FAQs
This does some powerful stuff, how do I know I won’t get in trouble for using it?
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VRConsole enforces highly conservative and sometimes paranoid restrictions on itself to avoid even the possibility of running afoul of any limitations that VRC imposes. It actively makes decisions on your behalf to protect you from yourself, by making it impossible to spam people or requests. It does as much as it can on your local computer and keeps everything that it stores encrypted with industry standard encryption.
VRConsole does not use any “bots”. It just reads the real-time info that VRC already saves in it’s debug logs. If you use VRCX, yeah, like that.
How can I trust this? I mean I’m logging into everything with it, right?
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VRConsole uses and respect VRC’s Two-factor authentication, and uses OAuth2 for everything else. This means we never actually have the passwords, everything is handled with the services you use and they just report back a unique one-time identifier (token) that auto-expires after a short time. Even these one-time identifiers are encrypted just to be extra safe.
Why does it say “Windows protected your PC” when I start it?
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As of February 4, 2026, we are actively applying for the digital certificates needed to make Microsoft happy. You are in no danger, it’s just a developer “reputation score” and since we just launched, we need to get that certificate to start building our reputation/score.
These digital certificates take time to apply for since they cost $300+ and require our LLC governmental business filings. Everything is already filed, we’re just waiting for the certificates to be issued. … Any day now.
Is this free? How to I pay? Do you get my credit card?
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VRConsole is a free third-party companion application for VRChat that has no affiliation with or endorsement by VRChat Inc.
If you’d like to support its development, you can do so via Patreon. Every bit helps cover things like testing tools, hosting, and time.
As a thank-you, active patrons (even at the free tier) occasionally get early preview builds during development.
Public builds are released regularly and include all features.
Stable releases are published publicly every 60 days. No features are gated or sold.
You say “Industry Standard Encryption” what does that actually mean?
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Going to lay out the nerdy technical details, just so we’re clear…
VRConsole uses the ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption algorithm which is as strong or stronger than the encryption used by banks and the military.
It also uses PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2) with a motherboard locked “Nonce” incorporating a salted hashing system to prevent the encrypted files from leaving your computer or high-speed GPU acceleration from working in any meaningful amount of time.
Why do we say what we use out in the open? - Because when it’s actually secure, you don’t need to hide it.