winget-gui 0.1.0.0 alpha 2

Second alpha. Expect bugs. Test uninstalls on apps you can reinstall, and run rule files with winget-gui-cli --dry-run before running them for real.

What's new

• A new look. The list, the top bar and dialogs, and buttons each have their own shade, so it's easier to tell them apart. Text is readable everywhere, at a contrast of at least 4.5:1.
• The app uses Windows' own fonts: Segoe UI Variable, and Cascadia Mono for install paths and rules.
• The Size column shows a bar beside each app's size. Sort by size to see which apps take the most space.
• Each window's main action stands out: red to uninstall, green to upgrade, teal to select. Buttons that can't do anything yet are greyed out instead of hidden.
• Spinners show loading and queued work, and finished jobs in the queue show a check or a cross.
• Counts use thousands separators, and the disk menu reads like "C: (962 apps, 193.51 GB)".
• Dialog margins are even on both sides, and the Upgrade and Uninstall buttons on each row are easier to spot and have centred labels.
• winget-gui --demo <dir> renders the README's demo video. Its uninstall is a dry run and never reaches WinGet.

Install

Unzip winget-gui-0.1.0.0-x64.zip anywhere and run winget-gui\winget-gui.exe. You don't need admin rights.

Requirements

• 64-bit Windows 10 1809 or later, or Windows 11
• App Installer (WinGet). Windows 11 and current Windows 10 include it. Windows Server, LTSC and Windows Sandbox don't, so install it from https://aka.ms/getwinget first.

You don't need the Visual C++ Redistributable. winget-gui copies the runtime WinGet uses from App Installer's own VCLibs package.

Files

• winget-gui.exe: the GUI
• winget-gui-cli.exe: the command line version (list, uninstall, upgrade, rule files)
• SDL3.dll and SDL3_ttf.dll
• README.md

On first run, WinGet's in-process module and its runtime are copied to %LOCALAPPDATA%\winget-gui\inproc\. Delete that folder along with the unzipped folder to remove winget-gui.

SHA-256 of winget-gui-0.1.0.0-x64.zip:
F163D3945D489993CFE42731097C22D444F3CC3F054F72C0071F4D616563BF52

winget-gui 0.1.0.0 alpha 1

First alpha. Expect bugs. Test uninstalls on apps you can reinstall, and run rule files with winget-gui-cli --dry-run before running them for real.

Install

Unzip winget-gui-0.1.0.0-x64.zip anywhere and run winget-gui\winget-gui.exe. You don't need admin rights.

Requirements

• 64-bit Windows 10 1809 or later, or Windows 11
• App Installer (WinGet). Windows 11 and current Windows 10 include it. Windows Server, LTSC and Windows Sandbox don't, so install it from https://aka.ms/getwinget first.

You don't need the Visual C++ Redistributable. winget-gui copies the runtime WinGet uses from App Installer's own VCLibs package.

Files

• winget-gui.exe: the GUI
• winget-gui-cli.exe: the command line version (list, uninstall, upgrade, rule files)
• SDL3.dll and SDL3_ttf.dll
• README.md

On first run, WinGet's in-process module and its runtime are copied to %LOCALAPPDATA%\winget-gui\inproc\. Delete that folder along with the unzipped folder to remove winget-gui.

SHA-256 of winget-gui-0.1.0.0-x64.zip:
418B20A97890718EA60792EFA1ECB8DF28377E8EF6183F1EABD878F57A690DC4