Comparison
The best Kick overlays
The best Kick overlay is a live overlay tool plus the look you like. Our top pick is StreamNeeds: a drag-and-drop OBS overlay editor, on the free plan, whose widgets read your Kick channel live — Kick chat, follower, sub and Kicks goals, alerts, top chatters, an emote wall and more. Overlay packs from design stores give you the art; a tool like StreamNeeds makes it move with your stream. Both kinds are compared below.
Last checked October 2026.
1.StreamNeeds
Top pickstreamneeds.comBest for: Kick streamers who want a live overlay they build themselves
Price: Free plan; paid plans from $25/month
A drag-and-drop OBS overlay editor with multiple scenes and layout templates on the free plan. Widgets read your Kick channel live: Kick chat (with Twitch and YouTube chat in the same box), follower, sub and Kicks goals, alerts, top chatters, an emote wall, a hype train, a timer and a viewer count. Every overlay is one browser source in OBS, and changes show on stream straight away.
- Drag-and-drop OBS overlay editor with multiple scenes, on the free plan
- Kick chat, follower, sub and Kicks goals that update live
- Follow, sub, gifted sub and Kicks alerts in the same overlay
- Emote wall, top chatters, hype train, timer and viewer count widgets
- Layout templates to start from, and your own images on any scene
- 48 widgets across plans, including bonus hunt widgets for slot streams
2.StreamElements
streamelements.comBest for: Free overlays that react to Kick events
Price: Free
A free cloud overlay editor with a theme gallery and custom widgets. On Kick it reads follows, subs, gifted subs and tips, and it added KICKs gift alerts and widgets (latest, total, top gifter and goal) in September 2026.
Full comparison: StreamNeeds vs StreamElements →3.Streamlabs
streamlabs.comBest for: Kick overlays alongside Streamlabs Desktop
Price: Free; Ultra $27/month or $189/year
Kick follow, sub and tip alerts and a Kick chat box, with free overlays and thousands more themes on Ultra. Its help site notes that Kick-only accounts edit Kick alerts on Streamlabs.com rather than inside Streamlabs Desktop.
Full comparison: StreamNeeds vs Streamlabs →4.OWN3D
own3d.tvBest for: Branded animated packs with alerts and panels to match
Price: Single packs, or a Stream Pass subscription
Animated Kick overlay packages (webcam frame, labels, scene screens, transitions, alerts, panels and sound) for Twitch, Kick, Facebook, YouTube and Trovo, working in OBS Studio, Streamlabs, Twitch Studio, XSplit and Lightstream. A pack is artwork; live counts come from your alert or widget tool.
5.Nerd or Die
nerdordie.comBest for: Free starter Kick overlays or premium animated packs
Price: Free packs; paid packs about $10–$30
A Kick overlay section tested for Kick, with free packs and paid animated packs: starting, BRB and ending scenes, webcam frames, prebuilt scenes and Kick panels, for OBS Studio, Streamlabs Desktop and StreamElements.
6.Elgato Marketplace
marketplace.elgato.comBest for: Choosing a pack from many designers
Price: Priced per pack
A marketplace of animated overlay packs from many designers, with install guides for OBS, Streamlabs and StreamElements. Kick support is stated pack by pack, so check each listing.
Features and prices are as each tool describes them on its own site. Products change constantly — check each one before deciding, and tell us if anything here is out of date.
Everything StreamNeeds does
48 features live today, and 35 more launching soon. Overlays, alerts, bots, points, giveaways and clips in one place, for Kick, Twitch, YouTube and Discord.
Bonus hunts
- Bonus hunt tracker over a 16,000+ slot database
- Live and starting break-even, average and 100x count
- Simple mode, presets and hunt duplication
- Live viewer page and share links
- Add to Hunt button inside 12 casinos (Chrome extension)
- Per-game hunt statistics
- Guess the balance with lock rules and the Price-Is-Right rule
- Guess the balance prize placesLaunching soon
- Firefox extensionComing in V2
OBS overlays and widgets
- Drag-and-drop overlay editor with 48 widgets
- Unlimited scenes, switchable from chat
- OBS scene control over the WebSocket
- Layout templates and scene duplication
- Hunt table, dashboard, reel, big win and progress widgets
- Chat, activity feed, goals, polls, hype train and timer widgets
- Widget library and Stream PacksLaunching soon
- Brand Kit and Media libraryLaunching soon
- Signature widget looksLaunching soon
- Clutch mode: hide every overlay with one switchLaunching soon
Alerts
- Follow, sub, gift, tip and raid alerts
- Alert rules: amounts, sub tier, a specific viewer, first time
- Alert history and test events
- Alerts Studio: animated alert designerLaunching soon
- Casino alerts tied to events: big wins, max wins, hunt results, winners, store purchasesLaunching soon
- Timed alerts that play every few minutes while liveLaunching soon
- Chat command alerts (!hype plays an alert)Launching soon
- Alert library packsLaunching soon
- Text-to-speech alertsComing in V2
Chat bots
- Kick bot: commands, timed messages, points, giveaways, slot requests
- Twitch and YouTube chat bot: commands and timed messages
- TikTok Live and Facebook Live chat in your overlay and historyLaunching soon
- Editable bot replies in 10 languages
- Discord bot: slash commands, points and a daily bonus
- Discord hunt, giveaway, big win and go-live announcements
- Discord moderation and cross-server bans
- Discord verification gates (account age, server time, casino details)
- Self-service Discord rolesLaunching soon
- Discord ticketing: forms, routing, macros, notes, transcripts, workflows
- Ticket web portal
- Ticket response targets (SLA)Launching soon
- Discord game nightsLaunching soon
Points, store and giveaways
- One points balance across Kick and Discord
- Points for chat, watch time, subs, follows and tips
- Points store with fulfilment and refunds
- Slot requests with voting, points cost and promote to hunt
- Chat giveaways with multiple winners
- Numbered raffles with a ticket grid on your overlay
- Points leaderboardsLaunching soon
- PredictionsLaunching soon
- Stream Bingo and the Challenge boardLaunching soon
- Stream WheelsLaunching soon
- Social giveaways on X with a provably fair drawLaunching soon
- Public provably fair proof for every drawLaunching soon
- TournamentsComing in V2
Viewers and community
- Viewer profiles linking Kick, Discord and Twitch accounts
- Viewer history: points, purchases, requests and wins
- Verified casino usernames, crypto wallets and affiliate codes
- Account flagging across your community
- Bans that follow the casino account, not just the chat name
- Quests and community goalsLaunching soon
- Viewer portal where viewers see their own statsLaunching soon
- Alt Guard multi-account detectorLaunching soon
- Lobby codesLaunching soon
Mods and control
- Mod accounts with per-area permissions
- Stream Pad and a Stream Deck URL for every trigger
- Mod Box: private live view, team chat and Stream PadLaunching soon
- Stream Pad looks and sound boardLaunching soon
- StreamNeeds for OBS plugin: stream health, go live, docksLaunching soon
Clips and content
- Stream clips with a win-moment library
- Hosted clip library with a share link
- Auto clips when chat erupts
- End-of-stream recap email
- Branded game graphics generator
- Clip Rewards: a viewer clipping team with a prize poolLaunching soon
- Content Planner that grades every stream ideaLaunching soon
- Link in Bio page with tracked linksLaunching soon
- Tip pageLaunching soon
Sponsors and growth
- Sponsor and agency campaign reports
- Media kit with 30-day audience stats
- Wager race leaderboards from casino affiliate stats
- Command Centre analytics across platforms
- Live sponsor page with delivery sign-offLaunching soon
- Public REST API with scoped keys
- WebhooksLaunching soon
- Claude connector that builds overlays and alerts for youLaunching soon
GTA and gaming streams
- GTA tools: game trackers, wanted level meter, crew alertsComing soon
- Auto game switch for trackers and scenesLaunching soon
Not just tools: built to help you grow
Other tools put an overlay on screen. StreamNeeds is built to grow the channel around it.
Keep viewers coming back
Points they earn on Kick and spend in Discord, a store, guess the balance, slot requests and raffles give viewers a reason to stay, chat and return tomorrow.
Turn a community into a Discord that runs itself
Announcements, verification gates, tickets and points keep your Discord busy between streams, with mods handling it from their own logins.
Win and keep sponsors
Campaign reports, a media kit and wager race leaderboards show a casino or agency exactly what they got — the evidence that gets a deal renewed.
Spend your time streaming, not managing tools
One dashboard instead of five tabs and two bots. Everything you set up once works everywhere, so the hours go into content.
Overlay packs vs live overlay tools
An overlay pack is artwork: frames, panels, scene screens and alert animations, sold as files you load into OBS. It looks great and it stays still. A live overlay tool is software: its widgets read your Kick chat, follows, subs and Kicks and update on screen as they happen.
Most streamers want both. Use the pack for the look and put the live widgets on top. In StreamNeeds you can drop your own images onto any scene, so a pack's frames and the live widgets sit in one overlay.
What a Kick overlay needs
Kick events are different from Twitch's: Kicks instead of bits, and its own follower and sub events. Check that the overlay tool reads Kick directly rather than only Twitch.
- Kick chat on screen
- Follower and sub goals that count Kick events
- A Kicks goal for Kick's own tips
- Alerts for follows, subs, gifted subs and Kicks
- Scenes for starting, live, break and ending
How we checked
This list is written by the StreamNeeds team. Every other product was checked against its own website in October 2026. Prices are as each site stated them. Where a site does not describe a feature, we say so rather than guess.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best Kick overlays?
- For a live overlay, StreamNeeds: a free drag-and-drop editor whose Kick chat, goals and alerts update from your channel as it happens. For artwork, overlay packs from design stores give you the look, and you can put those images on a StreamNeeds scene with the live widgets on top.
Are there free Kick overlays?
- Yes. StreamNeeds' free plan includes the overlay editor with multiple scenes, layout templates, a Kick chat widget, goals and alerts. Several overlay stores also give away free packs.
How do I add an overlay to Kick?
- Kick has no overlay settings of its own: overlays live in your streaming software. Copy the overlay's browser source URL, add a Browser source in OBS, paste it and set it to 1920×1080.
Do Twitch overlays work on Kick?
- The artwork does. Live widgets only work if the tool reads Kick events; a Twitch-only follower goal will not count Kick followers.
Build your Kick overlay free
Create a free StreamNeeds account, connect Kick, pick a layout and add the overlay to OBS as one browser source.
Keep reading
- OBS overlays you build by dragging, not by editing CSSA visual overlay editor with 48 live widgets for any stream: chat, alerts, goals, timers and leaderboards, plus hunt tables and running totals for slot streams. Multi-scene, with OBS scene control.
- A Kick chat overlay for OBS with real Kick emotes and badgesPut your Kick chat on stream with one OBS browser source. Animated Kick emotes and sub badges, deleted messages removed, commands and bots hidden. Fully styleable.
- The best free stream overlay toolsThe best free stream overlay tools in 2026: what each free plan really includes, which platforms it reads and what costs extra. StreamNeeds is our top pick for a free live overlay editor. Checked October 2026.
- How to add a bonus hunt overlay to OBSAdd a live bonus hunt overlay to OBS in five minutes: build the overlay, copy its URL, add a browser source, size it, and check it updates as you add bonuses.