Despite Twitch being the biggest video game online streaming platform, it’s far from sufficient for plenty of streamers. The not-so-friendly user interface lacks multiple essential features that would ensure an easy and smooth streaming experience.
That’s why a great portion of Twitch streamers, as well as Twitch viewers, use third-party extensions that provide various advanced functions and customisation tools that the bare Twitch interface might be missing.
To help you pick the most convenient ones, Streams Charts compiled a list of some of the most used Google Chrome extensions for Twitch.
1. BetterTwitchTV
In accordance with its name, BetterTTV is widely used to enhance Twitch functionality through a variety of additional features and emotes. These include an emote menu, keyword blacklist, highlighting, host button, mass unban and anonymous chat, which allows joining a channel without showing in the user list.
Furthermore, the add-on created by the Twitch community also offers an array of advanced options such as automatic channel bonus points claim, showing deleted messages, hiding visual noise and bits and chat splitting for easy reading.
2. FrankerFaceZ
Similarly to BetterTTV, FrankerFaceZ is a comprehensive Twitch enhancement suite that provides custom channel emotes, layout and chat customizations, as well as advanced chat moderation tools, such as options to hide the unfollow button, hide badges from the chat or add keyboard shortcuts.
Streamers who are not partnered with Twitch will especially appreciate FFZ, as they normally don’t have the option to create their own emotes and use them in chat.
3. Unwanted Twitch
Unwanted Twitch is a straightforward extension which allows the hiding of specific content that users aren’t interested to see in their feed. Be it streams, games, categories, channels or tags, Unwanted Twitch easily enables hiding of any Twitch content by clicking an "X" button at the top-right of Twitch panels.
Moreover, the extension offers several useful features, such as disabling filtering, toggle visibility of "X" buttons, sharing blacklists using import/export and automatic synchronisation of blacklists between devices.
4. Twitch Now
Helpful for multitasking, Twitch Now is a simple feature that helps you keep track of your favourite channels while browsing other websites. The extension will also notify you when one of your followed channels goes online. It also offers more functionality, as it automatically imports channels and allows filtering based on games.
An alternative can be Twitch Live.
5. Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
This is an alternative player of live Twitch broadcasts with a palette of handy features such as hiding Twitch ads, the Audio Only mode, instant replay of last minutes of the live broadcast with speed options and various customisation functions.
The extension also allows viewing broadcasts in other video players, for example Media Player Classic, VLC Media Player, or MX Player.
6. Twitch Favorites
A single streamer's community can include hundreds and even thousands of people trying to communicate in the chat at the same time. The bigger the community, the harder it can be to catch all the messages from friends and favourite followers.
To counter this problem, Twitch Favorites provides a simple way to make messages from specific people stand out. Just add someone to your favourites and any messages or notifications from these tagged users will be highlighted in real-time in the chat.
The extension allows setting up custom colours for specific people and is compatible with other add-ons with similar features such as BTTV and FFZ.
7. Simple Twitch Giveaways
Giveaways have become an inseparable part of streaming and growing audiences, therefore an extension that adds a giveaway system to your channel can be an incredibly useful feature.
Simple Twitch Giveaways offers a clean giveaway tool with an option to choose an answer from multiple keywords, announces in chat and visualisation of live stats.
An alternative can be Twitch Giveaways Reloaded.
8. Twitch Tracker
Twitch Tracker helps with tracking followed channels, which might come in handy especially to viewers with countless followed accounts. The extension also offers visual or audible desktop notifications when the channels go live.
9. Twitch Clip Downloader
This extension adds a download button to Twitch clip pages for easy and quick download of VODs. Let us remind you that one can download clips in the best quality and generate compilations using the free Streams Charts tools.
10. Twitch Channel Points Autoclicker
Automatically claims Channel Points on Twitch for the currently spectated channel.
Extra: Twitch stats by StreamsCharts
Our own Twitch extension adds expanded streamers statistics on pages of broadcasts and categories. It includes data on Peak Viewers, Average Viewers, Followers gain and many more. Thus, you can track performance of your favorite streamer or your own channel! All the stats provided by Streams Charts.
In conclusion, interacting with Twitch doesn’t have to be a frustrating experience. There are plenty of easy-to-use extensions that significantly enhance the Twitch streaming and viewing experience by giving users more control and freedom over their channels.
If you are looking to upgrade your Twitch game, the above are some of the most convenient Chrome extensions used by thousands of Twitch users.