Donastar vs Sucolab — Features & Pricing
Sucolab and Donastar both work on your stream screen, but they cover different jobs. Sucolab is a free overlay-design tool for decorating your screen, while Donastar is an all-in-one toolkit with donation alerts, AI, multilingual TTS, and multi-platform unified chat. Since they sit in different categories, this article compares them by what each one can actually do, so you can tell which you need.
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What Sucolab does well
Sucolab is a free tool specialized in stream-screen design. It lets you style screen layouts and overlays with a strong aesthetic sense and drop in on-screen elements like counter widgets, making it a great starting point for streamers who want a more polished screen at no cost. Being free and genuinely good at design is Sucolab’s clear strength — if you only need your screen to look great and don’t need donation alerts or AI, it may be all you need.
What Donastar adds
Donastar goes beyond screen design and bundles the tools you need to run a stream into a single subscription, filling in the areas Sucolab doesn’t cover.
- Donation alert widgets — donation alerts that Sucolab doesn’t offer, built in
- 30+ multilingual TTS voices — reads donation messages aloud with multilingual speech synthesis
- AI live chat & AI VTuber — real-time conversational AI hosting
- AI image generation (Imagen) — generate stream visuals on the fly
- 12-platform unified chat — YouTube, Twitch, SOOP, Chzzk, TikTok, Kick, and more in one window
- Screen/widget design and counter widgets — design features included too
- 6-language UI and one USD price — Dona top-ups can be paid in local currency at checkout
At a glance
| Feature | Donastar | Sucolab |
|---|---|---|
| Donation alert widgets | ✓ | ✗ |
| TTS voice (30+ · multilingual) | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI live chat · AI VTuber | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI image generation | ✓ | ✗ |
| Multi-platform unified chat | ✓ 12 | YouTube display only |
| Screen · widget design | ✓ | ✓ specialized |
| Counter widget | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-currency billing | ✓ local-currency top-ups | — |
How pricing differs
Sucolab is a free tool specialized in stream-screen design, so there’s no entry cost — but it doesn’t provide donation alerts, TTS, or AI. Donastar bundles screen widgets plus donation alerts, AI live chat, multilingual TTS, AI images, and 12-platform unified chat into a single Premium subscription, so you don’t have to pay separately for a design tool, a donation tool, and an AI tool. Donastar Premium is $110/month ($99 for the first purchase), with monthly, 6-month, and yearly options. New accounts get 2,000 credits free, and the first Premium subscription includes a 7-day free trial. On the donations you receive, Donastar’s fee is the world’s lowest at 5%: the 3% payment-network fee is deducted with it at settlement, settlements requested within your first 3 months (under 5,000 Dona received) are 0% for both, and viewers pay a 10% payment fee when they buy Dona (1 Dona = $0.10), payable in their local currency at checkout.
Which should you choose
- Just need free screen design? → Sucolab. If you only want a good-looking screen without donation alerts or AI, a free tool is plenty.
- Want donation alerts, multilingual TTS, AI, and multi-platform unified chat in one place? → Donastar. It covers everything beyond design in a single subscription.
- Want to use both? — You can. Donastar widgets are added as OBS browser sources, so you can layer Donastar donation alerts, chat, roulette, and more right on top of a screen you built in Sucolab.
Wrap-up
Sucolab is strong at free screen design; Donastar adds donation alerts, multilingual TTS, AI, and multi-platform unified chat on top. They’re different by nature, so you can happily run both — and the moment you need features beyond design is the moment to consider Donastar. If you’re looking for a Sucolab alternative, or a complement to it, try Donastar free for 7 days first.
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