📢 Release Notes - v1.9.0

Version 1.9.0 adds new ways to interact with chat, route audio through OBS, run giveaways, control your stream, and organize viewers across Twitch, YouTube, Kick, and TikTok.

✨ New Features

Overlay Audio Receiver

Overlay Builder now includes an Overlay Audio Receiver widget for playing TTS and Media Library audio directly through an OBS browser source.

Commands, Automations, Timers, and SheevPad can use new Send to Overlay actions to:

  • Send TTS to a selected receiver
  • Play Media Library audio
  • Send text payloads for compatible widgets
  • Target a specific receiver or shared channel
  • Clear a receiver's playback queue

TTS plays sequentially and can use your global voice or a per-action Piper or Kokoro voice override. Overlay Builder also includes tools for testing TTS and clearing the receiver queue.

Watched-Stream Giveaways

Added a new Twitch giveaway mode that automatically enters eligible viewers currently watching your stream.

Features include:

  • Automatic entry from active Twitch watch presence
  • One entry per eligible viewer
  • Loyalty bonus ticket weighting
  • Filtered Account exclusions
  • Live watcher counts in Giveaway management
  • Viewer-friendly Giveaway Overlay messaging

Chat entry commands are ignored while this mode is active, making it ideal for passive viewer giveaways.

Pinned Chat Messages

Pin important chat messages from SheevChat.

Pinned messages appear across:

  • Main chat
  • Chat Dock
  • Mobile / Tablet Light
  • Remote Mod Dashboard

Twitch uses native pinning when available, including timed pins and Until unpinned. Other platforms can use local SheevChat pins.

Reply-Style Command Responses

Custom Commands, built-in commands, and supported chat-message actions can now reply directly to the triggering message instead of posting a normal standalone response.

Native reply threading is supported on Twitch and Kick. Unsupported platforms automatically fall back to a normal chat message.

Stream Title & Category Commands

Added disabled-by-default moderator commands for changing stream information:

  • !settitle / !st
  • !setcategory / !setgame / !sc / !sg

These commands support Twitch, YouTube, and Kick, with editable response templates and command variables for the updated title or category.

Mobile SheevPad Navigation

SheevPad buttons can now navigate between groups on Mobile / Tablet Light.

Create buttons that jump to:

  • A specific group
  • The next group
  • The previous group
  • Your saved favorite group

Award Every Correct Trivia Player

Trivia can now remain open until the timer ends and reward every viewer who answers correctly.

Each viewer is counted once, all correct players receive their reward, and chat receives one summarized result. The original first-correct mode remains the default.

Command-Specific Account Filters

Filtered Accounts can now block either every command or only selected commands and aliases for an account.

The redesigned Filters interface includes known-user suggestions, command chips, search, and cleaner collapsible account cards.

Advanced Config Storage

Choose a custom folder for SheevChat configuration files from General settings.

SheevChat stores them inside a dedicated SheevChatConfig folder, copies your active settings and backups without deleting the originals, and displays configuration health information. Optional diagnostics can help investigate future save or recovery problems.

🔧 Improvements

Expanded Kick Support

Kick events now integrate more deeply with SheevChat.

Support includes:

  • KICKs in Automations, Loyalty, Credits, Alerts, and testing tools
  • Kick rewards in Channel Point-style workflows
  • Follows, gift subscriptions, and hosts in matching event actions
  • Native message deletion where supported
  • Clearer moderator-command availability
  • Improved local event reliability and duplicate protection

Native Twitch Shoutouts

The Shoutout action and /shoutout command now use Twitch's native shoutout system instead of sending a plain chat command.

Role-Aware Viewer Lists

Viewer lists now prioritize community roles.

Twitch viewers are sorted by broadcaster, moderator, VIP, then viewer. Kick viewers are sorted by broadcaster, moderator, OG, VIP, then viewer.

This ordering is shared across the desktop Viewer drawer, Viewer Dock, and Mobile / Tablet Light.

More Realistic Test Panel

Test Panel chat simulations now follow the same path as live messages, including Commands, Giveaways, Moderation previews, Points, Automations, TTS, Alerts, viewer updates, and reply ordering.

Better Marketplace Browsing

Marketplace search and filters have been refined with clearer package cards, a selected-package details panel, and better status handling for installed apps that have not yet been connected or tested.

Better Chat Theme Support

Marketplace Chat Overlay themes now receive clearer layout information for vertical and single-line horizontal chat, along with complete style and behavior settings.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Restored viewer comments attached to Twitch subscriptions and YouTube memberships while preventing duplicate versions of the same message.
  • Fixed Custom Command Advanced Actions collapsing while selecting action categories or fields.
  • Fixed top-down Chat Overlay themes anchoring messages at the bottom of their widget area.
  • Improved TikTok Clip Overlay download reliability and kept technical download failures out of public chat.

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