📢 Release Notes - v1.7.0

Version 1.7.0 is one of the biggest SheevChat updates yet, introducing a complete overlay creation system alongside major improvements to alerts, mobile layouts, media organization, automations, and existing overlays.

✨ New Features

Overlay Builder

Create complete stream overlays directly inside SheevChat with the new Overlay Builder.

Build multiple overlays using a visual 16:9 canvas, then drag, resize, arrange, duplicate, hide, or lock widgets exactly where you want them.

Available widgets include:

  • Alert Box
  • Chat
  • Giveaway
  • Credits
  • Clip Overlay
  • YouTube Media Queue
  • Spotify
  • Text
  • Media Library images

Each saved overlay receives its own browser source URL for OBS. You can preview the real browser source, zoom and nudge widgets for precise placement, and optionally use a screenshot of your current OBS scene as a positioning guide.

Alert Box Widgets

Create fully customized alerts with your own Media Library images, GIFs, videos, sounds, text, colors, layout, duration, and styling.

Alert Boxes can trigger automatically for:

  • Follows
  • Subscriptions and memberships
  • Gift subscriptions
  • Raids
  • Cheers and Bits
  • Super Chats

You can also trigger alerts from Custom Commands, Automations, Timers, and SheevPad.

Master Overlay

The new Master Overlay gives you one permanent OBS browser source that can switch between your saved overlays.

Change the active Master Overlay from Custom Commands, Automations, Timers, or SheevPad, with optional fade transitions between layouts.

OBS Scene Change Automations

Automations can now trigger when your active OBS scene changes.

Select a scene from the editor and use the new scene variables to change your Master Overlay, run actions, send messages, or build scene-specific workflows automatically.

Reusable Widget Themes

Save the appearance and settings of any Overlay Builder widget as a reusable theme.

Themes can be loaded across compatible widgets, renamed, or deleted from the shared theme manager. Standalone Chat, Spotify, Giveaway, Credits, and YouTube Media overlays can also load saved themes.

Mobile & Tablet Grid Layouts

Custom mobile views now use a flexible row-and-column grid editor.

Select and merge cells to arrange Chat, Events, Viewers, and SheevPad into layouts that automatically scale to your device. Starter templates are included, and existing custom layouts are migrated automatically.

Media Library Tags

Media Library categories have been upgraded to reusable tags. Add multiple tags to an asset, filter by tag, and organize media more flexibly for overlays and alerts.

Internet Connection Monitoring

SheevChat now detects confirmed internet outages, displays a visible connection warning, and safely disconnects chat platforms until connectivity returns.

🔧 Improvements

Redesigned Overlay Settings

Overlay settings now have their own dedicated Overlays tab, separate from browser access, docks, mobile pairing, and the Mod Dashboard.

Spotify, Giveaway, Credits, YouTube Media, and Clip Overlay settings have been reorganized into clearer collapsible sections with more consistent controls.

More Overlay Styling Controls

Expanded styling options across Giveaway, Credits, YouTube Media, Spotify, Chat, and Overlay Builder widgets.

Depending on the widget, options now include:

  • Background and text colors
  • Opacity
  • Borders and corner radius
  • Drop shadows and text shadows
  • Font and image sizing
  • Display modes and content visibility
  • Widget scaling

Better Giveaway Overlays

Giveaway overlays now support improved stack and carousel layouts, smoother carousel transitions, configurable timing, cleaner prize-focused cards, independent image and widget scaling, and an option to remain hidden when no giveaway is active.

Username-only giveaways now hide unnecessary command fields and display clearer entry instructions.

Cleaner Overlay Behavior

Spotify, YouTube Media, Clip, and Giveaway widgets now remain hidden while inactive, keeping browser sources clean when there is nothing to show.

Chat, Spotify, Credits, Giveaway, Clip, and YouTube Media widgets have also been aligned more closely with their standalone overlay versions.

Easier Media Playback Setup

MPV setup now includes everything needed for normal installation, so a separate 7-Zip installation should no longer be required.

Improved Filtered Account Visibility

Accounts muted from TTS now display the same dimmed appearance and muted indicator in Mobile / Tablet chat and the OBS Chat Dock.

Smarter User Counter Actions

User Counter actions now load category choices directly from Data Manager, making counter automations faster and easier to configure.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Media Library giveaway images not scaling correctly in the Giveaway Overlay.
  • Fixed popup windows remaining forced above the main SheevChat window.
  • Fixed Spotify-only playback repeatedly retrying unsupported YouTube queue items.
  • Fixed Automation User Counter actions and Channel Point Redemption {input} variables.

🔄 To receive the update, simply launch SheevChat or right-click the system tray icon and choose _Check for Updates_.