Live friends list
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Free & open source · Latest release
Your VRChat life,
all in one place.
Nexus is a fast, modern VRChat companion for Windows. See your friends live, keep a searchable history of everything that happens, run your groups and manage the people you meet, all from one small app.
Windows 10 & 11 · about 6 MB · GPL-3.0
~6 MBinstaller
0servers of its own
Encryptedhistory, on your PC
Signedautomatic updates
Features
Everything you'd open the VRChat website for, and a lot it can't do.
Nexus runs next to VRChat. It listens to VRChat's live connection for friend updates and reads VRChat's own log files, so it knows which worlds you visit and who you meet.
Rich profiles
Time together, encounters and "friends since" at a glance. See mutuals, the groups they own and the avatars you've seen them in, and keep private memos. Mute, hide, block or unfriend in one click.
Feed, Game Log & Players
A searchable history of every change, and a log of every world visit with who was there and for how long. Works even when VRChat's API doesn't.
Group owner tools
Post announcements, open and close group instances, answer join requests, manage roles, kick and ban. Edit your group's name, rules, icon and banner.
Worlds & avatars
Browse worlds and their instances, see which friends are inside, start new instances. Switch avatars, manage favourites and search public avatars through avtrDB.
Notifications
Invites, friend requests and boops in one place, with Accept, Join and Boop back. Windows notifications for exactly the things you care about.
Discord status
Show the world you're in, how full it is and how long you've been there. Private instances stay hidden. Off until you turn it on.
Insights
Hours played per day, a when-you-play heatmap, your top worlds and the friends you spend the most time with.
Quality of life
Ctrl + K command palette, dark, OLED and light themes, multiple accounts, CSV export, a tray icon, and one-click repair for broken vrchat:// links.
Screenshots
Take a look around.
Screenshots use Nexus's built-in demo data; the names and pictures are made up.
Privacy
Your history never leaves your PC.
Nexus has no servers of its own. Everything it records (your feed, game log, memos and stats) is stored encrypted on your computer. It talks to VRChat, and to nothing else unless you turn it on.
- No accounts, no analytics, no cloud
- Encrypted local database
- Discord status is off until you enable it
- Open source, so you can read every line
Gentle on VRChat
Nexus paces every request so your account doesn't get rate limited. What you click always goes first, then what you're looking at, and background work only uses what's left.
If VRChat asks it to slow down, Nexus waits as long as asked and shows you how long, instead of an error. Identical requests share one call.
Moving from VRCX
Bring your history with you.
Open Settings → Data → Import from VRCX and click Import. Nexus finds your VRCX database on its own and brings over your friend feed, game log, "friends since" dates and memos.
Only history from before Nexus started recording is imported, so nothing is doubled. VRCX can stay open; its files are only read.
Install
Up and running in a minute.
- Download the installer,
Nexus_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe, from the latest release. - Run it. It installs for your user only, with no admin rights needed.
- Sign in with your VRChat account. Two-factor authentication is supported.
"Windows protected your PC"? The installer isn't code-signed with a paid certificate yet, so SmartScreen may warn you the first time. Click More info → Run anyway. Updates are still cryptographically signed and verified by Nexus itself.
Requires Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) with WebView2, which ships with Windows 11 and installs automatically on Windows 10.