Stream schedule maker

1. Turn on the days you stream. Set each one's start time, its end if you keep to one, and what's planned: the game, a series, a collab.
2. Check your time zone. It starts as your device's. Add the zones your viewers are in, and each stream's start is worked out for them, a change of the clocks included.
3. Add dates if your schedule changes from week to week, your handles, and your channel's picture or a screenshot of your stream as the background.
4. Pick the size for where you'll post it, a look and an accent color, then download a PNG or JPG. Copy it as text for a Discord announcement or your bio.
5. Come back next week. The schedule is kept in your browser, so you only change what's new. Pictures aren't kept: add them again.

Meta's guide is written for Story ads, which also keep the bottom 35% clear for their button. A Story you post yourself has no button, so the maker leaves a smaller gap at the bottom, for the reply bar. The wide image is the shape of your stream, so it works as a scene before you go live or at the end, too.

The days and start times, with the time zone. A time without a zone is a guess for anyone who isn't next door. The maker writes “Times in” and your zone in a pill under the heading, where it can't be missed.

What you'll stream. “Ranked grind”, the game's name, “Viewer games” or a collab tells people which nights are for them. Keep it to a few words: on a phone, the schedule is small.

End times, if you keep to them. They help viewers who can only catch the start or the end. Leave them out if your streams run long; a start time you hit every week matters more.

Where to find you. Your Twitch, Kick, YouTube and TikTok addresses go along the bottom, each with a dot of its color, so a schedule shared on X or Discord leads to the stream.

Dates, when your week changes. If you stream the same days every week, leave them off and post the same image until it changes. If not, put the week on it, so an old schedule can't be mistaken for this week's.

On X and Discord, post the wide image at the start of the week, and pin it. In Discord, paste the text version under it: the times abroad are written out, and people can copy them.

On Instagram, post the 3:4 image to your feed and the 9:16 one to your Story on the same day, so followers who only watch Stories see it too.

On the platforms themselves. Twitch keeps a streaming schedule for each channel, with one-off and repeating streams and a vacation setting. On YouTube, schedule each stream ahead in YouTube Studio: a scheduled stream may show up in your subscribers' feed as upcoming, and viewers can tap Notify me to hear when it starts.

In your bio, the one-line text (“Live Mon, Wed at 7 PM” and your zone) fits where an image doesn't.

Use a label that holds all year on a schedule without dates. “EDT” is only right in summer; “ET” is always right. The maker uses the all-year name when there are no dates, and the exact one for the week when there are.

Watch the weeks the clocks change. In the US, they go forward at 2 AM on the second Sunday of March and back at 2 AM on the first Sunday of November; Arizona (except the Navajo Nation) and Hawaii don't change them. The UK's went back on October 25, 2026 and go forward on March 28, 2027. Between the UK's change and the US's, New York is 4 hours behind London instead of 5: a 7 PM stream in New York starts at 11 PM in London that week, not midnight.

Show the day, not just the time. An evening stream in the Americas is the next morning in Europe and Asia. The maker writes “Tue 1 AM” instead of “1 AM” whenever the day moves.

Add the zones your viewers are in, not every zone there is: one or two more lines are easy to read, and the rest of your viewers can work it out from those.

A schedule tells the people who already follow you when to show up. People find new streamers in short clips on TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Reels, then come to watch live, and each stream on your schedule leaves a VOD with those clips in it.

Clyper turns a VOD of up to 4 hours into vertical clips with your webcam over the game, every word captioned, up to 30 from one stream: see stream clips, and how to get the VOD from Twitch or Kick. For what streaming can earn you, try the Twitch money calculator and read how to make money streaming; for getting more viewers, read how to grow on Twitch and how to clip streams.