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.
Put an entry code on screen rather than in chat. Viewers scan a QR or open a short join code, so nothing needs moderator access to your YouTube chat and nobody needs to be signed in to YouTube to take part. The draw runs on your stream and the winner is told on their own phone.
You set it up here
It lands here — the real overlay
What you’ll build
A giveaway running on your YouTube Live stream, entered by QR or join code, drawn on screen, claimed by the winner on their phone.
Chat-based tools need to be added as a moderator through YouTube Studio, which is a permission grant to a third party over your chat. Entry by code needs none of that, because the tool never reads your chat. If you have been putting a giveaway off because of that step, this is the version without it.
One browser source in OBS shows the prize card, the join code and the wheel. If you would rather not touch your scene collection for a first attempt, the same giveaway runs in an ordinary browser window you can share on stream.
YouTube viewers skew towards larger screens than TikTok, so the QR reads fine at normal overlay size.
Name the prize the way a viewer would recognise it, since that name appears on the card, on the entry page and in any delivery email. Open entries and leave them open longer than feels comfortable — YouTube audiences arrive throughout a stream rather than at the start.
The code on screen does the work, but pinning a message with the join link is a free extra for the people who do have chat open. Both routes lead to the same entry page, so it costs nothing to offer both.
Spin on screen rather than announcing a name you picked earlier. On a platform where a lot of viewing is passive and half-attentive, a wheel that takes several seconds to settle is what pulls people back to the window.
The winner gets a claim screen wherever they were watching, with a countdown. If they do not tap in time it rerolls automatically, which matters more on YouTube than most places because a meaningful share of the audience is watching on a TV or in the background.
Setup is done — this is the five-beat run, start to finish. You fire two keys; the overlay and your audience do the rest.
Press Launch on your deck the moment the stream is hot. A prize card drops onto your overlay with a QR code and a short join code — entry is open.
They scan the QR or type the code at kloot.gg/join — no account, no chat command, any platform. The entry counter climbs live while you keep playing.
When the timer ends — or you decide the room is ready — press Draw. The spin wheel takes over the overlay and spins for real. This is the hype beat.
The wheel lands and the winner’s name locks onto the card. If you pre-loaded prize codes, Kloot emails the winner their code the same second — no post-stream chasing.
Press once to clear the card off screen and you’re back to the game. If the prize was brand-funded, screenshot the result and export the entry list as clean proof for the sponsor.
A giveaway is a spike you control. The moments where it pays off most:
When: You just crossed a milestone and the chat is buzzing.
Why it works: Turns a number into a moment and rewards the exact people who got you there — the spike keeps them around.
When: A brand puts up the prize as part of a deal.
Why it works: You run it, export the entry list as proof of a real activation, and the sponsor sees measurable reach — easy to renew.
When: A big raid just landed on your stream.
Why it works: One-tap entry with no signup converts drive-by viewers into followers before they wander off.
When: A fundraiser, tournament, or one-off event.
Why it works: A prize drives donations and entries; an Event Pass covers full Pro for the day without a subscription.
Entry card, live draw, winner reveal — every preview below is the real overlay renderer your viewers watch, not a mockup.
Entry, opened — one tap for the whole room, on any platform.
Press Launch and this card drops onto your overlay: prize, live entry count, QR + short join code. Viewers are in before the hype dies — no bot, no “type !enter”, no account.
Deck key: Launch — opens entryThe hype beat — a winner picked in front of everyone.
Press Draw and the wheel takes center screen with every entrant on it. The room watches it slow down and land — a draw nobody has to take on faith, and the clip that gets shared after.
Deck key: Draw — spins the wheelThe payoff — winner locked in, prize already on its way.
The wheel lands and the winner’s name locks onto the card. If you pre-loaded prize codes, Kloot emails the winner theirs the same second — you never chase a DM after the stream.
Automatic — Kloot emails the prize codeThe entry card holds a corner while you keep playing; the wheel takes center screen only when you press Draw.
No. A chat-based tool needs moderator access through YouTube Studio; entry by QR or join code needs no access at all, because nothing reads your chat. That also means it keeps working if you stream to more than one platform at once.
Yes. Entry happens on a separate page reached by scanning a code, so a viewer does not need to be signed in to YouTube — which matters for the people who arrived from a recommendation and have not logged in.
Any live stream where you can show something on screen. It does not depend on YouTube-specific features, so it behaves the same on a normal broadcast, a premiere, or a stream you are also sending elsewhere.
Every draw publishes a receipt: the random seed is committed before entries close and published afterwards, with entrants recorded as fingerprints rather than names. Anyone can open that page and check the pick was fixed before the spin.
They get the claim screen on their phone rather than needing to interact with the stream, and if nobody claims within the window the draw rerolls itself. That is the case this design is most useful for.
One overlay URL, one deck, every tool — set it up in minutes and run it from any device.
Free forever · Creator $99/yr or $15/mo · Pro $149/yr or $25/mo · Event Pass $9 for 3 days