# ESTAGE Rooms

> The ESTAGE desktop app for calls and live shows — getting it, joining by invite link, and how ESTAGE Rooms Signature adds a video room to booked meetings.

Source: https://knowledge.estage.com/rooms/
Part of the ESTAGE knowledge base (https://knowledge.estage.com). Full corpus: https://knowledge.estage.com/llms-full.txt

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**ESTAGE Rooms** is the ESTAGE desktop app for video calls and live shows. It hosts rooms with
camera, sound and screen sharing in a window of its own, so a call isn't a browser tab competing
for the camera.

## What it does

- **Video calls** — a native camera pipeline with background blur and touch-up, and clean sound.
- **Screen sharing** — share a window or the whole screen with everyone in the room.
- **Going live** — stream the room to your destinations and record it from the app.

## Getting the app

Download it at **[genesis.estage.com/download/rooms](https://genesis.estage.com/download/rooms)**.
It's also listed on **[genesis.estage.com/download](https://genesis.estage.com/download)** with
the other ESTAGE apps — in Genesis, open **Downloads** in the header menu. The app is free to
download.

The page detects your computer and puts the matching build under the main button. The others
are under **Other computers**.

| Build | Runs on |
| --- | --- |
| **Mac — Apple Silicon** | M1 or newer, macOS 12 or later |
| **Mac — Intel** | Intel Macs, macOS 12 or later |
| **Windows — any PC** | Intel, AMD or ARM, Windows 10 or later |
| **Windows — 64-bit** | Intel or AMD, Windows 10 or later |
| **Windows — ARM** | Snapdragon and other ARM PCs |

To install:

- **Mac** — open the disk image and drag **ESTAGE Rooms** to **Applications**. The app is signed
  and notarized by Apple.
- **Windows** — run the installer. It isn't code-signed, so SmartScreen warns the first time:
  choose **More info**, then **Run anyway**.

There's no Linux build.

## Joining a room

Guests don't need the app. Someone with an invite link opens it in their browser and joins
there. The app is for hosting rooms, and for joining them with the full camera and
screen-sharing toolkit.

## ESTAGE Rooms Signature and booked meetings

**ESTAGE Rooms Signature** is the paid product that puts an ESTAGE video room behind your
[booked meetings](/crm/bookings/). With it, a meeting type can use **ESTAGE video room** as its
location: each confirmed booking gets its own private room, and the invitee joins by the link in
their confirmation — no account needed.

You have Signature if either of these is true for the project owner's account:

- You bought one of the ESTAGE plans it's included with.
- You bought the **ESTAGE Room Signature** listing in the [Marketplace](/workspace/marketplace/).
  If you already own Signature through a plan, the listing shows **Included** and installs at
  no charge.

## Things worth knowing

- **Signature is checked when each booking is confirmed.** If it lapses — a refund, a
  cancellation, an expired plan — meetings that use the ESTAGE video room are still booked, but
  get the meeting type's fallback link instead of a room. Set a fallback link on every meeting
  type that uses the room.
- **Without Signature**, the room can't be chosen as a meeting location, and the meeting booking panel in
  the builder warns *"Estage Rooms is not on your account."* when a meeting type still uses it.
  See [Meeting booking](/rooms/meeting-booking/).
- **The app updates itself.** The download page always offers the latest published version, and
  a link copied from it keeps pointing at the latest build.