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 Kloot's overlay URL as an OBS browser source, build a lower third in the panel — pick a layout, add your name, title and optional photo — then fire it on screen. It animates in, holds, and clears on command from your phone or browser deck. It's about a four-minute setup.
You set it up here
It lands here — the real overlay
What you’ll build
A branded name banner in your chosen corner — one of five layouts, your accent color, smooth motion — that one deck key shows and hides (or an auto-hide timer clears for you).
Paste your single Kloot overlay URL into one Browser source in OBS and size it to your canvas. That one source powers your lower thirds and every other Kloot tool — you never add another browser source.
Already have Kloot in OBS from another tool? Skip this — lower thirds ride the source you already added.
Open the Lower Thirds tool and fill a slot: the title is the big line (your name, the guest, the track), the subtitle is the context (@handle, role, album). Pick a font that matches your brand — gaming, clean, script, retro.
Keep the title to a glance. The subtitle is where handles and detail live — it renders smaller and quieter.
Upload a photo or logo and choose circle or rounded-square. It sits beside the text — ideal for guest intros and podcast straps where a face makes the credit land.
Five layouts: Bar (the broadcast classic), Card, Minimal, Gradient, and Podcast. The transparent toggle strips the solid plate so the strap sits directly on a webcam feed — the TV-interview look.
Dark scenes → Bar or Gradient. Webcam-first formats → Podcast + transparent. Art/music streams → Minimal.
One accent color tints the bar, border, and gradient together. Choose any of the four corners with the position grid, and pick the reveal motion — cut, fade, slide, pop, or bounce.
Bottom-left is the broadcast default. If your game HUD lives there, top-left reads just as naturally.
Each slot gets a deck key: one press shows the lower third, one press hides it — from your browser or your phone. Set an optional auto-hide (30–120s) and it clears itself while you keep playing.
You get five slots. Build “me”, “guest”, and “now playing” once — then every stream is just a key press.
Once the slot is built, running it is one key — show, hold, hide. Here’s the whole loop, and what each side sees.
Tap the deck key when the segment starts. The lower third slides into its corner with your chosen motion — name, subtitle, and accent, over whatever scene is live.
Leave it up all segment, or set an auto-hide so it clears itself after 30–120 seconds. Either way you keep playing; the overlay does the housekeeping.
New guest, new topic, new song — change the title or subtitle in the panel and save. The overlay updates in place, no OBS touch, no re-adding sources.
The same key toggles it off with the exit motion. Each of your five slots keeps its own text, layout, and corner — the intro strap you build tonight is one press away next stream.
It’s the quietest tool on the deck — and the one that answers “who is this / what is this?” all stream:
When: New viewers land mid-stream — a raid, a host, a clip gone around.
Why it works: A name-and-socials strap answers “who is this?” without you breaking the moment to say it.
When: A guest joins the call or a co-stream starts.
Why it works: Fire their name + handle the second they speak — it credits them properly and sends followers their way.
When: Music streams, art streams, category swaps.
Why it works: A quiet caption keeps the current track or task on screen, so nobody has to ask in chat.
When: Talk shows and webcam-first formats.
Why it works: The transparent podcast layout sits directly on the camera feed — broadcast-style speaker names without a solid plate.
Bar, gradient, minimal, or a transparent podcast strap — every preview below is the real overlay renderer, in your colors, motion replaying.
The broadcast default: accent bar, name, handle. Reads from any screen size.
Your name and @handle in your brand color, bottom-left, every stream. New viewers know whose channel this is in one glance — no chat command needed.
One key shows and hides itA color sweep that carries your palette — the “produced show” look.
Guest intro on a collab night: their name rides your brand gradient, so the overlay says “this is my show, this is my guest” — and their handle is on screen while they talk.
Each slot keeps its own text + cornerA clean, small caption that informs without competing with the scene.
“Now playing · Lo-Fi Radio” under a music or art stream. It answers the most-asked chat question all session and never covers your work.
Auto-hide clears it on a timer if you wantBroadcast-style speaker names that sit directly on the camera feed.
A talk-show format with two cams: each speaker gets a transparent strap in their corner — the “TV interview” look with zero solid plate blocking the shot.
Transparent flag strips the backgroundPick any of the four corners. Run two slots at once — host one side, guest the other — and Kloot stacks widgets sharing a corner automatically.
A lower third is the small name-and-title banner that sits in a lower corner of the screen — the same graphic TV uses to introduce a speaker. On a stream it usually carries your name and handle, a guest credit, or a “now playing” line.
No — Kloot is manual-fire. You show and hide it from a deck key in your browser or on your phone, and an optional auto-hide timer can clear it for you after 30–120 seconds. Nothing pops in on its own.
Yes. Edit the title or subtitle in the panel and save — the overlay updates in place within a second, without touching OBS. That is how you swap guest names mid-show.
Yes — you get five slots, each with its own text, layout, and corner. Host bottom-left and guest bottom-right is the classic two-slot setup, and widgets sharing a corner stack automatically instead of overlapping.
That is what the Podcast layout + transparent background is for: it strips the solid plate so the name strap sits directly on the camera feed, broadcast style.
Lower thirds are on the Creator plan ($15/mo) and up, alongside polls, alerts, tickers, counters, borders, and the effects library — with no watermark.
Five slots, five layouts, your colors — shown and hidden from one key. Lower thirds are on Creator, with no watermark.
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