Every other poll asks the room to choose from your list. A word cloud asks them for the word, which is a different question and occasionally a much better one.
An open text question shown on your overlay: viewers submit up to three words each and the words appear sized by how many people said them. In Kloot it is one of the five poll types, it has no options to choose from, and the streamer can remove any word from the screen permanently.
You set it up here
It lands here — the real overlay
What do we play next?
What you’ll build
An open question on your overlay, viewers typing a word or three from their phones, and the answers growing on screen as they repeat.
This is most of the work. "One word for that play" produces a cloud; "what did you think of that play" produces sentences that all appear once and a screen full of noise. The good prompts are reactions, adjectives, one-word predictions and names — anything where lots of people will independently land on the same word, because agreement is what makes a cloud legible.
If you can imagine four or five words most of the room would pick, it is a good prompt. If everybody would write something different, ask it as a normal poll instead.
Up to three, and three is the default. Fewer forces a sharper answer; three lets someone give a reaction and a reason. Repeats inside one submission do not stack — typing the same word three times counts once — because otherwise the loudest typist owns the screen rather than the room.
Be clear-eyed about this before you run one: it is the only Kloot surface where a viewer’s own words reach the broadcast without anyone reading them first. There is a filter, deliberately blunt — a short list of high-confidence blocks, matched as whole words so it does not eat "class" or "pass", and words are normalised before checking so that punctuation, capitals, accents and number-for-letter substitutions all land on the same entry rather than slipping past as something new.
The filter handles the obvious. It cannot handle context, in-jokes, or the name of someone who should not be on screen — a human deciding in the moment is the layer that matters, and it is one tap. Removing a word takes it off the overlay and it cannot come back, so a viewer who types it again does not put it back up. That permanence is the point: without it, moderation would be a race you lose.
On a raid or a big moment, watch the cloud rather than the chat for a minute. That is when a new audience is testing what your stream will show.
A cloud needs a couple of minutes rather than the thirty seconds a choice poll wants, because the shape only appears once words start repeating. The first submissions all look equally important; by the fiftieth the answer has emerged. Watch for the moment it stops moving — that is when to read it out.
The biggest word is usually the one you expected, and the interesting one is normally sitting in the second tier. That is the reason to run a cloud instead of a poll in the first place: the thing you would never have put on a list is on the screen, and someone in the room thought of it.
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?
Up to three, which is the default, and you can set it lower. Repeating the same word inside one submission counts once, so nobody can inflate a word by typing it three times.
A blunt filter blocks a short list of high-confidence words on the way in, matching whole words so ordinary words containing them are not eaten, and normalising punctuation, capitals, accents and number-for-letter swaps first so a disguised spelling lands on the same entry.
Yes, and that is the layer that actually matters, because a filter cannot judge context or know a name. Removing a word takes it off the overlay permanently — someone typing it again does not put it back.
One where lots of people would independently choose the same word: a reaction, an adjective, a one-word prediction. If every answer would be different, the screen fills with words that appear once and the cloud has nothing to show.
A couple of minutes rather than the thirty seconds a choice poll wants. The shape only emerges once words start repeating, so watch for the point where the biggest words stop changing.
Creator and above. The free plan covers 2 single-choice polls a month; Creator adds the other four types, including the word cloud, and 10 a month.
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