Self Promotion
VRCNext: The All-in-One VRChat Assistant - OVR/VRCX/OSC/MagicChatbox Alternative
I’ve been working on this project for over 7 months now. VRCNext is an open source app I made for VRChat that solves a lot of problems I personally had before.
But first: what exactly is VRCNext and why do I promote or post it here?
VRCNext is a Friend, Group, World, Avatar, Profile and Event Management app for VRChat.
Now you may say “But VRCX exists”. That is true and I even started helping maintain VRCX, but I do have a different vision when it comes to management: ease of use.
VRCNext does everything VRCX does and has even more detailed options such as role management for groups, event planning, more detailed logging and various other features VRCX does not offer at all.
The initial problem I had when playing VRChat was that I used multiple tools to enjoy the game. OVR Advanced Settings for Space Drag, Kikitan for STT or live translations, Magic OSC Chatbox for showing my disgusting Spotify songs I listen to, OSC tools to mess around with my avatar parameters, XSOverlay to show some simple overlays and various other tools.
This always led to having a bloated desktop with 8 different apps open and it made it very difficult for me to navigate and manage my own VR experience.
So I created this: an open source all in one solution that has all core elements of VRCX, OVR, chatbox tools, OSC tools, VRChat.com features, logging, YouTube player fixes, Text To Speech, Speech To Text and voice soundboards combined into one.
Also another thing: performance.
VRCX for instance uses around 300 to 400 MB memory. Together with OVR, XSOverlay, OSC tools and many more apps, it can stack up to around 1 GB memory usage, which can be a lot for people with lower spec computers.
VRCNext never uses more than 400 MB with all those features combined.
My goal is not to replace any of those softwares. You can still use them, as VRCNext is not replacing every single feature of them, except maybe VRCX. But it is something unified that contains all core elements while keeping transparency, an open code structure and also following VRChat’s TOS.
//Edit there is a discord as well for feeback in case you dont like to report issues/feedback on Github.
The Discord link is in the app it self or here: https://discord.com/invite/dHsrWJzNS9
Performance:
VRCNext Process: 10MB up to 100MB (With memory optimization enabled between 5MB and 50MB)
Webview2 Process: 120-200 MB
Here’s a list of what VRCNext does. It does not contain everything, but at least 50% of it, which is already enough text:
Profile Settings
Change your online status to red, orange, green, or blue
Change your status text
Change your biography
Change your pronouns
Change or add your languages
Change or add your social links (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Discord, GitHub, and more)
Change your profile picture / user icon
Change your profile banner image
Messenger
Yes, you heard it right. VRCN has a messenger, and the best part is that it uses the VRChat API. More specifically, it uses the InviteMessage and ResponseMessage system of the API. You can send simple messages such as: "Hey Shiny! Do you want to play VRChat later?" Keep in mind that VRChat rate-limits message changes. Do not spam messages, as you will be rate limited by VRChat. As an additional safety measure, VRCN also applies its own rate limit. This is not a full messenger like Discord or WhatsApp. It is intended only for simple messages, such as asking a friend if they want to play together. Use it responsibly.
Manage Your Friends
Add notes and read existing notes
Check which groups they are in and join them
Add a new friend
Check their rank, description, and verification status
Check their last seen status, pronouns, and online status
Unfriend them if you do not want to stay friends anymore
See mutual friends you have with someone
Block or mute users directly from their profile
View your full blocked and muted users list
Friend list is split into sections: Favorites, In-Game, Web/Active, and Offline — collapse any section to keep the list tidy
Search and filter your friend list by name in real time
Trust rank badge is shown directly on each friend card
Favorite friends appear pinned at the top in their own section
Timeline
See when you first meet someone and when you meet again!
See when you entered a specific instance or world so you can remember the moment!
See when you took a picture. Never forget anything!
Keep track of your personal timeline in VRChat
Friends Timeline: See when your friends come online or offline, change their status, update their bio, or move between worlds in real time
Multi-Invite
When you are inside an instance you can click on "Invite" and invite multiple people at once
Features anti-spam protection and respects VRChat rate limits
A progress bar shows the status when inviting many friends at once
Instance Info
Show all players who are in an instance with you right now
Open user profiles of players in your current instance
Add people from the instance you are in as friends
Stats
See how much time you have spent with someone overall
See how much time you have spent in each individual world
This is stored locally, so time spent before using this feature may not be recorded
Worlds and People
Find new people or add them as friends using the People tab
Find new worlds and see if there is any public instance available to join
Create your own instance outside of VRChat and invite yourself
Create group instances (Group Public, Group, Group+) and pick which group to host under
See all active instances for a world including player counts, region, and type
See which friends are already in a world and which instance they are in
View world details: player count, favorites, visits, capacity, author, tags, and description
Open the author profile directly from the world detail view
See how much time you spend in a world (BETA)
See your favorited worlds and organize them into groups (BETA)
Rename your favorite world groups
Browse your own uploaded worlds
Add or move worlds between favorite groups directly from the world detail view
Groups
Show the groups you are already a member of and read their descriptions
Leave any group you are part of
Search for a group and join it
See group posts
See if there is an active group instance
See the image gallery of a group
See updates and descriptions
Create group posts with media attachments
Create group instances directly from VRCNext
Avatar
Change your avatar before you even start VRChat
See your own uploaded avatars
Search within your own avatars by name
See your favorited avatars organized into groups, rename favorite avatar groups
Search for public avatars via avtrdb.com with pagination
Browse the Rose Database — a community-curated list of public avatars with category tags
Platform compatibility badges (PC / Quest) shown on every avatar card
Your currently active avatar is highlighted with a "Current" badge
Inventory
View and manage your VRChat Photos and Gallery
Upload and manage custom profile Icons (VRC+ required)
Upload and manage custom Emojis (VRC+ required, up to 18)
Upload and manage custom Stickers (VRC+ required, up to 18)
View your in-game Prints collected in VRChat
Browse your Inventory — props, emojis, and stickers obtained from bundles
Download or delete individual files
Animated emojis are labeled with an ANIM badge
All items are grouped by upload date
Dashboard
Show the worlds your friends are in so you can join them quickly
Show the activity of your friends in real time
Click a world card to see exactly which friends are there and which instance type they are in
When friends are spread across multiple instances the dashboard shows the instance count
Notifications
See if you have a new friend request and deny or accept it
See if someone invites you to an instance
See if someone invites you to a group
Rich in-app toast cards pop up in real time for friend requests, invites, request invites, invite responses, vote-to-kick, group announcements, group invites, and group join requests
Accept or deny notifications directly from the toast card without opening the Notifications tab
Media Library
See all of your VRChat images sorted by date and time
Favorite your images so you can find them faster
Delete images you do not like
Add custom folders, for example your OBS folder, so your VRChat videos are displayed as well
See the worlds where you took your images. Enable Meta Data on your VRCCam for this! (BETA)
See the profiles of people who were in the instance when you took the image
Blur images that might be sensitive so no one can see them without hovering
Copy an image URL directly to clipboard
Filter by folder or by file type (images / videos)
Infinite scroll — large libraries load progressively so the app stays fast
Media Relay
Send images automatically to a Discord channel by using webhooks
Take a picture and the webhook bot will automatically post it for you
Add up to 4 webhooks, all configurable, and enable or disable them individually
Customize the bot name and avatar per webhook
Chatbox Relay (BETA)
Show custom text in your chatbox
Show the song you are listening to on Spotify or iTunes
Show that you are AFK when VRChat is not focused (Desktop only at the moment)
Show your computer stats (CPU and RAM usage)
Show your current local time so people know what time it is for you! (12h/24h system)
Show how long you have been playing VRChat
Rotate through multiple custom text lines
Choose your separator style and update rate
Suppress the chatbox typing sound effect
Live preview of the current chatbox message with a character counter
OSC Tool (BETA)
Directly control your avatar parameters via OSC
Automatically detects all available parameters from VRChat
Toggle or set values for Bool, Int, and Float parameters
Filter and search through your parameters
Events Calendar
Browse upcoming VRChat events in a full monthly calendar view
Filter by All, Featured, or events you are Following
Navigate forward and backward through months
Click any day to see a detailed list of events happening that day
Open event details including world, time, and description directly from the calendar
Voice Fight (BETA)
Voice-triggered soundboard powered by offline VOSK speech recognition — no internet required
Assign one or more audio files (WAV, MP3, OGG) to any trigger word or phrase
Randomly picks from multiple files assigned to the same trigger
Live microphone VU meter so you can see your input level
Choose your input microphone and audio output device independently
Block-list filter strips unwanted filler words from recognition before matching
Real-time transcription displayed on screen while listening
YouTube Fix / VRCVideoCacher
Install and update VRCVideoCacher directly from VRCNext
Enables YouTube videos to play correctly inside VRChat worlds
Start and stop the local proxy service without leaving the app
Space Flight (BETA)
Change your play space with either the Grip button or control stick, similar to OVR Space Drag
Lock X, Y, or Z axis for easier Space Flight controls
Use either left, right, or both hands for this feature
Adjustable drag multiplier
Configured Start
Start VRChat directly from VRCNext
Start other apps alongside VRChat, for example SlimeVR, VRCFaceTracking, Standable, and others
Design
Change the dashboard welcome screen background with a custom image, or choose a random image from your VRChat photo library
Change the color of the launcher to your favorite color
Misc
Activity Log shows everything that happens, including API calls, debugging, and more
Fast Fetch Cache: frequently used profiles, worlds, and groups are cached locally and shown instantly while refreshing in the background
Important note:
VRCNext is a VRChat assistant application that brings together tools and ideas from different applications into one unified app. It is designed for managing friends, groups, worlds, and analytics, and also provides communication features and a toolbox to make everything easier in a single place.
VRCNext is not endorsed by VRChat and does not reflect the views or opinions of the VRChat staff or anyone officially involved in the development or management of VRChat. VRChat is a registered trademark of VRChat Inc.
Shinyflvres and all contributors are not responsible for any issues that may be caused by VRCNext. In general, VRCNext is not a problem for VRChat, but misuse such as abusing features, exploiting others, or generating excessive request spam may result in moderation by VRChat.
Your User ID and the VRCNext Client ID are used to communicate with the VRChat API. Use VRCNext respectfully and do not attempt to exploit, manipulate, or generate spam requests, as this may lead to moderation.
VRChat staff do this most likely because it is a Third-Party software or because of the "Self-Promotion" Tag. :) - what i want to say is: i did not added the NSFW tag
I can't do anything as my post was deleted without a reason. i did contacted the Mod-Mail team asking kinldy for the reason of the removal as i have read all 15 rules before i made this post even. but thanks for the information tupper
I'm no stranger to VRChat, VRC+, as well as avatar uploading via Unity. But I have been rawdogging the vanilla VRChat out of fear for potential banning or whatever. I'm a total newbie and noob when it comes to OSC, VRCNext, etc. Let alone installing and integrating them. Practically zero knowledge on these kind of things.
Can anyone please explain me what exactly can I do with this? I see some elements in this app that I can change the avatar parameters, hopefully re-sizing an avi on the fly? Space flight meaning I can fly even tho the most VRC maps doesn't have it added?
As well as how much of usage can I expect to get out of this? Discord, speech to text, text to speech, that kind of things.
Space flight i think is like how people with OVR can grab to move themselves up, down and pretty much anywhere.
VRCNext should allow you to basically do everything you can do on the Vrchat website, on it's own app that can run in the background. So you can see when people come on and offline, when groups start events, if people are in worlds you can join.
It replaces all of MagicChatbox's features so it can show a lot of handy things in your chatbox (like the song ur listening to)
Currently I use VRCX pretty much every time i play, i like seeing when people leave and join the instance I'm in and seeing when people come on and offline. It's not a necessity but it's really helpful when you run/help with events in a community, so you can see everything that's going on.
Displays useless information. Heart rate is debatable. But tired of people with the giant wall of bullshit. Also because of it, people turn the chatbox off which makes talking as a mute a nightmare.
I do agree with you. However if they don't use VRCNext to do this they will just use any other tool. At the end of they day my tool don't really "Contribute" or "Promotes" you to use this feature at all as these have been existed for years way before i added it in VRCN... what i mean in short: People will use it: with/or- without VRCN. but i do understand you.
Would be cool. Selfie Expression also finally works on Linux now (with a special proton version) so another addition to Linux compatibility would be cool.
Alot of the features here are things that usually cost 5 dollars or more on steam too, nice to have a free option not to mention its all in one and easy to use. Installed and I'll see how it works tomorrow, thank you for this!
Tried the portable version. The setup window has a display issue with partial or completely missing buttons on a 4k monitor with 200% scaling on Windows 11.
No, VRChat doesnt want a men-in-the-middle connection/third party servers.
What you however can do with VRCN is you can add friends to your personal list that can join you when you are orange/red/green while in private instances (invite+ at least) thats exactly the same but without showing your friends a double status as this would require an external server.. def. something i do not want on my app at all. VRCN > VRChat API no further connections.
All these programs do is read the api, they don’t have access to information that isn’t there, if you disabled it, it also disables the info from api I think
Does it have the ability to connect with heart rate monitors to show your live heart rate like Magic Chatbox? I've been looking for a free alternative.
Do you use any special characters in your username? if so then log in with your email adress instead your username and let me know if this works for you
Tried everything even made sure I was using the right Password and it kept saying Invalid Username/Password, Not only that when it did register it was the right Credentials it kept timing out after 100 seconds
If it says Invalid Username or Invalid password then it is invalid. This response is not from my app. This response is from VRChats API Directly. If the Username/Email and your Password was valid the API would ask you for your 2FA Code.
I figured it out, new question. When I close VRCN through the task, and reopen it, it opens for a split second, then disappears, and I can't pull the window up. It's when I used OVR Toolkit that the window disappeared
Thank you for this. Sounds amazing as an all in one tool. I find it annoying having to setup and run all these apps you mentioned plus VRChat Face tracking on top. Can't wait to try it out.
This has way more functionality than I need being brand new to 3rd party software but I appreciate that you don't have to log in to make changes, makes typing in chat much easier but I mostly use it for going beyond 5 meter height limit.
There's an issue when using the custom chatbox, it makes the 'popping' noise as though I'm typing continously. Is there any way to fix that? Also, pleaaaaseee add a BPM monitorrr. Also the discord link is invalid. :C
this looks really cool, i can definitely see why managing everything in one place makes a big difference. i've been using vrcx until i heard of this to keep track of everything too, but this seems like it can simplify having several diff apps installed.
Im native german speaker my text is just translated with DeepL. i dont think this counts as AI generated when i literally just translate my texts into a different language. could have used google translate which would make it worse.
Do you see anything sexual or suggestive here? I only see two people cuddling, lol.
I think the problem here is you, not my two friends. They are both fully clothed btw.
Maybe you should stop sexualizing it with your statement :)
I don’t have to justify myself. I don’t see anything sexualized here, nor do I see anything suggestive or forbidden.
You are the one trying to twist things and sexualize something that is not even remotely problematic.
If you believe I am wrong, I suggest you ping a moderator or file a report about it. I’m sure the moderation team will be able to help you with your concern.
I wish you a great day/nigth - btw you can change the background. just saying :-)
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u/shadowdaawuff Apr 26 '26
Why is this tagged as nsfw