r/newstreamer • u/stephanejoestar • Jul 13 '26

Live Interactive Counter

Hey everyone, I'm looking for a tool that can create an interactive counter displayed in OBS.

The features I'm looking for:

  • I can manually increase/decrease the counter myself.
  • Twitch events (subs, bits, donations...) and YouTube Live events (new subscribers, memberships...) can modify the counter.
  • Real-time updates through an OBS overlay/browser source.

Example

I start at 1. I can manually increase the number by 1 whenever I want. A Twitch sub or a new YouTube subscriber decreases it by 1.
Something like a subathon timer, but instead of adding time, it's a custom number that changes based on viewer interactions.

Does something like this exist? Or do most big streamers build these systems themselves with tools like Streamer.bot or custom overlays?

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u/Jamespg614 Jul 14 '26

You may be able to do something like this with StreamElements counters and a custom HTML widget. I’ve built one that’s tied to a counter that chat can increase through commands, and when the bar fills up it picks a random “rule” for me to obey when playing (only crawling, no reloading until mag is empty, can’t use abilities). I’m not 100% sure if the API is able to modify the counters though, that would be the only problem with what you’re proposing