Stream Overlays — Free & Copyright-Free

Audio-Reactive Stream Overlays

Elevate your streams with live audio-reactive overlays. Works with OBS, Streamlabs, and any browser source. No watermarks. No subscription.

Visual Overlays

Canvas-drawn effects that layer on top of your visualizer and appear in your exported video.

Using overlays in your video

Open any template in the editor and select an overlay from the Overlay panel. The effect renders directly onto your visualizer canvas and is included in your exported MP4. You can adjust opacity and combine any overlay with any engine.

Open Editor

Featured Overlays

Click any overlay to open it in the editor and customise it.

Overlay Categories

30+ overlay styles across 6 categories

🎵

Now Playing

8 styles

Animated song title + artist bar with waveform or spectrum

📊

Spectrum Bar

6 styles

Full-width frequency spectrum overlay with transparent background

〰️

Waveform

5 styles

Audio waveform overlays in bar, line, and mirror variants

📺

Lower Third

4 styles

Clean animated lower thirds for stream transitions

⏱️

Countdown Timer

3 styles

Starting soon screens with animated countdown

🔔

Alert Banners

4 styles

Follow, subscribe, and donation alert overlays

OBS & Streamlabs Setup

1

Export as WebM

Use the transparent background export option in the editor

2

Add Browser Source

In OBS: + → Browser Source → set URL to local file or hosted link

3

Set size to 1920×1080

Match your stream canvas dimensions

4

Enable audio capture

Connect OBS Desktop Audio to the overlay's audio input

Why use Novus overlays?

Real-time audio reactive

Overlays respond to your music live — every beat, every drop

Transparent background

Export with alpha channel transparency, ready for OBS Browser Source

Free & copyright-free

All overlays are free to use on any stream. You own your exports.