📢 Release Notes - v2.0.0

SheevChat 2.0 introduces a complete visual consistency and accessibility overhaul, bringing shared themes, clearer controls, and improved readability across the entire app.

✨ New Features

Global App Themes

Customize the appearance of SheevChat from General → Themes and Accessibility.

Choose from an expanded collection of built-in themes, including website-inspired dark and light palettes, or create your own theme using custom colors.

Custom themes can be:

  • Saved for later
  • Updated after editing
  • Loaded across sessions
  • Deleted when no longer needed

Your selected appearance is shared across the main app and supported companion windows.

Themes Across SheevChat

Global themes now apply consistently to:

  • Main chat, Settings, and Bot
  • Marketplace and Installed Apps
  • Overlay Builder
  • SheevPad editor and popout
  • Data Manager and Media Library
  • Test Panel
  • Media Requests
  • Mobile / Tablet Light
  • Remote Mod Dashboard

User-designed overlay content, SheevPad button images, and custom button colors remain independent from the app theme.

Accessibility & Readability Controls

Added shared appearance options designed to make SheevChat easier to read and navigate.

Options include:

  • Stronger text contrast
  • Clearer keyboard focus indicators
  • More visible links
  • Reduced transparency
  • Theme-aware secondary text and borders

Accessibility preferences update supported windows automatically and work with both dark and light themes.

Manual Emote Refresh

The emote picker now includes a refresh button for reloading Twitch, 7TV, BTTV, FFZ, and Kick emotes.

Newly added emotes can appear throughout SheevChat without restarting the app.

Birthday Date Format

Choose between:

  • MM-DD-YYYY
  • DD-MM-YYYY

The selected format is used by !setbirthday, birthday variables, Data Manager, and User Cards.

Reply Context in Chat

Replies now include visible context in SheevChat chat feeds and overlays, making it easier to see which message a Twitch or Kick response refers to.

🔧 Improvements

Consistent Controls Everywhere

Buttons, fields, toggles, cards, tabs, collapsible sections, validation messages, and destructive actions now share a more consistent appearance and sizing throughout SheevChat.

Settings, Bot, Marketplace, Overlay Builder, SheevPad, Data Manager, Mobile Light, and the Mod Dashboard have all been updated to follow the same design language.

Cleaner Settings & Bot Drawers

Settings and Bot controls now use consistent spacing, button sizes, tabs, cards, toggles, and collapse behavior.

Installed App management remains in Marketplace, while Settings provides a cleaner Installed Apps summary and launcher.

Improved SheevPad Editor

The SheevPad editor now includes:

  • A draggable navigator divider
  • More room for button and group names
  • Cleaner reorder and collapse controls
  • Delete controls moved out of the crowded navigation list
  • Theme-aware previews and selection states

The divider position is remembered for future editor sessions.

More Readable Username Colors

Custom chat username colors now receive subtle theme-aware backing so they remain readable across light and dark app themes.

The old !setcolor contrast rejection is no longer needed, giving viewers more freedom when choosing their color.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed some TikTok clips failing when the normal download method was temporarily unavailable.
  • Fixed logged-in bot accounts sometimes appearing twice in platform viewer lists.
  • Fixed chat loyalty points not awarding at the expected interval when viewers remained active between awards.
  • Fixed Twitch and Kick reply-style bot messages sometimes appearing twice.
  • Fixed text fields occasionally losing focus because of stale hotkey capture.
  • Fixed missing or broken symbols in Connect and Audio settings.

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