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Desktop features

Nexus on your PC: organize your library, personalize your chatbox, and build a setup around overlays and automation.

Desktop release

Download for Windows · Latest changelog. Membership perks below require the corresponding tier.

Dashboard​

  • Recently used avatars (equipped in VRChat or selected in Nexus), favourite straight into your library
  • Recent world visits (parsed from local VRChat logs)
  • Connection panel (VRChat session status, account info)
  • Weather, calendar, friends analytics and legacy-import summary panels
  • Search bar that jumps straight into avatar Discover

Avatars​

  • Library — Local collections (sections: create / rename / delete / move avatars between them)
  • Own uploaded avatars (from your VRChat account)
  • VRChat server favourites (read + import)
  • Switch avatar in-game with one click
  • Metadata refresh, deleted-avatar detection and one-click cleanup
  • Duplicate finder / matching pairs
  • Export collection IDs to CSV
  • Import from VRCX and from VRChat website favourites
  • Favourites — favourites-first view of the same library engine
  • Discover — multi-provider avatar search (Nexus catalog + external providers)
  • Trending searches
  • Duplicate results merged into one card, up to 30 combined results
  • Favourite, add to library, or open on the VRChat website from results

Worlds​

  • World search (occupants shown across all instances)
  • Current-instance panel (live from account presence, refreshes every minute)
  • Recent world visits (up to 40 sessions from the newest log)
  • Instance creation (public / friends+ / invite, group instances) without launching the game
  • Portal scanning, joining, and deleting
  • World history CSV export

Media​

  • VRChat inventory: upload emoji, stickers, and prints with animation-style picker
  • Screenshot browser (from local VRChat screenshot folders)
  • Download / reveal in folder / delete files
  • Video-log CSV export

People​

  • Player list — live instance roster + recorded roster (from logs)
  • Recently seen players (everyone logs recorded, not just current instance)
  • Recent instances (up to 40 sessions, roster counts)
  • Per-player notes
  • Public cache scan
  • Clone (force-clone a player's avatar via worn-avatar lookup with image backtrace, VRCX-style)
  • Save (save their avatar into your library)
  • Website (opens the avatar's vrchat.com/home/avatar page)
  • Player overlay window: click-through and scrollable, with an "N" badge showing who in your instance runs Nexus
  • Social — friends list (500 online + 500 offline), notifications inbox (accept friend requests), people search, friend requests, saved invite message templates, friends' Discord tags
  • Chat — Nexus global community chat (server-enforced age bands: 13+, 16+, 18+)
  • Instance chat with Nexus users in your current VRChat instance
  • Typing indicators, reactions, message editing
  • Reports, moderation queue, moderation log, mutes
  • One-time age gate on first join
  • Community — Community Hub: published themes / presets / scripts from other users
  • Publish share packs, edit / delete / like
  • Apply shared media as your app background
  • Safe script inspection (shown, never executed)
  • VRChat groups: details, posts, members, join/leave, create posts, auto-accept join requests
  • Leaderboard — Nexus playtime + coins ranking

Tools​

  • Discord Rich Presence — fully customisable (activity type, both text lines, images + tooltips, 2 buttons, party size)
  • Timer spoofing (elapsed / custom start / countdown)
  • Custom Application ID support, or the shared built-in one so it works for everyone
  • Instance tools (run in the background, survive tab-out, rate-limited, resume after restart)
  • Auto-invite everyone in your instance to a VRChat group (name to userID resolution)
  • Auto friend-request everyone in your instance
  • Auto-accept group join requests
  • Mass-invite chosen friends to your current instance
  • VRChat tools — bulk unfriend, bulk friend request, bulk group leave
  • Data utilities — full backup, JSON export, ID imports, share-pack export/import, library maintenance, old-GUI data migration
  • Chatbox — OSC message composer with send-now, saved statuses/presets
  • Avatar parameter browser (auto-refreshes on avatar change) + live OSC packet monitor
  • Typing indicator + voice pulse
  • Integration hub — 30+ independently toggleable chatbox blocks: time, weather, music display, synced lyrics, heart rate (Pulsoid/HypeRate), personal status, AFK detector, window activity, component stats, network stats, PC + VR battery, avatar parameter, friend activity, friends online, invites waiting, time-in-world, VRChat radar, your avatar, moon & season, session uptime, countdown/stopwatch, custom text, chatbox games, novelty art, Nexus stats, Who's-here, and more, each with its own options, ordering, filters and presets
  • Quick Actions overlay — floating hotkey panel with media transport (play/pause/skip), quick chat, chatbox OSC toggle, and a built-in translator for sending translated messages fast
  • Overlays — lyric island (synced lyrics from system now-playing), player-list overlay, FPS/status pill, join/leave popups (4 corner positions), social notification popups, script GUI windows, all draggable with remembered positions, click-through and scrollable
  • SteamVR — device monitoring via OpenVR: battery + charging for HMD, controllers, trackers and base stations, background low-battery alerts, headset "worn" proximity detection, tracking status
  • Translator — free translation up to 5,000 characters, language picker overlay, push-to-talk mode, UI language translation (i18n)
  • Scripts — built-in Python (Pyodide) runtime that keeps running when you tab away or minimise
  • Helpers: osc_set, osc, chatbox, set_height, set_avi, get_current_avatar, get_params, param_names, set_hue, set_emission, set_hue_emission, move, players(), mod kick/ban, wait, run_parallel
  • Inline GUI (ui_* widgets) and floating GUI windows (ext_*) with global hotkey binding
  • Local script file management (save / read / delete)
  • Avatar params auto-fetch on avatar change

Account​

  • VRChat sign-in with 2FA (TOTP / email / recovery code)
  • Multi-account support: switch, merge, remove
  • Nexus account sign up / sign in
  • Password reset via Discord flow
  • Discord account linking for membership perks
  • Profile tools: edit your profile, copy another user's public profile (bio, links, pronouns, status) onto yours

Group Moderation​

  • Bans and unban management
  • Audit log
  • Instance kick
  • Group instance management
  • Detailed member list
  • Role assign / remove

Membership​

  • Server access state panel (tier, supporter flag, blacklist / ban state, update requirement)
  • Service notices (announcements, minimum version, update message)
  • Supporter key redemption with tier-aware messages (3 tiers, owners just see "key redeemed")
  • Key management (list / revoke where the server allows)
  • Discord linking for perks (with sign-in requirements shown)
  • Automatic tier re-check: page load, manual button, and 10-second background polling; perks and access revoke automatically when a Discord role is removed

Membership Perks (tier-gated)​

  • Tier 1 — Drawing tools: turn any image into VRChat whiteboard/pen strokes (image picker, width, darkness threshold, stroke preview, auto-draw)
  • Tier 2 — Worn avatar lookup: find what avatar any VRChat user is wearing, then clone / save / open on the website
  • Tier 3 — Account utilities: copy any VRChat user's public profile onto your own account

Settings​

  • Theme: dark / light / system
  • Custom background: image / GIF / MP4 / WebM, with motion pause
  • Startup + tray behaviour (close to tray, launch on boot)
  • Desktop notifications toggle
  • Updates: check / download / install from the GitHub release feed, with in-app banner
  • Diagnostics export
  • Show-password visibility toggles on every password field
  • Command palette (Ctrl+K), collapsible sidebar + right rail, onboarding replay

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