The Ultimate Pokémon Streaming Companion
Automatically showcase your party, stats, and shiny encounters in real-time. Elevate your stream with seamless, customizable overlays.
Version 0.7.1 • For Windows & Linux
Everything You Need to Engage Your Viewers
Real-Time Sync
Your in-game party is instantly reflected on your stream overlay. No manual updates needed.
Highly Customizable
Choose from a variety of themes and layouts, or create your own with CSS to match your brand.
Broad Game Support
Works with a vast range of Pokémon titles, from the classics to the latest releases.
Stop Wasting Time: What Pokélink Automates
Focus on your content, not on tedious manual updates. Here's a side-by-side look at the work Pokélink eliminates.
The Manual Way
- Manually looking up, downloading, and organizing thousands of Pokémon sprites on your PC.
- Constantly updating text files or OBS sources when a Pokémon dies or your party changes.
- Guessing at Pokémon stats or manually calculating them on an external website.
- Forgetting to update your Nuzlocke death counter during an intense battle.
The Pokélink Way
- Instant, dynamic loading of the correct sprite (including shiny/gender variants) from our managed asset servers.
- Real-time memory reading automatically updates your party, levels, and items instantly.
- Precise, in-game stats (including EVs/IVs) are displayed live for your viewers.
- Nuzlocke events like deaths and encounters are automatically tracked and displayed.
For the Community, By the Community
Pokélink was born from a simple idea: to create the best possible streaming tool for Pokémon fans, without any barriers. It's a passion project built on consumer-first principles, meaning it's completely free, transparent, and shaped by the very community that uses it.
Our goal is to empower creators with powerful, easy-to-use tools that enhance their content and help them connect with their audience. Every feature is designed with streamers in mind. We're always open to ideas, suggestions and always want to improve things for our users!.
Support Our Development
Pokélink is Free, Forever.
We believe powerful tools should be accessible to everyone. That's why we don't charge for the app or hide features behind a paywall.
To provide a seamless "one-click" sprite system, our team extracts, organizes, normalizes, and hosts over 45,000+ sprites (and growing with each game). This requires significant time and resources.
If you find Pokélink valuable, please consider supporting us. Your contribution helps cover server costs and fuels ongoing development.
Become a Patron
Join our Patreon to get exclusive rewards and help us continue building the ultimate streaming companion.
- ✔Behind-the-scenes roadmap updates & Q&As
- ✔Early access to
- ✔Exclusive supporter role in our Discord
- ✔Directly shape the future of Pokélink with your feedback
Frequently Asked Questions
Pokélink is a free, desktop application that automatically reads your Pokémon game data and displays it in a customizable overlay for your stream. It helps you engage with your viewers by showing your party, stats, and shiny encounters in real-time.
Yes! Pokélink is completely free to use. It's a community-driven project built by fans for fans. If you'd like to support its development, you can become a Patron for exclusive rewards or contribute on our GitHub.
Pokélink supports a wide range of official Pokémon titles across various platforms, from Game Boy to Nintendo Switch. We are constantly working to add support for new and classic games. For a full, up-to-date list, please check the documentation on our Discord server.
The Pokélink application is available for Windows and Linux. A macOS version is not currently supported.
Pokélink comes with several pre-built themes. For advanced customization, you can use CSS to style every aspect of the overlay. Our community has created many themes you can download and use. Check out the #themes channel in our Discord!
The best place to get help is our official Discord server. Our community and support team are active there and can help you with setup, troubleshooting, and customization questions. We highly recommend joining!
We welcome translation contributions from our community! You can help translate Pokélink into your language by visiting our translations repository on GitHub. Instructions for contributing are available in the repository.
There are two ways to add romhack support in Pokélink:
- Create your own plugin - if you're a developer or have specific romhack needs, you can build and load a custom plugin file (for more information, join our #dev-chat channel on discord).
- Contribute to or use the Community Plugin - this is a shared plugin that Pokélink downloads and loads automatically. The Community Plugin is maintained by our community, and contributions help everyone get broader compatibility without each user maintaining their own plugin. Check our Discord for contribution guidelines.
Join Our Thriving Community
Connect on Discord
Get support, share custom themes, and connect with other creators in our official Discord server.
Joining is highly recommended for help with unique setups and troubleshooting.
