Set up your channel

Tell the app about your channel once: your name, picture, where you stream and your handle (your @name on that platform). Every element then shows it, so there’s nothing to retype. It takes about a minute.

Where to find it

• The first time you open the app, the Your channel panel slides in by itself.
• Any time after that, click your channel name in the top-right corner of the app. It’s the button with your round picture and your name, and in these docs we call it the profile chip.

If you skipped setup, the chip reads Set up your channel and glows purple. Click it to open the same panel.

Reading the pictures

In these docs, a bright green ring marks what to click, and a number links it to a step. The ring isn’t part of the app.

Here’s the panel when it’s still empty:

Fill it in

1. Add a picture (optional). Press Upload picture and choose a picture, or drag one onto the round picture. A box opens under it: drag the picture to move it, use Zoom to make it bigger, then press Use this picture. The picture only counts once you’ve pressed it.

   Already use a picture on Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, X or Kick? Do steps 3 and 4 first, then come back and press Get it from YouTube (the button names your platform, and stays grey until you type your handle).

   With no picture, elements show colored initials made from your channel name. More in Add your channel picture.

2. Type your channel name in Channel name. This is the name elements show, up to 32 characters.

3. Pick your main platform under Where do you stream?: Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Kick, Instagram, X or Facebook. Choose the one you stream on most.

4. Type your handle in the box below it (it’s called Your YouTube handle, Your Twitch handle and so on). Type just the name, without the @ and without a link: for youtube.com/@novabyte type novabyte. If you do type an @ or a space, the app removes it when you leave the box.

5. Add your other platforms (optional). Press Add more platforms to open Other platforms (leave empty to hide) and fill in the ones you use. Leave a box empty if you don’t use that platform. For Discord, paste a server invite link like discord.gg/novabyte.

   

6. Add your follower counts (optional). In Followers & subscribers, press Fetch counts to read your public counts, or type them in. See Show your real follower counts.

7. Scroll to the bottom of the panel and, under What do you stream with?, pick OBS Studio, Streamlabs or Something else. This decides what Add to my stream opens later (see the table below).

   

8. Press Let’s go. (When you open the panel later, this button is called Save.)

   

Add a handle for each platform you use

Platform elements use that platform’s handle first. A Twitch follow tag shows your Twitch handle, an Instagram tag your Instagram handle. If you haven’t added one, the element falls back to your main handle, which may not be what you want.

What happens next

After Let’s go, the app shows the Elements tab with the free elements for your main platform. The line under Make it yours now says “Every element below already shows” followed by your channel name.

The cards redraw with your name and picture. While that happens, a line like Adding your channel to 12 cards… shows above the grid, and some cards still show the sample name Your Channel for a moment.

Right after setup: the free elements for your platform, already showing your channel.

To see every element, click All and All platforms above the grid. The app remembers your choice.

Elements you’ve already added to OBS are updated for you, and each one that changed plays once. If it’s in your live scene, your viewers see it, so change your channel before you go live. See How your channel fills in elements.

What your choices change

Setting	What it changes
Channel name	The name on every element, and the initials when you have no picture.
Where do you stream?	Which handle box comes first, whether Get it from YouTube (or Twitch, TikTok, X, Kick) is offered for your picture, which count row comes first, and which count goes on elements made for any platform.
Your handle and Other platforms	The @name on each platform’s elements, the Socials Bar, and which counts can be fetched.
What do you stream with?	What Add to my stream opens.

What Add to my stream opens for each choice:

You picked	Add to my stream opens
OBS Studio	The Add to OBS window, which puts the element in OBS for you. See Add to OBS Studio.
Streamlabs	The step-by-step guide for Streamlabs. See Streamlabs Desktop.
Something else	The step-by-step guides, where you pick your app (XSplit, PRISM, Meld, TikTok LIVE Studio, StreamElements and more). See Pick your streaming app.

Skip for now

Not ready? Press Skip for now. Closing the panel with the × or Esc counts as skipping too, and the app won’t ask again on the next start. Elements show the sample name Your Channel until you set up your channel from the Set up your channel chip.

Change it later

1. Click your profile chip (your picture and name) in the top-right corner.

2. Change what you need in the Your channel panel.

3. Press Save. Every element updates.

Cancel throws away changes to your name, picture, main platform, handles and stream app.

Some things save straight away

Counts you type, clear or fetch, and the Auto-fetch once a day switch, save the moment you change them. Cancel doesn’t undo them. Pressing Fetch counts also saves the handles you’ve typed so far (but not the rest of the panel).

Next steps

Add your channel pictureUpload a picture or get it from your platform.

Show your real follower countsFetch or type your counts, and keep them fresh.

How your channel fills in elementsChange everywhere, Just here and Use my channel.

Supported platformsWhat to type for each platform, and what it supports.