What’s new in Bloopbot
New features and changes to Bloopbot, newest first, each with the guide that shows you how to use it.
Weekly timers fire in your own time zone
A timer set to On set days at a set time now uses your local time zone from the first time you open your dashboard, instead of UTC when you had never set one on the Schedule page. A zone you chose there stays as it is. The same zone now also sets the times Format a time writes and the time of day a To a time of day countdown counts to, for a channel that had never picked one. Editing a timer’s days or time now takes effect on the next post, and a timer comes back by itself after a reconnect. See Post on set days at a set time.
Download a picture of a flow
The flow editor's top bar has a new picture icon, Download image, that saves your flow as a PNG or WebP picture with every step and connection, ready for a blog post, a Discord message or a tutorial. See Download a picture of a flow.
Click through to the layer you want in Studio
On the Studio canvas, a click now goes to the smallest layer under your pointer, so a small layer under a full-screen one, such as your alerts or chat, no longer catches every click. Click the selected layer again to select the next layer under your pointer. Its resize handles also stay with it when they stick out over a bigger layer. See Move and size a layer.
Find anything, from one box
A new Find anything box under the channel at the top of the sidebar finds a page, a setting, a guide or one of your own flows, overlays and more as you type. Press ⌘K on a Mac or Ctrl K elsewhere from any dashboard page, or / when you are not typing in a box. Type alerts for Overlays, !lurk for the flow that answers it, or twitch account to land on the Twitch card on Connections. It forgives typos and extra words. Press the Right arrow key on a result to do more: turn a flow on or off, test fire it, copy an overlay's OBS link, open or close a giveaway's entries, or pin it. Anything that stops something on your stream asks you to press Enter again. Actions such as New flow, Add a quote, Skip the song and Clear the queue run from the same box. In a flow's Canvas view ⌘K still searches for a node; press / there to open Find. See Find anything.
One sidebar list, and pins for the pages you use most
The sidebar is now one list. Home and Live sit at the top, then Bot, On stream, Viewers, Channel and Safety list every page in plain words, so you no longer have to guess whether a page is under Build, Run or Manage. Marketplace, Settings and Help stay at the bottom. Settings holds Connections, Connected apps, Downloads, Team, Plan & billing and Audit log as tabs across the top, Loyalty and store holds Loyalty and Store, and Help holds Tutorials (it reads Continue: while one is in progress), Docs and guides, Bloopbot Discord and News from Bloopbot. Select a section's heading to fold it away, or the collapse button to shrink the sidebar to icons; Bloopbot remembers both. Pinned keeps the pages you use most just under Live, starting with Flows and Overlays: pin a page from its row, or a flow or overlay with its pin icon (Pin this flow, Pin this overlay) in its editor, and drag a pin, or press Alt with the Up or Down arrow key, to put them in order. See the sidebar and pinning.
Set up your bot in five steps
A new channel now starts with Set up your bot, a short guided setup on your real dashboard. Pebble turns on your Starter commands (and brings over your Nightbot or StreamElements commands if it finds them), shows you your ready-made My alerts overlay, helps you add it to OBS Studio, Streamlabs or Meld, makes your bot a moderator with one line in your chat, and plays a test alert. Doing it on a different computer from your stream? Choose I’ll do this on my streaming PC on the stream or mod step and it waits for you. Afterwards Overview has a Next steps card that leads from making your commands yours to building your own. See Get started with Bloopbot.
Bloopbot works on Kick
Bloopbot now works with Kick. Choose Sign in with Kick to make a Kick channel, or keep signing in with Twitch and add Kick on Connections so both chats run the same flows. Kick chat, commands, follows, subs, resubs, gifted subs and KICKs start your flows, and a reply goes back to the chat it came from. Your moderation filters and mod commands work in Kick chat, Kick channel rewards start your reward flows, Kick viewers earn loyalty points, and your flows can set your Kick title, category and tags and run a Kick ad break. Your chat box shows Kick chat beside Twitch's, marked by platform. Raids, shoutouts, clips, polls and predictions stay on Twitch. Use Bloopbot on Kick shows both ways in and what works where, and Show Twitch and Kick chat together covers the chat box.
Emails about your payments
Bloopbot now emails you when something happens to your plan. You'll hear when a payment doesn't go through and when Stripe will try your card again, when the last try fails, when you start, upgrade or change a paid plan, and about a week before a yearly plan renews. Cancel, and Ryan, who builds Bloopbot, sends a short note asking why. Receipts still come from Stripe. Emails about your plan lists every email and where it goes.
Text-to-speech for your viewers
Viewers can now have the bot read their message out on stream. Add the Text to speech pack from the Marketplace to get a Speak a message channel points reward, cheers of 100 bits or more read aloud, resub messages read aloud, and !skiptts for your moderators. Pick from ten voices with US and UK accents, or use the new Speak text step in any flow, with its own voice, speed and alert design. Links, cheermotes and your blocked words are taken out before anything is read, and a message that is not spoken gives the viewer's points back. Text-to-speech comes with Free+ and every paid plan, with a daily character limit. See Let viewers send text-to-speech.
Keep more themes, and as many overlays as you like
Every plan above Free now keeps more themes: 5 on Free+, 15 on Plus, and as many as you like on Pro. Free still keeps one. And there is no longer a limit of 25 overlays on any plan: make as many as you need. Join the Bloopbot Discord to put a Free channel on Free+ and hold a look for each game or event (Unlock Free+ by joining the Discord). Widget themes under Limits on Plan & billing shows yours.
A ready-made Q&A overlay
Add on the Overlays page now has a Q&A overlay: a big camera frame with the viewer question you are answering underneath it, a topic line, chat and alerts, on its own backdrop. The question shows when you put it on your overlay from Live → Questions and goes when you mark it answered. Adding it never changes a scene screen you already have. Every Viewer questions layer, on the Q&A or any overlay you made, now cuts a question longer than 6 lines with an ellipsis; Longest question, in lines changes that, and a question that fits is drawn exactly as before. See Catch viewer questions and Start from a ready-made overlay.
Moderation filters start on
A new channel's moderation filters are now on from the start: blacklist, links, caps, symbols, emotes and repetition. A first offence gets a warning, then timeouts grow, and subscribers and moderators are left alone. A link in a command one of your flows answers, such as !sr with a Spotify link, gets past the link filter, so song requests and media share keep working. If you saved your Moderation settings before, nothing changes for you. See Configure the filters.
Web requests on Free when you join our Discord
Join the Bloopbot Discord and your Free channel moves to Free+: web requests in your flows, at no cost, in up to 50 flow runs a UTC day and 200 a UTC month. Choose Join the Discord on Overview, on Plan & billing, on a locked Web request step or on the Discord card under Connections, or Join the Bloopbot Discord at the end of Your first overlay. Unlock Free+ by joining the Discord shows how, and what happens if you leave.
Shoutout shows your Clip player only while it plays
Starter's Shoutout now shows your Clip player when it plays a clip and hides it again once that clip, and any waiting behind it, has played. Your Clip player can stay hidden in the editor, out of your way. The flow looks for a layer called Clip player; if yours has another name, change it on the flow's two Show a layer steps. Show a layer and Hide a layer can also take their time from an earlier step. Update Starter under Marketplace → Installed to get it. See Play a streamer’s clip when you shout them out.
Control OBS from flows
Flows can now start from what OBS does and make OBS act, through the overlay you already have open in OBS, with nothing to install. Run a flow when you switch scenes, go live, record, save a replay or show or hide an overlay; use Switch OBS scene, Save OBS replay and the recording, replay buffer, virtual camera and stream actions in any flow. Triggers work as soon as an overlay is open in OBS; for actions, raise that Browser Source's Page permissions in OBS. Nobody in chat can start or end your stream: those steps never run in a flow your viewers can set off. See Control OBS from flows.
Choose what your listing’s pictures show
When you list an overlay with a custom graphic, you can now choose what plays on it in each screenshot and in the video: one of its examples, its demo, or nothing. In Share…, step 3 has a new What each picture shows section with a list for each graphic. A built-in widget with examples, such as the Poll, works the same way. Your choices carry into your next version and stay if a picture is taken again, and a choice that points at an example you have since removed is dropped with a note rather than stopping a picture. See Choose what each picture shows.
Drop shadow now reaches more panels
A theme's Drop shadow now shows on the panel of a Leaderboard, Poll, Now playing, Supporter ticker, Goal bar, Queue, Stream Boss, Support Jar and giveaway, where it used to do nothing. If a theme has Drop shadow on, those panels now get the soft shadow you asked for; a panel with Panel opacity at 0 and no background or frame still gets none. See Change a theme’s look.
Your AI assistant can build control panels
An AI assistant you have connected can now make, change and delete your control panels, and put them in a pack you made. Ask for "a Match night panel with Home goal and Away goal buttons for my Goal scored flow" and it reads what each flow asks for, adds a Run button trigger where one is missing, and tells you anything a button press would leave empty. See Build a control panel.
Learn Bloopbot with Pebble’s tutorials
Learn Bloopbot with Pebble’s tutorials: Pebble now walks you through building your first overlay on the real pages, replacing the setup chat. Find every tutorial, and Pebble’s sticker book, under Tutorials in the sidebar. See Learn Bloopbot with Pebble’s tutorials.
Control panels travel in packs
A pack you made can now hold up to 5 control panels beside its flows and overlays. Share the pack on the Marketplace or as a bundle file and its panels go with it; whoever adds it gets new panels whose buttons start their own copies of your flows. A button may only start a flow in the pack, and sharing names any button that doesn't. See Add control panels to a pack and Share control panels with your flows.
Name the words after a chat command, and read the time
A chat command can now name the words that follow it. Give !goal the arguments team, scorer and minute, and !goal home Saka 23 fills $(input.team), $(input.scorer) and $(input.minute); the last argument takes the rest of the line, and $(1), $(2) still work as before. A control panel button for the same flow asks for the same values. Any flow can also read $(now), the current time in milliseconds. See Name the words after a command and Reuse the value.
A trigger for Twitch Power-ups
Flows can now start on Power-up used, and pick which Power-up from Twitch's built-in ones and your channel's own custom Power-ups, read straight from Twitch. Bits cheered now runs only for real cheers, so a cheer flow no longer answers Power-ups: start a Power-up flow for those. The Stream Boss pack gains Boss: damage from Power-ups. See React to Twitch Power-ups.
Flows: New flow first, ready-made packs under Marketplace
On Flows, New flow is now the main button, and the button that lists ready-made packs and flows is called Marketplace (it was Add). It opens the same list beside your flows. See Add a pack or a flow.
Featured in the Marketplace shows the team’s picks
Featured, at the top of the Marketplace in your dashboard, now shows the items the Bloopbot team picked, in the team’s order, like the public Marketplace. See Find something.
Write custom graphics in TypeScript
New custom graphics start in TypeScript, with completions and type hints in the code workspace. A wrong type is only a warning and never stops a preview, a save or Publish; a mistake the code can't run with is named in the console with its line. Graphics you already made stay JavaScript until you switch them. See Write TypeScript.
Upload 3D models and fonts for custom graphics
The media library now takes 3D models as .glb files (up to 8 MB) and fonts as WOFF2, WOFF, TTF or OTF files. A custom graphic can show a model with Three.js and use your own font in its text, and the first alert waits for that font. See 3D models and fonts.
PixiJS and Three.js add-ons, and lighter custom graphics in OBS
Custom graphics can now tick add-ons for PixiJS (filters such as glow, bloom and CRT, animated GIFs, advanced blend modes) and Three.js (post-processing such as bloom and glitch, loaders for SVG and models, extra geometries, sky and water). Each graphic now downloads only the libraries and add-ons it ticks, and OBS gets its code compressed, so overlays load faster. See Author a custom graphic.
Custom graphics get sound, fonts, queues, canvases and GSAP plugins
Custom graphics can now use GSAP's free plugins, such as SplitText for letter-by-letter names, play sounds that stay quiet while you scrub the preview and follow a Sound volume you set in Studio, wait for their fonts before the first alert, run alerts one at a time, and draw sharp canvases at the layer's real size. A flow message can say which values it carries, so the Send to overlay step fills them in and points out anything missing, and Studio's test panel gives each value its own box. See Author a custom graphic and Say what a message carries.
Flows wait for your bot to be a moderator
If your bot is not a moderator in your chat, flows that need one now pause instead of failing on every run, and the Flows page shows the /mod command to fix it. They start again by themselves once Twitch lists the bot. See Flows paused until your bot is a moderator.
Tips and check-ins from Ryan
Ryan, who builds Bloopbot, now sends a few short emails about your own channel: a welcome, a nudge if setup gets stuck, a note after the bot's first stream and the odd check-in. Reply and it reaches him. Turn them off under Account with Tips and check-ins from Ryan, or with the link at the end of any of them. See Tips and check-ins from Ryan.
Download the Stream Deck plugin from your dashboard
The Stream Deck plugin is no longer sent out by invitation. Open Downloads in your dashboard (under Manage, in Setup) and choose Download to get the latest version for macOS or Windows. See Install the plugin.
Your AI assistant asks what you want to make
Ask a connected AI assistant something open, like "help me set up my stream", and it now lets you choose what to build first: flows, a simple overlay, a custom code widget, or an overlay and flows together. It says when a choice needs a permission you didn't allow. See What an assistant can do.
An email when your X balance runs low
When a post takes your X balance below $1.00, Bloopbot now emails the channel owner's confirmed backup email once, saying how much is left. Automatic top-up has been removed: X balance is only added when you press Add X balance and pay. See When your balance runs low.
Add an email we can reach you at
Until you add one, your channel's pages show a bar asking for an email. Type it, choose Send link and confirm it from the email: it becomes your backup way to sign in. Product news is off unless you tick the box beside the address, and you can turn it on or off under Account any time. See Keep a backup way to sign in.
Subscription prices include VAT
Plus is now £5.99 a month or £59.99 a year, including applicable VAT. Dollar and euro prices are rounded equivalents, and the pricing page and Plan & billing show the current Stripe prices. Pro subscription prices also include applicable VAT or sales tax.
Existing subscriptions keep their agreed price. See What your plan includes for the currencies, annual prices and how to change plans.
Web requests can send headers
A Web request step can now send the headers a service asks for, such as an app name, a contact address or an API key in Authorization. Keep a key in Secrets and write $(secret.name) in the header's value. See Send headers a service asks for.
More of Bloopbot on the Free plan
The Free plan now includes everything that doesn't cost Bloopbot money to run.
- Your public page's links and sections.
- Polls, predictions, hype trains, goals and stream markers from a flow.
- Channel-point song requests, Nukes and the chat widget.
- Giveaways with more than one winner, and entering a giveaway from the web.
- Webhook triggers, and posting to X through your own X app.
Plus and Pro keep the AI features, outbound web requests, editors and more flows. See What your plan includes.
Setup finds your old bot and checks the mod for you
Setup with Pebble now does more of the checking itself.
- If your channel used Nightbot or StreamElements, Pebble finds your commands and offers to bring them over, with how many it found. Coming back to a finished setup, it mentions them if you haven't brought any over yet.
- Pebble asks Twitch whether the bot is a moderator, so the mod step ticks itself as soon as you send
/mod. - The mod step is optional now: Go live never waits for it. Until the bot is a moderator, a Not a mod bar across your dashboard shows the command to send.
Share a pack of only overlays
A pack you made that holds only overlays can now be shared.
- From the pack, Marketplace lists its overlays on their own, and Bundle file (.bloop.zip) downloads them in the pack’s order, with the alert designs and files they use.
- A bundle file keeps its overlays in the order you ticked them.
- Overlays from a pack’s download file now sit under that pack on Overlays → Packs.
Group flows and overlays into a pack shows how.
Play a streamer’s clip when you shout them out
A new Clip player layer under Chat & info in Studio’s Add tab plays one of a streamer’s most-viewed clips, with its sound, when you shout them out.
- The Starter pack’s Shoutout plays the clip: a moderator’s
!so pixelpalshouts PixelPal out in chat and on Twitch, then plays one of PixelPal’s clips on your overlay. Already have it? Update Starter under Marketplace → Installed; a Shoutout you changed asks Keep mine or Use the new one. - One clip plays at a time, the heading says whose it is, and the layer hides when the clip ends.
- The clip plays with its sound in OBS. If Twitch won’t hand over a clip’s video, it plays muted in Twitch’s own player instead, and the run log says why.
- Simulate → Play one of my clips plays one of your own clips on the canvas.
- Use the new Play a shoutout clip step in your own flows, such as a raid thank-you.
Built-in packs bring their own overlay
Giveaway, Minigames, On-screen numbers and Stream Boss now come with a small overlay holding the layers their flows use, so one OBS source puts the pack on stream.
- Add the pack, then copy the overlay’s URL from Set it up into OBS.
- Already have one of these packs? Its update adds the overlay. Flows you changed are asked about as usual.
- Giveaway’s three alert designs arrive in your draft: publish in Studio so they show.
- Minigames’ overlay is one corner card, and every game, duels and heists included, plays there. Want a full-screen Takeover for a game? Add a Minigames layer set to Takeover and set that game step’s Show as to Takeover.
Packs that bring an overlay shows how.
Overlays have packs too
Overlays now has two tabs, Overlays and Packs.
- Packs shows every pack that holds one of your overlays, with the same All, Mine and Marketplace toggle as Flows. Each card has a bar of its overlays, Live in OBS or Unpublished changes, and offers Review in Studio when something waits to publish.
- A pack's page lists its overlays with Copy the OBS URL and Open in Studio, lets you add your other overlays, and links to the pack's flows.
- Every overlay card has Add to pack… and, once it is in one, a chip naming its pack.
- Overlays in no pack are under Not in a pack, with Make a pack from these.
Group overlays into packs shows how.
Place each part of an alert card yourself
A new Free picture layout puts an alert card’s picture, title, subtitle and viewer message each where you want them, in a card of the size you choose.
- Choosing Free opens Arrange card on the Studio canvas: the card frozen as viewers see it, with a sample name and message. Drag each part, resize it by its handles and drag the card’s own edge to size it; everything snaps to the card and to the other parts.
- Long fills the card with a long name and message, so you can see words too wide for their box shrink to fit and then wrap, and Play runs the alert once with its motion and sound.
Place each part of the card shows how.
An event list of your latest follows, subs, gifts, cheers, raids and redemptions
A new Event list layer under Chat & info in Studio's Add tab shows your channel's latest events, newest first, one row each: who it was and what they did, such as LoyalLlama Tier 2 sub · 12 months or BitsBandit 500 bits.
- Switch each of the six types on or off, show 1 to 20 rows, and put the newest at the top or the bottom.
- The list carries on across streams, and follows while you are offline show too.
- Simulate → Test event list shows a row arriving before anything happens on your channel.
Show your latest events shows how.
Packs is the first tab of Flows, and every pack shows what is in it
Flows now opens on Packs, with All flows beside it. The old My packs and Installed packs views are gone.
- One grid holds the packs you made and the packs you added from the Marketplace. A toggle switches between All, Mine and Marketplace.
- Each pack card has a bar with one segment per flow: live, paused, needs attention, or not added. The card offers the next step, such as Fix 2 flows, Turn all on or Add 7 more.
- Flows that belong to no pack have their own section, Not in a pack, with Make a pack from these.
- A pack's page lists the flows you have, then dashed rows for the ones you do not, with an Add button on each.
- Rows in All flows show a small chip naming their pack; opening it opens the pack. Movement on the page stops if your system asks for reduced motion.
- Packs show the overlays they hold: a pack's card counts them, and its page links to them on Overlays.
- Sharing a pack that has flows to the Marketplace or as a bundle file now brings its overlays too.
Read a pack at a glance shows what each part means.
A clock, a social rotator, and live viewer and follower counts
Two new layers under Chat & info in Studio’s Add tab:
- Clock shows the time on the computer running OBS, as 12- or 24-hour time, with seconds and the date if you want them.
- Social rotator shows your socials one at a time, each with its platform’s icon: X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, Discord, Kick, Bluesky, Threads, Facebook, Reddit, Patreon, Ko-fi or a website. Every OBS source shows the same one at the same moment.
New Viewer count and Follower count tiles under Chat & info add a Label showing that live number, ready to place.
Add a clock or a social rotator shows how.
Panel frames round polls, credits, images and shapes
Your theme’s Panel frame now also goes round a Poll card, the End credits panel, an Image layer’s picture, and a Box or Circle shape, so every piece of an overlay can wear the same frame.
- A layer that should stay plain, such as a logo or a webcam frame picture, takes None under Panel frame in its Style tab.
- A Divider and a Minigames layer still take no frame.
Put a frame around panels, chat lines and cards shows every step.
Picture frames for your panels, chat lines and alert cards
A theme can now wear a picture frame: an ornate gold edge, a neon outline, a torn-paper border drawn round your panels, each chat line and each alert card. Under Look → Background & spacing, Panel frame, Chat line and event row frame and Alert card frame take a picture from your media library. Set Corner size, Frame width and Sides, and watch it draw on your overlay as you type.
- Any layer can wear a different frame, or none, and Reset to theme hands it back. A part that draws a box, such as a chat line or an alert card, takes its own Frame under Parts.
- The Theme tab’s small samples wear the theme’s panel frame, so you can tell themes apart at a glance.
- Chat line frames draw in every chat layout. The Poll, End credits and Minigames layers take no frame.
- A theme’s frame pictures travel with it in the Marketplace, and an AI assistant you have connected can add a frame and check its corners for you.
Put a frame around panels, chat lines and cards shows every step.
Sounds for the points games
The points games now sound like games: the reels spin and click to a stop, a jackpot gets a fanfare, the roulette ball drops into its pocket, swords clash, and the vault clunks open or the alarm goes. A new Minigames layer comes with the sounds switched on; a layer you already have stays silent until you press Turn on game sounds. You can swap any moment's sound for one from your media library, switch it off, or turn everything down with Game volume, and a new Play a game sound flow step plays a sound on your Minigames layer whenever you like.
Sounds shows how.
Ready-made overlays, whole layouts in your theme
Add on the Overlays page now offers ten ready-made overlays, each a whole layout rather than a single piece: Gameplay, Just chatting, Starting soon, Be right back, Stream ending, Webcam frame, Subathon, Chat, Alerts & pop-ups and Goals & events bar. Each one follows your Active theme, camera frame and backdrop included, and its card shows what it looks like. Adding a scene screen you already have asks whether to restyle yours, on the same URL. Shapes and overlay backgrounds can now follow your theme’s accent, panel or text colour, and a chat box with a fixed height keeps to it. Single pieces are still one drag away in the editor’s Add tab.
Start from a ready-made overlay shows how.
Widgets is now Overlays
The Widgets page in the sidebar is now called Overlays, under Build beside Flows. It is the same page: your overlays, scene screens, media library and the Custom widget card are all where they were, and your bookmarks and OBS sources keep working.
Find your way around shows what lives where.
A picture for every built-in flow
Each of Bloopbot’s own flows now has its own cover in the Marketplace and the Add panels. It uses its pack’s colour, a picture of what the flow does and the flow’s name, so Sub alert, Goal: count new subs and Boss: damage from subscriptions are easy to tell apart at a glance.
Read a card shows what each part of a card tells you.
One Marketplace, signed in or out
Every pack, theme and listing now has one public page with the same picture, facts and review as your dashboard.
- Open anything at
/marketplacewithout signing in: what it adds, what’s inside and its reviews. Sign in with Twitch to add brings you straight back to it in your dashboard, ready to add. - Bloopbot’s own packs are on the public Marketplace too, and it sorts and searches the way Discover does.
- The Themes page is the Marketplace’s Themes now. Your scene screens, the OBS scene download and a theme’s layout are on Widgets, under Scene screens.
- Import on the Flows page opens the Marketplace’s Paste a link or drop a file.
Add from a public page and Scene screens show every step.
Full packs: flows and a look in one item
Creators can now list flows and a theme together, with its overlays and alert designs, as one Marketplace item.
- When you add one, choose Everything, Just the look or Pick parts.
- The review asks which of your channel point rewards each flow listens for, with Make it for me ready.
- At your plan's theme limit, Swap themes puts the new look in your draft, or Add without the look adds just the flows.
- After adding, Set it up lists the OBS sources, the flows to switch on, the reward and the Stream Deck keys.
- The public Marketplace's Themes filter now finds every listing with a theme.
Full packs and Share flows and a theme together show every step.
Add the flows a page needs, right on the page
Pages that need a flow to work — Giveaways, Song Requests, Queue, Loyalty, Regulars, Quotes, Nukes, and an overlay with alerts on Widgets — now show one quiet row while no flow does the job, such as Giveaway flows · 15 flows · Add.
- Add opens the same review as the Marketplace on the right of the page. The flows arrive paused, and the row then offers Switch on. The row goes once a flow does the job.
- In the flow editor, Ready-made snippets open their review in an Add to this flow panel. Add puts the nodes below what is on the canvas, and Undo takes them back.
Let chat enter, Recognise regular viewers and Find and connect a step show every step.
Add themes and layers from one tab in the editor
- The widget editor’s Add tab now lists layers, overlays and themes under one search. Drag a layer onto the canvas to add it at once, or open it to see what it does and press Add.
- Themes are rows in Add, each with its review first, right beside your canvas. At your plan’s theme limit, on any plan, a theme you add swaps into your draft in place of your Active theme, and History keeps the old one.
- The Theme tab’s Duplicate copies a theme you have; New theme… and its starters are gone, because Bloopbot’s themes are under Add.
Arrange your overlay and Add a theme show every step.
Stop a follow-bot raid, and Shield mode on every plan
The new Follow-bot protection pack turns Twitch Shield mode on when a burst of follows comes mostly from brand-new accounts, posts a calm announcement, and turns Shield mode off again 10 minutes later. Every account in the burst is listed in the flow's Run log for your moderators to review.
- Follow burst starts a flow when many different accounts follow within a short window. Single follows never start it.
- Account age checks how new an account is: the follower, the chatter or the raiding channel, or every account in a follow burst.
- Shield mode and Chat settings now work on every plan.
Stop a follow-bot raid shows how to set it up and tune it.
Add from where you build
Flows and Widgets each have an Add button. It opens a panel on the right of your list with the same packs, flows and overlays as the Marketplace, and the same review, right where you are.
- Flows → Add lists every pack and every flow on its own. A single flow now opens its review first and arrives paused, like a pack. It ends with From another bot.
- Widgets → Add lists ready-made overlays, each starting with one layer, and Add alerts lists every alert type and the alert packs.
- Explore packs is gone: old links open the Marketplace. + New flow starts a flow of your own, and New overlay makes an empty overlay.
- A Community pack’s Reviews and Report are on its Manage view under Installed packs.
Add packs and flows, Add a widget to OBS and Show alerts on stream show every step.
Update everything from Installed
Marketplace → Installed now lists updates first, and you update from there.
- Flows you have not changed update in place, and themes, overlays and alert designs update into your draft, so nothing on stream changes until you publish.
- Something you changed is never overwritten: Installed asks “Keep your version?”. Use the new one replaces it in one step and keeps your version in History.
- Each item you added shows the setup left, such as Set it up: 1 of 4.
- Flows you changed now carry an Edited chip on the Flows page.
Update what you added shows every step.
One Marketplace for packs, flows and themes
Marketplace in the sidebar is one place to browse every pack, flow, theme, overlay and alert design, from Bloopbot and from other streamers.
- Discover has search, kind and category filters, and a Featured shelf.
- Each item has its own page, with its pictures, What’s inside, what other streamers say, and the review that adds it. Flows arrive paused.
- Paste a link opens a shared link, or a dropped
.bloop.zip, in the same review.
See The Marketplace.
Share your themes, and install themes other streamers designed
Themes you make can now be listed in the marketplace, and the Themes page shows community themes beside Bloopbot’s own.
- Publish to the marketplace… under My themes lists a theme with the overlays that show it off, 1 to 4 preview pictures, and each file’s slot and licence. It is reviewed before anyone can install it.
- Community themes are marked Community and credited to their designer, and install like any other theme, files included.
- A theme’s public page lists every file with its licence, and Install from the Themes page opens your own Themes page.
Publish a theme and Browse and install themes show every step.
Scene screens for starting, breaks, ending and just chatting
Every theme on the Themes page now comes with four full-screen scene screens: Starting soon, Be right back, Stream ending and Just chatting.
- Install them with the theme. A checklist names the OBS scene each one goes in, with Copy URL for its Browser Source.
- Download OBS scenes saves all four as a scene collection you can import into OBS in one go.
- Installing another theme keeps the screens you have. Use this theme’s layout… gives them another theme’s layout, keeping every URL.
Scene screens and Import the scenes into OBS show every step.
Browse and install themes, with overlays to match
Themes, just below Widgets in the sidebar, is a catalogue of ready-made looks. Each theme plays its sample chat, alerts and goal live before you install anything.
- Install… adds the theme and only the sample overlays you tick. Your Active theme stays as it is until you press Switch & publish.
- At your plan’s theme limit it replaces a theme in your draft instead, and History can bring the old one back.
- When Bloopbot improves a theme you installed and left as it was, My themes offers a one-click Update. A copy you changed offers Replace… or Keep mine.
Browse and install themes shows every step.
A guide to marking moments in your VOD
The Stream marker step drops a marker in your VOD when a flow runs, so you can find that moment again in Twitch’s highlight editor after the stream. Its optional Note can name who or what it was, such as the raider.
Mark a moment for your highlights is a new walkthrough: bookmark every raid of ten or more viewers, then shout out the raider.
Bring your commands over from Nightbot or StreamElements
Bloopbot can read your channel’s public command list on Nightbot or StreamElements and turn each command into its own flow. You don’t sign in to the old bot, and nothing changes there.
- Open it from step 2 of the Setup guide, or from Flows → + New flow → From another bot.
- Each row shows who could use the command, its cooldown and its reply as Bloopbot will send it.
- Some commands can arrive as Bloopbot’s own shoutout, clip, quote or giveaway entry, or keep your reply. You choose before you bring them over.
- Tick Turn on now for the commands you want answering chat straight away. Everything else arrives paused.
Coming from Nightbot and Coming from StreamElements show every step.
Share flows with other streamers, and install theirs
- List your flows, with the alert designs, widgets and files they use, in the marketplace. Everything listed is reviewed first, and it always installs paused. List your flows in the marketplace shows how.
- Flows → Explore packs has a Community group of bundles other streamers listed, with a Featured shelf at the top. See Install from the Community group.
- Export bundle on the Flows page puts several flows, and everything they need, in one file. See Export several flows as one bundle.
Sign in with email when Twitch can’t
Add a backup sign-in email under Account, confirm it, and you can still open your dashboard if you ever can’t sign in with Twitch. It doesn’t create a new account: it signs you in to the one you already have.
Keep a backup way to sign in walks through it.
A new sidebar: Build, Run and Manage
The sidebar is now a narrow strip of buttons with a panel of pages beside it. Build holds Flows and Widgets, Run holds what you use during a stream, and Manage holds what you set once or check afterwards.
The sidebar lists where every page lives.
Pages offer the flows that feed them
When no flow is on to drive a page, the page says so and offers to install the flows it needs, paused, for you to switch on.
- Loyalty offers Install points commands — see Give viewers a way to check points.
- Regulars offers Install !regulars commands — see Recognise regular viewers.
- Giveaways offers Install giveaway flows — see Let chat enter.
- An overlay with an alert layer offers Install alert flows — see Add an alert to an overlay.
New guides for your bot account, quotes, schedule and more
- Use your own bot account
- Keep a quote book
- Work with your stream schedule
- Start a flow from a URL, or call one
- React to polls, predictions and hype trains
- Share the work with mods and editors
- Coming from Streamer.bot, which maps actions, triggers, sub-actions and variables, and says what stays on your PC.
- Coming from Fossabot, which maps commands, timers, keywords, counters and moderation onto flows and filters.
Tell how a poll or prediction ended
With When it set to Ends, the Twitch poll changes and Twitch prediction changes triggers now have an Outcome field. A prediction flow can tell Resolved (winner paid out) from Cancelled (points refunded), so a cancelled prediction never claims a winner.
Choose the moment lists every choice.
The link filter sees through disguised links
The link filter now catches a link written to slip past it: spaced or spelled out (example dot com), in look-alike or fancy letters, or broken up with invisible characters. The blacklist sees through the same disguises.
Whatever a filter does — warn, delete or time out — the message it caught is now always deleted. A first-offence warning only spares the viewer the timeout. See Add a helper flow.
Alerts live on your overlays
Add an alert from Add in any overlay’s editor: follow, sub, resub, gift sub, cheer, raid, redemption or custom.
- The first time you add a type, Bloopbot makes its design and a flow that plays it.
- A design belongs to your channel, so one design can show on as many overlays as you like.
- Every alert waits its turn in one queue, so nothing overlaps.
Show alerts on stream covers designs, testing, media and the live queue.
A !deaths counter and a hello for first-time chatters
- The Counter templates in the Starter pack are now
!deathsfor anyone and!deaths +for mods. See Start from the Counter templates. - Welcome new chatters greets each viewer once, after their first line in chat, and stays quiet after that. See Welcome first-time chatters.
Giveaways get their own page and a panel for OBS
A giveaway is now a record with its own rules: the prize, the word that enters it, how many winners there are, and how a winner claims it. Set it up once and open it when you are ready.
The Giveaway widget puts it on stream: the prize, the keyword, how many entries are in, the last few people who entered, and the draw itself. Run a giveaway in chat goes from the rules to the winner.
Let a failed attempt try again
The Cooldown step has a Reset connection. Wire the error branch of a step that can fail into it, and a viewer whose attempt went wrong can try again straight away instead of waiting out the cooldown.
Let a failed attempt try again shows how.
Pin, badge or hide a chat message from a flow
A flow can now pin a message in your on-stream chat box, give it a badge such as Rank $(rank), or hide it. Make your chat box react to chat shows each one.
Build one overlay from several pieces
An overlay is now made of layers: a chat box, a goal bar and a counter can sit on one overlay, each where you put it. Arrange your overlay shows how.
Pick your real Twitch rewards
A channel points flow’s Reward field lists the rewards your channel has, with what each one costs, so you pick instead of typing a name. A reward renamed on Twitch shows as (not on Twitch now) until you pick the new one.
Pick the reward has the details.
Ask the AI judge inside a flow
AI: yes or no and AI: route by meaning are two new condition nodes: ask a plain-English question about a chat message, and branch a flow on the answer instead of hard-coding rules. Not available on every channel yet — check Your plan from the Flows page.
Ask the AI judge in a flow shows both nodes.
React to polls, predictions and hype trains
Bloopbot can now announce a poll winner, say who won a prediction and how many points were in play, and cheer each hype train level — install the ready-made reactions, or start a poll or prediction from a flow and lock or settle it later. Test fire plays a realistic made-up event so you can check a reaction before it runs for real.
React to polls, predictions and hype trains has the details.
Move a goal bar or on-screen counter from a flow
A goal bar or a counter widget can now follow a variable your flows keep, so a chat command, a bits cheer or a raid can move the number on screen. The On-screen numbers pack sets one up in a click.
Move a goal bar or counter from a flow shows how.
Build any command or behaviour as a flow
Commands, alerts and timers are now built as flows: connect a trigger, an optional condition and an action on a canvas, then use Test fire to check it before it goes live.
Build a flow on the canvas explains the three parts, and Create your first chat command builds one from the Simple command template.
Speak in chat under your own bot account
Link a second Twitch account under Connections → Bot account, and every chat reply, announcement and moderation action from your flows comes from that name instead of the shared bot. Your flows, commands and widgets stay exactly as they are; only the name in chat changes.
Use your own bot account walks through linking it.