A Kick chat overlay for OBS with real Kick emotes and badges

Sign up, connect your Kick channel, and open the overlay editor. Add the Live Chat widget to a scene and size it where you want chat to sit. Then copy the scene's browser-source link, and in OBS add a Browser source and paste it in. That is the whole setup: there is no extension to install and no chat popout window to capture and crop.

Because it is a browser source, the background is transparent, so the messages sit straight on top of your gameplay or camera.

Kick emotes show as images, animated ones included, and you choose how big they render next to the text. The badges Kick gives each chatter, like subscriber, moderator, VIP, OG and founder, sit in front of their name.

When a moderator, or Kick's own AI moderation, deletes a message, it is removed from the overlay as well, so something your mods caught never stays on screen.

Pick the font, size, text colour, outline and shadow. Give each message its own background bubble or keep it bare, round the corners, and choose whether new messages slide or fade in, stack from the top or the bottom, and fade away after a set time. Usernames can keep their Kick colours or use one colour of your own, and you can add avatars, timestamps and a small platform icon.

Turn on Hide commands and the overlay leaves out messages like !points and !hunt, so the screen shows conversation instead of bot commands. Hide bot messages does the same for your chat bot's replies, and a word list keeps anything you never want on stream off the overlay. Set how many messages show at once, and older ones drop off.

The chat overlay sits in the same editor as the rest of your stream: alerts, an activity feed, a top chatters leaderboard, an emote wall, polls, hotwords, and the bonus hunt and casino widgets slot streamers use. The same Kick connection runs the StreamNeeds chat bot, points and giveaways, so one setup covers the whole stream.