Manage Your Twitch Stream From Your Phone: ByteMate Is Now an App
You’re live, your PC is busy with the game and OBS, and that’s exactly when a hate raid rolls in or you want to switch categories without tabbing out. Or you’re streaming IRL around town with no PC at all. Either way, your phone is within reach. Since October 9 you can manage your Twitch stream from your phone: ByteMate installs as an app and opens straight into the new Cockpit. A web app is a website you add to your home screen like an app, without an app store.
What the Cockpit is
The Cockpit gathers everything you reach for during a stream on a single page. On your phone it’s split into three tabs: Activity, Controls and Chat. Install the app on your PC and the tiles sit on the left with chat and activity next to them – handy for a second monitor. A regular browser tab keeps the full dashboard.
Emergency switches, title and category
The emergency switches come first. Mute bot keeps the bot quiet in chat, and Mute alerts stops chat alerts and overlay pop-ups. Streamers and mods also get Shield Mode – Twitch’s preset protection against harassment, explained in its guide on managing harassment in chat. When a mod flips one on their PC, your phone shows it within seconds.
Below them, the stream tile shows whether you’re live, how many people are watching and how long you’ve been on. Tap Edit to change title and category; search the category by name. At your desk, that means switching games mid-stream without leaving the one you’re playing.
Clips, ads, subathon and counters
Create clip captures a clip while you’re live, at most once every 15 seconds. If you’d rather let chat make clips, the Clip Command still does that. Affiliates and Partners also get an ads tile: it shows when your next scheduled ad runs, how long it lasts and how much pre-roll-free time you have left – so you can announce the break in time.
During a subathon, you can pause it or add one, five or ten minutes. Your counters go up and down with plus and minus, even when your hands are on the controller.
Read, write and moderate chat
The Chat tab shows your channel’s Twitch chat, and you can write right there. Tap a message and a bar opens below it with Delete, Timeout 10 min and Ban. Ban asks you to confirm, so a stray thumb can’t throw anyone out. Meanwhile, the Activity tab runs the activity feed with follows, subs, bits, raids and donations.
On the go: the Cockpit for IRL streams
The Cockpit matters even more when there’s no PC within reach. On an IRL stream, you switch categories as you walk out of the café, say from “Food & Drink” to “Travel & Outdoors”. You read and moderate chat one-handed, catch the best moment with a clip, and if things get uncomfortable out there, Shield Mode is one tap away. If you stream from your phone itself, check beforehand whether your streaming app keeps broadcasting in the background – a second device is the safe bet.
How to install the app
Install app in the dashboard’s account menu shows the right step for your device. On an iPhone, tap the Share icon in Safari, then “Add to Home Screen”. On Android, open Chrome’s menu and choose “Install app”. On a PC, click the install icon in Chrome’s or Edge’s address bar. Firefox is the one browser that can’t install web apps on desktop. The Cockpit docs describe every tile in detail.
FAQ
How do I get started?
The Cockpit is part of the ByteMate dashboard: sign in with Twitch, add the bot to your channel, and on your phone the Cockpit sits in the menu right below “Dashboard”.
Does the Cockpit cost anything?
No. Every Cockpit tile is free, including chat, moderation and the ad timer. The ads tile only appears for Affiliates and Partners, since only they have an ad schedule.
Can my mods use the Cockpit?
Yes. They see the tiles you’ve allowed under mod permissions. Changing the title and category needs the new “Title & category” permission, which is off by default. Shield Mode and chat moderation also require the mod role on Twitch.
Conclusion
The Cockpit turns your phone into a remote for your stream, next to your keyboard just as much as out and about on an IRL stream: emergency switches, title, clips and chat are a thumb away. All changes are listed, as always, on the status and changelog page.
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