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ED Exo Compare 1.2.4 — portable

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@bahuckel bahuckel released this 28 Sep 06:45
v1.2.4
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A journal-linked exobiology companion for Elite Dangerous. It reads your local journal, merges scans and organic signals, and predicts the candidate species on a body from FSS/DSS telemetry alone — with payout ranges, first-footfall tracking, a system map, a customisable HUD and a species encyclopedia.

This release is the single-file portable build. For the unpacked program folder plus the two console builds, see v1.2.4-zip — same version, same code.

Download EDExoCompare.exe and run it. Nothing is installed.

A screen for systems with no life, the HUDs switched on and off from the launcher, and a first Linux build — untested.

Linux — Untested

The first Linux release, not yet tried on a real Linux desktop with the game running. It starts, finds the journals inside a Proton prefix and serves the app on Ubuntu 24.04; the HUD windows have not been seen over the game yet. If you try it, an issue saying what worked and what did not — distro, desktop, X11 or Wayland — is the most useful thing you can send.

Both files are attached to v1.2.4-zip:

  • EDExoCompare-1.2.4-x86_64.AppImage — the same app as on Windows: launcher, tray, HUD overlays. chmod +x it and run it. It needs FUSE 2 (libfuse2t64 on Ubuntu 24.04+ / Debian 13+, libfuse2 on older Ubuntu and Debian and on openSUSE, fuse-libs on Fedora, fuse2 on Arch), or start it with --appimage-extract-and-run.
  • EDExoCompare-1.2.4-linux-x64.tar.gz — the browser build, no Electron: the app and the HUD pages open in your browser. Extract it and run ./edexo-client.sh.

The journals are found on their own inside the game's prefix — every Steam library (native, Flatpak, Snap), Heroic and Lutris. On start the launcher checks your desktop and lists what the HUD needs and is missing, with the install command for your distro. Run Elite in Borderless. On a Steam Deck in Gaming Mode nothing can draw over the game; open the HUD in a browser on a phone or a second screen instead. Details in the README, under Linux.

New

A system with no life says so. Once every body in a system has been found and none carries a biological signal, the radar gives way to an emblem — the sweep stops, the sprout is struck through — with "System scan complete · No biological life detected", the body count, 0 biological signals and Status Lifeless. Until everything is found, the radar stays.

Show / Hide for the HUDs in the launcher (Overlays → On screen). The choice is remembered across restarts, and Ctrl+Alt+H flips the same switch.

Minimise to tray is a checkbox at the bottom of the launcher. It is greyed out, with the reason, when your desktop has no tray.

Fixed

  • A restart put the HUDs back on screen even when you had hidden them.
  • Ctrl+Alt+H sometimes seemed to do nothing: a HUD could show itself again right after being hidden, so the next press hid what you thought was already hidden.
  • The ⓘ buttons are drawn instead of typed, so they no longer show as an empty box where a font lacks the character.

Smaller download

The species photographs are recompressed at the same resolution — about 60 MB less.

No journal re-read this time.

Where your data lives

%LOCALAPPDATA%\ED Exo Compare\ — settings, your LAN key, your EDSM credentials if you add them, the species you have scanned on foot, your Fix corrections, the journal folder you chose, your HUD layout, where your windows were, the systems you looked up on Spansh (kept 30 days), the shared exomastery folder, and the prediction caches. Nothing of yours is kept in the program folder, so replacing it on an update loses nothing. On Linux the same lives in ~/.config/edexo-compare.

Your journals are read, never copied out. Uploads to EDSM, Canonn and EDDN happen only if you turn them on yourself. Looking a system up sends only its name or number to Spansh.

Windows will say the publisher is unrecognised. The executable is not code-signed, so SmartScreen asks first: "More info" → "Run anyway".

Licence

MIT. The species photographs are not covered by it — see NOTICE.md, which names every contributor and says which images are borrowed from the ED-DSN community and on what terms. The list of Frontier-populated systems and looked-up systems come from Spansh.

Licence correction (2026-10-01). This release contains data derived from EDAstro (CMDR Orvidius), whose content is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Those data files were shipped under the MIT notice by mistake: they are CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 — credit the sources, no commercial use, share alike — not MIT. ED Exo Compare is licensed in three parts: the code is MIT, the data is CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, and the species photographs are Elite Dangerous screenshots, Frontier's game art under Frontier's terms. Details in LICENSE-DATA.txt, attached to this release.

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