July 16, 2026
App, Launcher and Hardware analytics, a revamped Launcher Builder, Embedded Web Panels (in-launcher WebView on Pro+ plans), a permanent free Login System plan, Bring Your Own Auth, in-launcher Privacy
App & Launcher Analytics
NEW FEATURE: A full Analytics area is now in the dashboard. You can see who plays each of your games, how often they come back, which builds they are on, and where they drop off.
Analytics is a new entry in the sidebar with five pages: Analytics Overview, App Analytics, Launcher Analytics, Real-time Analytics and Hardware Survey.
Every page has a Data Range selector (from Last Hour to Last Year), a Resources filter to switch between your own resources and your teams', and Export CSV.
Online vs playing
Two figures show up throughout, and they do not mean the same thing:
Online Users: players with a launcher open right now, in a game or not.
Playing Now (Playing Sessions): players in a game right now. Always a subset of the above.
Launchers report every 60 seconds, so live figures can lag reality by up to a minute, and a launcher that stops reporting (or crashes) ages out after about 3 minutes.
Analytics Overview
A platform-wide view across everything you own: Total Users, Total Downloads, Online Users, Playing Sessions, Total Launchers and Total Apps, each with its own chart over time, plus your Top Launchers and Top Apps by sessions, peak hours and average online users.
App Analytics
Pick a game from Select app:
Key Performance Metrics: Daily and Monthly Active Players, Stickiness (DAU / MAU), Total Downloads, Average Session and Retention (7d).
Retention by Cohort: players grouped by the day they were first seen, tracked at day 1, 7 and 30.
Download to First Launch Funnel: downloads → installs → first launches, so you can see the step where you lose people.
Version Distribution: who is on which version or build ID.
Geographic Distribution: where your players are.
Lifecycle: installs, updates, manual repairs and uninstalls per day. A spike in repairs usually points at broken build files.
DLC, Private Beta Unlocks and Launch Parameters: DLC activity, players who redeemed an environment access code, and the most used custom launch parameters.
Version Updates and Buttons and Links: who moved from one build to another and when, and which parts of the launcher UI players actually click.
Launcher Analytics
The same idea, scoped to a launcher:
Key Performance Metrics: Current Online Users, Playing Now, Daily and Monthly Active Users, Stickiness, Peak Users Today, Average Session, Retention (7d) and Total Downloads.
Charts: Active Users, New Users (your acquisition, as opposed to people coming back), Retention by Cohort and Online Users Over Time.
Launcher Build Distribution: how fast a deploy actually reaches your users, and who is stuck on an old build.
Apps in Launcher: every linked app with its players online and in game right now.
Settings Usage: the most common language, resolution, install location, on-launch action, download speed limit and auto login among active players.
Most Selected Apps: how long players keep each app selected in the launcher.
Analytics are collected automatically by the launcher, so there is nothing to instrument. Charts fill in as soon as your players are on an up-to-date launcher build.
Hardware Analytics
NEW FEATURE: See the machines your players actually run your games on: GPU, CPU, memory, operating system, displays and drives.
Open Analytics → Hardware and choose a Scope, By app or By launcher. Each section is a distribution, with the number of players surveyed behind it:
Graphics: GPU vendor, GPU model and video memory.
Processor: CPU vendor, CPU model, physical cores and base clock.
Memory: system memory.
Operating system: OS, version, architecture and language.
Display: screen resolution, monitors and display scaling.
Storage: drive type (SSD or HDD), capacity and free space.
Use it to decide what to actually support: minimum specs worth advertising, whether a low VRAM path is worth building, or which resolution to design your UI against. A condensed version also appears on each app's analytics page, with Full survey opening the complete breakdown, and Export CSV takes the raw distribution with you.
The launcher reports the machine on its own, once per launcher and once per app, and only when something changes (it re-checks every 30 days). The dashboard shows aggregate distributions, not individual machines.
Embedded Web Panels (WebView)
NEW FEATURE: On Pro and higher plans, launchers can now show web pages right inside the desktop app (a store, leaderboards, live stats, or a community hub), powered by Microsoft Edge WebView2.
A new Web Panels section is available in each launcher's settings. Add one or more panels, and each renders as real in-app web content, with no separate browser window.
Configuring a panel
URL: the page the panel loads.
Title & icon: the label and icon shown in the launcher.
Presentation: show the panel as a Tab (a dedicated entry in the launcher's top navigation bar) or as a Window (opened on demand in a secondary window).
Enable / disable: turn a panel off without deleting it.
The number of panels you can add is set by your plan (Pro and above).
Login System: Free Plan
CHANGED: The Login System add-on's free tier is now a permanent Free plan, with no more time-limited trial. Every launcher gets it automatically, free forever.
Previously the Login System started with a free trial you had to activate and that eventually expired. That's gone. The free tier is now a standing Free plan, with no activation and no expiry.
Up to 100 monthly active users (MAU)
$0 forever: no credit card required
Standard rate and email limits to get started
When you're ready to grow, upgrade to Starter, Standard, Growth, or Pro for higher MAU, rate, and email limits, right from the Login System add-on page.
Bring Your Own Auth (Custom Auth)
NEW FEATURE: The Login System add-on now lets you pick your Authentication Provider: keep our platform-managed accounts, or point the launcher at your own player database through an endpoint you host.
The Login System add-on page now has an Authentication Provider selector with two options:
Game Launcher Cloud (platform-managed): We host your players' accounts entirely: signup, login, and password reset, all handled for you. This is the existing behavior.
Your Own System (bring your own auth): Players sign in with the account they already have in your database. Instead of storing credentials, we call an HTTPS endpoint you host to validate them.
How it works
When a player signs in, the launcher forwards their identifier + password to our backend, which sends an HMAC-signed request to your endpoint. Your endpoint checks the credentials against your own database and replies valid: true/false. We never store your players' passwords; your database stays the single source of truth.
What you can configure
Login identifier: Choose whether players log in with their Email or Username, to match what your endpoint expects.
Custom field label: Rename the identifier field on the login screen to whatever your game calls it (for example Gamertag or Player ID).
Shared secret: Generated for you automatically (shown once) and used to sign every request, so your code can confirm it really came from us. One click to Regenerate and rotate it.
Timeout: How long we wait for your endpoint to respond, from 1 to 30 seconds (default 10).
Test Connection: Verify your endpoint is reachable and your signature check passes before you go live.
Player Account Links: Optional Create account and Forgot password URLs opened in the player's browser, since account management now lives in your database. Leave either blank to hide the link.
Switching to Your Own System only replaces the email/username + password login. Guest login, social sign-in (Google, Discord, Patreon), and Managed Access still work and continue to be handled by the platform, so you can offer them alongside your own accounts.
Full setup and endpoint contract: Custom Auth (Bring Your Own Auth).
In-Launcher Privacy Policy & Terms of Service
NEW FEATURE: Your Privacy Policy and Terms of Service can now be shown right inside the launcher, instead of only opening an external website.
A new Privacy Policy & Terms of Service Display section is available under Launcher Settings → Appearance → External URLs. Each document can be presented in one of two ways, configured independently:
External Link: Tapping the document opens your own URL in the player's browser (the existing behavior).
Integrated (shown in-app): Write your policy directly in the dashboard and it's rendered as Markdown inside the launcher's Settings window, with no browser trip and no separate hosting.
When a document is set to Integrated, a Markdown editor appears where you paste or write the content, and a Last Updated date is stamped automatically whenever you change the text.
Players see the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links in the launcher's Settings window (and on the sign-in screen when the Login System is enabled), opening in-app or externally according to your choice.
Archive Applications & Launchers
NEW FEATURE: You can now archive an app or launcher instead of deleting it. Archiving frees the slot so you can create new ones and frees storage by removing its builds, while keeping the record so you can restore it later.
Deleting is permanent. Archiving is the new, reversible alternative for when you're done with a project for now but don't want to lose it.
What archiving does
Frees your quota slot: the archived app or launcher no longer counts toward your plan limit, so you can create new ones.
Frees storage: its Cloudflare builds are deleted. Your icon, logo, and settings are kept, so the record still looks right.
Unlinks it: an archived app is removed from every launcher; an archived launcher is unlinked from its apps and stops serving updates to players.
Keeps the record: nothing is permanently destroyed. The app or launcher simply disappears from your lists and sidebar.
How to archive
Open the app or launcher → Settings → Advanced, then use the Archive card. You'll be asked to type the name to confirm.
Restoring (unarchive)
From the Launchers → Archived page you can see everything you've archived and Restore it with one click.
Opening an archived app directly also shows a Restore option in Settings → Advanced.
Restoring makes the item count toward your quota again. If you're already at your limit, you'll be prompted to buy an extra slot or upgrade your plan before it can be restored. Previously deleted builds are not brought back, so upload a new build after restoring.
Archiving is available to the owner of the app or launcher (and to platform admins).
Details: Application Settings → Archive.
Launcher Builder Revamp
CHANGED: Launcher customization is now the Launcher Builder: a full-screen editor with a zoomable canvas, a menu bar and a searchable settings panel, instead of one long list of settings next to a fixed preview.
Same settings, reorganized into an editor that behaves like one.
The canvas
The Launcher Preview now sits on a canvas you can move around:
Zoom: the mouse wheel zooms toward the cursor, or use Zoom in (
Ctrl +), Zoom out (Ctrl -), Zoom to 100% (Ctrl+1) and Fit (Ctrl+0).Pan: Space + drag or middle click + drag.
Preview tabs: switch between the Launcher, the Launcher Installation Wizard and the App Install Window, plus the taskbar and startup previews.
The settings panel
Search settings: type to jump straight to a setting instead of hunting through categories.
Show sections: scope the panel to All, Launcher (shared settings) or App (per-app overrides).
Categories: settings are grouped into Images, Window & Theme, Buttons, Panels, Navigation, Watermark, News Layout and Layout.
Move the panel to the left or the right of the canvas from the View menu.
The menu bar
File, View, Publish and Help replace the buttons that used to be scattered around the page:
File: Apply Changes, Reset, Import config, Export config, Browse presets and Exit to overview.
View: the zoom controls, and moving the settings panel left or right.
Publish: Deploy and downloads, Build history, Copy installer link and Copy ZIP link.
Help: Documentation, Keyboard shortcuts, AI Assistant, Help center and Contact support.
An Unsaved Changes marker tracks your edits, Apply Changes commits them and Reset rolls them back.
Settings tagged Requires launcher update only reach players after a new launcher deploy. The rest apply as soon as you refresh the desktop launcher.
Selected Page Highlight (top navigation)
NEW FEATURE: In the Launcher Builder you can now choose how the selected page is highlighted in your launcher's top navigation bar.
Open the Launcher Builder, go to the Navigation section, and use the new Selected Page Highlight control to pick one of four styles. The live preview updates instantly, and your choice is applied to the desktop launcher's top navigation.
Shaded Letters (default): the active page's label stands out while the others are dimmed.
Glowing Letters: the active label takes your accent color with a soft glow.
Soft Gradient: a subtle bottom-up gradient sits behind the active item.
Underline: a clean accent-colored line appears under the active item.
Deploy a new launcher build to ship the change to your players.
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