A good addon manager replacement for Twitch for those who are going "ehh..." about Overwolf

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tl;dr: wowup

https://github.com/WowUp/WowUp/releases/tag/v1.19.1

My criteria were that it should be

  1. maintained
  2. Windows-based
  3. have a graphical interface
  4. work on retail wow
  5. support curseforge (at least)
  6. allow us to search for addons (at least by name)

ngl I used this excellent site below to get a list of addon managers I was interested in trying out

https://ogri-la.github.io/wow-addon-managers/

I downloaded and tried out classicwowmanager and instawow and I decided not to use them - classicwowmanager didn’t pick up my addons (I host my wow addons directory on Dropbox with NTFS junctions for easier sync between gaming PCs so maybe it’s that) and instawow just didn’t show up a graphical interface when I double clicked on it (I am comfortable with the console since I am an elder nerd but dagnabbit I am playing wow on my Windows PCs and I just want to double click and be done with it).

So the winner so far seems to be wowup which installed without a fuss, didn’t need or bundle Java (thank the Gods), detected my addons and was fairly well polished for an open source app.

https://github.com/WowUp/WowUp/releases <-- for all the releases.

They’re working on version 2 and it looks good but like I said, I’m an elder nerd so I don’t care to beta test stuff while the stable version works just fine. I picked up the wowui zip at

https://github.com/WowUp/WowUp/releases/tag/v1.19.1

Again, your mileage may vary but this is just what suits me and worked for me. Many thanks Jliddev.

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I have never trusted addon managers, so I have never used them.

It takes me less than 1 minute to install an addon. It’s super-easy.

  1. Find the addon’s page at curseforge. Click download.
  2. Right-clock the downloaded file and pick Extract to extract.
    Click the “Show extracted files” button on the grey popup.
  3. Copy the sub-folder from the new folder to the WoW addons folder.
    You’re done! It only took a few seconds.

Then again, I’m an experienced computer person. It may be tricky for other people (who are better than me at, say, playing WoW).

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Isn’t WoWUp going to be shutout by Overwolf soon and won’t be able to function as well?

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Overwolf decided to hold back from acting upon that threat. WoWup can continue doing what it does for the time being.

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if you believe they wont CSRF eventually then theres a bridge nearby id like to sell you

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thanks for the directional feedback! i saved this thread for future use ! As i have no clue how to install these things on my own

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and with an addon manager, you don’t have to worry about finding out when updates are released.

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Anyone can download a file and drop it in a folder, its not why addon managers exists.

Its to be notified when said addons recieve updates and apply them more easily without redoing the process above for each of them.

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I keep seeing people say that Overwolf would take on WowUp.

What grounds does Overwolf have to take attack a competing add-on manager?

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I like https://www.getajour.com/

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They woiuldn’t need to take on anyone, just disable their api that all the addon managers use to pull from them

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How about they just get a clue that a tool that’s monetized as aggressively and is as stable as a free “adult” website from the mid 2000s isn’t very user friendly and redo their homeworks.

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Would never recommend using Overwolf for anything.

I will continue to use WowUp until it is no longer available.

Then, will either go back to doing it manually or find a new tool.

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as far as I know, there’s no external API, just scraping going on, right?