The Marketplace

What the Marketplace is

The Marketplace is one place to browse everything you can bring into your channel: packs of flows, single flows, themes, overlays, alert designs and media packs of pictures and sounds, from Bloopbot and from other streamers. Every item has one card and one review, so you always see what an item brings before anything changes. Flows arrive paused: nothing runs until you switch it on.

Everything in it also has a public page anyone can read without signing in (Add from a public page). The homepage’s Featured in the Marketplace section shows picks from the Bloopbot team, in the same order as the public Marketplace. Open a card to see what it holds, or press Browse the marketplace to see everything. You can look around before signing in.

Marketplace sits near the bottom of the sidebar, above Settings and Help, so it is one click away from any page. When something in your channel has a newer version, a number beside Marketplace says how many.

The Overview also shows up to five items first listed since your previous sign-in. Select a card to open the same review here. On a first visit, it shows the latest listings instead; returning visits with no new listings say so.

Find something

1. Open Marketplace in the sidebar. It opens on Discover.
2. Type in Search the marketplace to look through titles, summaries, creators and what each item holds. Type Bloopbot to find Bloopbot’s own items, or overlays to find what brings overlays.
3. Press Filters, beside the search, to open the filters. Under Kind, pick Packs, Flows, Themes, Overlays, Alerts or Media; All shows every kind again.
4. Under Category, pick one such as Community, Moderation or Music. Pick it again to clear it.
5. To see only what other channels made, press Exclude built-in. It hides Bloopbot’s own packs, flows, overlays and themes, and its official listings. Press it again to bring them back.
6. Choose an order under Sort, at the right of the same row: Popular, Newest or Name.

Search, Filters and Sort share one row. The Filters button shows how many filters are on, and each one also appears as a chip under the row: press a chip to remove that filter, or Clear all to remove every one. Press Escape to close the filters.

Popular, the default, puts the items the most channels added first, then the best rated, then goes by name. Newest puts the most recently updated items first, and Name runs A to Z. Bloopbot’s own packs are sorted and searched like everything else, so a community item that more channels added comes before them under Popular. With no search or filter, Featured shows the items the Bloopbot team picked, in the team’s order, above Everything — the same picks the public Marketplace leads with. While the team has picked nothing, it shows the most-added pack and theme instead. Sort orders the list below it. The page’s address keeps your kind, category, Exclude built-in and sort, so the back button and a bookmark both return to the same list.

Read a card

Every card reads the same way, top to bottom:

• The cover: the creator’s own picture, or a preview. Bloopbot’s built-in packs and flows each have their own cover in the pack’s colour: a built-in flow’s picture shows what it does, such as a heart with a bell for Follow alert. Bloopbot’s ready-made overlays show the overlay itself, drawn in the Studio theme. A theme’s preview shows its colours, corners and font.
• The title and its kind: Pack, Flow, Theme, Overlay, Widget, Alert design or Media pack.
• Where it comes from: Built in · Bloopbot, Community · by its creator, From a link, or Made by you.
• One line about it, then what it holds, for example 11 flows or Theme · 3 overlays.
• How many channels added it, and its star rating once 3 streamers have reviewed it.
• Where you stand: Add, Installed, Update ready, or Active for the theme your overlays use now.

A pack or flow whose steps need a paid plan carries a chip naming the plans that run it, such as Free+ & paid or Pro. Free+ & paid is on every item whose steps need a Web request: Free+ and every paid plan run them. When your plan is not one of those named, the chip shows a lock and a warning colour, and hovering it explains: “Some flows in this need Free+ & paid. They won't run on your plan.” When your plan doesn't cover it says what to do. On Free+, that chip has no lock, because Free+ runs Web requests.

A theme card can also carry a chip such as Free holds 1 theme: how many themes your plan keeps. What your plan includes lists the rest.

Look an item over

Add and Details both open the item’s page. The page is centred, with the review in a card on the right. On the left are its cover and pictures (screenshots of it running on a sample stream, and pictures its creator added, never the flows themselves), a longer description, What’s inside (grouped as Look, Flows, Stream Deck, Variables and Files), and what other streamers wrote about it. On the right is the review: one sentence about what happens, the button that adds it, a line on what stays off, and What you get. Open What’s inside, Needs, Plan room or Files and licence at the bottom of the review for the details.

New sample-stream pictures show overlays over one of ten fictional game scenes starring Pebble. Each listing uses the same backdrop across its screenshots. Use the pictures to judge how the overlay looks over gameplay. Some listings also lead their pictures with a short silent video of the same sample stream, so you can watch the alerts play before you add them.

When an item has pictures, the large picture is a gallery. Press the previous and next arrows, press the left and right arrow keys while the picture is focused, or swipe on a touch screen to move through them; the count in its corner reads like 2 of 5. The small pictures under it jump straight to one, and a video shows a play mark on its thumbnail. A showcase video, when a listing has one, comes first; it plays silently and has its own controls to pause it.

The link icon (Copy link) beside the title copies the item page’s address. Paste it under Paste a link on any channel to open the same item.

Add an item

1. Open the item and read the review’s sentence.
2. If the item carries a look and flows together, choose Everything, Just the look or Pick parts. Full packs says what each adds.
3. If the review asks a question, answer it. For a channel point reward, Make it for me is the default, or the reward of the same name if you already have one.
4. Press the button. It says what arrives: Add 5 flows — paused, Add everything — paused, Add 6 files for a media pack, or Add.
5. The review turns into Added — paused and a short Set it up checklist. Only the steps that apply appear: switch on the flows you want, add each overlay to OBS with its copy icon (Copy URL), match a reward, set up Stream Deck keys, and open each control panel it brought.

Whatever you add, the files that come with it land in your media library in a folder named after the item, inside a folder called Marketplace, such as Marketplace › Cosy stickers, with the creator's tags on them. A file you already had stays where it is. Something you drop as a file or paste as a link puts its files in a folder named after it under Imported instead. A theme’s picture frames travel with it like its backgrounds: the frame pictures come into your media library when you add the theme, in that folder, and each panel, chat line or alert card it framed wears the frame once you make the theme Active and publish. If you list a theme of your own, its frame pictures go in the Decor slot (Theme slots).

An item can bring control panels. Each arrives as a new panel whose buttons start your copies of the item's flows; switch those flows on before pressing. A channel holds up to 20 panels, so if the item would take you past 20, the review says so and adds nothing until you delete a panel. If you leave one of the item's flows out, its buttons are left off the panel; adding that flow later puts them on, as long as you have not changed the panel since.

Adding changes nothing on stream or in chat. Flows arrive paused, and a new theme does not change what OBS shows until you make it Active and publish. If your plan already holds as many themes as it allows, the review offers Swap themes: the new theme takes your Active theme’s place in your draft only, and the old one stays in History. When flows come with the theme, Add without the look adds everything else and leaves your themes alone.

Set up a native overlay look

Prism, Fieldnotes and Signal bring five scenes, a matching theme and six alert flows. Prism uses smoky glass and mineral blue; Fieldnotes uses cream paper and a painted garden; Signal uses black, bone and red. Prism pairs Bodoni Moda headlines with Manrope for chat and smaller text; Fieldnotes pairs DM Serif Display with DM Sans; Signal pairs Bebas Neue with IBM Plex Sans. Each look has its own headline scale, with a smaller countdown aligned beneath it. The fonts load automatically in the overlay; OBS needs an internet connection to fetch them. The artwork is a background image. Chat, alert messages, countdowns, goals, polls and supporter lists stay editable widgets.

You need room for one theme and five overlays on your plan, and OBS or another broadcaster that accepts browser sources.

1. Open the pack's review in Marketplace, or drop its .bloop.zip file under Paste a link. Choose Everything and add it. The six alert flows arrive paused.
2. Open Studio and select the pack's Gameplay overlay. Change Name from Your channel to your channel name. Use Just chatting for a large camera and chat layout.
3. Open Starting soon, Be right back and Stream ending. Edit their headline and next-stream text. Start a countdown with a flow's Control a countdown step, using the names Starting soon or BRB.
4. Copy each overlay's URL into a separate OBS browser source at 1920 × 1080. Put Gameplay above your game and camera captures. Just chatting has a full background: put your camera capture above the overlay, inside its camera frame.
5. Preview an alert in Studio with Test. This preview stays in Studio. Publish your edits, then enable the pack's Follow, Sub, Resub, Gift sub, Cheer and Raid flows that you want to run on stream. Pause older flows for the same events to avoid duplicate alerts.

For example, Fieldnotes' Starting soon screen combines its garden background with an editable headline and countdown. Replacing the image does not change the timer or your alert flows. Imported scenes use the pack's own theme; newly created overlays use your Active theme. To extend the look, make the pack's theme Active and publish before creating another overlay (Themes).

The goal bar follows your Twitch creator goal and stays hidden while no goal is active. Polls and predictions appear in Gameplay when those events run. Empty supporter lists need real activity or Studio's test data before they show names. A Redemption alert style is included, but there is no reward or redemption flow until you choose your own reward.

If the review says your plan is full, free space or choose fewer parts before adding. If an alert stays silent, check its flow is enabled and your channel has the permissions the review lists. If OBS still shows an old edit, publish from Studio and refresh the browser source.

When your plan doesn't cover it

Some flows use a step that only certain plans run, such as a Web request. The Marketplace tells you before you add, so nothing surprises you later. What your plan includes lists which plan holds what. On Free, joining the Bloopbot Discord puts your channel on Free+, which runs Web request steps within a daily and a monthly limit.

1. Look at the chip on the card or the item's page. Free+ & paid means Free+ and every paid plan run every flow in it. If your plan is not named, the chip has a lock and a warning colour.
2. Open the item and read the review. Under its first sentence, a box titled Won't run on Free (or whichever plan you are on) lists each flow that can't run, with the step and the plans that cover it, for example “Ping my server: Web request — Free+ & paid”.
3. Press the button as usual. What it does depends on the item, as described below.

What happens to the flows your plan can't run:

• In a pack, or an item that holds more than flows, they are left out (“These flows need a bigger plan, so they're left out.”) and the button counts only the flows that will arrive, for example Add 1 flow — paused. Tick Add them anyway — they'll wait until you upgrade to bring them in too (“These flows are added, but they won't run until you upgrade.”).
• In a single flow, it adds, with the box as a warning (“This adds, but the steps below won't run until you upgrade.”). It arrives paused like any other.
• To run them, press Upgrade in the box, which opens Plan & billing.

A flow you added anyway stays in your channel. When it runs, the step your plan doesn't cover is refused. Upgrade, and the step works with nothing to redo.

Updating something you already added is never filtered: an update brings the new version of every flow, whatever your plan.

Packs that work on every plan

Some packs carry a Works on every plan chip. Bloopbot has checked their Web requests and lets them run on any plan, Free included, so their flows arrive with nothing left out and no Free+ & paid warning.

1. Add the pack as usual. Its Web request steps arrive with the flows.
2. On the Flows page, set Web requests to allowed. Every channel has to allow outbound requests once, whatever its plan.
3. Turn the flows on. Each run can make up to 2 Web requests, the same as Plus.

The exemption covers each Web request exactly as the pack shipped it. You can rename the flow, change its command, cooldown or chat text, and it still works. Change a Web request's URL, method, headers or body, and that step needs Free+ or a paid plan from then on; selecting it in the editor warns you first. A copy of the flow you make yourself is your own flow, so its Web requests need Free+ or a paid plan too. If the pack is later taken off the marketplace, its Web requests stop on plans without them, and nothing is deleted.

Full packs

A full pack is a whole stream setup in one item: flows, a theme, overlays, alert designs and Stream Deck keys, with the files, variables and channel point rewards they use. Its card says what it holds, for example 16 flows · theme · 2 overlays · 9 alerts · 8 Stream Deck keys.

1. Open the pack and choose Everything, Just the look or Pick parts. Each is described below the steps.
2. Answer the review's questions. For each channel point reward the pack needs, it asks, for example, “Which channel point reward is Adventure Cheer?”. Make it for me is the default: Bloopbot makes the reward on your channel, switched off. If you already have a reward of the same name, it is picked for you. You can also pick any of your own rewards.
3. If your plan already holds as many themes as it allows, the review says, for example, “Your plan holds 1 theme. Swap Capsule for Solo Adventure, or add everything except the look.” Choose Swap themes or Add without the look, both described below.
4. Press the button. With Everything it reads Add everything — paused; with fewer parts it says how many flows arrive.

The three choices:

• Everything adds all of it. The flows start paused.
• Just the look adds the theme, the overlays and the alert designs they show, and no flows.
• Pick parts lists the pack's parts under Look and Flows. Tick what you want. Alert designs, files, variables and rewards come with the parts that use them. Overlays come with the theme or a flow, so one of those always stays ticked.

At your plan's theme limit:

• Swap themes, the default, puts the new theme in your draft only, and Capsule stays in History.
• Add without the look adds the flows and leaves your themes and overlays as they are.

After adding, the review turns into Added — paused and a Set it up checklist with only the steps that apply:

• Add the OBS sources: select the copy icon (Copy URL) beside each overlay and paste it into a Browser source in OBS.
• Switch on the flows you want: Choose flows to switch on opens Flows at this pack.
• Match the Adventure Cheer reward: already done when you picked a reward, or when Bloopbot made one during review.
• Set up the Stream Deck keys: each key, and the chat command it shares.

The same steps stay on the pack's Installed row, for example Set it up: 1 of 4, until each is done. When the pack's creator publishes a new version, its flows, overlays, alert designs and theme update by the same rules as everything else: see Update what you added.

Paste a link or drop a file

Someone shared a pack with you, or sent you a .bloop.zip:

1. On the Marketplace, press Paste a link at the top.
2. Paste a Bloopbot link, such as a shared pack link, a marketplace listing page or a Marketplace item link, and press Continue. The item’s page opens with its review.
3. Or drop a .bloop.zip or .json export onto the box, or press Choose a file. Its review opens right there.

A dropped file is not kept. If you leave before adding it, drop it again. A link from another site is refused with “That link is not a Bloopbot link.”, and a Bloopbot page that is not an item with “That link does not point at something to add.”

Add from a public page

Everything in the Marketplace also has a public page, so you can read about it, or send it to a friend, without signing in. Bloopbot’s own packs are there too.

1. Open the Marketplace from the site’s header, or a link someone sent you. Search, or pick Packs, Themes or another chip, just as in your dashboard.
2. Open an item. Its page shows the same cover, the same facts and the same review as your dashboard: what adding it does, What you get, and What’s inside folded underneath.
3. Press Sign in with Twitch to add. Sign in, and you come straight back to the same item in your dashboard, with its review open.
4. Press Add there. Nothing is added until you do.

On a phone, the review sits under the picture, and Sign in with Twitch to add stays in reach while you read it.

A Marketplace item link someone copied from their dashboard works the same way: sign in, and it opens that item in yours.

Installed and Made by you

Installed lists what is in your channel, with anything marked Update ready first, then your packs, flows, themes, overlays and alerts. The number beside the tab, and beside Marketplace in the sidebar, is how many have an update. Pick a kind or search to narrow the list. Each row says how its flows stand, for example 11 flows, all on, and a row with setup left says Set it up: 1 of 4: press Continue setup to see the steps that are left.

Made by you lists everything you listed in the marketplace, whatever its status — Draft, In review with its place in the queue, Changes requested, Listed, Unlisted or Taken down — and the packs and flows you share by link. Share… at the top lists something new, shares flows by a link, or exports them as a file. On a row, Publish an update submits a new version and Edit details changes a listed item’s title, summary, description, category or cover without one. See List your flows and themes in the marketplace.

Restore contents you deleted

You can add your own listed marketplace pack to get its deleted contents back, just as you can add another streamer's pack. The listing holds the approved version you shared; deleting flows or overlays from your channel does not delete that version.

1. Open Marketplace → Discover and search for your pack's name.
2. Open its card. The review shows the missing flows, overlays and variable declarations it can add, even when its byline says Made by you.
3. Press Add, or the button naming the missing flows. Surviving installed flows and current variable values stay as they are.
4. Follow Set it up for restored overlays and switch on the restored flows you want. New flow copies start paused.

For example, if you delete the overlay from your listed counter pack but keep its flow, opening the pack offers the missing overlay again. If only its variable declaration is missing, Add restores that declaration without copying the flow or overlay.

Restoring a sealed graphic from a listing you made brings back its editable HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Open the restored widget on your Widgets page and choose Edit code, or select its layer in Studio and choose Edit widget code. Other streamers receive the sealed copy. Restored flows do not use your custom-flow allowance until you change their behaviour; behaviour edits then count normally, just like edits to other marketplace flows.

A deleted variable starts at the value saved in the pack; its old channel or viewer values are not recovered. A restored overlay has a new OBS source address, so use the address in Set it up. A pack must still be Listed to add it; if you unlisted your own pack, use Relist in Made by you first. Unpublished local edits are not part of the approved snapshot.

Media packs

A media pack is an item that is only files: pictures, sounds and videos a creator shares. Adding one changes nothing on stream or in chat. The files just wait in your media library until you use them in an overlay, an alert or a flow.

Look at it first. A media pack's item page and its public page show its files in What's inside: each picture with a thumbnail you can open full size, and each sound and video with a player, so you can look and listen before you add anything. A picture's thumbnail is a small copy that loads quickly, and a video shows a still frame until you press play. A newly shared pack can take a few minutes to get its small copies; until then its pages show the full files. Its cover is the creator's own, or a sheet of its first pictures, or a sound wave when it is only sounds. Files and licence says how the files may be used and carries any credit the creator asks for. Reading and playing need no sign-in.

Add it.

1. Open the pack and read the review's sentence, for example “Adds 6 files to your media library, in Marketplace/Cosy stickers.”
2. Press Add 6 files. If your file storage cannot hold them, nothing is copied and it says how much space the files need and how much you have free: free some space on the Media page in the sidebar (Choose and upload media), then press the button again.
3. The files arrive in Marketplace › the pack's name. Files you already hold, even under another name, are not copied again and stay where they are.

Update it. When the creator shares a new version, the pack's row in Installed says Update ready and its button reads Get new files. It copies only the files you do not have yet. Files the creator dropped from the new version stay in your library.

Find it. Open the pack from Installed: its status panel has Open in Media library, which opens the Media page where the files are in their folder, tagged as the creator tagged them. You can rename, move, tag or delete them like any file of yours (Organise with folders and tags).

Uninstall it. Press Uninstall on the pack's row in Installed. The box lists the pack's files in your library: the ones nothing uses, each with a tick box that starts unticked, and the ones an overlay, alert or flow uses, marked It stays. Tick the unused files you want to delete and press the button, which then reads, for example, Uninstall and delete 2 files. Or press Uninstall to leave every file where it is. A file in use is never deleted here. Uninstalling only takes the pack out of Installed; if it is still listed you can add it again.

If a copyright claim removes a file, it is removed from every channel that added it, and the files you had already used from it show Missing file where you picked them.

Update what you added

When Bloopbot or a creator publishes a newer version of something you added, its row moves to Update ready. Updating never surprises you:

• Flows you haven't changed update in place and stay on or off as they were. New flows in the new version arrive paused.
• Themes, overlays and alert designs update into your draft. Nothing on stream changes until you publish in Studio, and your published version stays in History.
• Control panels you haven't changed update in place. They take the new version's buttons and keep their place, their secret link and your moderators' access, and a panel open on another screen changes straight away. Panels the new version adds arrive as new panels. A panel you deleted does not come back, and one the new version leaves out stays as it is.
• Widgets update into your draft, one by one. A widget you haven't changed takes the new version in your draft. One whose code you changed asks first, with Keep mine chosen. Your layers keep their own settings either way (Widgets from the Marketplace).
• Something you changed is never overwritten without asking. The row asks “You changed Welcome. Keep your version?” with Keep mine chosen. That goes for a flow and for a control panel whose name or buttons you changed.

1. Open Marketplace, then Installed.
2. On a row with nothing to ask, press Update. It is done at once, and the row says what changed.
3. On a row that asks, choose Keep mine to keep what you made, or Use the new one to take the new version. Use Now and the new version’s number beside it to compare the two.
4. Press Update. Not now folds the question away until you are ready. What’s new opens the item’s page.

Use the new one replaces a changed flow in one step. Your version is kept in that flow’s History, so you can put it back from the flow editor. For a theme or overlay, the new version goes into your draft, and History in Studio keeps what was live. For a control panel, the new version’s buttons replace yours on the same panel, so its link keeps working; panels have no history, so your layout is not kept.

The review counts the control panels an update would add. If they would take you past 20, it says so and Update waits until you delete a panel on Control panels.

Keep mine leaves your copy exactly as it is and stops the offer until the next version.

You can also update an item from its own page: open it, and its review offers Update. If you removed some flows from a pack, its page offers Add the 3 missing flows — paused (or however many are missing).

How items are reviewed

• Built in · Bloopbot items are made and kept up to date by Bloopbot.
• Community items are checked before they are listed, and each new version is checked again before it replaces the old one. Their page says Reviewed by Bloopbot.
• An item From a link or from a file comes straight from another channel and is not reviewed. Read its review before you add it.

If something looks wrong

• Add 6 files says your file storage has too little free. The pack is bigger than the space you have left. Delete files you no longer use on the Media page in the sidebar: What your plan includes shows the space you have.
• A media pack's files are not where I expected. Look in Marketplace › the pack's name in your media library, or open the pack from Installed and press Open in Media library. A file you already had is left where it was.
• The number beside Marketplace looks out of date. It refreshes when you open a page, at most once a minute. Installed always shows the current list.
• An item page has no Add button. Everything in it is already in your channel, or you made it. The page says where it lives and links there.
• Update ready does not go away after Update. A theme or overlay update waits in your draft: publish in Studio to make it live. Until then the row says the new version waits in your draft.
• “This adds 1 control panel, and your channel already has 20 of 20.” Delete a panel you no longer use on Control panels, then add or update the item again.
• An item says it is no longer in the marketplace. Its creator unlisted it, or it was taken down. What you added keeps working, and it has no updates.
• Set it up stays on Add the OBS sources. The step ticks itself once OBS opens each overlay's link. Another streaming app does not tick it: you can ignore the step once your overlays show.
• “This changed since you opened it.” The item changed while you were reading. The review reloads; read it again and press the button again.
• Just the look and Pick parts are not offered. Only an item that carries a theme and flows together offers them. A pack of flows with overlays and no theme is added whole.
• A dropped file shows nothing. Only a .bloop.zip or a .json export from Bloopbot can be read. Ask for the file again, or for a link instead.
• I signed in from a public page and landed on my dashboard’s home instead. The link waits 15 minutes for you to sign in. Open the item’s page again and press Sign in with Twitch to add.