OBS Studio plugin

Chat

Your Twitch chat on stream in seconds, styled however you like, straight inside OBS.

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By Andi v0.0.3 Beta
Windows macOS Linux
OBS 31.1+
Twitch

Seven sources, one plugin. Columns, bars, tickers and your own bubble artwork.

Add the source, type your channel name, done. Your chat appears on stream straight away, and a visual designer opens so you can style it however you like.

There is nothing to sign into, no website to set up, and no code to copy and paste.

Everything it does

Key features

Add it, type your channel name, and chat is on screen
A column down the side or a bar across the bottom, styled however you like
Emotes from Twitch, 7TV, BetterTTV and FrankerFaceZ, including the animated ones
Badges, profile pictures and pronouns next to every name
Subs, gifted subs and raids show as a proper message you can read
Deleted messages and banned users disappear from your overlay
Hide messages after a few seconds so chat never fills the screen
Skip your bots, and skip messages that start with an exclamation mark
Choose any font on your computer, or any Google font
Style it while you watch, with your real chat in front of you

Yours to configure

Every knob, where you expect it

Open the source and the designer opens with it. Change anything and you see it happen on your stream right away, because your actual source is the preview. Happy with it, press Keep. Not happy, press Discard and it goes back to how it was.

Source. Size, layout, how many messages and how much room they get.

Container. The colours behind events, highlights and first messages.

Text. Any font on your computer, any size, a colour per role.

Badges and emotes. Which emote services to use, and how big everything sits.

Animation. How messages arrive, and how long they stay.

Moderation. Hide deleted messages, skip commands, ignore your bots.

Audio. A sound on new messages, with its own row in the OBS mixer.

Channels. Add as many as you like and they merge into one chat.

Make it fit your stream

Every screenshot here is the same source, set up differently.

Run it as a column down the side of your scene or as a bar across the bottom. Pick a look, then change the font, the size, the colours, the corners, the spacing and how much room each message takes. Turn timestamps on. Make the emotes bigger. Round the bubbles off, or square them up.

If you want something really specific, hand it your own bubble artwork and it will stretch to fit any message without going blurry.

No CSS, no theme files to hunt down.

Classic. Simple rows, easy to read, gets out of the way.

Bubbles. Each message in its own speech bubble.

Cards. Wide panels with a coloured edge.

Compact. Smaller text and timestamps, so more chat fits.

Or go your own way with your fonts and colours.

Horizontal. A single bar along the bottom, newest on the right.

Nobody misses a sub or a raid

When somebody subscribes, gifts subs or raids you, it shows up as a message that actually says what happened, highlighted so it stands out from the conversation around it.

First-time chatters get their own highlight too, so you can spot a new face and say hello.

A raid and a gift sub, highlighted as they land.

Emotes that actually work

Twitch, 7TV, BetterTTV and FrankerFaceZ emotes all show up, and the animated ones animate. It only loads the emotes your channel actually uses, and it keeps an eye on how hard it is working so a wall of emotes will not slow your stream down.

Profile pictures, badges and pronouns sit next to each name, so chat on your overlay looks like chat really looks.

Emotes, badges and profile pictures, the way your chat really looks.

History

Patch notes

v0.0.3

Your own source is the preview now, so changes show up on stream as you make them
Designer tidied into tabs
Use your own artwork for message bubbles, with nine designs built in
Rounder corners without clipping your text
Messages can fade or slide away instead of vanishing
More control over badge size
Pronouns next to names
Long words wrap properly instead of getting cut off

v0.0.2

Subs, gifts and raids read as proper messages
The designer opens with the source
Every window matches the rest of StreamUP
Added a feedback button

Ready to try it?

It installs into OBS and runs there. Nothing to sign into, nothing to keep open alongside it. Questions, ideas or something not working? We are in the Discord.

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