TDX Launcher Ultra

Your always-on TouchDesigner launcher: session control, Patreon-as-Palette and much much more.
Every .toe opens in the build it was saved with. Free, no account.

Windows 10 and up · macOS on Apple Silicon (signed and notarized)
Documentation · Try it in the browser · Support on Patreon

What it does

Launching

• Opens every .toe in the TouchDesigner build it was saved with, and offers to install a build you're missing.
• TouchDesigner's own recents and the launcher's history in one gallery or list, with tags, per-project README notes and preview clips that play on hover.
• All versions of a project (numbered saves, Backup/ copies, crash autosaves) fold into one card with a versions drawer.
• Templates (startup files) on number-key shortcuts; double-click any .toe on your system and it routes through the launcher.

Running sessions

• Every running TouchDesigner, including ones you opened elsewhere: focus, save, update the thumbnail, record a preview video, relaunch or kill.
• A status dot on each session (running, not responding, ended); an ended session relaunches in one click.
• Heartbeat watchdog: relaunches a stalled show, with optional email alerts.
• Live CPU, RAM, fps and GPU readout per session, a switcher for every TouchDesigner window, and on Windows, binding a project to one GPU and its windows to the right displays.

Quick Launch

• One global hotkey opens a search box over everything: projects, sessions, components and commands, forgiving typos and ranking what you use most.
• Drag any .tox straight from it into a TouchDesigner network.

Components

• Your palette folders, plus a Toolbox of favourites from local files, URLs or GitHub releases, dragged in or placed into a running session in one click.
• The FNSTools catalog: browse, install into a project, and edit every tool's settings. Most tools are free; Plus tools come with a Patreon membership.
• The Patreon tab: posts from the creators you support, with their .tox / .toe files one drag away.
• Install a PyPI package into a project's Python environment in one click.

Projects

• Git panel: changes, diffs, commits, branches, push and pull.
• Back up a project to a USB drive, a synced folder, or Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Box. Backups never delete anything.

From anywhere

• A phone page over Wi-Fi to launch, focus, relaunch or kill sessions.
• The launcher's tabs inside TouchDesigner's own Palette Browser.
• Updates itself, checking once a day and never while a session is running.

Every feature in detail: the docs.

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Building from source

Tauri 2 (Rust) with a React + TypeScript front end. Setup, dev, build and release notes are in DEVELOPMENT.md. MIT licensed, see LICENSE.

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Report a bug or suggest a feature

Open an issue. Everything else — downloads, docs, release notes — lives on launcher.functionstore.tools.

Before reporting a bug:

1. Update first. Help ▾ → About & updates → Check for updates. The app updates itself.
2. Attach the log (drag the file into the issue):
   • macOS: ~/Library/Logs/xyz.functionstore.tdxlu/tdxlu.log
   • Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\xyz.functionstore.tdxlu\logs\tdxlu.log