hanami

A game launcher for Linux and Windows. It runs in the system tray and opens a small panel that lists your installed games.

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AppImage and installer · other downloads (tar.gz, zip) · free and open source (GPL-3.0)

hanami 6 games
  • Hadesepic
  • Celestesteam
  • Dead Cellssteam
  • Hollow Knightgog
  • OpenTTDport
  • Stardew Valleysteam

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How it works

Press Ctrl+Alt+H and the panel opens over whatever you're doing. Two letters find a game, Tab pins, renames or hides it, and Enter starts it. The ? button copies a guide your AI can read, so it can answer questions about Hanami.

Features

Finds your games
Steam, Heroic, Lutris and the app menu on Linux; Steam, Epic, GOG and Heroic on Windows; Minecraft instances in Prism Launcher on both. Each with its own icon.
Ports and rewrites
Spots ports, recomps and rewrites like Ship of Harkinian, Zelda 64: Recompiled and OpenMW, and Rust games you built yourself. It asks before adding them.
Nothing hidden
Open source, with no ads, accounts or tracking. It only goes online to GitHub, to check for a new version. Every download is built by GitHub straight from the public code, with a signed record you can check.
Your own look
Change the colours and what falls behind the list: petals, maple leaves, snow or any picture. Ask your AI to make it autumn and it can write the whole look.
AI help prompt
The ? button copies a prompt containing the full documentation, for AI assistants that can read your computer to answer questions about Hanami.
Always there
Waits quietly in the tray, can start with your computer, and opens the panel straight over the game or desktop you're on.
Keyboard or controller
Ctrl+Alt+H opens the panel and typing finds a game, even with a typo. On a controller, hold Start and Select.
Your list, your way
Pin favourites to the top, rename or hide any game, add one with +. The games you play most come first.
Light
About 35 MB of memory and no CPU use while hidden.

Any AI

Six AI coding agents, each on a different model, change one thing each about the same Hanami: Crush, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, jcode, Codex and Claude Code. Then the panel opens with all of it, and Minecraft starts. The agents and models ran for real; their work is sped up.

Start

  1. Linux: download the AppImage, mark it executable and run it, or run hanami from the tar.gz. Windows: run the installer, which needs no admin rights, or unzip the portable zip and run hanami.exe.
  2. Hanami's icon appears in the system tray. It tells you there when a new version is out.
  3. Press Ctrl+Alt+H or click the icon to open the panel. Settings are described in the guide.