Poltergeist: Remote Control Overlay & Mod Tools

Semi-free Poltergeist: Remote Control Overlay & Mod Tools

Poltergeist is a production tool that allows streamers to offload overlay management to their moderators. It creates a collaborative environment where your trusted team can interact with your stream visualization in real time, without needing access to your streaming PC.

The Goal​

The purpose of this tool is to enable live production capabilities, such as real time annotation and dynamic asset management, without the streamer needing to lose focus on their game or content.

Link: https://poltergeist.cc/

Key Features​

Collaborative Live Dashboard:
Experience true real-time collaboration where changes made in the dashboard sync instantly to your stream. You can grant moderators secure access via Twitch, Kick, or YouTube to manage your overlays, games, and sounds remotely. This keeps your OBS and PC completely secure while letting you track every change as it happens using the built-in Action Log.


Broadcast Control (Live & Staging):
Work safely off-air in a dedicated Staging Area, then push to air when it is ready. A single Push To Live button sends a finished graphic or alert straight to the stream, and Swap Live ⇄ Stage lets you flip what viewers see versus what you are building in real time.

Per-Layer Overlay URLs:
Each overlay URL can include only the canvas layers you choose. Add multiple Browser Sources in OBS with different layer combinations and control them independently per scene, all driven from a single Poltergeist canvas.

Total Layout Control:
Drag, drop, group, resize, and precisely align elements instantly, and rapidly clone elements with the Duplicate tool. Save your favourite complex layouts as Scenes and store styled elements as Presets for quick access. You can even control the entire show directly from your mobile device using touch controls.

Live Keyframe Animation & Auto-Scheduling:
Bring your overlays to life with a multi-track Animation Timeline, animating Position, Scale, Rotation, and Opacity to build professional lower-thirds, alerts, and motion graphics. Link animations to Event Alerts or mini-games to auto-play when triggered, or use the Auto-Scheduler to automatically fade assets like sponsor logos or watermarks in and out on a continuous looping timer.

Advanced Telestrator & Drawing Tools:
Draw directly on your screen to highlight gameplay or annotate live events, with an optional snap-to-grid for precision. Apply visual filters like Blur, Brightness, Saturation, Hue Shift, and chroma key green screen removal while organising assets on an infinite workspace.

Chatbot Builder:
Deploy a custom chatbot on Twitch and Kick with no external plug-ins. Create custom commands, timed auto-posts, and Channel Point redemption responses; set global and per-user cooldowns; gate commands behind Subscriber, VIP, or Moderator permissions; trigger soundboard audio; auto-generate Twitch clips; and use dynamic variables like {game}, {title}, and {uptime} to answer common viewer questions automatically.

Trigger Studio:
Turn viewer activity into automatic on-screen moments. Map Channel Point redemptions, Bits, Subs, Gifts, Raids, or Follows to actions that fire by themselves: spin a Prize Wheel, play a soundboard clip, fire an element animation, shake the OBS screen, or pop an image or GIF.

Event Alert Box:
Native alerts for Twitch and Kick Subs, Gift Subs, Raids, Bits, and Follows, with follow alerts powered directly by the Poltergeist Native Bot. Fully customisable with variables (e.g. {user}, {amount}), randomised GIFs, sounds, and auto-triggered animations.

Giveaways, Polls & Games:
Engage your audience with live chat-driven Polls (via !vote), random selections with a Prize Wheel, and chat-driven Carnival Booth mini-games (via !throw). Trigger TTS announcements and auto-log winners to on-screen To-Do lists.

Integrated Soundboard & TTS:
Trigger audio assets remotely right through your OBS browser source. Upload sound effects, create randomized audio pools, or use text-to-speech for giveaway winners, so your moderators can fire off the perfect sound at the exact right moment.

Media Share:
Let viewers request YouTube videos on stream using Twitch Bits and Cheers, with a fully synchronized video queue, strict moderator approval, skip controls, and auto-play to keep your broadcast safe.

Media Player & Browsers:
Display images with live chroma key, build image slideshows, play video files, or embed full website iFrames directly on stream.

Custom HTML/CSS/JS Widgets:
Build entirely unique visual elements on the fly. Paste your own HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into the dashboard to create custom animations, live data tickers, and personalised widgets without hosting them on an external website.

Productivity Utilities:
Equip your stream with interactive To-Do lists, chat-controlled Tally Counters (via !counter +), Timers (Stopwatch/Countdown), scrolling marquees, dynamic live text variables (e.g. {latest_sub}), auto-generating QR codes, Progress Goal bars that track Subs, Follows, and Bits in real time, and a live Event List feed that logs recent stream events as they happen.

Live Stream Chat:
Embed Twitch chat, Kick chat, or an automatically unified Combined Chat feed anywhere on your overlay, with source platform icons.

Enterprise Background Stream:
Embed a low-latency reference livestream behind the dashboard workspace to overlay graphics over a live video feed without mirroring it to OBS.

How It Looks​

Dashboard:
Editor_Interface.png


OBS:
OBS_Overview.png

How it Works
  1. Generate your unique Overlay URL in the dashboard.
  2. Add a Browser Source in OBS Studio (1920x1080).
  3. Paste the URL.
  4. Your mods can now control that specific layer from their own browsers.
Link:
https://poltergeist.cc/mod-controlled-overlay
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Ratings

5.00 star(s) 26 ratings

Latest updates

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  2. More Trigger Studio Features

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  3. Drawings Get another Upgrade

    Drawing Tool: Adjustable Size, Staging, and Saved Strokes The telestration pen is no longer a...

Latest reviews

Excellent Tools For My Mods TO Help with stream 10/10 would recommend, dev is very responsive and mindful of user needs
I've been using Poltergeist as a moderator for a while now, and honestly, it's incredible. Even the free version is perfect if you want something useful that isn't overloaded with features. It's easy to use, and the interface is intuitive, you get the hang of it just by taking a quick look around. One thing I’d like to see is the ability to upload videos and images directly from your computer as an alternative method. Also, when I post YouTube videos or other links, like from Discord, they only display in either 16:9 or 9:16, and you can’t change that. Since many videos have different resolutions, this can be an issue. Still, it’s a great tool, thank you so much for creating it
Es una plataforma muy completa, con un montón de herramientas creativas. Puedes dibujar, añadir imágenes y videos, y todo funciona de forma fluida. La versión gratis es algo limitada, sí, pero se entiende. La de pago está súper completa, no le falta nada y, la verdad, es muy, muy buena.
man, after poltergeist, my stream reached another level of entertainment. Found someone trustable to play with your stream and just have fun.
The tool is very useful, it has great options for uploading multimedia files, and the customization serves its purpose. I love that it’s constantly updated and bug-fixed. It’s a lot of fun to complement my favorite streamers' broadcasts with videos, text, counters, or wheels that we mods can put on screen.
¡Me encanta esta herramienta! La conoci por un amigo y gracias a ella, los Mods pueden interactuar tanto con el chat como conmigo y da juego a muchas risas, buenos momentos, y entretenimiento. Muy recomendable para todos aquellos que busqueis una forma de conectar con vuestra comunidad y que tengo muchas ganas de ver como sigue creciendo.

I love this tool! I found out about it through a friend, and thanks to it, my mods can interact with both the chat and me; it leads to lots of laughs, good times, and entertainment. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a way to connect with their community, and I’m really excited to see how it continues to grow.
I'm in love with this tool! We have a lot of fun putting images, videos and texts while streaming. And the best part is the streamer doesn't have to pay attention because all rely on the mods. Highly recommended if you want to play a little bit in your streams with your viewers and mods :)
Really liked the feature and im willing to use it more. Hope it gets something that helps us in Brazil to give some financial help too in the future.
Found this via searching for an overlay for my mods to use while I stream! It's been wonderful so far. Honestly will be recommending this to other streamer friends of mine. Keep up the great work, and excited to see what's in store!
The site works pretty well. It would be nice to be able to add a second moderator without paying, but that’s understandable. In most cases, the site works perfectly. I give it a 9/10 simply because websites don’t work properly if you have to interact with them. I hope this will be fixed in future updates.
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