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 Kloot's overlay URL as an OBS browser source, open the screens tool in the panel, and pick Starting Soon, set its countdown and rotating text. Trigger it before you go live and clear it with one tap when your stream begins. Setup takes roughly four minutes.
You set it up here
It lands here — the real overlay
What you’ll build
Full-screen Starting Soon, BRB, and Ending scenes — your text, your background, an optional countdown — each one press away on your deck, riding the OBS source you already have.
Paste your single Kloot overlay URL into one Browser source in OBS and size it to your canvas. That one source powers your screens and every other Kloot tool — and because it sits on top of your scene, a full-screen Kloot scene covers everything under it without touching OBS again.
Already have Kloot in OBS from another tool? Skip this — the screens ride the source you already added.
Open the Screens tool and press New. The library shows every template as a live preview: pick one and choose which screen you want from it (Starting Soon, Be Right Back, an ending screen or a short moment card), then its layout and colours. The nine classic presets are there too. Each one arrives pre-written, so a usable screen exists before you type a word.
Set up Starting Soon, BRB, and Ending in one sitting — the same three keys then run every stream you do. You can browse the whole library first at kloot.gg/screens/library.
Retext the heading and subtitle to your voice, and pick an icon from the emoji library. Keep it to a line each — this text renders huge across the whole screen, so “Back in five — grab a snack” beats a paragraph.
Choose a solid color, a gradient sweep, or upload your own full-screen art, then pick the reveal motion for the text. Flip on the countdown timer if you want one — count down five minutes of warm-up, or have a BRB screen hide itself automatically the moment it hits 00:00. On Pro you can turn on Keeps counting past zero instead: the clock turns red and counts up, so viewers see you are running late rather than a frozen zero.
The countdown is a promise on screen. If you set “back in 05:00”, aim to be back near it — or leave the timer off.
Pin Starting Soon, BRB, and Ending to your deck so each is one press. Screens are one-at-a-time by design: firing one automatically swaps out whatever screen was up, so you can go straight from Starting Soon to the show, or from gameplay to BRB, with a single key.
Fire Starting Soon before you hit Go Live and let the countdown gather the room. Press again when you start — your scene was underneath the whole time. Tap BRB for breaks (your phone works from the kitchen), and fire Ending to hold the screen through goodbyes and the raid.
Your deck is a mobile PWA — BRB from your phone means you never sprint back to the desk to cover the stream.
One key each carries the show’s arc — Starting Soon before you go live, BRB at the break, Ending at the close. Here’s the loop, and what each side sees.
Press the Starting Soon key before you hit Go Live in OBS. The scene covers the whole canvas — your title, subtitle, and an optional countdown — so early arrivals see a show warming up, not your desktop or a frozen game menu.
When you’re ready, the same key clears the screen. It fades out to reveal whatever OBS was already showing — game, cam, everything. You never built a second OBS scene and you never switched one.
Door, food, bathroom: one tap (your phone deck works from the kitchen) and the BRB scene covers the entire canvas in one press — game, cam, and all. Set a countdown and it can even clear itself when you’re due back.
The thanks-for-watching scene holds the screen while you say goodbyes, plug the socials, and send the raid. Screens are one-at-a-time, so firing Ending swaps out anything else — then you end the stream on a produced note.
Every stream has moments the camera shouldn’t carry alone. These are the ones a screen covers:
When: You go live a few minutes before you’re actually ready — and viewers arrive early.
Why it works: A countdown screen turns dead air into anticipation. Notifications land, the room fills, and you finish your setup behind a scene that looks deliberate.
When: Bathroom, door, food delivery — the two-minute step-away every stream has.
Why it works: One tap covers the room: game, cam, and desktop all at once. Nothing awkward stays on screen, and the countdown tells viewers exactly when to drift back.
When: The game crashes, audio drops, or a capture card picks tonight to die.
Why it works: A calm, branded “hang tight” screen beats a frozen frame. Viewers stay seated while you fix it, instead of assuming the stream is over.
When: End of stream — you’re saying goodbyes, plugging socials, sending or landing a raid.
Why it works: An ending scene keeps a produced frame on screen through the whole wind-down, so the last thing anyone sees is your brand, not a hard cut to offline.
Starting Soon, Be Right Back, Stream Ending — every preview below is the real full-screen renderer with its countdown ticking, scaled down, not a mockup.
The countdown that turns early arrivals into an audience.
Fire it, go live, and finish your coffee. The purple sweep, your title, and a live 05:00 countdown hold the screen while notifications bring people in — by zero you have a room, not an empty chat.
One key up before you go liveOne tap covers everything — game, cam, desktop — instantly.
“Back in five” with a ticking timer reads as a promise, not an absence. Set the countdown to auto-hide at 00:00 and the stream uncovers itself the moment you’re due back.
Can auto-hide itself at 00:00A produced close that holds the room through the wind-down.
“Thanks for watching” stays up while you wrap, plug tomorrow’s stream, and send the raid. Retext the subtitle to your schedule once and it’s one press at the end of every show.
One key closes the showYour Kloot source sits on top of your OBS scene, so a screen hides the whole canvas in one press — and one more press reveals the game that was under it all along. No scene collection, no switching.
No. The screens ride your one Kloot browser source, which sits on top of your OBS scene — a full-screen Kloot scene covers everything under it. You fire and clear them from your deck; OBS never changes scenes.
No — everything in Kloot is manual-fire. The countdown is a visual: it ticks down on screen, and can auto-hide the screen at 00:00 if you choose, but going live, starting the show, and ending the stream are always your press.
A library of 64 templates, each one available as a Starting Soon, Be Right Back, ending screen and short moment card, plus the nine classic presets (Starting Soon, BRB, Intermission, Ending, Technical Difficulties, and giveaway and community screens). They are grouped by mood — gaming, esports, cozy, retro, horror, study and the rest — and every mood holds at least four of them, so picking your mood still leaves you a choice. 19 go live on every plan, at least one in every mood; the rest preview on any plan and go live on Pro. Every screen is fully retextable: your heading, subtitle, icon, background, and motion.
No — screens are deliberately one-at-a-time. Firing a screen swaps out whichever one was up in the same press, so you can jump from Starting Soon to BRB to Ending without ever un-toggling anything first.
Yes. Each screen’s background can be a solid color, a gradient sweep in your colors, or a full-screen image you upload — your own key art, a schedule graphic, or a photo.
Screens are on every plan. Free keeps two live — a Starting Soon and a BRB is the usual pair — and any more you build save as drafts. Pro ($9/month) runs ten, removes the Kloot badge, and runs every ticker, border, counter, alert and lower third you have built at once.
Starting Soon, BRB, and Ending — full-screen, your text, one press each, riding the browser source already in your OBS. Screens are free on every plan.
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