Alerts
Pop-up cards on stream for gifts, follows, shares, likes, subscriptions and raids
The Alerts widget pops a card over your stream when something happens, with its own sound and, if you like, its line read aloud. Each kind of alert can look and sound different, down to a single gift.
Put alerts on your stream
Switch the widget on
On the Overlay tab, find Alerts and turn on its switch.
Copy its address
Click Copy URL on the card. The address ends in #overlay-alerts.
Add it to OBS
Paste the address into a new Browser Source in OBS or TikTok LIVE Studio. For alert sounds in OBS, tick Control audio via OBS in the source's properties.
Send a test
Click Test on OBS on the Alerts card. A sample alert shows in OBS and plays its sound, without firing any events, speech or timers.
Alert types
Click Configure on the Alerts card. Under Content, each type has its own tab and its own Enabled switch.
| Tab | When it shows | Default text |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts | Someone sends a gift | {name} sent {gift} x{count}! |
| Follows | A new follower | {name} followed! |
| Shares | Someone shares the stream | {name} shared the stream! |
| Like milestones | Likes pass the next milestone | {name} pushed likes past {count}! |
| Subscriptions | A subscription on TikTok, Twitch or Kick, or a new YouTube member or membership milestone | {name} just subscribed! |
| Raids Twitch only | Another channel raids you | {name} is raiding with {viewers} viewers! |
Twitch bits, Kicks, and YouTube Super Chats and Super Stickers show as Gifts, under the same names the Gift trigger uses. A gifted subscription or gifted YouTube membership alerts once, as the gifter's Gift Sub, not once for each viewer who received one.
Custom message replaces the default text. Besides {name}, {gift} and
{count}, you can use {diamonds}, {totalDiamonds}, {likes},
{totalLikes}, {months} and {viewers} where the event has them.
Change how one type looks and sounds
Each tab sets that type's colors, Duration (s, 0 = global), whether to Show sender avatar, and an Alert sound with its own Sound volume.
- Images and videos gives the card a picture or clip. Add several and one is picked at random for each alert, by weight. Videos can be WebM, MP4 or MOV up to 100 MB, and WebM VP8/VP9 keeps its transparency in OBS.
- More sounds (random) does the same for the sound.
- Random variations are complete alternative looks, each with its own text, colors, media and sound. The plain card also has a chance to be picked, and each entry shows the chance it works out to.
Give gifts their own sound
On the Gifts tab, Min. gift diamonds (0 = all) skips small gifts, and Show gift image puts the gift's picture on the card. YouTube Jewels gifts are worth no diamonds, so any minimum above 0 skips them.
Gift & tier sounds gives one gift its own sound (a Rose dings, a Lion gets a fanfare) under Specific gifts, and bigger gifts a bigger sound under Diamond tiers. A matching gift wins, then the highest tier reached, then the Gifts sound. A rule can also be Silent (no sound).
A tier can measure the Whole combo (price × count, so a Rose x500 can reach a big tier) or One gift, and can have an upper limit.
On the Like milestones tab, Like milestone every sets the step, from 10 likes up.
Choose where alert sounds play
In the Sound section, Master volume sets the level for every alert sound, on top of each type's own volume. Play alert sounds in offers:
Sounds play inside the Alerts browser source. Tick Control audio via OBS and check the source is not muted in the Audio Mixer.
Sounds play through this computer in time with each card, and the OBS source stays silent. Use it when OBS does not capture browser-source audio.
OBS and this app plays both. If OBS also captures your desktop audio, viewers may hear each sound twice.
Control alerts while you are live
The Live section, the Alerts card and the Live alerts card on the Dashboard share one set of controls:
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Skip | Skips the alert on screen, in every OBS alerts source. |
| Pause | Lets the alert on screen finish, then holds new ones. |
| Resume | Shows the alerts that waited, in order. |
| Replay last | Shows the most recent alert again, without reading it aloud. |
| Clear | Removes the alert on screen and every alert still waiting. |
Alert delay (seconds) holds every alert for up to 60 seconds before it shows, plays or is read aloud, so you have time to drop an unwanted one.
Recent alerts lists the last 50 alerts, who sent them and what became of each. Replay any alert that already showed; one still inside the delay can be shown now or dropped. The names are kept in memory only, never on disk.
Read alerts aloud
Turn on Read alerts aloud in the Chat TTS settings to speak each alert's text with your main voice. An alert is read when its card reaches the screen, so one you skip, drop or clear is never read. See Text to speech.
Pause, Panic and hotkeys
While Vfinity is paused, new alerts wait and show when you resume. Panic pauses
alerts and clears them. The commands alerts.skip, alerts.pause,
alerts.resume, alerts.replay and alerts.clear do the same from a hotkey or
an action step.