XiLauncher

Your tools should be easy to find when an idea arrives. XiLauncher is the free center planned for the XiKey Desktop family: a place to see apps, open the ones you use and review updates. Its ArtCraft Launcher foundation already handles upstream release discovery, package selection and installation. Connecting that engine to the XiKey catalog and signed update channel is still underway; this page does not announce a finished XiKey distribution service. Foundation, XiKey state.

Who it is for

XiLauncher is for people who use several creative or productivity apps and want one starting point. A compact table helps with maintenance; app cards make browsing more approachable. It manages applications, not the documents you create in them, and it is not yet a verified fleet deployment or licensing platform. Catalog and views.

Three ways to make it part of your day

Healthcare education: prepare a simulation-lab workstation

Before a training session, use the launcher concept to check which visual and document tools a lab workstation has installed. Review versions and open the needed applications. Keep this as an evaluation workflow on approved equipment; XiLauncher does not itself assess medical material or manage institutional deployment policy.

Heritage crafts: organize a weaving studio's shared computer

Give the studio a starting window for the illustration, photo and page tools used to document textile work. Choose the application first, then open the relevant project inside that application. The launcher does not provide a shared project library or synchronize the studio's files.

Community radio: get ready for a local broadcast workshop

Help participants locate installed audio, image and document tools before a workshop starts. Review the published notes for an upstream update, close an app before replacement, and open the tool needed for the next exercise. The launcher supplies app management rather than audio editing or scheduling.

These are proposed evaluation scenarios using the inspected upstream management engine, not claims of deployments already completed. Installed-app detection, launching.

From choosing an app to opening it

Discover. Browse the cards or table, filter installed tools and look at the installed and latest versions. Read release notes before choosing an update. Release-note display.

Install carefully. The upstream engine chooses an asset for the operating system and processor. It checks downloaded bytes against the published SHA-256 and refuses to replace a running app. A matching checksum detects a mismatched download; it does not establish XiKey publisher-signature verification. Package selection, download checks, installation guard.

Return to your work. Open an installed app from the launcher window or tray. Upstream can also update the launcher itself and restart it. The browser catalog only links to downloads; native installation needs the desktop app. Self-update, browser limits.

The XiKey™ experience being built

Arabic interface and the one-click EN ⇄ ع switch are in progress in XiLauncher. The shared Arabic-style font dialog and XiKey splash, About and message dialogs are also in progress. Signed XiKey updates are under development; retargeting the app catalog and feed remains unfinished.

XiKey Classic/Modern layouts, Retina scaling and sandboxed add-on management through XiLauncher are planned. Their inclusion in the roadmap is not a claim that an add-on store or signed update service is available today. These states come from the XiKey status and XiKey roadmap, read on 14 October 2026.

Free, and still Alpha

The XiKey store lists XiLauncher as free. Alpha access for other XiKey apps is free today; their subscriptions start from Beta under separate prices. The inspected upstream launcher is itself early Alpha, and XiKey distribution still needs integration and release verification. This audit ran no app, installer or update tests. Use the product availability information for an actual release before planning a rollout.

Source snapshot

ArtCraft Launcher 0.4.1, commit cbae640688c5fa3daa120a7f5e050f8e24148a47, checked 2026-10-14. Read: README, docs directory (screenshots and brand licence; no prose feature manual there), relevant core/native/UI source, packaging/web documentation and v0.4.1 release notes. Upstream platform minima and package options are in README downloads. XiKey packages and hardware minima are not validated by this audit. XiLauncher opens and saves no creative project formats.

XiLauncher is based on ArtCraft Launcher by the ArtCraft team (MIT OR Apache-2.0).

XiKey is a trademark of Pioneer Local Development Co. Ltd.