Your Live Home: Follow Twitch, YouTube and Kick Channels in One Place

Most of us follow channels on more than one platform. A couple of streamers on Twitch, a few news channels and creators on YouTube, maybe one or two on Kick. Finding out who is live right now means opening three apps and three sets of notifications, and even then nothing shows them together.

ViewGrid now has a page for this. Sign in, follow your channels, and ViewGrid becomes your live home: one list across all three platforms, with what is live at the top. It went live for all members on October 2 on the website. The same page is coming to the iOS and Android apps with version 1.1.0, which is in review now.

Here is what is on the page and how it works.

One list for Twitch, YouTube and Kick

Follow a channel by pasting its link, or by tapping the star on any stream while you are watching it in a grid. You can follow up to 50 channels. Each one shows up in your list with its live status, and the live ones come first with their viewer count and current title.

There is nothing to install and no browser extension needed for this part. It is the same list on the website, on your phone's browser and, from version 1.1.0, in the apps, because it lives in your account.

See who is live and watch them together

The top of the page tells you how many of your channels are live right now, and one button opens all of them side by side in a grid. If you would rather pick, tap the channels you want and watch just those. On a desktop a grid can hold up to 20 streams; on a phone up to 6.

Every stream plays through the platform's own official player, exactly as it would on Twitch, YouTube or Kick. ViewGrid does not host or re-stream anything.

Playing the same thing

When several channels you follow are live in the same game, or at the same event, the page groups them for you: "Three of your channels are playing the same game right now" with a button to open them together. This is the moment multi-view was made for: a tournament with several points of view, or a few streamers in the same lobby.

Your saved grids, with a live count

Any grid you save is waiting on the page, with a count of how many of its streams are live right now. You do not need to open a grid to find out it is empty. The last grid you opened is also one tap away under "Continue".

Events picked for you

ViewGrid keeps a calendar of events that stream on several official channels at once, from esports leagues to election nights. Your home page now picks from that calendar based on the channels you follow. If a channel you follow is part of an event, the card says so: "Because you follow …". If an event is close to your interests but not a direct match, it is marked "You might like", again with the reason. There is no mystery feed: every card tells you why it is there, and events with no connection to your channels are not dressed up as personal.

Any event on the calendar can also be found on the Events page as before.

Remind me, by email

Upcoming events now have a "Remind me" button, on the event page, on the Events list and on your home page. When the event's official streams actually go live, you get one email with the link to the grid. Not a daily digest, not a countdown: one message, at the moment it starts. The reminder is deleted after it is sent. You can cancel it any time by tapping the button again.

While you were away

Channels do not only stream; they post videos and clips. The "While you were away" section collects the latest from the channels you follow: the two newest videos from each YouTube channel from the last week, and the most-watched Twitch clips of the week, with every channel represented before any channel gets a second slot. Tap a card and it plays right there on the page, muted until you turn the sound on.

What stays private

Your followed channels, saved grids, reminders and last grid are stored in your account and used only to build this page and to send the reminders you asked for. They are deleted when you delete your account. The full details are in the privacy policy.

How to start

1. Sign in with Google, Apple or your email. It is free.
2. Follow three channels. Paste links, or tap the star on streams in a grid.
3. Save a grid you like.

That is enough for the page to fill up. From then on, the first thing you see when you open ViewGrid is who, among the channels you actually care about, is live right now.

If you want to tell us what you would like to see on your home page next, write to [support@viewgrid.tv](mailto:support@viewgrid.tv). Several of the things above started as member suggestions.