What is a Twitch Overlay?
An overlay is decoration for your virtual room. They're graphics that can sit around a webcam or gameplay, and bring some of your own personality to your stream. Beyond that they also add definition to certain elements, like viewer shoutouts, or messages you'd like to show. This makes those elements more engaging, and brings your stream to life.
We've been doing this since 2014! And have built up a truly diverse selection of stream graphics to decorate and inform from top to bottom, with webcam frames, social media panels, and stream info panels. Helping you show off follows & subs with twitch alerts, and even more.
Overlay experts since 2014
This site has been providing twitch overlays, stream alerts, twitch panels and loads more to the streaming and content creation community for over 10 years now. We remain one of the longest running resources for stream overlays and elements, and offer a huge number of free designs, alongside premium templates.
Everything is made to work with both Streamlabs Desktop and OBS Studio, and if you find a stream package you like the look of you can even have it edited and customised to suit your needs.
Find a Christmas Twitch Overlay
Get in the spirit of the season with the Chestnuts Christmas Twitch overlay. This seasonal treat will make every aspect of your stream ready for the fesitivies, with animated alerts & screens, banner & avatar templates, and loads more.
You can also browse this post for more Christmas stream elements.
Get your stream started with some freebies
For nine years and counting, we've dedicated ourselves to supporting streamers, offering a treasure trove of free content that's bursting with diversity and style. Discover stream overlays that'll make your channel look like a million bits, alert notifications that'll keep your audience engaged, profile panels that'll spruce up your channel page, and a bunch of other goodies to set your streaming journey on the right path.
Find A Twitch Overlay In Your Style
With hundreds of designs on offer, almost all instantly downloadable, there's a design in your style waiting to be discovered. And thanks to a high level of curation, it'll be easy to find! Use the links below as a jumping off point, and from there use the Filters tab to hone in on that unique stream branding you're looking for.
Get personalised stream content for less
Access our exclusive Pro Customization service bundled with our premium stream packages. Add your name and social media details to your chosen package, and have it sent directly to your address.
Want to personalize your setup further? You can request small tweaks or additions through this service, such as adding an extra panel or alert with a specific label.
Understanding Twitch Overlay Downloads
Starting Soon Screens & Stream Alerts
Starting soon screens (also BRB screens, and Stream Offline screens) probably require little explanation - these are graphics and animations that fill your Scenes in OBS Studio or Streamlabs OBS, designed to keep viewers updated when you're not on-screen. They normally come as .JPG images, or .WEBM & .MP4 video files.
Stream alerts are little graphics (often animated) that pop up on screen during streams shouting out viewers who've followed, subbed, donated, or cheered. They're effective and engaging ways to make your audience feel valued. These are provided as .GIF, .PNG, or .WEBM files, all compatible with Streamlabs.
Twitch Banner & Avatar Templates
A Twitch banner is found on your profile page, while the avatar is used throughout the site. A number of stream packages on the site include matching stream banner & avatar templates you can easily edit with your own info.
These Twitch banner & avatar templates are normally provided as .PSD files for you to customise manually, or have the customised for you by selecting Pro Customisation when choosing a Buy Option.
Tips on how to get setup
If you like the sound of customising and personalising your stream, but are still unsure on what's required, we have a guides section that could help.
Not only are there walkthroughs on the initial setup, but also on how to edit some of the designs you'll find here. Each guide is easy to follow, and quicker than it looks to make use of.
Free stuff in our newsletter
Our newsletter is quite literally just an excuse for us to give away paid content. Over the past year we've given away VX Pro Chroma, Razor Purple, and Carbon stream overlays (each worth between $10-12) simply as a thanks for being subscribed. And when we're not doing that we're putting exclusive discounts in there, so generally it's a win-win.
Earn money as an affiliate
If your stream is picking up a little momentum and you're looking into ways to monetize, consider giving our affiliate program a try. The minimum requirements to join are very fair, and as you grow and refer more people our way, we'll bump up your cut! Plus once you become a preferred affiliate you can request any overlay at no cost.