Full Feature List

Everything Sail Launcher can do, organized by category. Click any category to expand it.

  • 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 with account-scoped storage usage.
  • 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.
  • Reliable Sessions & Private Snapshots: Account sessions restore through secure local storage, Sail Hub Mods login cookies persist across restarts, and device paths, credentials, and local-only sync status stay out of portable snapshots.
  • 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.
  • Auto-Import Steam Library: Scans your local Steam directories and imports all installed games in one click.
  • Save File Detection: Automatically detects save file locations when entering a Steam app ID. The Browse button now shows as "Scan" and actively triggers a scan when enabled, and the Override button toggles to "Cancel" for a cleaner flow. v5.0.0
  • 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.
  • 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 FitGirl and SteamGG at once, with results shown as animated cover-art cards and a source badge.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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, and monitor target selection.
  • 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.
  • 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
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