mitamat/elite-dangerous-tools-hub

Elite Dangerous Tools Hub is a Windows desktop application that brings together many popular third-party tools for the space game Elite Dangerous into a single sidebar-driven interface. Instead of hunting down separate websites and programs for market data, exploration, ship building, and other tasks, players can open one app and switch between tools from a list on the side. Web-based tools like Inara, Spansh, and Coriolis open inside the app through an embedded browser component, with the option to open them in your normal browser instead. Desktop companion apps, such as EDMC, ED Discovery, and SRV Survey, get one-click install, update, and launch support: the hub checks GitHub Releases for the newest version and can download and install it for you. It also detects tools you already have installed, so it will not prompt you to reinstall something that is already there. The app organizes tools into categories covering market and trade, route planning and exploration, ship building, Odyssey and surface activities, and colonisation and community guides. It also includes a pan and zoom image viewer for reference material, such as a spectral analysis diagram used to identify planet types. To install it, you download the setup file from the project's latest GitHub release and run it like a normal Windows installer, with a Start Menu shortcut and uninstall entry. The .NET runtime needed to run the app is bundled in, so nothing extra needs installing first, though you do need Windows 10 or 11 and the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime, already present on most modern Windows systems. If you prefer to build the project yourself, the README gives commands for cloning the repository and building it with the .NET command line tools, plus steps for packaging it into an installer using Inno Setup. This is an independent fan-made launcher and aggregator, not affiliated with Frontier Developments, the maker of Elite Dangerous. Each linked tool remains the work of its own separate author.