Your avatar style, across Discord stages.

Who pays for premium guest effects?

The avatar owner needs Avatar Plus ($5/month) or the Avatar + Streamer bundle ($8/month). Streamer Plus costs $5/month and adds host tools; it does not grant premium effects to guests. A Free host can allow a paying guest’s effects.

Hosts can permit or block effect categories and individual guests. Buying a subscription does not bypass those choices. The four original grandfathered supporters retain their $5 full-bundle offer permanently, including if they cancel and later return; paid access still requires an active paid period.

Choose a speaking glow and join entrance

In My avatars, open Premium effects · preview any style. Choose Glow color, Speaking glow, and Entrance. Use Preview entrance or a reaction preview to try the look, then Save premium effects to save your choices with Avatar Plus or the bundle.

Local previews are available on Free. Live speaking glows follow actual speech and the host’s speaking-emphasis settings. Entrances play when you join the stage, not when an audience member opens or reconnects to the overlay. More entrances and reactions will be added or enhanced over time.

How do I send a visual reaction?

A preview stays in your dashboard; sending a reaction displays it on your active stages that allow reactions. Heart, sparkles, and wave are currently available. In Discord servers where the PNGStage bot is installed, you can also use /react heart, /react sparkles, or /react wave while in the active voice channel. Both methods use the same subscription, presence, permission, and 10-second cooldown checks.

1. Join a Discord voice channel with an active PNGStage setup using the same Discord account you use on the site.
2. Open My avatars and choose Check host permissions to find the stages where you are present.
3. Check that reactions are allowed. You need your own Avatar Plus or bundle, and the host must not have blocked your effects.
4. Choose Send heart, Send sparkles, or Send wave. Wait 10 seconds before sending another reaction.

Save a different avatar for each server or channel

Under Saved identities in My avatars, choose a Discord server and an Avatar slot, then Save identity. Leave Voice channel override empty to use that avatar throughout the server. Avatar Plus also lets you paste a channel link or ID to create a channel-specific override.

PNGStage selects the channel override first, then the server identity, then your default avatar. Free includes one server identity and one avatar look. Avatar Plus or the bundle includes six looks and 25 identities across servers and channels. On downgrade, saved choices remain, but only the first saved server identity and slot 1 apply; channel overrides require paid avatar access. Disabling your avatar hides it everywhere.

Which movement preferences are free?

Idle shake gives one image gentle movement without uploading extra drawings. Enable it under Idle shake · Free and save. Hosts can disable shake, and reduced motion also disables it. Animated idle frames take priority when active.

Under Speaking mouth · Free, choose Hold mouth open while speaking or Cycle open and closed while speaking, then Save mouth preference. Cycle alternates the existing poses every 240 ms during speech. This guest preference needs no host approval, and glow, fade, and idle suppression still follow actual speech. Reduced motion uses the held speaking pose.

Where do streamers manage permissions?

In My streams, open the setup’s speaking and guest-effect controls. Use Guest effects · host permissions to decide which categories guests can use. These permissions are available on every host tier, including Free.

Streamer Plus or the bundle adds 12 fixed positions, 25 voice channel setups, 25 saved show presets, five bot avatars, stage-name controls, and the private OBS Control Dock. Free includes five channel setups, six fixed positions, rehearsal, and read-only Stage View. Keep overlay and dock links private; share the separate Stage View link with participants.