How to 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.

6 steps ~4 minBeginner Updated July 2026

You set it up here

Fire it yourself — the real overlay

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Press a key — you are the trigger

What you’ll build

A saved set of styled alert cards — raid welcome, goal hit, shout-out, heads-up — each one press away, playing for its duration and clearing itself.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Add your Kloot overlay to OBS (once)

    Paste your single Kloot overlay URL into one Browser source in OBS and size it to your canvas. That one source powers your alerts and every other Kloot tool — you never add another browser source.

    Already have Kloot in OBS from another tool? Skip this — alerts ride the source you already added.

  2. 2

    Create an alert and pick a preset

    Open the Alerts tool, add an alert, and name it for the moment it marks — “Raid Hype”, “Goal hit”. Then tap a preset: Info, Success, Warning, Error, or Celebration. One tap themes the background, text, border, and icon together, and the quick-start templates fill in sample text you can overwrite.

  3. 3

    Write the card

    Set the title (up to 40 characters) and the body (up to 120) — short enough to read in two seconds, because that is all the time it gets. Pick the icon from the emoji library: 🎉 for the raid card, ✅ for the goal, 📣 for the shout-out.

    Write it in your voice, not template-speak. “Welcome raiders — grab a seat 🎉” beats “New raid detected.”

  4. 4

    Style it to your overlay

    Choose the font, override any of the color channels (or keep the preset defaults), pick a shape — rounded, pill, or full-width banner — and set the position. Top-center is the default for a reason: visible, never over the action.

  5. 5

    Set how long it stays

    Give the card a duration from 1 to 30 seconds — 5 is the sweet spot for hype cards — and it clears itself when time is up. Or flip it to ∞ for an always-on card you dismiss yourself, which is the right mode for status notes like “starting 10 late”.

  6. 6

    Pin it and fire it on the moment

    Pin the alert to a deck key. When the moment happens — the raid lands, the goal ticks over — press the key as you call it on mic. The card plays, clears itself, and is ready to fire again. Save up to five alerts so every regular moment is one press.

    Your deck runs on your phone too, so you can fire the raid card from the couch on IRL nights.

How an alert runs, live

No bot, no event wiring — you are the trigger. Here’s the whole loop, from the moment happening to the card clearing itself.

  1. The moment· step 1

    Something worth marking happens

    A raid lands. A goal hits. A clip pops off. You are the first to know — not a webhook, not a chat bot. That is the whole design: the person on mic decides what deserves the screen.

    You: Nothing yet — you spot it
    Overlay: Clean scene
    Viewers: Living the moment with you
  2. You fire it· step 2

    Press the key — you are the trigger

    One press and the card slides in, top-center. No bot, no event wiring, nothing to misfire over a clutch play — which means the alert and your reaction land together, exactly when you say it on mic.

    You: Press Fire
    Overlay: Card slides in, top-center
    Viewers: Sees it land with your words
  3. It clears itself· step 3

    Plays for its duration, then leaves

    The card holds for the seconds you set — 5 by default, up to 30 — then exits on its own. You never babysit it. Flip a card to ∞ and it stays until you dismiss it, for status notes rather than hype.

    You: Nothing — keep playing
    Overlay: Auto-clears after its duration
    Viewers: Clean scene again
  4. Save the set· step 4

    Every regular moment becomes one press

    Keep up to five alerts saved — raid welcome, goal hit, shout-out, heads-up — each with its own text, preset, and duration. The card you build tonight is one press away every stream after.

    You: Five keys, five moments
    Overlay: Fires stack cleanly if close together
    Viewers: A show that marks its moments

The moments an alert earns its screen time

An alert is you deciding a moment deserves the screen. The ones streamers save a card for:

Raid & host welcomes

When: Another streamer sends their room to yours mid-sentence.

Why it works: You fire the welcome card as you say it on mic — the greeting on screen and the greeting in your voice are the same moment, not a bot lagging behind it.

Milestone celebrations

When: A follower goal, a sub goal, or a donation target ticks over.

Why it works: A Success card marks it the second you call it. The room gets a shared “we did it” beat instead of a number quietly changing somewhere.

Manual shout-outs

When: A mod’s birthday, clip of the day, a regular hitting a milestone of their own.

Why it works: These moments have no event to wire — only you know they matter. A saved shout-out card makes recognizing people a one-press habit.

Status notes for the room

When: “Audio fixed?”, “starting 10 late”, “last round then ranked”.

Why it works: The Warning and Error presets read as signal, not hype. Set one to ∞ and it holds until the situation is actually resolved.

The alert presets you can run

Celebration, Success, Warning, Info — every preview below is the real overlay renderer your viewers see, motion replaying, ready to restyle.

Celebration preset, replaying
🎉
Raid incoming!
Welcome raiders — grab a seat 🎉

Celebration — the hype card

Deep purple, 🎉, built for the loudest moment of the night.

A raid crashes in and you fire the welcome as you shout it. The card plays its five seconds and clears itself — no bot deciding the timing, no misfire over your reaction.

One press fires it on cue
Success preset, replaying
Goal hit!
1,000 followers — you did this, chat.

Success — the goal card

Green and unambiguous: something you were chasing just landed.

The follower goal ticks over mid-game. You press the key, call it on mic, and the room gets a shared win — then the card leaves on its own while you keep playing.

Plays its duration, clears itself
Warning preset, replaying
⚠️
Heads up
Starting 10 late — grabbing water, stay put.

Warning — the heads-up card

Amber signal for the room (or for you): something needs a beat.

“Starting 10 minutes late” or “is my audio back?” — fire it, leave it up while it matters. Flip the duration to ∞ and it holds until you dismiss it yourself.

Set 1–30s — or ∞ until you clear it
Info preset, replaying
ℹ️
Clip of the day
Riya’s clutch from last night — pinned in chat.

Info — the announcement card

Calm blue for the things you say every stream anyway.

Clip of the day, schedule note, “drops enabled tonight” — the recurring announcements you save once and fire whenever they come up on mic.

Saved cards fire again next stream

Where it lands on your stream

Top-center by default — visible without covering the action. Move it to any of nine zones, and near-simultaneous fires stack cleanly.

Your stream · OBS output
LIVE
🎉
Raid incoming!
Welcome raiders — grab a seat 🎉
Top-center by default — visible but never over the action Fires on YOUR press, clears after its duration

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Expecting alerts to fire on their own — Kloot never auto-fires. Pin the key where your thumb can find it, and the press becomes part of the call.
  • Writing a wall of text. The title caps at 40 characters and the body at 120 for a reason — a card gets read in about two seconds.
  • Setting ∞ on a hype card and forgetting it on screen. Save always-on for status notes; let celebration cards clear themselves.
  • Adding a second OBS browser source for alerts. One Kloot URL already carries them — and every other tool.

Frequently asked

Do alerts fire automatically on follows or subs?

No — by design. Kloot never wires alerts to platform events, so nothing pops over a clutch play and nothing lags behind the moment. You fire each alert from your deck the second it happens, which means the card and your on-mic reaction land together. You stay in control of your own screen.

Can I make my own alert styles?

Yes. Start from one of the five presets (Info, Success, Warning, Error, Celebration), then override anything: background, text, body, border, and icon colors, the font, the shape (rounded, pill, or banner), the text size, the motion, and the position. Or keep a preset as-is — they are tuned to read on stream.

How long does an alert stay on screen?

You choose, per alert: 1 to 30 seconds, and it clears itself with its exit motion — no babysitting. Flip the duration to ∞ and the card stays until you dismiss it, which suits status notes (“audio fixed?”, “starting late”) better than hype cards.

Do I need a chat bot or a platform connection?

No. Alerts live on your one Kloot overlay URL and fire from your deck — there is nothing to install, no platform to wire up, and it works identically on Twitch, YouTube, Kick, or an IRL setup.

What happens if I fire two alerts close together?

They stack cleanly instead of overlapping — each card takes its own slot in the zone, plays its own duration, and clears independently.

Which plan are alerts on?

Alerts are part of the Creator plan ($15/mo), with no watermark, alongside lower thirds, polls, tickers, borders, and counters. The Free plan includes one alert to try.

Fire it when it happens.
Not when a bot decides.

Build your alert set once — raid welcome, goal hit, shout-out — and every one is a single press that lands with your reaction. Alerts are on Creator, no watermark.

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Free plan · Creator $15/mo · Pro $25/mo · Event Pass $9 for 3 days