Windows Apps

Every application on your PC, in one searchable place.

Start Menu shortcuts, installed programs, Store apps, Steam games and portable executables — collected into a single catalog that opens instantly and stays on your machine.

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Contents

Why · Screenshots · Install · Features · Privacy · Development

Why

Windows spreads your software across four places that never agree with each other: the Start Menu, Installed apps, the Microsoft Store, and whatever you unzipped to a folder. Windows Apps reads all of them and produces one list.

The interesting part is what happens next. The same program found as a shortcut, a registry entry, a Store package and a Steam game becomes one card. Runtime components, updaters and language servers step aside into Auxiliary tools instead of cluttering your categories. And your favorites and custom categories follow the application itself, so a rescan or a version bump does not scatter them.

Everything runs locally. Nothing about your machine is uploaded.

Screenshots

More holds what is kept out of the main list — Auxiliary tools, Scenarios, Hidden apps and Installers & Docs. Each card carries the count of the view it opens and previews its newest entries.

Scenarios pair a launch list with a close list. One click starts everything in the first and fully closes everything in the second.

App information — size, dates, architecture, Authenticode signature and whether the install location still exists. Copy the path, copy a full report, or open the containing folder.

Settings — scan folders, autostart, the global shortcut and updates, plus catalog maintenance whose force scan and cache reset preserve Favorites, Hidden apps and categories.

Install

1. Download Windows.Apps_0.3.1_x64-setup.exe from the latest release.
2. Run it.
3. Start Windows Apps and choose Scan for apps.

The installer is not Authenticode-signed, so SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC". Choose More info → Run anyway. Download only from this repository's Releases. Automatic updates are cryptographically signed and verified by the app before installing.

Requirement	Value
OS	Windows 10 or 11
Architecture	x64
Runtime	Microsoft Edge WebView2
Internet	Not required after install

Features

• One app, one card — shortcuts, registry entries, Store packages, Steam games and discovered executables are merged into a single application when they point to the same product.

• Typo and layout tolerant search — finds apps by name, publisher, description and path even with misspellings or the wrong keyboard layout.

• Native launching — Steam games launch through Steam, packaged apps through Windows, shortcuts as shortcuts, and executables directly. No generic launcher path that breaks overlays, cloud saves or playtime tracking.

• Real launch status — an app is considered launched when its window is ready, not when a process merely appears.

• Scenarios — save a set of apps to start and another set to fully close, then run both as one action. A close list will not take a process Windows cannot survive losing, and asks before it takes one that ends the desktop shell.

• Non-destructive filtering — updaters, crash handlers, runtimes, documentation and other secondary entries are moved to Auxiliary tools instead of silently disappearing.

• Stable app identity — Favorites, Hidden state, categories and scenarios survive executable path changes, version updates, rescans and cache resets. Scenarios can be starred too, and Favorites shows them beside the applications.

• Conservative detection — ambiguous applications stay visible instead of being incorrectly merged or removed. Text matches alone cannot permanently discard an entry. A card is removed only when Windows confirms its file is gone; a check that was denied or failed keeps the application and says so.

• Decisions you can read — the application dialog reports which signal chose the category, why an entry is Auxiliary, and what the launch-target check found. Settings adds the health of each catalog source.

• Local app inspection — architecture, Authenticode status, file metadata and install state are resolved locally from the catalog entry.

• Bounded scanning — filesystem discovery has hard depth, entry and time limits; junctions and symbolic links are never followed.

Privacy

• Catalog and metadata stay on the PC.
• No telemetry or application inventory is uploaded.
• Launch and uninstall targets are resolved inside Rust from application IDs.
• Shell command strings are not used.
• Unvalidated uninstall commands and network targets are rejected.

See Documentation.md for implementation details.

Development

Prerequisites: Node.js 22, Rust 1.88+ with the MSVC toolchain, Microsoft C++ Build Tools and Windows SDK, WebView2 Runtime, and the Tauri Windows prerequisites.

npm install
npm run tauri dev

Verification — all of these must pass:

npm run lint
npm run typecheck
npm test
npm run build
cargo test --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml
cargo fmt --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml --check
cargo clippy --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml --all-targets -- -D warnings

Coverage is reported, not gated (npm run test:coverage). The MSRV declared in src-tauri/Cargo.toml is a compatibility promise and is compiled by the MSRV job in .github/workflows/verify.yml.

Production build:

npm run tauri build

Local artifact: src-tauri/target/release/bundle/nsis/Windows Apps_0.3.1_x64-setup.exe

Support

Technical documentation · Releases · Telegram: @keskiyo

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