Widget Visibility
Published 17 Sept 2026
Shows or hides one widget on one of your stream overlays, with the widget's real visibility on the key.
Useful for anything you want on screen sometimes and not others: a goal bar during a push, a chat box while you read messages, a sponsor banner on a timer.
Settings
| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Overlay | Which overlay canvas the widget is on. | - |
| Widget | Which widget. The list is the widgets on the overlay chosen above, so pick the overlay first. | - |
| On press | Toggle flips it, Show always makes it visible, Hide always hides it. | Toggle |
Widgets belong to one overlay, so switching Overlay empties Widget rather than leaving a selection that points at nothing.
On the Key
| What it shows | When |
|---|---|
| The widget's name, bright | Visible on the overlay. |
| The widget's name, dimmed | Hidden. |
Pick widget | No overlay or no widget chosen yet. |
Offline | TipLink is not running. |
The state is live. A widget hidden by an alert's Show/Hide Overlay Widget action, or from the widget editor, dims the key within a second.
Common Uses
A chat box you can put away
A key on your chat widget, set to Toggle. Show it while you catch up, hide it before the gameplay section.
A goal bar for the push
Hide your goal bar by default and give it a Show key and a Hide key. Bring it up when you mention it, take it away when you are done.
Clearing the screen for a cutscene
One key per widget you want gone, all set to Hide, on a folder. Or better: put the whole lot in one alert as several Show/Hide actions and use a single Trigger Alert key.
Things to Watch For
This is the same visibility the app uses. Hiding a widget here hides it in the widget editor too, and it stays hidden until something shows it again - including across a restart.
It is per widget, not per overlay. There is no "hide everything" key. For that, build an alert with one Show/Hide action per widget and trigger it from a key.
Renaming a widget is fine. The key follows the new name. Deleting it is not: the key keeps the remembered name but a press flashes ✗.
Related
- Stream Overlays - building the overlays and widgets this key controls.
- Show/Hide Overlay Widget - the same control from inside an alert, which is how you move several at once.
- Trigger Alert - one key, one alert, as many widgets as you like.