Chat communication is, without doubt, an essential part of live streaming on Twitch that allows creators to directly communicate with their audience during broadcasts. Naturally, the way a chat is handled plays an important role in keeping the audience engaged and motivated to watch.
However, with growing audiences, moderating chat becomes increasingly harder and often makes Twitch streamers reach for external tools such as chatbots to improve their broadcasts and enhance the viewer experience.
FFChatbots are special third-party programs that add extra functionality to the Twitch chat, helping streamers moderate their communication with the audience through a variety of useful features and interactive elements.
There are numerous free and paid chatbots available to choose from, many of which can also be used with other streaming services such as YouTube. To help you pick the best one, Streams Charts compiled a list of some of the most used chatbots for Twitch.
Nightbot
As one of the most popular chatbots, Nightbot offers high customizability, a friendly user interface and a powerful moderation toolset that includes custom commands, built-in mini-games, giveaway and song request features, spam filters, scheduling messages, chat logs, and more.
The cloud-hosted chatbot also allows the use of commands and automated responses and provides users with a dashboard containing useful stream insights and statistics.
StreamElements
Commonly used for overlays and animations, StreamElements too offers a wide range of interactive modules and features for chat moderation, including custom commands, spam filter, chat posts scheduling, filters and alerts, as well Twitter integration, a variety of minigames and a leaderboard extension to keep viewers engaged.
StreamElements works on every platform and is cloud-based, meaning users can access the software without downloading and installing it. Moreover, the chatbot can be integrated with the popular streaming software OBS.
Moobot
Moobot is another cloud-based chatbot with lots of customizable functions similar to previous solutions. In addition, the easy-to-use chatbot also offers a poll feature and a community management feature which allows adding tiers to viewers based on their loyalty and dedication. As a result, viewers on different tiers can be given different rewards such as extra votes or access to certain features.
Streamlabs
Besides the standard chatbot toolset, the chatbot by Streamlabs (formerly known as Ankhbot) offers a couple of extra features such as integration with Streamlabs Merch Store, allowing streamers to host live giveaways with their merchandise within the chatbot itself. Furthermore, it provides options such as personal sound effects for viewers, quotes, currency management, macros, special counters and python scripting.
When used together with Streamlabs OBS, the user gets a complete streaming solution with the Streamlabs dashboard and matching user interface. Although Streamlabs chatbot can be used on YouTube, some of its features are unavailable to use on the platform.
Wizebot
Wizebot supports a range of features including custom commands and overlays, saving automatic clips, Twitch donations, Twitter integration, virtual currency, subscriber and follower analytics, betting system, song requests and an AI that can interact with chat users.
A unique feature that Wizebot offers is the integration with the survival game 7 Ways to Die, which can trigger special events within the game depending on the real-time activity of a live stream.
Deepbot
Deepbot is a lesser-known paid Twitch chatbot that, as one of the very few, supports integration with Discord. In addition to all basic chatbot functions, Deepbot provides options like a loyalty point system, botname customisation, quotes, built-in games and a Deepbot dashboard to easily manage the chatbot.
Stay Hydrated Bot
One of the fun chatbots that can add variety to the broadcast is the Stay Hydrated Bot, which will remind users to stay hydrated at regular intervals. The bot is activated by simply typing ‘!hydrate username’ into the stream chat.
How to use Twitch chatbot
Setting up a chatbot is relatively easy and straightforward. The exact steps differ depending on the chosen bot, but in most cases, it requires linking the Twitch account with the chatbot service via the chatbot's official website.
While chatbots provide more freedom for streamers and audiences to interact, many streamers create a set of chat rules for people to know what behavior is expected from them. Moreover, this way people can be held accountable if they violate the rules, which ultimately contributes to regulating toxicity on the platform.
Twitch also has an automatic moderation system AutoMod available in the creator dashboard which detects misspellings and evasive language automatically and blocks inappropriate messages or harassing. Streamers can configure AutoMod by selecting one of four levels to affect how aggressively the bot holds back messages.
The best Twitch Chat Bots to Use:
- Nightbot
- StreamElements
- Moobot
- Streamlabs
- Wizebot
- Deepbot
- Stay Hydrated Bot
To further enhance their broadcasts and ensure a smooth streaming experience, Twitch streamers also use various Chrome extensions for Twitch.
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