TikTok Gift Overlay
A TikTok gift overlay reacts on screen the instant a viewer sends a gift — an animation, the sender's name, a sound, a counter ticking up. It is the difference between a gift disappearing into the chat feed and a gift visibly doing something, which is what makes the next one more likely.
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What is a TikTok gift overlay?
A TikTok gift overlay is a browser source that listens to your TikTok LIVE gift events and displays something on stream when one arrives. That can be a full-screen animation for a big gift, a small toast naming the sender, a running diamond total, or a physics jar that visibly fills with coins.
There is a detail here that separates good gift overlays from broken ones. TikTok sends repeating gifts — the ones viewers hold down to send in a streak — as a stream of events, one per repeat, plus a final event marking the streak as ended. An overlay that reacts to every one of those fires ten alerts for a single ten-gift streak and buries your stream in animation. BetterTok waits for the streak to close and fires once, with the full combined value.
The second thing that matters is what the alert says. A gift that triggers a generic "thanks for the gift" is barely worth the screen space. A gift that triggers the sender's name read aloud, their own animation, and a visible jump on the leaderboard gives the viewer something to point at — and gives everyone else watching a reason to try it.
Types of TikTok gift overlay
These are separate browser sources, so a typical setup runs an alert layer plus one or two persistent widgets.
Gift Alerts
An animation and the sender's name the moment a gift lands. The core gift overlay everything else builds on.
Gift & Diamond Counter
A running session total of gifts received and diamonds earned, ticking up live.
Coin Jar
Coins drop into a physics jar as gifts arrive. Ten themes — the most watchable way to show a running total.
Top Gifter Card
The current biggest gifter, with avatar and total, held on screen for the whole stream.
Gifter Entrances
A named entrance animation when a known big gifter joins the room, before they've sent anything.
Gift Streak Overlay
Tracks combo streaks as they build, so a long hold reads as one escalating event rather than noise.
Gift Auction / Coin Match
Turns incoming gifts into a live competition with a prize on the line at the buzzer.
Gift-Triggered Wheel
A gift buys a wheel entry and the wheel spins on stream. Gifts stop being donations and become plays.
All 200+ themes across 30+ families are on the overlay catalog.
How to add gift alerts to TikTok LIVE
Browser source, two minutes, nothing to install.
- 1
Connect your TikTok username
Sign up free and connect the account you go live with, so the overlay receives your gift events.
- 2
Choose what each gift does
Map gifts to actions: an animation, a sound, a text-to-speech read-out, a counter bump. Different gifts can trigger different things.
- 3
Set thresholds for the big ones
Keep small gifts to a quiet toast and save the full-screen animation for high-value gifts, so the big moments still feel big.
- 4
Copy the browser source URL
Copy the overlay's URL from the dashboard.
- 5
Add it in OBS and go live
Add a Browser Source in OBS, or a Web layer in TikTok LIVE Studio, and paste the URL. The next gift fires it.
For sound-specific setup see sound alerts, and for spoken alerts see text-to-speech.
What separates a good gift overlay
Gift overlays fail in predictable ways. These are the things to check before you trust one on a real stream:
- ✓Fires once per streak, not once per repeat
- ✓Shows the combined value of a streak, not 1×
- ✓Scales the reaction to the gift's value
- ✓Queues alerts instead of overlapping them
- ✓Names the sender, with their avatar
- ✓Keeps working through a mid-stream reconnect
BetterTok handles streaks by waiting for the streak-end event and firing a single alert with the full combined value, queues overlapping alerts so a busy minute doesn't turn into a pile-up, and reconnects without dropping events. You can rehearse the whole thing off-stream with the event simulator before you go live.
TikTok Gift Overlay: FAQ
What is a TikTok gift overlay?
A TikTok gift overlay is a browser source that reacts on stream when a viewer sends a gift — showing an animation, naming the sender, playing a sound, or updating a counter. It listens to your TikTok LIVE gift events, so it fires automatically without you doing anything.
How do I add gift alerts to TikTok LIVE?
Connect your TikTok username in BetterTok, map gifts to the actions you want (animation, sound, text-to-speech, counter), then paste the overlay's browser source URL into OBS, Streamlabs or TikTok LIVE Studio. The next gift triggers it.
Why do repeated gifts fire multiple alerts?
Because TikTok sends one event per repeat while a viewer holds a gift down, plus a final event when the streak ends. An overlay that reacts to every event fires an alert per repeat. BetterTok waits for the streak-end event and fires one alert carrying the full combined value.
Can different gifts trigger different alerts?
Yes. You can map individual gifts, or value thresholds, to their own animation, sound and message. Most creators keep small gifts to a quiet toast and reserve the full-screen treatment for high-value gifts so the big moments still land.
Can the overlay read the gifter's name out loud?
Yes, using text-to-speech. A gift can trigger a spoken message naming the sender alongside the visual alert. Voices and limits depend on your plan.
Can I show total gifts and diamonds on screen?
Yes. The gift counter overlay shows a running session total of gifts and diamonds, and the coin jar shows the same total as a physics jar that visibly fills as gifts arrive.
Are TikTok gift overlays free?
Yes. Gift alerts, gift counters and last-gifter overlays are in BetterTok's free tier with no watermark and no credit card. Paid plans add unlimited AI text-to-speech voices and the premium theme families.
What happens if two gifts arrive at the same time?
Alerts are queued rather than stacked on top of each other, so a busy minute plays them in sequence instead of overlapping into an unreadable pile. Queue behaviour and cooldowns are configurable.
Make every gift do something on screen
Free to start. Animated gift alerts, counters and coin jars for OBS, Streamlabs and TikTok LIVE Studio.