Sail Launcher - Full Feature List

Shared Sail Accounts: Use the same account on Sail Hub and in the launcher, with email or username login.
Portable Cloud Connections: Built-in Google Drive and Dropbox connections follow your Sail account to another PC.
Multiple Profiles: Create separate launcher profiles with optional PIN locking and independent conflict behavior.
Libraries & Presets: Keep multiple game libraries and launcher settings presets inside each profile.
Profile Pictures: Share a public avatar with Sail Hub or choose a launcher-only local override.
Sail Hub Account Tools: Manage public avatars and perform verified username changes, password changes, and account deletion from Sail Hub.
Game Configuration Sync: Select any game settings file or folder and sync it manually, on launch, after exit, or on an interval.
Flexible Sync Schedules: Upload launcher changes immediately, after a debounce, on an interval, before exit, or manually, with prompt, newest-copy, and local-copy conflict modes.
Per-category Destinations: Send configuration, libraries, saves, and game configs to different connected providers.
Sail Cloud Storage: Store portable launcher configuration, libraries, presets, themes, game configurations, and optional game-save archives. Accounts include 50 MB, with an optional 500 MB tier when more space is needed.
Cloud File Management: Browse uploaded Sail Cloud files, inspect retained versions, refresh storage usage, restore files, import game saves, or delete cloud artifacts.
Optional Game-save Sync: Enable Sail Cloud saves, choose games individually, and keep only the newest uploaded copy for a game when preferred.
Sync Confidence: See syncing, success, failure, paused, and unavailable states with last-successful and last-failed times, retry controls, and pause/resume controls for launcher data, libraries, saves, and game configurations.
Local-to-Cloud Replacement: From the Account page, replace selected Sail Cloud launcher files or game saves with the current local copies without changing the local files.
Crash-safe Encrypted Sessions: Session replacements are saved atomically, and Sail can recover the last complete encrypted login if the launcher or Windows closes during an update.
Portable Profile Boundaries: Portable v3 data can update compatible metadata without silently replacing executable paths, save folders, scripts, companion apps, credentials, or other PC-specific setup.
Verified Cloud Caching: Unchanged libraries and presets reuse account-scoped, revision-checked local copies instead of downloading the same cloud data again.
Private Portable Snapshots: Device paths, credentials, achievement-source locations, protected settings, and local-only sync status stay on the current PC.

Advanced Launch Options: Launch games as Administrator or with High CPU Priority.
Automatic EXE Detective: Automatically scans game directories to locate the main game executable.
Companion App Support: Automatically open trainers, overlay applications, or Discord alongside your games.
Pre/Post Launch Scripts: Run custom Batch (.bat) or PowerShell (.ps1) scripts before a game starts or after it exits.
Launch Splash Screen: Premium animated splash screen transitions during launch sequences.
CLI Autolaunch: Launch specific games directly via command-line arguments.
Desktop Shortcut Creator: Generate custom Windows shortcuts linked directly to the launcher.
Live Launch Status: See which game Sail is starting while launch preparation runs.
Crash-safe Playtime Recovery: Active sessions keep bounded recovery checkpoints so playtime can be restored after Sail or Windows closes unexpectedly.
Recoverable Post-game Work: Interrupted save archives, cloud uploads, and other required after-exit work can continue after restart without repeating finished steps.

Auto-Import Steam Library: Scans your local Steam directories and imports all installed games in one click.
Ludusavi Save Detection: Checks Ludusavi's published save database for known Steam and manually added game locations first, then falls back to Sail's local folder scanner when needed.
Library Sorting: Sort by name, added date, playtime, favorites, or recently played.
Metadata Downloader: Fetches details, screenshots, descriptions, and banners from Steam API.
Emulator & ROM Support: Add retro systems and run ROMs with customized command-line parameters.
Playtime Tracker: Tracks total play hours and session lengths for every application.
Running Detection: Real-time status updates showing which games are currently running, with a force-stop button.
Global Search: Search the library by game name or tag.
Favorites System: Keep your most played games starred at the top.
Continue Playing Banner: A featured banner above your library grid highlighting your last played game with cover art, playtime, and a quick-play button. New v5.0.0
Poster Cover-Tiles: Landscape cover-art tiles by default, with a Vertical (Poster) toggle in Settings → Appearance. New v5.0.0
Library Filters & Result Counts: Filter all games, favorites, recently played, never played, Steam games, or custom games while seeing how many results match.
Clear Empty States: The library distinguishes an empty library from a search or filter with no matching games and offers clear or reset actions.
Context-aware Game Pages: Game pages remember whether they were opened from Library, Achievements, Maintenance, or another page and send the back button to the right place.

Dedicated Achievements Hub: Browse progress across the complete launcher library with overall totals and recent unlocks.
Search, Filters & Sorting: Find individual achievements and sort or filter locked, unlocked, recent, and completion progress.
Game-page Details: Expand achievement lists inside game pages, switch between locked and unlocked items, collapse long lists, and jump back to the top.
Library Progress Badges: Optionally show achievement completion directly on library cards.
Read-only Local Tracking: Watch supported local achievement files without modifying the game or emulator data they came from.
Broad Local-format Support: Read compatible Steam cache, Goldberg/GSE, CODEX, RUNE, OnlineFix, CreamAPI, EMPRESS, SKIDROW, RLD, 3DM/UserStats, Razor1911, and similar records.
Optional Steam Import: Match owned games and retrieve official achievement names, descriptions, icons, artwork, unlock times, and public metadata when available.
Unlock Notifications: Receive achievement notifications while Sail is open, with separate controls for tracking, card badges, and notifications.
Profile-aware Progress: Merge progress across launcher profiles and portable data without regressing unlocks while keeping local source paths device-only.

Built-in Download Engine: Bundled aria2 engine handles direct file-host links and magnet/torrents in-app, with progress, speed limiting, and resume support.
Multi-Source Search: Search SteamGG, FitGirl, and debrid-enabled SteamRIP from one page, with game-only result filtering, source badges, and real cover artwork when available.
Debrid Service Integration: Connect TorBox, Real-Debrid, AllDebrid, Premiumize, or Debrid-Link with a single API key to unlock SteamRIP and filehosts like DataNodes, AkiraBox, and VikingFile, with live connection status and resolved-link caching.
PixelDrain Cloudflare Worker Proxy: Transparently routes PixelDrain downloads through a configurable worker pool to bypass the 10 GB daily rate limit.
Auto-Install & Library Integration: Finished downloads are extracted or silently installed and added to your library automatically with fetched Steam art and metadata.
Multi-Part Archive Handling: Automatically groups and extracts part files, including those nested inside .rar archives, with junk files cleaned up afterward.
Floating Downloads Dock: Live progress, speed, ETA, and current part, with retry, cancel, and "open folder" actions.
Safe Cancellation & Quarantine: Sail reports pending or refused cancellation honestly, waits for owned processes to stop, and keeps temporary data in a bounded quarantine when it cannot be cleaned safely.
Full-size Source Screenshots: Browse screenshots from the actual source gallery without cropping, then open the complete image inside Sail with mouse, Escape-key, and keyboard controls.
Download Manager Search: Search active downloads and download history without losing the existing game, mod, theme, plugin, or other category filters.
Bulk Failed-download Retry: Retry eligible failed downloads together using their existing resume settings while respecting the concurrent-download limit.
Completed-history Cleanup: Clear completed download history without affecting active, paused, or failed downloads.
Actionable Failure Details: Failed downloads show understandable, privacy-safe error information and a suggested next step; browser/manual downloads are not retried without user interaction.

Opt-in Experimental Workspace: Enable the complete Maintenance Center from one Experimental setting. It stays off by default and hides its pages, tools, and background operations while disabled.
Installation Health Scans: Scan individual games or the complete library for missing executables, moved installations, changed protected files, failed downloads, save availability, disk space, and other health findings.
Quick & Selective Repair: Rediscover executables, accept moved game roots, create missing baselines, or apply only the repair actions you approve.
Modification Snapshots: Capture files before supported Sail-managed changes and roll back replaced or added files after reviewing the impact.
Save-folder Rescans: Search installations, custom roots, common Windows locations, and other likely locations before choosing the save folder to use.
Preview-first Cleanup: Review safe fragments, archives, installers, caches, snapshots, duplicates, and ambiguous files before removing anything.
Dependency Checks: Check Visual C++ runtimes, DirectX indicators, .NET, Java, emulator firmware hints, and companion apps.
Bounded Maintenance Jobs: Track progress, cancellation, activity, and per-game conflicts without letting maintenance work overwhelm the launcher.
Privacy-safe Diagnostics: Export useful reports with tokens, credentials, unnecessary personal paths, and other sensitive values redacted.

Dedicated Steam Workshop Hub: Browse, search, and install mods for your games inside a dedicated full-page tab.
Steam Workshop Downloader: Download Workshop items anonymously using SteamCMD directly from the game page.
Custom Web Sources: Add and manage custom website URLs (e.g. repacks or mod guides) to browse inside the launcher.
Built-in Web Browser: Integrated web browser with back/forward history buttons and external link navigation confirmations.
Isolated Mods Webview: The Mods tab runs in an isolated persistent partition with Electron-identifying headers stripped, preserving Sail Hub login cookies across launcher restarts and avoiding Cloudflare bot-detection black screens. Fixed v5.0.0
Sandboxed Store & Sources: Remote pages use separate isolated sessions with no Node.js access, context isolation, default-deny popups, and safe external-link handling.
Download Location Chooser: Choose custom folders when downloading files from sources.
Automatic Extraction: Handles zipped, raw, RAR, and .7z mod archives automatically (with packaged release fixes).

Frosted-Glass Mode: Enable translucent layouts in settings with fixed background blobs and physics-based spring animations.
Custom Theme Creator: Build custom color schemes, adjusting backdrop blur, borders, fonts, and opacity.
Canvas UI Editor: A full live visual editor — drag, resize, and reposition elements; rename text labels; build per-element or global gradients; apply live CSS animations (pulse, float, glow, spin, gradient-shift, shimmer); edit across multiple pages with a draggable inspector panel; fully compatible with theme import/export. New v5.0.0
Animated Backgrounds: Pulse, Grid, Wave, Ripple, and Frost Sweep animations.
Big Picture Mode: Console-style interface with full gamepad navigation, boot sounds, monitor target selection, and fullscreen behavior that works with the normal window controls.
True Fullscreen Controls: The titlebar toggle hides the Windows taskbar and fullscreen docks, changes to a restore icon, and returns to the previous window size when fullscreen ends or the window is dragged.
Collapsible Sidebar: Collapsible folders sidebar with fixed favorites spacing and responsive layouts.
10+ Built-in Themes: Midnight, Cyberpunk, Forest, Neon, and more.
Dynamic Transitions: Sleek slide-up and cross-fade animations on page entry, modal closures, and settings exits.
Custom Fonts: Support for loading external .ttf or .otf files.
Tile Shapes & Scaling: Customize grid layouts with Squircle, Circle, Pill, or Square tiles in multiple sizes.
Resizable Sidebars: Drag both main and social sidebars to customize layout widths.
Motion Controls: Use Less Animations and Animation Speed settings, with decorative motion pausing while the launcher is inactive and reduced-motion preferences respected.

Native Cloud Save Sync: Sync saves directly with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, or Mediafire APIs.
Auto Settings Sync: Automatically download and import launcher settings and custom themes upon linking a sync provider.
Secure Encryption: Authentication credentials and tokens are encrypted securely using Electron's native safeStorage.
Rolling Local Backups: Automatically backs up save folders locally with a 3-version rolling history.
Cloud Save Restore: Browse and restore previous save states in one click from the UI.
Process Blocking Mode: Option to display a "Syncing…" UI block on game launch/exit to ensure data safety.
Atomic Save Archives: Incomplete save archives are kept separate and are never presented as finished backups.
Post-game Recovery: Checkpointed save archiving and cloud uploads can resume after a launcher restart without applying completed steps twice.

Discord Rich Presence (RPC): Shares your active game status and playtime directly to your Discord profile.
Sail Hub Protocol: Installs themes and plugins directly from the web using sail-launcher:// protocol links.
Friend Activity Bar: Integrates Steam/Discord friend statuses directly in the launcher, now with colored presence dots (🔵 online, 🟢 playing, 🟡 away, 🔴 dnd, ⚪ offline) and soft glow effects. v5.0.0