Chat window
Read chat from every platform in its own window, with profile pictures and viewer cards
The chat window puts live chat from TikTok, Twitch, Kick and YouTube in one window of its own, beside your game or on a second screen. Rest the pointer on a name to see who that viewer is.
Open the chat window
Choose Open chat window from any of these places:
- The Chat Box widget's settings, on the Overlay tab.
- The right-click menu on an empty spot in the main window.
- Search: press Ctrl+K/Cmd+K and type "chat".
- Events
- Overlay widgets
- Settings
To have it open every time Vfinity starts, tick Open live chat on startup. Keep Vfinity running while you use it; the window only shows messages that arrive while it is open.
Choose what it shows
Click Settings at the top of the window.
- Show platforms picks which of TikTok, Twitch, Kick and YouTube to show.
- Activity types adds more than chat: gifts, bits, Kicks, Super Chats, reward redemptions, gifted subscriptions, joins, follows, shares, subscriptions, likes, raids and more. Only chat is ticked to start.
- Font size runs from 12 to 28.
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Show profile pictures | A picture beside each message. On to start. |
| Show a viewer card on name hover | The card described below. On to start. |
| Show timestamps | The time beside each message. |
| Hide ! and / commands | Leaves out chat commands. |
| Show TikTok gift coin value | The coins a TikTok gift is worth. |
| Show top bar / Show bottom bar | The window's own bars, for a cleaner look. |
| Show test events | Test messages, marked TEST. |
| Always on top | Keeps the window above your other windows. |
These settings belong to the window only. They never change your Chat Box overlay in OBS.
See emotes as pictures
Emotes show as pictures in the chat window and in the Chat Box overlay on OBS. That covers TikTok, Twitch and Kick emotes, and on Twitch also the 7TV, BTTV and FFZ emotes, both the global sets and your channel's own. On YouTube, your channel's custom emoji show as pictures too.
A Super Chat's message also arrives as an ordinary chat line, the way a Twitch cheer's message does. The chat window, chat commands and text to speech read it like any other message.
Meet a viewer
Rest the pointer on a viewer's name, or reach it with the keyboard, to open their card. It shows what Vfinity knows about them:
Move the pointer onto the card to use its buttons: Open profile opens their page on their platform, and Copy name copies it.
A YouTube viewer's badges count as roles: a channel member shows as Subscriber, and a moderator or the channel owner as Moderator or Broadcaster. Viewer rules read the same roles; see Rules and cooldowns.
Give a viewer a nickname
Give a viewer a name of your own choosing to keep track of who's who. It is private: only your chat window shows it.
Open their card
Rest the pointer on the viewer's name, then move onto the card.
Set the nickname
Click Set nickname, type it under Private nickname and click Save. The chat window now shows the nickname in place of their name, and the card adds "Original name:" with their own name under it.
To change it, click Edit nickname. To go back to the viewer's own name, click Reset nickname.
Nicknames stay after a restart, and every open chat window updates at once. OBS and text to speech keep using the viewer's original name, so your nicknames never reach your stream.
Act on a message
Right-click a message to copy the line or the viewer's name, or to open their profile. Right-click anywhere else in the window to Clear it, open Settings or switch Always on top.
Scroll up to read back and the window stops following new messages. Click Jump to latest to catch up.
Test the window
Tick Show test events in Settings and Test tools appears below it. Pick a platform and an activity type, then click Send test event to add a sample to the window. The platform and type must be ticked above for the button to work. Tests show only in this window; nothing reaches your events, alerts or overlays.