🎛️ Overlayr
Your OBS overlays, your server. No watermarks, no subscription, no desync.
Overlayr at a glance
| Price | $69, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | StreamElements at $19/mo (Streamlabs Ultra) — roughly $149 a year, every year |
| Type | Web app — self-hosted |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Utilities |
Overlayr features
⏱️ Countdown timer
Target datetime or duration mode, pause/resume/reset from the dashboard, custom end message, optional end sound.
🎯 Goal bar
Animated fill, +1/+5/+10 dashboard buttons, milestone flash on target — also settable via webhook.
📜 Rotating ticker
A list of messages with fade/slide transitions or a scrolling marquee mode.
🎬 Starting-soon scene
Full-screen headline + sub-text + embedded countdown, optional background image and looping audio.
🚨 Alert box + webhook
Fire alerts from a dashboard button or POST /hook/:token — wire it to Streamer.bot, Zapier, or anything that can make an HTTP request.
👁️ Live editor
Config form on the left, a real iframe of the actual overlay over a transparent checkerboard on the right — exactly what OBS sees, updated instantly.
🔁 Server-authoritative timers
OBS reloads Browser Sources constantly; remaining time is computed server-side and resent on every reconnect, so a countdown never resets by accident.
🎨 5 built-in themes
Neon, minimal, retro, brutalist, glass — plus per-overlay font, accent color and scale overrides.
$69 once — that's the whole pricing page
StreamElements charges $19/mo (Streamlabs Ultra) — roughly $149 a year, every year. Overlayr is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Overlayr inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Overlayr guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — the full source is MIT at github.com/bensblueprints/overlayr-mvp. The $69 buys the packaged installer, guided VPS deploy and lifetime updates instead of running npm and docker yourself.
Isn't StreamElements free?
The core is, and it's genuinely good — that's the honest answer. But the polished themes, extras and watermark removal live in paid tiers (Streamlabs Ultra is $19/mo, OWN3D Pro $12.99/mo), and your overlays live on their cloud either way. Overlayr is for streamers who want to own the whole stack and never see a "premium" upsell again.
Does it do follower/sub alerts from Twitch automatically?
Not natively — alerts fire from the dashboard or a webhook (POST /hook/:token). If you already run Streamer.bot or any EventSub relay, point it at the webhook and platform events flow through. If you want zero-setup native platform alerts, StreamElements still does that out of the box.