The Stream Deck Plus is back to its lowest price

The Stream Deck Plus is on sale for $159.99. If you’re looking for a simple way to streamline your workflow, the Elgato Stream Deck Plus is a handy productivity tool for automating everyday tasks. Right now, it’s on sale for $159.99 ($40 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo, which is its best price to date.Like the standard Stream Deck, the Stream Deck Plus comes with eight programmable keys you can use to automate tasks, such as muting yourself on a video call or turning off smart lights. The Plus, however, adds more customizability with four rotary dials that let you make fine adjustments, like changing the volume for a specific app.

Elgato Stream Deck Plus

Where to Buy:

$199.99 $159.99 at Amazon (black)
$199.99 $159.99 at Best Buy
$199.99 $159.99 at B&H Photo

The dials are especially useful for controlling music. With a single dial, you skip forward or backward through a Spotify playlist, then press it to pause or play. On a standard Stream Deck, you’d need multiple b***ons to do the same thing. Elgato also includes “Dial Stacks,” which let each dial handle multiple functions you can cycle through. A slim touchscreen above the dials shows what each control is currently a**igned to and lets you swipe between different pages within a profile. And while the touchscreen itself can’t trigger plug-ins like the regular b***ons, Elgato’s since released software updates that let you a**ign up to three standard b***on or plugin actions to each dial, making the Stream Deck Plus far more useful than it was at launch.

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The Stream Deck Plus is back to its lowest price

Elgato Stream Deck Plus

Where to Buy:

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I turned an old laptop into the most useful device in my house, and it took an afternoon

This ESP32-powered WLED matrix mirrors your movements on a colorful RGB screen

Someone modded their Steam Deck to look like an Xbox 360 handheld, and I’m in love

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I found this Claude feature so good that I canceled ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity

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