Countdown and marathon timers for OBS

Every kind of stream timer

A timer counts down a set time, counts down to a date and time, or counts up from a moment. As many timers as you need, each with its own OBS link.

• «Starting soon»: a countdown to the time the stream starts.
• «Live for»: a count-up from the stream start that begins again with every new stream.
• «Since the last donation»: a count-up that starts over with each donation.
• A five-minute challenge started with a button or by a scenario.
• A start at a date and time counts from that moment even if the app was opened later, so a marathon set for noon still ends on time.
• The time lives in the app, not in the browser source: reloading the source or restarting OBS loses nothing.

A marathon that viewers extend

A countdown can run a subathon: viewers add time with donations and can take it away again, at a price you set.

• A donation with your plus word adds time, one with your minus word takes it away. The words are yours, and they count anywhere in the message, in any letter case.
• The price is in your base currency per minute or per hour, and part of the price buys part of the time.
• Taking time away can be switched off, cost the same as adding, or have its own price.
• A donation with no word, or with both words, waits for your decision instead of being guessed.
• Channel points rewards add or take away their own minutes, and subscriptions add minutes by tier, gifted ones included.
• An upper limit stops adding at that much time left, and a donation you delete in Statistics gives its time back.

Run it from the Control Panel

The Timers: Control tile keeps the timers that are on air in OBS at the top, large, and the rest below.

• Start, pause and reset for a stopwatch or a set-length countdown; reset asks for a second press, because one press would wipe a whole marathon.
• A count-up from a date and a countdown to a date show their date with a pencil, to pick a new day and time right in the tile.
• Add or take away any number of minutes, or switch the field to money and add time for an amount, counted at the price of that timer, just like a donation.
• Donations that wait for your decision come with the nick, the amount and the message, and three buttons: add, take away, do not count.
• A feed shows who changed the time, by how much and where it came from.
• Each tile has its own settings, so one tile can follow the marathon and another all timers.

What happens at zero

A countdown can stop at 0:00 or keep going below zero, and zero can set other things off.

• In Scenarios, the Timer reached zero trigger plays a sound, switches the OBS scene or runs any other step.
• The Timer step starts, pauses, resets, adds or takes away time, so a hotkey or a panel button can drive a stopwatch or a set-length countdown.
• Pause while you are offline holds the timer if the stream drops and goes on when you are back.

Making it look like yours

A timer sits on screen for hours, so it has to match the scene.

• A caption above, below or beside the digits: «STREAM TIME:», «TIME LEFT», or nothing at all.
• Backdrop, digits and caption are styled separately: fonts, sizes, colours, shadows, corner radius.
• Every digit sits in a cell as wide as the widest digit of your font, so the timer does not shift sideways every second.
• Added time can float up next to the digits as «+2:30», with the name of the viewer who added it.
• Fifteen ready-made looks to start from: Neon, Minimal, Retro and twelve materials that draw the backdrop behind the digits, from Live pencil to Frosted glass.
• An outline effect runs around the timer all the time or flashes whenever time is added or taken away, so a marathon donation shows on the timer itself.

What it is not

The timer counts time; it never handles money.

• Viewers pay through your donation service exactly as before. strAImer reads the donation and changes the time.
• Donations that arrived while the app was closed do not change the time: the app did not see them.
• Kick subscriptions do not add time: Kick sends the app only rewards and chat.

What it is made of

Each part is a separate module: you install only the ones you need, and any of them can be removed without breaking the rest.

Getting started

1. Install the Timers bundle from Module Catalog → Add-ons.
2. Open Widgets → Timers, create a timer and choose what it counts and when it starts.
3. Copy its link from the list and add a browser source in OBS.
4. Put the Timers: Control tile on the Control Panel to run it mid-stream.

OBS on a second computer? Turn on «Access from your local network» in Settings → Core — the overlay link already carries this machine’s address, so nothing has to be copied again.

Timers

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