Portable build
The zip runs from any folder without a shortcut or an entry in Apps. Data still lives in your user profile, so the library and backups are shared with an installed copy.
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Modsmith for Windows.
Per-user install, nothing else to download, and the whole manager free. Version 0.1.0-alpha.1.
Download Setup exe · 62 MBPortable zip · 58 MB
The first public build is being prepared for release. The buttons go live the moment it is published; everything else on this site describes that build.
Windows SmartScreen may warn. The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows shows an unfamiliar-app notice on first run. Choose More info, then Run anyway. Signing is on the way and the notice will disappear with it.
First run
Four steps to a deployed build.
- 01
Run the installer
Setup installs into your user profile and starts the app. There is no folder to pick and no prompt for administrator rights.
- 02
Pick your game
Modsmith finds installations from Steam, GOG and Epic. If yours is somewhere else, point it at the folder.
- 03
Connect Nexus Mods
Optional. Paste a personal API key from your Nexus account settings and downloads from the site land in the app. You can also install archives by hand.
- 04
Install, deploy, play
Add mods, set the order, press Deploy. Roll back is next to it the whole time.
Requirements
What it needs from your machine.
- Operating system
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
- Disk
- About 200 MB on the system drive for the app and its previous version. Mods take the space they take, in a library folder you choose.
- Rights
- A normal user account. No administrator rights, no UAC prompt.
- Prerequisites
- None. The runtime and the archive engine ship inside. No .NET, Visual C++ or 7-Zip to install.
- Games
- A game installed from Steam, GOG or Epic, or any folder you can write to. Game Pass and Microsoft Store copies are not supported: their packaged files cannot be modified.
Updates
The app checks its update feed at start and whenever you ask from Settings or the command palette. It downloads in the background and restarts only when you say so, and never while a deploy is running.
Uninstalling
Roll back first if you want a vanilla game folder, then remove the app from Apps. The data folder keeps your library and backups, with a note explaining what is still deployed and how to undo it.
Something did not work?
Open About, then Open logs folder. Logs are stripped of your account name and home path before they are written. Send them to [email protected] with what you expected to happen.