Quick start
1. Add channel
Press Ctrl+K and paste a Twitch or Kick channel, or a YouTube video link.
2. Login
Sign in with Twitch if you want chat. Kick and YouTube need no login.
3. Focus
Switch to Focus with Ctrl+Shift+F. The thin bar stays up.
To find something to watch, open the Following & Discover panel and pick a platform tab under Discover.
Layouts & modes
Start from a preset (1 1×2 2×2 1+3) or save your own template and open it again later.
Standard, Focus, or Performance. Same desk, different weight. Performance lightens the tiles you are not focused on.
Fixed and Free tiles. Hover a tile header and use the lock. Fixed tiles swap places when you drop another on them and never reflow. Not available in Focus mode.
Focus
Focus mode keeps one hero stream large (about 72% of the stage) with a thin strip for the rest. Click a strip tile or use Switch Focus (Ctrl+Shift+S) to promote it.
On a narrow window the hero sits above a horizontal strip. The toolbar can collapse to a thin strip that comes back when you move the pointer near its edge: turn that on in Settings → Appearance.
Chat
Open chat pushes an in-app drawer beside the picture, so the layout moves over instead of being covered. On a compact window it docks at the bottom.
Pop out chat opens a separate window you can park on another monitor.
Pop-outs & Dock back
Pop out a stream to give it its own window. Popped streams leave the grid. Dock back from the pop-out, the redock menu, or Dock all pop-outs. Closing the pop-out window also docks it.
See through & Lock
With See through windows on, the empty stage shows your desktop and unlocks click-through. Lock window (Ctrl+Shift+L) freezes click-through while staying see-through.
Hotkeys
These are the defaults. Change any of them in Settings → Hotkeys.
| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+K | Focus search / add stream |
| Ctrl+Shift+F | Focus mode |
| Ctrl+Shift+S | Switch Focus |
| Ctrl+Shift+C | Toggle chat |
| Ctrl+Shift+L | Lock window |
| F11 | Fullscreen |
| Ctrl+\ | Toggle toolbar |
| Ctrl+Tab | Cycle streams |
| Ctrl+M | Mute focus |
| Ctrl+Shift+M | Mute all |
| Ctrl+Alt+M | Unmute all |
| Ctrl+, | Open Settings |
| Ctrl+Q | Quit application |
Windows notice on first run
The first time you run the installer, Windows may show a “Windows protected your PC” notice. Click More info, then Run anyway. Get the installer only from the download page.
Web desk
The web desk runs in your browser after you sign in: the same grid, presets, saved layouts and Twitch chat. See through windows, pop-outs, Lock and hotkeys are Windows-only.