How to Set Up TikFinity for TikTok LIVE, Step by Step

Setting up TikFinity takes about 20 minutes if you do it in the right order. Do it in the wrong order and you will spend your first live fixing silent alerts in front of people. This guide goes version by version, then ends with the test run that saves you.

Before you start

You need a TikTok account that can go LIVE, your TikTok @handle, and the streaming software you normally use: TikTok LIVE Studio on PC, Streamlabs, or just your phone for a mobile live. You also need the official TikFinity source. Browser and Windows come from tikfinity.zerody.one. Android comes from Google Play, TikFinity Mobile - Alerts&TTS, package com.streamtv.tikstream.

One rule before anything else: TikFinity asks for your @handle, not your password. See our download page for the safe checklist if you are not sure you are on the real site.

Step 1: Connect your account

Open TikFinity and enter your TikTok @handle exactly as it appears on your profile. Start your live or a test live so TikFinity can see the events coming in: chat, gifts, likes, shares, follows and viewers. Without a live session, there is nothing for alerts to react to, and new users often think the tool is broken at this point. It is not broken. It is waiting.

Step 2: Add the widgets to your stream

TikFinity gives you widgets for alerts, chat, goal bars and more. Each widget has its own browser source link. Copy that link into TikTok LIVE Studio or Streamlabs as a browser source. Size it, place it where it will not cover your face or your game, and lock it.

Do this one widget at a time. Add the alert widget, test it, then add chat, then add a goal. If you paste all five in at once and something overlaps or stays silent, you have no idea which one is the problem. Slow here is fast later.

Step 3: Set your first alert

Pick the gift your viewers send most. Map a short sound to it. Short matters. A two-second sound is a celebration. A twenty-second sound is an interruption, and viewers will stop sending gifts just to avoid hearing it.

Set the volume lower than you think. Alerts always sound quieter in your headphones during setup than they do to viewers on a phone speaker. If you want gift mapping ideas, the alerts and text-to-speech guide covers which sounds work for small gifts and which to save for big ones.

Step 4: Turn on text-to-speech carefully

Turn TTS on, pick a clear voice, and set a minimum rule if your plan allows it. Reading every single message out loud sounds fun for five minutes. Then a spammer arrives and your live becomes a robot reading nonsense.

On the Android free plan you get 75 TTS messages a day, so waste hurts. Use TTS for real chat in your test, count how fast you burn through messages in a busy live, and you will know quickly if the free limit fits you.

Step 5: Add one goal bar

Start with likes or follows. They are easy for viewers, free to give, and the bar moves often enough that people see progress. Set a number you can actually hit in one live. A goal bar stuck at 3 percent all night teaches viewers to ignore it. A bar that fills teaches them that tapping works.

You can run goals for coins, shares and viewers too. Add those later, one at a time, once your first goal has filled at least once.

Windows and Android differences

On Windows, the desktop app adds a chatbot and an Event API, and the connection stays local on your PC. That local setup is what powers viewer-triggered actions in games. If you plan to let a gift send a keystroke in Minecraft or Roblox, set one action, test it in a private world, and only then tell viewers about it.

On Android, keep the app open in the way your phone setup needs, and watch your free limits: 3 sound alerts and 75 TTS messages a day. Mobile and desktop are separate products with separate subscriptions, a point our free vs Pro guide explains before you pay for the wrong one.

The 10-minute test live

Go live with a friend watching. Ask them to send chat, tap likes, follow if they have not, and send your mapped gift. Check four things: the sound played, the voice spoke, the goal bar moved, and nothing covered your face or game screen.

Fix volumes in this test, not later. Record the test if you can and watch it back on your phone. That phone playback is what your viewers actually get. If it sounds good there, you are ready.

When something stays silent

Check in this order: is the live actually running, is the @handle typed right, is the widget added as a browser source and visible, is the gift mapped, and is the volume up in both TikFinity and your streaming software. That order fixes almost every "TikFinity is not working" report we see. Work through the homepage TikFinity overview if you are still unsure which version you should be running in the first place.