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.
Not with Twitch’s own polls — those are available to Partners and Affiliates only, and offer two to five choices (verified September 2026). A poll that lives on your overlay has no such requirement: viewers vote by scanning a code or opening a join link, and the results animate on your stream rather than in a popout.
You set it up here
It lands here — the real overlay
What do we play next?
What you’ll build
A live poll on your overlay that any viewer can vote in, on any account status, with results animating on stream.
Twitch’s native polls are limited to Partners and Affiliates and support two to five options, and they render in the viewer’s own UI rather than on your stream. So the workaround is not a downgrade — an overlay poll appears on the broadcast itself, which is where the audience is already looking, and works for anyone watching including people who are not signed in.
One browser source carries the poll and every other Kloot tool, so this is a setup you do once rather than per feature. If you would rather try it before touching OBS, the same thing runs in a browser window you can share.
Overlay space is limited and viewers are half-watching, so short options win. Four words beats a sentence. This is the one real constraint an overlay poll has that a dashboard poll does not.
Single choice is the default and matches what Twitch offers. Beyond that there is multi-select where viewers pick more than one, this-or-that with two images, a timed quiz with a live leaderboard, and a word cloud fed by an open text box. Free covers single choice with four options; the other four types are on Creator and above.
A word cloud is the one to try first if you want to see the difference — chat filling a cloud on screen is an effect a dashboard poll cannot produce.
Viewers scan the code or open the join link. Because voting does not touch Twitch chat, a lurker who has never typed can take part, which is usually a noticeable share of the room.
Vote-to-enter turns every vote into a giveaway entry, so the poll doubles as a draw and the wheel afterwards lands on a voter. It is on Creator and above, and it exists because asking an audience to vote and then separately enter loses most of them at the second step.
Once it’s built, running a poll is two presses — open and close. Here’s the whole loop, and what each side sees.
Press the key when you want the room to weigh in. The question, the options, and a QR + join code appear on your overlay — voting is open.
They scan the QR or enter the code at kloot.gg/join and tap a choice — Twitch, YouTube, Kick, TikTok, or an IRL room. No chat command, no bot, no extension.
The bars or pie fill live with counts and percentages, and the leader highlights the instant the room swings. Read it out on mic to pull people in.
Press again to clear the poll off screen, announce the result, and move on. Save it as a preset and the same question fires again next stream with one press.
A poll turns a passive room into the audience deciding what happens next. Good moments to fire one:
When: Between games, maps, or rounds.
Why it works: Hands the wheel to the room and instantly lifts engagement — people stay to see if their pick wins.
When: Chat has gone quiet and you want energy.
Why it works: A spicy binary makes everyone pick a side and floods chat with reactions.
When: Rewarding your community or members.
Why it works: A tier vote gives members real ownership of the stream — a reason to stay subscribed.
When: A meetup, class, panel, or projector.
Why it works: A QR on screen turns any physical room into live voting — no app to install for anyone.
Bars, this-or-that, or a pie — every preview below is the real poll renderer with votes ticking live, in your colors.
What do we play next?
The default read: a horse race the room can follow mid-game.
“What do we play next?” with four games on the board. Bars fill live with counts and percentages, and the leader highlights the instant the room swings — easy to read from any screen size.
One key opens it, one closes itPineapple on pizza?
Two options, one fight — the fastest way to wake up a quiet chat.
Drop a spicy binary and make everyone pick a side. Two big bars, a visible tug-of-war, and a flood of reactions in chat while the lead flips back and forth.
Save it as a preset — refires in one pressThis month’s sub perk?
One glance says how the room divides — best for 3+ real choices.
Let subs pick this month’s perk. The pie makes the share of the room obvious even when the counts are close, and it reads as a “decision”, not a race.
Same poll, one toggle to switch layoutThe poll card sits in a corner, out of the action — or takes center screen when the vote is the moment itself.
What do we play next?
Twitch restricts its built-in polls to Partners and Affiliates, so the option does not appear for other channels. It also offers two to five choices and displays in the viewer’s interface rather than on your stream. Verified against Twitch’s help documentation in September 2026.
They scan a QR on your stream or open a short join link, then tap an option. Nothing needs chat, a bot or a Twitch account, so viewers who never type can vote.
Yes — bars animate live on the overlay, with counts and percentages, and the leader can highlight automatically. That is the main practical difference from Twitch’s own polls, which render in each viewer’s interface rather than on the broadcast.
Two polls a month on the free plan, single choice with up to four options and no card. Creator adds the other four poll types and six options; Pro allows eight.
Yes, with vote-to-enter on Creator and above: each vote becomes an entry in a linked giveaway, and when the poll closes the draw runs on the voters.
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