Twitch Overlay Templates
Twitch Overlays for streamers and content creators
At Nerd or Die, Twitch overlay templates are what we do best. We’ve been making Twitch overlay templates that are used by hundreds of thousands of streamers, and we’re always looking for more ways to provide streamers templates the best overlays templates around. To do this, we make our overlays easy to use and as customizable as possible.
For streamers just starting down the Twitch career path, or those who have been bleeding purple for years, Nerd or Die offers a large selection of Twitch overlay templates that are completely FREE. Any strings attached? No. Nerd or Die wants to make sure every streamer has an opportunity to broadcast to the largest audience, regardless of their budget.
"Such a great balance between good clean design and gamer aesthetic vibes - everything is so consistently visualized. As a complete beginner in this I was expecting hours of complicated tinkering and instead was accompanied by such an amazing tutorial video that it took no time at all to get everything working. Thank you guys, really a no small feat this is!"
Annkelia (verified customer)
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If you’re new to streaming but want a head start in getting your channel looking the part, below you’ll find some of our most popular, customizable twitch overlays from our store.
Kinetic Stream Package is a sleek, exciting Twitch overlay template with multiple color selections available. It’s a template that’s full of character and works well for streamers specialising in fast-paced shooters such as Apex Legends, Fortnite and Overwatch.
Interface Stream Package Interface cuts like a knife as it slides across your Twitch stream. This battle-ready, cyberpunk inspired Twitch overlay template is perfect for those looking for an Apex Legends or Rainbow Six: Siege overlay template.
Apex Stream Package is the perfect Twitch overlay template for all E-sports commentary streams. It’s light and vivid, ensuring that it’ll grab your viewers’ attention without blocking the action.
Options for every streamer style
As you will see if you check out our store, style is always on our mind. We offer a grand selection of theme-fitting Twitch overlay templates that match the vibe of many popular games of today, but general enough not to push you into a corner. Whether you’re battling through Blackout royale in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 or you’re playing the long game in DOTA 2, our Twitch overlay templates guarantee you’ll look as good as you play – which we’re assuming is pretty good!
For the perfectionist and creative
If you’re a Twitch streamer with a keen eye for design and further customization, many of our Twitch overlay templates can be purchased with access to the After Effects animated source files, meaning you’ve got full control over every aesthetic aspect of your purchased Twitch overlay template.
How does this benefit you? Well, we know many professional streamers consider a Twitch overlay template as an asset to their brand. Color coordination and style sync is key for making a killer stream presentation. If you’re familiar with the workings of Adobe After Effects, our source files give any streamer master control of every visual aspect found within our Twitch overlay templates. There’s nothing that can’t be customized to your brand with our source files in your hands.
Everything you need to start streaming
Our Twitch overlay templates are feature rich. We bundle our overlay templates into full packages that include overlays for webcams, alerts, social bars, and much more. If you’re a user of Streamlabs and Streamlabs OBS we even include quick-setup files to get you going within minutes.
To give you an idea of what’s included in our Twitch overlay templates, to the right is a list of example contents of our packages.
Overlay Package
- Animated Overlay Files
- Webcam frames (16:9 and 4:3 ratio)
- Animated Event List
- Screen designs (Starting, BRB, ending, and blank versions)
- Stinger Transitions (blue, purple and green)
- Quick setup Streamlabs OBS .overlay file
- Icons for stream and social use
- Profile panels and editable .psd
Alert Package
- Fully customizable animated alerts
- Quick install link for Streamlabs
- Customize colors of all elements and fonts via our custom fields
- Change the language and text used
Of course, if our premium packages are ever out of your budget, many of our Twitch overlay templates have ‘light’ free versions available. Just check out the free content page here.
If this all seems a bit much and you just want to click a few buttons and get streaming, we recommend checking out the “Advanced Overlay Maker” free for 15 days on Streamlabs OBS.
The Advanced Overlay Maker
Dive deep into an easy-to-use overlay building experience. The Advanced Overlay Maker gives you access to more than just pre-built overlay templates. Learn more about the AOM with our documentation page.
Deadmau5's Stream Design
Free Twitch Overlays, Alerts, and Widgets
We’ve been making free twitch overlays, alerts, and stream widgets for a few years and decided it’s about time we made a one-stop post to help you find what you want quickly and easily. Over time we’re seen a lot of new users coming to our site and we wanted to make sure they knew the full scope of free twitch overlays, panels, and general resources that we offer. While Twitch is definitely the most popular streaming platform that we support, almost all of the items listed here will work with Facebook, YouTube Gaming, Mixer, and more!
Our goal with our overlays is to make them modular. Meaning you can use the bits and pieces that you want to. This also will allow you to use things like the color correction source in OBS Studio and Streamlabs OBS to make it fit your stream’s theme. While some items may have a “suggested price” on them, just enter in “0” for the price to get them for free.
Our complete list of free Twitch overlays, alerts, and stream widgets
Below you’ll find a list of free overlays and scene designs. While some may have a “suggested” price, you can enter in “0” to receive the item for free.
- Christmas Overlays and Widgets – A free Christmas themed overlay pack with widgets!
- Clearview Lite – A clean and minimal free overlay that includes a Streamlabs OBS .overlay file and static PNGs
- Stone Fire Nerfed – An overlay designed specifically for MOBA players, but includes files to work in any stream design.
- Free Scene Maker – Create your own scene designs with our easy to use scene maker.
- Call of Duty Themed Overlay -Originally designed for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.
- Create Your Own Overlay – Create your own simple overlay.
- No Man’s Sky (Sci-Fi) Themed Overlay – Originally designed for No Man’s Sky, this sci-fi inspired overlay is free for all!
- Overwatch Overlay – A static version of our popular Animated Overwatch overlay.
- Halloween Overlay – A free Halloween themed overlay.
- Kinetic Chat Box and Goal Widgets – Download the “Free Extras”
- Interface Goal Widgets – Download the “Free Extras”
- Glitch Chat Box – Download the “Free Extras”
- Retrowave Chat Box – Download the “Free Extras”
- Social Media Popup V2
- Streamlabs Event List CSS
- Predator Orange Stinger Transition – Download the “Free Extras”
- Kinetic Stinger Transitions – Download the “Free Extras”
- Interface Stinger Transitions – Download the “Free Extras”
- Uplink Stinger Transition (and Source File) – Download the “Free Extras”
- Prestige Stinger Transition – Download the “Stinger Transitions”
- Glitch Stinger Transitions – Download the “Free Extras”
- Retrowave Stinger Transitions – Download the “Free Extras”
Get started with our free Twitch overlays
Ready to go? We’ve included a section in our shop specifically for free resources. However, this post will detail more about each pack and the extras they include. While we offer a lot of free resources our shop contains premium items that you can purchase and use on your stream as well.
Custom designed free Twitch overlays
The overlays below are “lite” versions of full packages that we’ve made. Typically these are static (or non-animated) overlays. But, we do our best to pack all that you would need to create a full stream design. In fact, most of them come with free Twitch panels, icons, and a bit more.
Clearview Lite
This overlay was create to give off a clean, professional, and unique look. You can easily adapt this design to most games and applications, making it perfect for those of you that do IRL streams or variety gaming. It works with all major streaming software.
When downloading, make sure to select the “lite version” option.
Extras included with Clearview Lite
A lot of the packs listed in this post will have more than just free overlays included. In the case of Clearview you’ll also get access to icon designs, Twitch panels, and stinger transitions. This pack is at the top of our list for a reason!
Stone Fire Nerfed
Listen, we love “clean and modern” as much as the next person, but sometimes you have to change it up. Stone Fire was created for those that want more theme and texture in their overlay designs. This free Twitch overlay includes webcam frames, supporter sections, and Twitch panels.
Stone Fire was designed for League of Legends and DotA 2 streamers
Components of the overlay pack are specifically made for LoL and DotA 2 streamers. We did our best to design it in a way to let you show as much of the action as possible, while still showing the information on your stream that you need to.
Free Overwatch Overlay
This is one of our first free Twitch overlays that we designed and remains one of our favorites. This pack includes multiple webcam frames, support panel layouts, and a HUD that you can align to the bottom of your stream. The only difference between this pack and the full version, is that it is non-animated.
Did you know we have a free to use Overwatch panel maker?
Looking for Twitch panels to compliment your new overlay? Look no further, our free to use Overwatch Twitch panel maker let’s you customize and download Twitch panels to fit the Overwatch design aesthetic.
Free Call of Duty Overlay
While this overlay was originally designed for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, we think it still holds up today. It features multiple webcam layouts and a supporter section design that lets you decide if you’d like them to be stacked vertically or horizontally. A great option for new streamers.
How to get dynamic labels in your stream, a helpful tip to new streamers
One of our most frequently asked question is: how do I get the usernames to update automatically on my overlay? To add these dynamic “labels” to your scenes, you’ll first need to add text sources. We recommend entering in some demo text so that you can position and size your text properly. Please note that’s best to change the font size inside of the text source properties, and not drag to scale (this can cause blurry text).
Next, you’ll need to download and run a program that updates text files dynamically as you get new users, tips, subscribers, etc. A good place to start is the program Stream Labels for StreamLabs. When you install this program, it will create various text files on your computer that you can then sync inside of OBS Studio (or your streaming software).
In the text source properties enable “read from file”. Here, you will “browse” to find a file that you want read and synced inside of your streaming software. Choose the appropriate file, and then it will be connected and updated automatically.
No Man’s Sky Free Overlay
One of the biggest video game disappointments turned out to inspire one of our favorite overlays. While this is a “No Man’s Sky” overlay, don’t let the name fool you, this overlay was designed with a sci-fi feel, and a clean look that can work on any stream design. With the announcement of No Man’s Sky Next, this overlay should keep your stream looking great for years to come!
Create your own free Twitch overlay
We get a lot of questions about looping popups, so let me explain the easiest way I’ve found to make these happen. First, design something cool in After Effects or similar. Second, export that as a WebM. Finally, create a local HTML page that plays that WebM on loop with a bit of delay. If you’re reading this post, it’s likely you’re interested in creating stream designs yourself. If you can pull off the steps for creating a social media popup, then you can make everything else listed in this blog post. In my opinion it’d be a solid place to start and to challenge yourself a bit.
More free Twitch overlays we recommend
Unfortunately not all of the best free Twitch Overlays are on our website… but we’re working on it! However, we have some other options that you can check out on our sister-site Twitch Temple.
We’ve included a wide variety of design aesthetics. From sci-fi and clean/modern overlays to textured and themed. Let us know if you think there’s a design we need to add next! We’re always looking to improve what we have on our site and your suggestions are what help us the most.
MANvsGAME Stream Design
Twitch Temple Acquired by Nerd or Die
I'm extremely excited to officially announce that Twitch Temple is now a part of the Nerd or Die family. For over a year Nathan, aka Flisky, has been the most popular vendor in the Nerd or Die shop and a talent that has been integral to our website's growth. He created Twitch Temple with the simple idea of creating high quality and affordable resources for content creators. His work ethic, talent, and experience in the design field are sure to help us elevate Nerd or Die to a new level.Read more
JoshOG's Alerts and Stream Design
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Flisky took on a majority of the design process and animation, while I figured out how to get things to work within StreamLabs, Muxy, and OBS Studio. Also, I'd like to thank the artist that created the duck mascot for their work on the vector files used in this project.Read more
Sodapoppin's Overlay and Alert Design
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Stone Fire Complete Stream Package
Stone fire is now available as both an animated paid version, as well as a static free version. It includes multiple layouts designed for casual and variety streamers. We also created layouts specifically for broadcasters that play League of Legends and Dota 2.