Do I need to be a Kick Affiliate to add emotes?

Not for your first 60. Every Kick channel gets 60 channel-emote slots from day one, no status required. A further 24 subscriber-only slots, usable by your active subscribers across Kick, unlock once you become an Affiliate.

Can a Kick emote be animated?

Kick itself accepts GIF as well as PNG for emotes. This tool generates static, high-detail PNGs today, so the emotes you download here are the static half of what Kick allows, not an animated one. Worth saying plainly rather than letting the file format speak for itself.

How do I make Kick emotes for free?

Describe your character or attach a photo in the maker above, pick a look, and generate. Trying it, picking a style and previewing costs nothing; generating spends a credit per emote. What comes back is already a transparent, 500×500 PNG under Kick's 1MB cap, ready to upload.

What size is a Kick profile picture?

128×128 pixels minimum, JPG, JPEG or PNG, under 4MB. Kick states a floor, not a fixed target. Any image from this maker clears that easily; the full-resolution download works fine as an avatar.

What size is a Kick banner?

Kick publishes one clear number: the offline banner (shown when your stream has ended) is 1920×1080, under 4MB, JPG/JPEG or PNG. The standing profile banner shown while you're live has no published pixel size on Kick's own site at all. A 1280×700 figure shows up on a couple of third-party guides, but we couldn't trace it to any current Kick source, so treat it as unconfirmed rather than official. This product doesn't make banners for any platform, Kick included.

What size is a Kick sub badge?

Kick confirms the feature itself: a PNG badge with a transparent background, next to a subscriber's name, gated behind Affiliate or Partner status. It has never published an exact pixel size in its own help docs. A few third-party resizer sites quote 36×36; we couldn't confirm that number against anything official, so it's named here as a common convention, not a confirmed spec.

What icon size do Kick channel points need?

None. Kick's custom rewards don't use an icon at all. A reward is just a title, a description and a background colour, and you can create up to 15 per channel. That's a genuine difference from Twitch, where a channel point reward is a 112/56/28px icon upload. If you came here looking for a Kick reward icon size, there isn't one to make.

Kick Emote Maker: Real 500×500 Kick Emotes, Free

What comes back

One generation, sized for Kick and everywhere else.

500×500

Kick-ready

Under Kick's 1MB cap

8 more

platforms

Twitch, Discord, Slack and the rest, same generation

extra steps

Background's already off, and there's no watermark

Real output, not a mockup

This is what shows up in a Kick stream.

Six reactions from one character, dropped straight into a real Kick chat at the exact 28px size an emote actually renders at.

Live chat

coldbrewkcchat go OFF

nova_playsno shot she hit that

modBoltzclip it clip it

streamsnailback to back wins

kicker99gg's already

quiet_lurkerlol

The specs

Every Kick size, in one place

Kick publishes a clear number for some of these and none at all for others. Both kinds are marked below, so nothing here reads more certain than it is.

Kick emote

Rule	Value
Size	500 × 500 pixels, one size
Format	PNG or GIF
Max file size	Under 1MB
Channel emotes	60 slots, no status required
Subscriber emotes	24 more slots, Affiliate required

Kick profile picture

Rule	Value
Minimum size	128 × 128 pixels
Max file size	Under 4MB
Format	JPG, JPEG or PNG

Kick banners

Banner	Size	Confidence
Offline banner (stream ended)	1920 × 1080	Published by Kick
Profile banner (while live)	Not published	No official number exists

Sub badges & channel points

Asset	Size	Confidence
Sub badge	Not published (36×36 common on third-party tools)	Unconfirmed
Channel point reward	No icon: title, description and colour only	Published by Kick

Why an emote only needs one size here

Twitch asks for three sizes because chat, the picker and Dashboard previews each render at a different density. Kick takes one 500×500 upload and handles the scaling itself, so there's nothing to export three times.

Worth knowing before you design

Banners, badges and the gaps in Kick's own docs

Two of Kick's own assets don't have a published pixel spec at all. Better to say so than to repeat a number nobody can confirm.

Kick states the offline banner clearly: 1920×1080, under 4MB. The profile banner shown while you're live has no pixel spec anywhere on Kick's own site. A 1280×700 figure appears on a couple of third-party guides, but it doesn't trace back to anything current on Kick, so treat it as a guess rather than a fact.

Sub badges are the same story. Kick confirms the feature: a transparent PNG next to a subscriber's name, unlocked once you're Affiliate or Partner. It has never published the pixel size that badge needs to be. Third-party resizer sites converge on 36×36, but that number doesn't come from Kick.

This product doesn't make banners

Not for Kick, not for Twitch, not for Discord. A banner is a wide composed layout, not a resized character crop, and that's a different tool than this one. The emote maker above makes emotes, avatars and icons instead.

The one that surprises people

Kick Channel Points don't use an icon

If you came here looking for a reward icon size like Twitch's, there isn't one to find. Kick's version of the feature simply doesn't use images.

Kick does have a feature called Channel Points, and it works the way Twitch's does in one sense: viewers earn points by watching, and you set up custom rewards they redeem them for. You can create up to 15 rewards per channel.

Where it differs: a Kick reward is a title, a description and a background colour. No icon, no image upload, nothing to resize. Twitch's equivalent reward is a 112/56/28px icon; Kick's isn't an image at all.

Straight answers

Questions people actually ask

500×500 pixels, PNG or GIF, under 1MB. That's the whole spec. Kick takes one master upload per emote and scales it down for chat itself, unlike Twitch, which asks for three separate sizes (112, 56 and 28px) for the same emote.

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