Names no specific product or company — this compares a free calculator against the generic method most streamers already use: a personal spreadsheet with a payout formula typed in once and copied down for every month.
| Question | Spreadsheet formula | This calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue split over a career | A constant typed in once, easy to leave at 50% after qualifying for the Plus Program's 60% or 70% | A field you update the month your split changes, so a new split never silently underprices old-formula months |
| Whether a mobile subscription pays less | Often modeled as a fee reduction, following the outdated app-store-cut assumption | Modeled as no difference, matching Twitch's current mobile pricing policy — see the linked explainer |
| Bits vs. sub-revenue split | Easy to accidentally apply the same split percentage to Bits as to subs | Bits are kept separate and always priced at a flat $0.01 each, never split |
| Whole-month income-goal check | A second sheet or a manual sum, often not kept in sync with the tier tab | Built in — see total payout against your monthly target and how many more Tier 1 subs close the gap |
| History across months and seasons | Its actual strength — a running log month over month | Prices one month at a time; does not replace an income log |
| Shareable single scenario | Requires sending the whole file or a screenshot | One link, via "Copy shareable link," with no file attached |
Neither tool sets your revenue split, your sub counts, or your Bits total — both are arithmetic on numbers you already have, and both are only as accurate as the figures you type in.
Plenty of streamers do, and a spreadsheet is a fine tool for a monthly income log. The failure mode is not the spreadsheet itself — it is that your revenue split is not a constant across a career. It changes the day you qualify for Partner Plus, and a formula copied down a column keeps using whatever split was true the month you typed it, silently understating income every month after the split changes.
Not necessarily. This tool prices one month at a time and does not save a running history across months the way a spreadsheet's rows do. Many streamers use both: this calculator to get one month's split-and-Bits arithmetic right whenever their split or sub counts change, and their own spreadsheet to log the result alongside every other month for the year.