Chatty

Chatty is an open-source project that has carved out a focused niche within the live-streaming ecosystem by offering a single, mature desktop client purpose-built for Twitch chat. Conceived as an IRC-style interface, the program gives moderators, broadcasters and power viewers a tabbed, scriptable alternative to the browser-based pop-out, wrapping channel rooms, whispers and custom channels into one resizable window. Advanced users rely on its deep integration with Twitch-specific features: customisable user icons, stream status overlays, subscriber and follower alerts, automatic highlight filtering, channel point redemption tracking, and extensive moderator tools such as mass-ban, timeouts and preset commands. Because it speaks the underlying IRC protocol while also consuming Twitch’s EventSub and Helix APIs, Chatty can display real-time emotes, badges, cheers and raids exactly as they appear on the site, yet still allow keyword substitution, regex highlighting, logging to daily text files, and address-book nick colouring. Speed-runners keep split-time bots in sync through its hot-key system, translators crowd-source captions via the whisper pane, and moderators export chat logs for evidence without leaving fullscreen gaming. Portable configuration and Java-based runtime make the client equally at home on Windows notebooks, macOS desktops or Linux streaming rigs, while plugin scripts written in JavaScript or Java extend automation from simple counters to full loyalty point economies. Chatty is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always fetching the latest upstream build and permitting batch installation alongside other streaming utilities.