The best song request bot for streaming
Our pick is PlayOver. It is ours, so weigh that. Then check it — every number below comes from reading fourteen song request tools’ own public pages, ours included.
PlayOver is a free song request bot for Twitch and Kick. Your chat requests a song by name or by a link from any music app, and PlayOver converts it to the exact track and queues it in your Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube Music. No paid tier, no paid queue cap. Windows 10 or 11.
Why PlayOver
- Apple Music, with nothing extra to install. Three of the fourteen name Apple Music as a way to play requests. The other two run it through a separate desktop music player you install alongside — one of them documented as paid. PlayOver plays Apple Music in a browser page signed in to your own subscription.
- Your viewers can send a link from any music app. PlayOver finds the exact track on your service. One other accepts a link from any service too, but finds the song by searching its title and artist; a third plays the link on whatever service it came from. Most of the rest simply want a Spotify link.
- A song request bot for Kick, not just Twitch. Five of the other thirteen take song requests from Twitch chat and nowhere else. PlayOver does Twitch and Kick, with channel point rewards on both and a refund when a request fails on both.
- PlayOver is free. All of it. No subscription, no paid tier, no paid queue cap, and the overlay is included. What the others charge: one caps its free queue at six songs and asks $4.99 a month to lift it; another lists a paid plan at $9.98; one raises your song limit only if you pay; one never says what it costs anywhere in its docs.
- It plays on YOUR music service. The four big hosted chat bots play YouTube videos in their own player or widget. None of them plays requests through Apple Music or YouTube Music.
Song request bot for Twitch
If you are shopping for a Twitch song request bot, you have the most options — and nearly all of them are built around Spotify. Song requests for Twitch usually mean your chat pasting Spotify links. PlayOver takes a Twitch song request by name or by a link from any music app, and queues it in your Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube Music.
Requests can run on channel point rewards, so they cost your viewers something — and if a request cannot be filled, PlayOver refunds the points automatically. The now-playing overlay is an OBS browser source in ten styles, with a QR code viewers can scan to open the track on their own service.
Song request bot for Kick
Ask which is the best song request bot for Kick and the list gets short fast. Kick is where the gap is widest: five of the other thirteen take song requests from Twitch chat and nowhere else, and the one we found built for Kick alone plays YouTube videos rather than your own music service.
PlayOver treats Kick as a first-class platform: chat requests, channel point rewards, and the same automatic refund when a request cannot be filled. So song requests for Kick work the same way they do on Twitch, and the overlay runs on Kick exactly as it does there, on YouTube Live, and in TikTok LIVE Studio as a Link source.
Apple Music song requests
This is the one that decides it for most people, and it is the thinnest part of the market. Three of the fourteen name Apple Music as a way to play requests. Two of those three need a separate desktop music player installed alongside, and one of those documents itself as paid.
PlayOver runs Apple Music in a browser page signed in to your own subscription. Nothing else to install, nothing else to buy. Your chat sends a song name or a link from Spotify, Tidal, Deezer or YouTube Music, and it arrives as the right Apple Music track in your queue. If you would rather use the Cider desktop app, PlayOver works with that too.
Spotify and YouTube Music song requests
Spotify is what most song request bots are built for, and PlayOver does it with Spotify Premium and a free Spotify app you create once. The difference is what your chat has to send: with PlayOver a viewer can paste an Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer or YouTube Music link and still get the right track in your Spotify queue.
YouTube Music works too, through Pear Desktop — which makes PlayOver a song request bot for YouTube Music as well as for Spotify and Apple Music. Only a couple of the fourteen name YouTube Music as a way to play requests at all.
Your viewers should not need your music service
Most song request bots expect your chat to paste Spotify links. That quietly turns your setup into your viewers’ problem: the ones on Apple Music, Tidal or Deezer either learn to search Spotify first, or stop requesting.
PlayOver converts the link. A viewer sends whatever their app gave them and PlayOver finds that exact track on your service. They do not need your music service, and they do not need a PlayOver account.
A free song request bot, without the asterisk
Every feature of PlayOver is free. No subscription, no ads, no paid tier, and no paid queue cap. That includes the overlay, in ten styles, with the QR code. There is no Pro plan and nothing to upgrade to.
Free means something else elsewhere. It usually means a queue cap, a request cap, or an overlay held back for the paid tier. Among the tools that price themselves on their own pages: one caps its free queue at six songs and charges $4.99 a month to lift it, another lists a paid plan at $9.98, one raises song limits only if you pay, and one never says what it costs anywhere in its documentation. None of those prices are ours.
What you need
- Windows 10 or 11, and the free PlayOver download.
- Spotify: Premium, plus a free Spotify app you create once (one ID, no secret). Apple Music: your own subscription, in a browser page or Cider. YouTube Music: Pear Desktop.
- Twitch or Kick, connected from inside the app.
Setup takes a few minutes, and the streaming page walks through it.
Try the best song request bot for your stream
Free, nothing for your viewers to install or sign up for, and a few minutes to set up.