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Kodiak vs ProPresenter
Both deliver true fill and key to an ATEM. Kodiak is the native Mac playout deck built around the program feed: the editor, ATEM automation, output monitoring, media checks, and hot backup live in one system. ProPresenter is strongest when the job begins with worship content, lyrics, scripture, and its established ecosystem.
Updated July 2026.
Choose for the job you run
Choose Kodiak if
A native macOS editor and broadcast playout deck in one app, fill and key over dual SDI. $200 once, perpetual, two computers.
- The show is one keyed program feed through an ATEM
- You want a backup Mac that takes air on its own
- You want the editor inside the playout deck
- $200 once beats a subscription for your rig
Choose ProPresenter if
The worship-presentation standard on macOS and Windows, with true fill and key to an ATEM natively. Subscription only for new buyers, $29 per month or $289 per year.
- Worship is the job: songs, scripture, CCLI, themes
- Its content library and community carry your week
- You run Windows machines in the mix
- Service flow matters more than failover
What Kodiak adds on show night
Five safeguards for the program feed, beyond the fill and key output and editing both products provide.
A live backup, not a trigger mirror
- Import on the primary and the backup has it
- Edit a slide or move a timer and both machines match
- The whole show stays mirrored cue for cue, media and all
- If the primary dies, the backup cuts itself to air on the ATEM within seconds
- No key combo and no operator handoff
ATEM automation through the whole cue
- Tally can trigger the take
- Kodiak watches the downstream key state
- Cue end can cut the key automatically
- A dropped switcher link reconnects on its own
Bad media caught before it airs
- Every file checked in the background
- Corruption flagged off the air path, before it goes to program
The output watched frame by frame
- DeckLink frame confirmations are monitored while output is live
- If DeckLink stops confirming frames, Kodiak raises the alarm within seconds
Licensing that can never dark the SDI
- No license state has a path to the output
- Never-block-go-live is structural, not a promise
Kodiak, up close
The parts that matter, shown instead of listed.
Fluent ATEM
Tally cues the take, the downstream key is watched, and Kodiak cuts on cue end.
A dropped link reconnects on its own, mid show.
The switcher stays in the loop from take through cue end.
Live sync, then takeover
The whole show mirrored one to one, cue for cue, media and all.
If the primary dies, the backup cuts itself to air on its own.
The backup is already current when it needs to take over.
Fill and key, by the book
External keying only, and Kodiak verifies the device can key before the show.
The SDI locks and stays locked once the output format is set to the switcher's standard, 1080p29.97 by default.
The device and format are checked before the output goes live.
The editor and the deck, one app
Kodiak's editor lives inside the deck that airs the show.
The fix two minutes before doors happens in the same app that takes it to program.
The fix goes straight from the run sheet to the SDI output.
NDI on a slide
Drop a network source onto a slide and it plays like any other layer.
Sources on the network show up on their own.
Network sources stay in the same run sheet as every other cue.
Built to keep the switched show on air
Kodiak is not trying to replace a worship-content library. It is the native Mac editor and playout deck for the program feed. It verifies media before air, watches SDI while the show runs, keeps the ATEM connected, and holds a synchronized backup ready to take over. If those are the risks your room needs covered, choose Kodiak.
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Sunday-ready before Sunday
The trial is the full app for 21 days. No account, no card. When it ends, Kodiak keeps running free, everything but NDI, the ATEM link, and hot-backup sync.
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