# Twitch alerts for follows, subs, cheers and raids

Free Twitch alerts for follows, subs, gift subs, cheers and raids, designed in your browser, played one at a time from one queue, and tested on stream before anyone follows.

## Every Twitch alert, one look

| Alert | Plays when |
| --- | --- |
| Follow | Someone follows your channel |
| Sub and resub | Someone subscribes, or shares a resub message |
| Gift sub | Someone gifts subs, one or many |
| Cheer | Someone cheers Bits |
| Raid | Another streamer raids you, with their party size |

A design is the look, words, picture and sound of an alert. It belongs to your channel, so you can place it on as many overlays as you like and change it once. Make a variation for some events, such as a different look for Tier 3 subs. Sub, gift and cheer alerts need those features on your Twitch channel; every preview and test works without them. [Show alerts on stream](https://bloopbot.com/docs/alerts) covers each step.

## Make it look like your stream

- Arrange the picture and the words, or place each part of the card freely.
- Show the viewer's avatar, or a picture or GIF from your media library.
- Choose how it comes in, holds and goes out, and put a frame from your theme around it.
- Play a sound, or a short video. Every channel can upload 200 MB of media; paid plans hold more.

![The alert inspector’s Motion tab: On screen 6 seconds above an In, Hold and Out bar (1.5 s, 3 s, 1.5 s) with words at 2 s; Coming in has Bounce chosen with direction down, duration 1.5 s and Smooth easing.](https://bloopbot.com/docs/screenshots/alerts-motion.jpg)

_An alert's Motion tab: how long it stays on screen, and how it comes in and goes out._

## One queue, nothing talks over anything

Every alert, and every sound or video your flows play, waits in one queue and plays one at a time. While you're live, the **Live** page shows what's playing and what's next, with **Skip**, **Pause**, **Replay** and **Clear**. Your moderators can have the same controls from chat, such as a `!skipalert` command. An alert that waited ten minutes is dropped rather than shown late.

## Test it before anyone follows

Preview an alert on the editor's canvas, or press **Test on stream…** to play it in OBS for real, in your queue, without posting anything to chat. You see whether it played or how many alerts are ahead of it. [Test it](https://bloopbot.com/docs/alerts#test) explains each test.

## Common questions

**Are the alerts free?** Yes. Alerts, the alert queue and the steps that drive them come with every channel. See [what your plan includes](https://bloopbot.com/docs/what-your-plan-includes).

**Do I need to keep an app open?** Only OBS. Alerts are part of an overlay Bloopbot hosts, added to OBS as one Browser Source: [Add an overlay to OBS](https://bloopbot.com/docs/widgets-in-obs).

**Can an alert do more than show a card?** Yes. Alerts are played by flows, so a raid can also post a shoutout, a follow can bump a goal bar, and a sub can play a sound only for Tier 3. See [Twitch overlays](https://bloopbot.com/features/twitch-overlays) for what else can react on screen.