Changelog — SnapShield

0.62.14 · November 2026

Spotify has been removed. In February 2026 Spotify changed its developer rules: apps like SnapShield are limited to five users, and every account needs Spotify Premium. That makes a Spotify integration impossible to offer to everyone, so it has been taken out. YouTube Music and the Basic Player are unchanged.

Removed

The Spotify login, device picker and Spotify song requests.
The Music and Now Playing tabs.
The !song, !queue and !skipsong commands, and the Spotify auto-announce.

Changed

The Music Player action now controls the Basic Player only. Old saved chains still load.

Unchanged

YouTube Music and its song requests.
The Basic Player, including its "run an Action Chain when a track starts" option.

0.62 · 30–31 October 2026

New

Automatic backups. SnapShield backs up your settings every time it starts and keeps the newest 10 in %APPDATA%\SnapShield\Auto Backups. An "Auto backup successful" pop-up confirms it, and an Auto Backup button on Diagnostics makes one on demand.
Snake Invaders and SnapDungeon ON/OFF button. A red/green switch sits left of the Open button. Both are OFF by default.
Snake Invaders channel point reward, like the SnapDungeon start reward.
SnapIT layout editor. Drag and resize overlay items, including text, on a grid, with the other steps faded.
Test Selected button on alerts to try a single step.

Improved

Auto-connect on startup is now on by default for new installs.
New Discord channels are named after the server.
Slide-out labels are corrected.
The "Looking for follow/raid/sub alerts?" note is removed from the Accounts page.
New defaults only apply to new installs or after a reset. Your existing settings are not changed.

0.61 · 29–30 October 2026

After updating: log in with the Streamer Account once more on the Accounts page. The new events need extra Twitch permissions.

New

Alerts & Events replaces Alerts, with tabs for Generic, Twitch, Chat, Channel Points and Power Ups.
Action and Subaction. Each step is now an Action (Chat Message, Command, Moderation, Music Player, Overlay, Sound, Delay, Discord or Twitch) plus a Subaction. Your saved chains convert automatically.

Improved

Twitch → Discord moved into Stream Analytics as a tab.
The sidebar is now text only.

0.60 · 28 October 2026

Heads up: old word entries used to match anywhere inside a word. To keep that, change an entry to *word*.

New

Smarter word filters. Banned and strike words now match whole words and phrases, catch lookalike letters, and support wildcards (word*, *word, *word*). Spaces and symbols between letters are ignored, so buy f.o.l.l.o.w.e.r.s is caught.
Live test buttons for trying things out.
When the bot account logs in, it takes over chat straight away.

0.59 · 21 October 2026

If you updated from before 0.59.0, log in once more on the Accounts page, and delete any old SnapShield channel point rewards from your Twitch dashboard.

New

Community tools: Subathon, Counters, Snake Invaders (with Twitch avatars) and SnapDungeon.
Save and error messages now pop up in the top-right corner.

Fixed

SnapShield now uses a new Twitch app, so logins stay signed in long term instead of expiring every 3–4 hours.

WebShield updates

WebShield (the Discord dashboard and bot) is updated separately from the desktop app. See the Web Guide for how to use these.

New

Polls. Create polls to get quick feedback from your community. Members vote with one click, and results update live. See Polls.
Self-Promo live posts. An approved streamer is posted in the promo channel while they are live, and the post is deleted when they go offline. A new optional setting lets the Add my channel button live in a different channel, and each channel shows live or offline on the dashboard. This needs a linked Twitch account. See Self-Promo Live Posts.

Earlier versions

Earlier releases are not listed here. Ask in Discord if you need to know about a specific change.