Add anything to your stream, step by step
Visual walkthroughs for every Kloot overlay — shown with the real panel and the real overlay, so what you set up is exactly what your viewers see. Works with OBS and Streamlabs, on Twitch, YouTube, Kick, and TikTok Live.
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Add Kloot to OBS — once
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OBS setup guide · ~3 minBuild your first tool
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Your first stream overlay
You don't need a stack. You don't need a bot. You need one browser source in OBS and three things on a deck you can press. Here's the whole setup, start to live, in ten minutes.
Add sponsor ads to your stream
Two overlays turn a brand deal into real money on stream: an always-on banner that quietly holds the corner all session, and a code callout you fire the second you read the sponsor. Here is exactly how to build both in Kloot — with the real panel and the real overlay, so what you set up is what your viewers see.
Run a giveaway on your stream
A giveaway is the fastest way to grow a stream — if entering is effortless and the draw is a moment. In Kloot, viewers enter in one tap by QR or join code (no bot, no chat command), a spin wheel picks the winner live on your overlay, and the prize is auto-emailed. Here is the whole thing, from prize to winner, on the real panel and the real overlay.
Run a giveaway on Kick
Kick’s third-party tooling is thin, so most giveaway advice for it starts with “install a chatbot” — and on Kick that is a shorter list of options than on Twitch. Kloot takes the other route entirely: it never connects to your Kick account and never reads Kick chat. The giveaway is a card on your overlay, entry is a QR code or a short join code, and the draw is a wheel that spins live while you watch it with your room. Everything below is the same on Kick as it is anywhere else, which is the point.
Add a live poll to your stream
A poll turns a passive audience into the room deciding what happens next. In Kloot you fire a poll from one deck key, viewers vote in a tap by QR or join code (no chat bot, no extension), and results animate live on your overlay — bars or a pie, in your colors. Here is how to build and run one, on the real panel and the real overlay.
Control your stream from your phone
Your Kloot deck runs in a browser — which means your phone or tablet is already a full control surface. Prop it beside your keyboard or hold it on the couch, tap a tool, and it fires onto the same overlay that’s in your OBS. No second monitor, no Stream Deck hardware, no alt-tabbing out of your game.
Add a lower third to your stream
A lower third is the quiet workhorse of a produced-looking stream: your name and handle for every new viewer, a guest credit the second they speak, a “now playing” caption nobody has to ask about. In Kloot you build it once, theme it to your brand, and toggle it from one deck key. Here is how — on the real panel and the real overlay.
Add a scrolling ticker to your stream
A ticker is the news bar of your stream: a thin scrolling line along the top or bottom that quietly rotates your schedule, socials, announcements, and sponsor reads while you play. In Kloot you write up to ten lines, set the speed and colors, and flip the whole bar on and off from one deck key — the scroll loops seamlessly on its own the moment it’s up. Here is how to build one, on the real panel and the real overlay, so what you set up is exactly what your viewers see.
Add a Starting Soon / BRB screen to your stream
A Starting Soon screen is the difference between “this stream is warming up” and thirty seconds of someone’s desktop. In Kloot, the full-screen scenes — Starting Soon, Be Right Back, Ending, and more — live on your one overlay source and cover the entire canvas from a single deck key, so you never build or switch an OBS scene for them. Retext a template once, add an optional countdown, and every future stream opens, breaks, and closes on a press. Here is how to set it up, on the real panel and the real overlay.
Add a webcam border / frame to your stream
A plain rectangle of webcam is the fastest tell of a default OBS setup. A border fixes that in one toggle: pick one of 11 lightweight CSS-first frames, recolor it to your brand, and drag the region over your cam — it draws on your overlay above the camera, holds all stream, and barely touches your GPU. Here is how to build one, on the real panel and the real overlay.
Add alerts to your live stream
Most alert tools wire your alerts to platform events — and then a follow alert misfires over your clutch play, or a raid card lags thirty seconds behind the raid. Kloot alerts work the other way: YOU are the trigger. You build styled cards for the moments that matter, pin them to your deck, and fire each one the second it happens — so the alert and your on-mic reaction land together. Here is how to build your set, on the real panel and the real overlay.
Add a live counter (kills / score / goals) to your stream
A kill counter is the simplest scoreboard a stream can have — and the honest version is the best one: YOU press +1 the moment the kill lands, so the number is always right and there is no game integration to break on a patch. In Kloot a counter is one styled number on your overlay with four deck keys — +1, −1, Reset, and Show/Hide — that you press from your deck or phone without alt-tabbing. It works for kills, deaths, wins, push-ups, or a goal with a built-in celebration. Here is how to build one, on the real panel and the real overlay.
Bump a counter from Stream Deck or Streamer.bot
Your counter already has deck keys in Kloot. If you live on a physical Stream Deck or already run Streamer.bot, you can bump it from there too: every counter has its own +1, −1 and reset trigger link, and both apps can call a link with an action they ship with. No plugin, no bot account, no code.
Put your whole deck on a Stream Deck
Your Kloot deck is already a set of keys. If you own a Stream Deck, the whole deck can live on it: every key with its icon, its label and, with the plugin, its live count. Nothing to copy per key and nothing to size. Two minutes, once.
Give your mods a Stream Deck
The counter your mod can press is better when it is a real key on their desk. Share your deck once; every helper then connects their own Stream Deck with their own code and gets your keys with their role. No token of yours ever leaves your account.
Let a mod run your death counter
Mid-boss you should not be reaching for a key. On Pro you share your whole deck with someone you trust: a mod, a duo partner, a friend in the room. They sign in with Google or Twitch, your deck shows up as a tab in their own Kloot panel, and they press your counter for you. Every press is signed with their name. Remove them any time.
Run a kill / death scoreboard on stream
Two or three separate counters in the same corner look like clutter and push each other around. A scoreboard puts them in one box: pick a main counter, add the others as rows, and the overlay draws a single tidy block — while every count keeps its own +1 / −1 keys and its milestones.
Death counter per boss, with a personal best
One big death number stops meaning much by the third boss. What viewers actually want to know is how this fight is going, and whether you are beating your best. In Kloot a counter can be split into segments, one per boss or level. Each segment keeps its own count and its own personal best, and while a session is running the counter can show tonight’s deaths next to the all-time total. You press every button yourself, so nothing resets at the wrong moment.
Milestone celebrations for your death counter
Death #100 is a moment, and chat wants to see it land. The problem with most celebration effects is that they explode across the middle of the screen right when you need to see the fight. Kloot milestones are built the other way round: they play inside the counter’s own box, along the bottom edge of the frame, or as a pulse on your Borders — and the play area is never drawn over. Each milestone plays once per run, so a miscount that goes back and forth across 50 does not replay it.
Put a sponsor on your death counter
The counter is the one part of your overlay viewers check all stream — every death is another glance at it. If you already have a sponsor, that is a natural home for a quiet “brought to you by” line. In Kloot the sponsor row sits inside the counter’s own box, under the number, with the sponsor’s name and its disclosure label. It uses a sponsor you have already set up, and nothing else on stream changes.
Charity death counter: money per death
“I donate a dollar every time I die” is one of the best charity-stream bits there is, because every death suddenly matters to chat. The overlay should say what it costs, not just how many. In Kloot a counter can show its count as money: set the amount per count and the symbol, and 47 deaths reads $47 on stream. It is a display you set the rate for — Kloot does not handle or read any donations — and an optional donation link sits in your panel so it is one tap away when chat asks.
Countdown that switches to your BRB screen
Some counters count toward something: “10 bosses left”, “5 more deaths and I take a break”, “3 wins to go”. The best part is the moment it runs out, and you should not have to fumble for a scene switch while it happens. In Kloot a countdown counter can show one of your Screens — a BRB card, a victory screen — the moment it reaches zero. It happens once per run, so correcting a miscount near zero does not flash the Screen again.
Share a stream recap of your counters
The numbers chat watched all night are gone the moment you go offline. A Kloot session keeps them: press End session and a recap card opens with what every counter did tonight, where it ended, all-time and your personal best. Pick the layout for where you post and download it.
Add emoji reactions & hype effects to your stream
The best moments of a stream deserve more than a chat spam — they deserve the screen itself reacting. Kloot’s Emojis tool puts confetti, emoji rain, fireworks, and a shockwave on deck keys you fire by hand, so the eruption lands the exact second your reaction does. Every effect plays over the whole scene for a few seconds and cleans itself up. Here is how to build your set — including a custom emoji button — and fire it from your phone.
Cover your screen instantly when you tab out
Every streamer has leaked something once — an address in a DM, a payout number, the map reveal you swore you wouldn’t spoil. A privacy scene in OBS works, but it takes setup, a hotkey you remember under pressure, and a switch back you forget half the time. Kloot’s Cover is one deck key: tap it and an opaque panel snaps over your screen — full screen or just a section — faster than you can alt-tab. Here is how to set it up, on the real panel and the real overlay.
Set up overlays for a charity stream
A charity stream is four overlays working one room: a goal counter the night chases, a ticker that repeats the donation link and entry rule so you never have to, a thanks ribbon for the cause, and a giveaway draw for the finale. Donations run through your donation platform — Kloot is the on-screen layer that turns them into moments, with you bumping the goal by hand as each gift lands. And because a fundraiser is usually a one-off, the $5 Event Pass covers 48 hours of everything in Pro — no subscription for a single big night.
Add your own alert video
Most alert tutorials end the same way: pick one of ours, recolour it, done. That is fine until you have already paid someone to make an alert that looks like your channel, and it is sitting in a folder because there was nowhere to put it. This walkthrough is the other half of that transaction — getting your own file onto a key you can press. It is a genuinely different job from picking a preset: the file already carries its motion, its timing and its sound, so the only decisions left are where it sits, how big it is, and how long it stays.
Add a transparent WEBM to OBS
Transparent video is the one part of overlay work where everything looks fine right up until it does not. There is no error message. The file plays, the colours are right, and there is a grey or black rectangle behind your subject that was not there in your editor. Almost every page on this query either hand-waves the format question or gives advice that produces exactly that rectangle. This one is written from having got it wrong and then found out why — the trap is real, it is specific, and once you know it the fix takes one line.
Add your own webcam frame
There are two ways to frame a camera, and they solve different problems. Kloot’s Borders tool gives you eleven templates you recolour — fast, light, and enough for most people. This page is the other one: you already have a frame, someone made it for you or you drew it yourself, and no template is going to match it. Held media takes that exact file, at your position and your size, and keeps it on screen all session. Nothing is regenerated, nothing is approximated — what you uploaded is what draws.
Add your own sound effects to OBS
Looking for ready-made sounds? Kloot already has 85 built in — see the sound effects guide. This page is for your own files. Firing a sound on cue is one of those things that looks trivial and is genuinely awkward in practice. The usual answers are a media source per sound and a hotkey per source, a second application running alongside OBS, or hardware. All three work and all three cost you something — scene clutter, another window, or the price of the hardware. This walkthrough uses the overlay you already have in your scene: upload the file, put it on a key, press the key. There is one OBS setting that decides whether any of it reaches your audience, and it is step five rather than a footnote.
Sound effects for live streams
The right sound at the right second is half the joke — the airhorn on the clutch, the sad trombone on the death. Kloot keeps 85 of them in your control deck, so you search for the moment, pin the sound to a key, and press it mid-game. This guide walks the whole path, including the one OBS checkbox that decides whether your viewers hear any of it.
Loop background music in OBS
A stream with no floor under it feels longer than it is. Loading screens, the first ten minutes before anyone arrives, a break where you step away — silence in those stretches is the difference between a quiet moment and a dead one. The usual fix is a media source with a loop checkbox, or a separate player you alt-tab to. Both work; both put the control somewhere other than where your hands are. This puts the bed on a toggle key, next to everything else you press.
Use your overlay pack
Overlay packs have a completion problem. The download happens, the zip gets unpacked, and then the instructions say to add a source per element — and somewhere around the fourth one it stops being worth the evening. Most packs people buy end up partly installed or not installed at all. This is a different route: rather than reproducing the pack’s structure in your scene list, you upload the pieces you actually use and put them on keys. The pack stops being a folder and becomes a deck page.
Convert a MOV to a transparent WEBM
Almost every motion designer exports a .MOV, and almost every browser overlay wants a WEBM. That conversion is where transparency goes to die, quietly. The file converts, the command exits zero, and the result is your subject on a grey rectangle. There are exactly two reasons that happens, both easy to fix once you know them, and both invisible from the outside — no warning, no non-zero exit code, nothing in the log. This page covers what to check, the flags that matter, and the shortcut if you would rather not touch a command line.
Build a soundboard without hardware
A soundboard is one of the few things on a stream that is genuinely better with physical buttons — and also one of the few where the hardware costs more than everything else in the setup combined. The argument for buying one usually skips the fact that you already own a touchscreen with more buttons than any deck, sitting on the desk next to your keyboard. Kloot’s control deck is a web app, which means your phone or tablet is the board. This page covers building a real one: sizing it, laying it out, and the one OBS setting that decides whether the audience hears any of it.
Auto-deliver Steam keys to giveaway winners
If you have ever finished a stream and then spent twenty minutes DMing keys to people who may or may not reply, this is the version where that does not happen.
Your first giveaway — the 10-minute plan
The version of this that goes wrong is the one where you spend forty minutes on setup, discover the overlay is the wrong size, and give up. So this one does not use OBS at all until you already know it works.
Run a giveaway on YouTube Live
The usual YouTube route means adding a bot as a moderator in YouTube Studio and hoping chat behaves. This one does not touch your chat at all.
Make a poll on Twitch without being an affiliate
Twitch’s built-in polls are restricted to Partners and Affiliates, so if you are not there yet the feature simply is not in your dashboard. This is the way round it that does not involve waiting.
Schedule a giveaway
A giveaway announced while it is already running only reaches the people who were watching anyway. The point of scheduling one is that the link exists before the stream does, so the announcement has somewhere to point.
Draw multiple winners
A bundle of keys is a common prize and a terrible segment. Spinning twenty times in a row is ten minutes of the same animation, and the room empties somewhere around the sixth winner.
Run a trivia quiz on stream
A quiz is a poll with a right answer and a clock. That sounds like a small difference and it is not: the moment a wrong answer is possible, the room leans in.
Run a word cloud on stream
Every other poll asks the room to choose from your list. A word cloud asks them for the word, which is a different question and occasionally a much better one.
See what a giveaway did
Most streamers finish a giveaway knowing exactly one thing about it: how many people entered. That number cannot tell you whether the giveaway worked, because it cannot tell you how many people saw it and did not.
Send giveaway events to Zapier
If you have ever copied a winner’s name into a spreadsheet after a stream, this is the version where that happens without you. A webhook is a message your giveaway sends to a URL you own, the moment something happens.
Run a giveaway on Instagram Live
Instagram Live has no giveaway feature, no chat bot ecosystem, and a comment stream that moves too fast to read. It also has promotion rules that most giveaway posts on the platform quietly break.
Run a giveaway while multistreaming
Every chat-based giveaway breaks when you multistream, and it breaks quietly: the tool reads one chat, so half your audience is entering something they cannot win and nobody tells them.
Run a giveaway anywhere
Every giveaway guide assumes Twitch. If you stream somewhere smaller, the honest situation is that the bots, the extensions and the integrations were built for someone else — and the platform itself may not be there next year.
Run a poll on Kick
Kick supports polls and predictions of its own, so this is not a page about a missing feature. It is about where the poll appears — and the answer decides whether the moment survives being clipped.
Run a giveaway in a Discord stage
A Discord Stage is an audio room. You can share a screen in one, and you should — but you have to design the giveaway for the people who will never look at it.
Starting Soon that hands off by itself
The awkward part of a Starting Soon screen is not putting it up — it is taking it down. You are mid-sentence, the countdown hit zero a minute ago, and the screen is still there. A chain fixes that: the screen hands the stream to the next one by itself.
Run a poll on your BRB screen
A break is the quietest your chat gets all stream. A poll on the break screen changes that: instead of waiting, the room is deciding something, and you come back to an answer rather than to silence.
Giveaway QR on your break screen
Reading a join code out loud only works if you are at the desk to read it. Putting the QR on the break screen means the entries keep arriving while you are not — and the count on screen tells the room it is working.
Interval timer for a fitness stream
People following a workout on stream cannot count your rounds for you. A phone timer on the floor tells you where the class is; it tells nobody watching.
Pomodoro timer for a study stream
On a study stream the timer is the show. If it lives in a browser window you captured, you are the only one who can see where you are — and you are the one restarting it every twenty-five minutes.
Segment cards for a live podcast
A rundown on paper is a rundown only you can see. Put each segment on a band across the frame and the whole room knows where the show is — including the guest who cannot see your notes.
Every tool, one overlay
All 13 tools ride the same browser source. Explore what each one does:
Before you start
Do I need a separate OBS browser source for each overlay?
No. Kloot runs through one overlay URL in a single Browser source. That one source carries polls, giveaways, sponsor banners, lower thirds, alerts, effects — every tool. You add it once and never touch OBS again.
Do Kloot overlays fire automatically on follows, subs, or donations?
No — Kloot is manual-fire by design. You fire every tool yourself from the control deck in your browser or on your phone, so nothing interrupts a clutch moment on a timer. There is no bot wiring or event triggers to configure.
Does Kloot work with OBS, Streamlabs, Twitch, YouTube, and Kick?
Yes. Kloot is a browser-source overlay, so it works in OBS, Streamlabs Desktop, and any streaming software that supports browser sources — and it is platform-agnostic: Twitch, YouTube Live, Kick, and TikTok Live all see the same overlay.
Do I need a Stream Deck or any extra hardware?
No. Your Kloot deck runs in any browser — prop your phone or tablet next to your keyboard and it becomes the control surface. No second monitor, no Stream Deck hardware, no alt-tabbing out of your game.
How long does it take to set up?
About 3 minutes to add the overlay URL to OBS (you do this once), then a few minutes per tool. Every walkthrough on this page lists its step count and estimated time up front.
What does Kloot cost?
Free runs 2 giveaways and 2 polls a month with no card (Kloot badge on overlays). Pro is $9/month or $79/year: no monthly limit, automatic prize emails, sponsor overlays and no Kloot badge. For a one-off event, the Event Pass is $5 for 48 hours of everything in Pro.
Less setup.
More streaming.
Every walkthrough ends the same way: one overlay URL in OBS, every tool on your deck. Free to start.
Free forever · Pro $9/month or $79/year · Event Pass $5 for 48 hours · Prices + applicable taxes