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Free Overlays for your Twitch Stream — Guide & Setup

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Free Overlays for your Twitch Stream — Guide & Setup

The visual side of your Twitch livestream is an essential factor for the viewing experience. With many overlaysanimations, and widgets available, it can be hard to identify the right balance between aesthetics and functionality. In the following paragraphs, we will show you some of the best Twitch overlay choices to improve your stream quickly.

The best Twitch Overlay Tool

Our tool, Sound Alerts, offers a wide variety of free Twitch overlaysanimations, and widgets you can use to customize your stream. These range from scenes with interactive overlays to classic alert animations. Simply follow the video guide below to get started with Sound Alerts in less than 10 minutes.

How to set up free Twitch Overlays for your Stream

The Sound Alerts Scene Editor lets you set up all kinds of free overlays for your Twitch stream. The best thing is that you will only need your broadcast tool (OBS, Streamlabs Desktop, Twitch Studio, etc.) to make it work. Simply follow these steps and access overlays like Goal BarsSubathon TimersMedia ShareSub Labels, or something else:

  1. Visit the Sound Alerts Dashboard
  2. Select "Scenes" on the left side
  3. Click on "Add new Scene" on the top right
  4. The view you see right now is your stream — select "Add new Widget" on the top left to add your first Twitch overlay
  5. In this example, we will add a Sub Goal Bar, but feel free to choose any other overlay you need, as the process is similar for all of them
  6. Click on "+ Add"
  7. You added the widget to your scene — customize it via the sidebar on the left and position it via drag-and-drop
  8. Repeat steps 4 to 7 until you are happy with the look of your scene
  9. To add it to your streaming tool like OBS click on "Save Scene" on the top right
  10. Enter a name for your scene and press "Save"
  11. Click on "Copy Source" on the top right
  12. Open OBS
  13. Click on the "+" symbol in the Sources tab on the bottom left side
  14. Select "Browser"
  15. Enter a name and press "OK"
  16. Paste the link you copied in step 11 into the URL section
  17. Enter a width of 1920 and a height of 1080
  18. Check "Control Audio via OBS"
  19. Press "OK" on the bottom right
  20. Your scene and all the overlays should appear in your OBS preview window now
This image shows a preview of the Sound Alerts Scene Editor which includes a variety of free Twitch overlays.
Create the Twitch Overlay of your dreams with the Sound Alerts Scene Editor

Free Twitch Animations for your Stream

Sound Alerts also includes a huge portfolio of free stream alert animations. Simply follow our video guide below to get started and access our animations for your stream.

Never miss new Twitch Overlays

We are constantly updating our services to offer more exciting Twitch overlays — make sure to follow our socials and join our DiscordHappy streaming!