📢 Release Notes - v1.8.0

Version 1.8.0 turns the SheevChat Marketplace into a complete home for apps, widgets, and themes while adding powerful new automation, Overlay Builder, accessibility, and integration tools.

✨ New Features

Widgets & Themes Marketplace

The Marketplace now supports much more than Action Libraries.

Browse and install:

  • Overlay widgets
  • Widget themes
  • Chat and Spotify themes
  • Action packs
  • Community packages

Marketplace cards now include previews, compatibility details, dependencies, capabilities, changelogs, publisher information, and trust labels. Installed packages can be updated or removed directly from SheevChat, and missing dependencies can be installed from Package Details.

The Marketplace now opens to the complete catalog with filters for category, type, target, installation status, updates, and apps that need attention.

Marketplace Items in Overlay Builder

Installed widgets now appear as Marketplace Item widgets inside Overlay Builder.

Add them to any saved overlay, position and resize them on the canvas, configure their fields, load compatible themes, and use them in live OBS browser sources.

Marketplace widgets can include interactive tools such as clocks, countdowns, social displays, ad countdowns, and random wheels. Supported widgets can hide automatically while idle and respond to actions from Commands, Automations, Timers, or SheevPad.

Import StreamElements Custom Widgets

Import compatible StreamElements custom-widget exports as local Marketplace packages using .zip or .sheevpack files.

SheevChat preserves the widget's HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fields, media, fonts, saved data, counters, chat events, and common stream alerts inside an isolated Marketplace Item. Imported widgets receive multi-platform chat and event information from Twitch, YouTube, Kick, and TikTok.

Overlay Builder provides editable controls for supported text, colors, sliders, media, fonts, dropdowns, buttons, and other widget fields, plus testing and status tools when a local import needs attention.

Imported App Event Automations

Installed Apps can now send events directly into SheevChat Automations.

The new Imported App Event trigger lets you:

  • Choose an installed app and event stream
  • Use mapped event values as Automation variables
  • Filter automations using an expected event value
  • Test setups with sample events
  • Control whether each stream is enabled, starts automatically, reconnects, or routes Automations

Event stream status, recent values, connection health, and available variables are shown in Installed Apps.

Expanded App Connections

Action Libraries can now support many more local devices, desktop apps, and online services.

New connection options include:

  • Secure saved credentials
  • OAuth sign-in and automatic token renewal
  • Browser-style pairing codes
  • Configurable local ports
  • Local network device discovery
  • Smart-home and local device connections
  • App event subscriptions

Imported actions can also use hotkeys, launch applications, and save or read their own small local data files when the package requests those permissions.

Image Carousels & Text Animations

Overlay Builder Image widgets can now display Media Library image carousels with configurable timing and fade, slide, or instant transitions.

Text widgets now include animation options with duration and looping controls.

Flexible Alert Box Triggers

Alert Box widgets can now bind directly to a stream event, Custom Command, Timer, or Automation and use variables from that source when triggered.

Trigger Alert actions can also target a specific Alert Box widget when an overlay contains more than one.

App Zoom & Accessibility Hotkeys

Use Ctrl/Cmd with +, -, or 0 to zoom the SheevChat interface in, out, or back to default. Your zoom level is remembered between launches.

Settings now include editable hotkeys for alerts and the main font-size controls. A new SheevChat / UI Resizing action lets Commands, Automations, Timers, and SheevPad adjust interface text sizes too.

🔧 Improvements

Redesigned Marketplace & Installed Apps

Marketplace is now the main place to manage installed integrations and packages.

Health summaries quickly show connected apps, required logins, available updates, running event streams, and anything needing attention. Settings > Connect now provides a compact Installed Apps shortcut instead of duplicating the full manager.

Better Marketplace Package Management

Widget and theme packages now support:

  • Multiple preview images with captions
  • Clear dependency and compatibility information
  • Package update notices
  • Direct links from installed widgets to Overlay Builder
  • Local import warnings and missing-asset guidance
  • Package health inside the selected Overlay Builder widget

Marketplace Themes for Built-in Widgets

Marketplace theme packs can provide new designs for built-in widgets without replacing their normal SheevChat behavior.

Spotify themes can use live track, album art, color, and playback progress information. Chat themes can use messages, emotes, badges, activity, recent history, and viewer presence.

Safer & Clearer App Authentication

Installed Apps now keep credentials masked, provide clearer login or pairing states, and remove saved authorization through one consistent Clear Auth flow.

Connection errors no longer expose saved credentials, and signed integrations can warn when an incorrect system clock may be preventing login.

Cleaner Overlay Builder Editing

Builder sections now start collapsed for easier navigation, Marketplace Items begin with no package selected, and widget dragging preserves the original grab point instead of jumping under the cursor.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed native chat emotes not wrapping correctly inside narrow chat bubbles.
  • Fixed Spotify ticker text starting inside the song bar instead of scrolling in cleanly from outside.

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