Modern, Cross-Platform VRChat Media & Profile Management Suite
Powered by .NET 9 MAUI & Blazor Hybrid for Windows and Android
Key Features • Metadata Engine • Requirements • Installation • Build System • Disclaimer
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VRCGalleryManager v2.0 represents a complete architectural overhaul. Migrated from the original Windows Forms foundation to a cutting-edge .NET 9 MAUI Blazor Hybrid application, VRCGalleryManager is now a high-performance cross-platform desktop and mobile client with a modern hardware-accelerated UI, native OS integrations, enhanced security, and deep VRChat profile customization.
- Windows & Android Support: Runs seamlessly on Windows 10/11 desktop and Android mobile devices (native APK).
- Responsive Modern UI: Sleek dark-mode interface built with CSS design tokens, custom SVG icons, smooth transitions, and custom scrollbars.
- Android Immersive Experience: Edge-to-edge layout with full display cutout (notch) support, translucent system bars, and responsive navigation drawers.
- Cross-Platform Image Engine: Powered by SixLabors ImageSharp 4.1.0 for high-performance cross-platform image processing without native GDI+ dependencies.
- Touch & Desktop Optimized: Native mouse & keyboard controls on Windows with full touch UX and mobile-friendly gestures on Android.
- VRChat Profile Theme Sync: Automatically extracts your active VRChat profile theme colors (accent, buttons, icons, subtexts) and applies them dynamically across the app, including custom TitleBar buttons, SVG icon filters, glow accents, and scrollbars.
- Custom Windows TitleBar: Sleek, borderless window header with custom minimize, maximize, and close buttons integrated with your active profile theme.
- Profile Backgrounds Catalog: Access and preview official VRChat profile background banners (Grid, Cascade, Bit Mountain, Approach, Planet Fall, Jungle, Light Streams, etc.).
- Animated Profile Effects ❤️: Support for VRChat profile cosmetics and animated canvas effects (Aura, Fire, Orbit, Bounce, Rain, Laser, Confetti, and more).
- Profile Details Card: View your profile bio, status, pronouns, trust rank, unlimited user badges, icon frames, and avatar pictures directly in-app.
- Multi-Selection & Batch Operations: Select multiple items with click or intuitive mouse drag-to-select across all media pages (Gallery, Photos, Stickers, Emojis, Prints, Profile Icons).
- Safe Batch Deletion: Bulk delete media assets with confirmation dialogs and real-time progress indicators. Local screenshots are safely moved to the Windows Recycle Bin (preventing accidental loss), while VRChat Plus cloud media is deleted asynchronously in the background.
- Batch Selection Toolbar: Floating contextual toolbar displaying live selection counts, Select All, Deselect All, and quick dismissal (Esc key supported).
- Stickers & Emojis: Create, upload, organize, and delete VRChat custom stickers and emojis.
- Photos & Gallery: Browse, manage, and upload high-resolution screenshots to your VRChat Plus online gallery.
- Smart Folder Browser: Folder picker with automatic VRChat Pictures directory detection, subfolder navigation, and real-time photo count badges and tooltips.
- Cross-Category Upload Pipeline: Seamlessly upload local screenshots and Picflow assets into any VRChat Plus album (Gallery, Prints, Stickers, Emojis, Profile Icons).
- Prints: View, manage, and upload VRChat Prints with custom notes and print details.
- User Profile Icons: Crop, adjust, and upload user profile icons.
- Drag & Drop & Clipboard Paste: Drag and drop images directly into the application window or paste directly from clipboard (
Ctrl + V). - High-Performance Caching (
MediaCacheService): Smart local memory and disk caching prevents redundant network queries and ensures instant thumbnail loading.
- Instant Screenshot Notifications: Unobtrusive desktop overlay bubbles appear in real time the moment a new screenshot is captured in VRChat.
- Quick Action Controls: Expand directly into the full-screen Global Image Viewer, copy image to clipboard, upload straight to VRChat Plus, or dismiss.
- Smart Stacking & Progress Timer: Clean vertical stacking with smooth animations, configurable auto-dismiss countdown bar, and non-blocking interaction.
- Centralized Global Modal: Accessible everywhere across the app (Gallery, Picflow, Stickers, Emojis, Prints, Icons, Popups) with smooth playlist navigation and auto-close on page changes.
- Full-Screen Zoom & Pan: High-performance photo modal with smooth zooming, panning, and keyboard/touch navigation.
- Dual Interactive Panels:
- Session Info Panel (Right): Detailed VRChat world information, world author, instance type/ID, present player rosters, resolution, and aspect ratio.
- QR Code Links Panel (Left): Built-in
QrCodeServiceautomatically detects QR codes (Discord invites, world links, web URLs) with one-click copy and browser navigation. - Both panels feature independent toggle controls and persist display preferences across sessions.
- Direct Download & Gallery Sync:
- Windows: Native file save dialog to save photos anywhere on your system.
- Android: Direct save to
Pictures/VRCGalleryManagerwith automatic MediaStore scanner notification, making images immediately visible in your device's photo gallery without needing a file manager.
- Quick Actions: Download images locally, copy image/link to the system clipboard, or upload directly to VRChat.
- Standalone Real-Time Metadata Injection (Windows): Pure C# PNG
iTXtinjector that monitors live game sessions and automatically embeds world, instance, and player lists into newly taken screenshots without needing external tools.
- Quality Scale & Size Preview: Real-time file size calculation and quality scaling slider before uploading to ensure images never exceed VRChat limits.
- Refine Edge & Crop: Built-in canvas tools for cropping and refining edges.
- Advanced Spritesheet Support: Direct spritesheet creation and editing with automatic grid layout derivation (2×2, 3×3, 4×4, up to 8×8) dynamically computed from frame count.
- Live Spritesheet Animation & Preview: Real-time animation preview with configurable playback FPS, customizable frame limits, and an interactive frame-by-frame thumbnail strip.
- GIF to Sprite Sheet Converter: Convert animated GIFs into VRChat-compatible sprite sheet animations with configurable FPS, frame selection, and timeline settings.
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- Worldwide Sticker Explorer: Browse stickers placed across VRChat worlds with lazy-loading.
- Themed Category Filters: Filter smoothly between Stickers, Emojis, and Prints with dynamic active theme styling.
- Live Animated Emojis: Spritesheet-based emojis animate smoothly directly within the Picflow discovery grid using hardware-accelerated CSS frame stepping.
- Live Stream Mode (Windows): Monitor and inspect new stickers in real time from VRChat logs as players place them.
- Local Database (
PicflowDatabase): Persistent local storage to cache and quickly search through discovered stickers and prints with one-click cleanup. - Info Dialog & Direct Upload: Quick inspection modal with creator details, asset info, and one-click upload to your personal collection.
- Internal High-Performance API Client: Custom-built, lightweight VRChat API client replacing external SDKs with clean JSON parsing and direct multi-part uploads.
- Modern Secure Storage: Uses platform-native OS secure storage (
Microsoft.Maui.Storage.SecureStorage) instead of plaintext config files. - Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): Full support for both Authenticator TOTP codes and Email verification (with resend code option).
- Resilient Networking: Automated network retry and backoff policies powered by Polly.
- Real-Time Network Monitor: Dedicated
NetworkStatusServicedetecting offline state with auto-reconnect notifications.
- System Tray Integration (Windows): Minimize to tray (
H.NotifyIcon.Maui) to keep the app running quietly in the background. - Windows Startup: Optional toggle to launch automatically with Windows (with silent background startup).
- In-App Auto-Updater:
- Windows: Built-in update manager with animated download progress bars.
- Android: In-app APK updater that checks releases, downloads the new APK, and triggers the native package installer.
- VRChat Logs Inspector (Windows): View VRChat log file counts and total disk usage, with one-click options to open the logs folder or clean up old logs.
- VRChat Cache Cleaner: Monitor VRChat cache size and safely purge temporary files directly from the settings panel.
- Legal Notice & Compliance: Built-in Terms of Service compliance and legal notice panel.
VRCGalleryManager includes a powerful, zero-dependency PNG Metadata Engine that automatically captures and embeds rich session details directly into your local screenshots.
- Live VRChat Log Monitoring (Windows): The built-in
VRCLogWatcherServicetracks your active world, instance ID, world author, and dynamic player joins/leaves in real time. - Pure C#
iTXtInjection: When a new screenshot is saved to your VRChat Pictures directory, VRCGalleryManager can automatically inject a standardizediTXtDescriptionchunk directly into the PNG file. - Atomic & Safe: Recalculates PNG CRC32 checksums on the fly and writes atomically via temporary files, guaranteeing zero image corruption.
- Standalone Convenience: No need to keep external helper applications running—your photos are automatically tagged with world and player information right as you take them (can be toggled on/off in Settings).
- Sub-Millisecond Parsing: High-performance reader (
MetaDataImageReader) parses PNGiTXttext chunks directly from the file stream in milliseconds without buffering or decoding full high-resolution images into RAM. - Smart Fallback Scanner: Employs span-based memory pools (
ArrayPool<byte>) to detect metadata structures in legacy, modified, or alternative screenshot formats. - Cross-Compatible: Fully interoperable with standard VRChat community metadata formats and official camera metadata.
When viewing photos in the Gallery, through screenshot popups, or in the immersive full-screen Image Viewer:
- World & Instance Info: World name, world author, instance type/ID, with quick-copy actions and a direct button to launch or open the world on the VRChat website.
- Players Roster: Searchable list of all players present in the instance when the photo was captured, with one-click navigation to their official VRChat web profiles.
- Image Diagnostics: File format, exact resolution, aspect ratio badge (16:9, 21:9, etc.), file size, capture date & time, and file name.
- Integrated QR Code Scanner: Built-in
QrCodeServicedetects QR codes (Discord invites, world links, web URLs) inside screenshots and presents them for instant copying or browser launching.
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- A VRChat Plus subscription is required to manage photo galleries, prints, and custom stickers through the VRChat API.
| Platform | Requirement |
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| Windows | Windows 10 (version 1809 / build 17763 or newer) or Windows 11 (64-bit) |
| Android | Android 7.0 (Nougat, API 24) or newer |
| Webview | Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (included in Windows 10/11) / Android System WebView |
Download the latest release for your platform from the Releases Page:
- Installer (Recommended): Download and run
VRCGalleryManager_Setup.exeto install the app with desktop and Start Menu shortcuts. - Standalone / Portable: Extract the portable ZIP release (
VRCGalleryManager_Portable.zip) and launchVRCGalleryManager.exe.
- Download the
VRCGalleryManager.apkfile to your Android device. - Open the file and allow installation from your browser/file manager when prompted.
- Future updates can be checked and installed directly from within the app!
VRCGalleryManager includes an automated build system located in the Builder/ directory for compiling Windows and Android binaries with one click.
- .NET 9 SDK: Download .NET 9.0 SDK
- .NET MAUI Workloads:
dotnet workload install maui # Or install specific target workloads: dotnet workload install maui-windows dotnet workload install maui-android - NSIS (Optional): If you want to generate the Windows
VRCGalleryManager_Setup.exeinstaller, install NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System).
Simply execute the batch scripts located in the Builder/ folder:
Builder/Build_Windows_EXE.bat: Compiles a self-contained Windows executable and generates the NSIS setup installer.Builder/Pack_Portable_ZIP.bat: Quickly packages the compiled Windows build into a portable ZIP package.Builder/Build_Android_APK.bat: Compiles and packages the release Android APK (VRCGalleryManager.apk).Builder/Build_All.bat: Builds both Windows and Android packages in sequence.
Artifacts will be placed in Builder/Output/:
Builder/Output/Windows/Builder/Output/VRCGalleryManager_Portable.zipBuilder/Output/VRCGalleryManager_Setup.exeBuilder/Output/VRCGalleryManager.apk
VRCGalleryManager is an independent third-party tool that communicates exclusively through VRChat's official API endpoints. It does not modify, hook into, or alter the VRChat client or game files in any manner.