claude-cast vs Pointcast
claude-cast is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by kvreem. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). Pointcast is an MCP server published by Hugelidus. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-19. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  claude-cast |   Pointcast |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 0.1.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 7 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.8.1 Downloads/month (npm): 1 730 Downloads/week (npm): 76 Forks (GitHub): 3 Stars (GitHub): 5 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | claude-cast | Pointcast |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 (worse) | 2 (better) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 7 (better) | 5 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 (worse) | 3 (better) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (pointcast) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | 1, secrets among them: 0 | 2, secrets among them: 0 |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 1 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 5 | 2 |
| Licence (differs) | Not stated | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/kvreem/claude-cast | github.com/hugelidus/pointcast |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
claude-cast
Stream Twitch, YouTube, and Kick live streams alongside your Claude Code sessions. Audio plays via mpv, live chat scrolls in a neo-blessed TUI side pane with colored usernames and badges, and an animated waveform visualizer shows playback status. Three layout modes (compact, rich, minimal), full slash command control (/claude-cast pause, mute, volume, stop), and keyboard shortcuts for hands-free control. Twitch chat works zero-config, YouTube and Kick supported out of the box. Runs in a tmux split pane so your coding workflow stays uninterrupted.
Pointcast
Talk and Alt+click on your web app: your agent gets the exact elements and the code behind them.
How to run each
claude-cast As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install claude-cast@claude-communityPointcast As a local MCP server: npm package
claude mcp add --transport stdio pointcast -- npx -y pointcast mcpCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Only claude-cast asks for
CLAUDE_CAST_ROOT
Only Pointcast asks for
POINTCAST_DIRPOINTCAST_HANDOFF
Settings as each marketplace publishes them. Asking for fewer is not better in itself.
What it can do: claude-cast · What it can do: Pointcast · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.