their iPhone’s camera is pointing at and choose to share a link to the broadcast over Twitter.

But the question that stand in the way is that which of the above app should a normal user like me and you should get? Well, for answer we first need to see the features offered by the apps. At first glance, both the naïve iPhone apps, Meerkat and Periscope appear evenly matched, but Periscope clearly wins in most of the important features like interface, access to twitter’s social graph (limited for meerkat), GPS location (meerkat app doesn’t have), video streaming quality, Celebrities, the ability to watch streams even after they're no longer live (for 24 hours) and last but not the least the number of users.

Right now, Periscope has a clear lead that makes it the most downloaded live streaming video app with much more accessibility. In other words, if Meerkat stays the way it is, it won't last long because meerkat video has a lot of catching up to do. With the meerkat app, one can like or comment on the live streaming while in periscope video one can use a killer feature like infinite hearts which enables you to tap as many times as you like or you can just double tap to send two hearts simultaneously.

Source: http://www.yatko.com/develop/meerkat-vs-periscope-vs-spycam