Is this tool an official Twitch ToS checker?

No. This is an unofficial heuristic tool built by Streamrise from public Twitch Community Guidelines plus patterns observed in Partner review rejections. Twitch's own moderation has access to data this tool cannot see.

Will "clean" text definitely pass Twitch moderation?

No. The tool catches the common, easily-missed cases. Moderation also evaluates context, pattern-of-behaviour, and non-textual signals. Use this as a first-pass safety check, not a guarantee.

Why is the flagged-word list not published in full?

Publishing the literal text of slurs and other prohibited terms would add them to the indexable web under the Streamrise domain — that's a policy risk on our side. The tool uses category match patterns instead.

What about copyrighted music titles?

The tool flags common commercial music references ("Top 40", "Billboard", naming specific copyrighted tracks) because DMCA risk follows from using streamable-rights music for background.

Does the checker store my text?

No. All pattern-matching runs in your browser. The text you paste never leaves your device.

Twitch ToS Phrase Checker — Free Policy-Risk Scanner

ToS-adjacent problems Twitch creators hit in 2026

Most Twitch strikes do not come from the "obvious" violations — hate speech, harassment, clearly prohibited content. Those get moderated early and the creator usually knows what they did. The strikes that surprise creators are the adjacent ones: a giveaway phrased as "free subs for everyone" without opt-in language, a title that names a Top 40 song that then causes a DMCA strike when the VOD is indexed, a bio that offers "advice" on medical or legal matters in language a Partner reviewer flags as UGC misinformation.

The checker's library targets exactly those adjacent categories. It will not catch every slur or every hard violation — those should be caught by common sense long before the phrase hits a title-check tool. What it catches well is the grey-area phrasing that a well-meaning streamer doesn't realise is risky until a strike arrives.

Giveaways: the opt-in rule

Twitch does not ban giveaways, but it does require them to have explicit opt-in rules and to comply with local sweepstakes laws where the streamer is based. The phrase "free subs for everyone" in a title reads to Twitch reviewers as an un-bounded sweepstake. The fix is simple: state the eligibility ("active followers"), the action ("type !enter"), and the draw time. A title like "Sub Raffle | !enter to join | Draw at midnight" passes both the review heuristic and the underlying sweepstakes-law consideration.

Giveaways of in-game items, codes, or digital gifts are usually fine; giveaways of cash or cash equivalents require more disclosure. When in doubt, avoid the word "free" in the title and move the giveaway copy to the panel below the stream where you have room to state the rules.

Slots, casino, and the Mature Content label

Twitch's 2022 Gambling Policy requires any slots/casino/sportsbook content to carry the Mature Content classification and follows a specific approved-site list. A title like "Slots tonight!" without the Mature Content tag is an immediate automated flag. If your stream is legitimately gambling content, apply the label, review the approved-site list, and make sure no affiliate code appears in the title (that triggers a separate policy).

Poker, daily fantasy, and esports betting sit in a different policy bucket and have historically had more latitude, but the safest path is still the Mature Content tag plus policy-compliant presentation.

Medical, legal, and financial advice

Community Guidelines prohibit medical misinformation and have specific language around health-advice streams. The checker flags words like "cure", "diagnose", "prescription", "therapy" in proximity to authoritative phrasing. A stream that discusses personal health experience is fine; a stream titled "How to diagnose anxiety without a doctor" is not. The reframing "My experience with X" almost always passes, because it drops the authoritative-advice claim.

Legal and financial advice are close cousins. "As a lawyer, I think…" is a title that creates regulated-profession liability even off the platform. The Twitch-specific concern is that the phrase attracts moderation attention and can amplify a small violation into a full review. Rephrase the claim as personal opinion or experience.

Copyrighted music: the DMCA shadow

DMCA takedowns on Twitch are issued by rights-holders (not Twitch itself) and apply primarily to VODs, clips, and highlights. Naming a specific copyrighted track in the stream title does not cause a strike by itself — but it surfaces the track in search, increases the DMCA-claim probability when automated crawlers index the VOD, and gives a rights-holder's legal team a clean attribution surface. The checker flags Top-40 / Billboard / chart-music references specifically because those phrases correlate most strongly with downstream DMCA claims.

Use a stream-safe music library (Monstercat, Pretzel, Epidemic, or Twitch's Soundtrack). If you must play unlicensed music, disable VOD saving for that session; if VODs are important, mute VOD audio for copyrighted segments and preserve the chat track.

Why we built this

Twitch Community Guidelines are long, and no human remembers every edge case. The checker encodes the adjacency problems we see most often — the strikes that arrive as a surprise, not the ones a creator could have predicted. Two minutes with this tool before updating channel copy saves the occasional seven-day suspension. We do not republish the literal text of slurs or other prohibited terms in the tool's source (their presence in the page's source would itself be indexable), so the scanner relies on category patterns rather than a flat blocklist.

FAQ

Is this tool an official Twitch ToS checker?: No. This is an unofficial heuristic tool built from public Community Guidelines plus patterns observed in rejections.
Will clean text definitely pass Twitch moderation?: No. The tool catches common edge cases; moderation uses signals this tool cannot see.
Why is the flagged-word list not published in full?: Publishing slur literals would add them to the indexable web under our domain. The tool uses category patterns instead.
What about copyrighted music titles?: The tool flags common commercial music references because DMCA risk follows naming copyrighted tracks.
Does the checker store my text?: No. Everything runs in your browser.