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✈️XFast Manager — One App to Auto Install, Update, and Organize Everything in X-Plane

XFast Manager is a comprehensive tool for managing X-Plane addons, supporting auto-installation, updates, and organization across various platforms including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Users can effortlessly install addons by dragging and dropping files, with the application automatically detecting their type and placing them in the appropriate directory. It features a unified dashboard for managing installed content, performs updates seamlessly, and includes tools for scenery management and crash analysis, all while ensuring user privacy with no telemetry or account requirements.

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🛫 XFast Manager

The all-in-one installer, updater, and library manager for X-Plane. Free, open-source, Windows / macOS / Linux.

Installing an X-Plane addon shouldn't mean fifteen minutes with a file explorer. Drop a .zip, .7z, .rar, or even a raw folder into the window — XFast Manager identifies exactly what it is (aircraft, plugin, navdata, livery, Lua script, or scenery) and installs it to the right place. Then it gives you a single dashboard to manage, update, and clean up your entire X-Plane library.

🚫 No telemetry, no accounts, no paywall.

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📦 One-click installs from any archive

  • Drag and drop ZIP / 7z / RAR / folders — no manual extraction, no guessing target paths
  • Auto-detects aircraft, scenery, plugins, navdata, liveries, and Lua scripts, with nested-duplicate cleanup
  • 🔐 Password-protected archives handled natively (ZipCrypto, AES, 7z, RAR)
  • ⚛️ Atomic install with automatic rollback on failure
  • ⚡ Parallel installation and multi-threaded downloads for large addons
  • ✅ Post-install integrity verification (MD5 / SHA-1 / SHA-256 / CRC32)
  • 🖱️ Windows right-click "Install to X-Plane" shell integration

 

🎛️ Unified Management Dashboard

Everything installed, in one view — browse, search, enable/disable, delete, open folder:

  • 🛩️ Aircraft — livery thumbnails, per-variant ACF management, version detection, batch enable/disable
  • 🧩 Plugins — platform badges (Win / Mac / Lin / Multi), update checks, enable/disable
  • 🗺️ Navdata — AIRAC cycle status (current / outdated / unknown), one-click backup and restore, UFMC support
  • 🎨 Liveries — preview with zoom and pan, open folder, delete individual liveries
  • 📜 FlyWithLua scripts — enable/disable, lock, companion bundle detection

🔗 Lock states sync both ways with skunkcrafts_updater.cfg, so your external updater stays in agreement.

 

🔄 Updates, taken seriously

  • 🛠️ SkunkCrafts Updater integration — update any SkunkCrafts-enabled addon directly from the app, with a file-level add / replace / delete preview before you commit
  • 🛫 Built-in Zibo Updater — version-aware, torrent downloads for full packages, manual-download fallback for majors, and preserve options for liveries and config during major updates
  • ⚡ Parallel multi-threaded downloads, clear progress per file, install controls locked while updates run to prevent conflicts

 

🛬 X-Plane Gateway, inside the app

Full Gateway browser — search airports by ICAO or name, view submission history and detail, feature tags (3D, static aircraft, etc.), install official Gateway sceneries, check for updates, and uninstall. Each result tells you whether it's already in your current X-Plane release, flags conflicting non-Gateway airports with an ignore-and-continue option, and surfaces baseline scenery info (version / artist / date) when available.

 

👥 X-CSL and ALTITUDE multiplayer models

Dedicated page to scan, search, install, update, and uninstall CSL and ALTITUDE model packages, with custom-path support and a queued / cancellable install system.

 

📸 Screenshot Manager + built-in editor

Browse, filter, and sort every image and clip in Output/screenshots

  • 🎚️ Real-time preview editor: crop, rotate, exposure, contrast, saturation, color temperature, highlights / shadows, sharpness, denoise — running in a worker so the UI stays fluid
  • 🖼️ Set any screenshot as the X-Plane background image in one click
  • 📤 One-click share to Reddit

 

🔬 Log and crash analysis

  • 📄 Log.txt analyzer surfaces errors, warnings, and actionable guidance
  • 💥 Crash dump (.dmp) analyzer parses Windows crash dumps: exception info, stack, and loaded plugin modules — finally, a way to figure out which plugin actually crashed your sim

 

🗺️ Scenery tools

Full Scenery Manager with drag-and-drop reordering, category and region-based grouping, search, and lock

  • 🏔️ Airport Flatten Manager — toggle flatten per scenery source, remembered and re-applied automatically
  • 📚 Missing Library detector with in-app download links (and a form to contribute new ones)
  • ⚠️ DSF tile overlap and duplicate airport ID detection
  • Gateway-tag aware, XPME-aware conflict handling

 

✨ Extras that save you hours

  • 💾 Disk usage analyzer — see exactly what is eating your SSD, drill down by category and folder
  • 🎯 Configuration Presets — save entire workflows (aircraft + plugin + scenery + Lua + lock states), with import / export
  • 📝 Activity Log — every install, update, delete, enable/disable, and preset apply, recorded and searchable
  • ⌨️ Command palette + keyboard shortcuts for fast page switching
  • ▶️ Launch X-Plane from inside the app, with an "apply pending scenery changes first?" prompt
  • 📌 Always-on-top window pin for dual-monitor setups
  • 💬 In-app Feedback Center with issue tracking and comment replies

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🌍 11 Interface Languages

English, 简体中文, Español, Français, Deutsch, Русский, Português, 日本語, 한국어, العربية, हिन्दी

(Auto-detects your OS language, switchable anytime.)

 

💻 Platforms

  • 🪟 Windows 10 / 11 x64 — both portable and setup version
  • 🍎 macOS 10.15+ — Intel and Apple Silicon
  • 🐧 Linux x64 — AppImage, rpm, deb and native Arch Linux tar.gz

 

💚 Free and Open-Source

GPL-3.0. Source code, releases, and issue tracker on GitHub:

👉 XFast-Manager on Github

🐞 Bug reports and feature requests are very welcome — either in this thread, in the in-app Feedback Center, or via GitHub Issues.

 

Happy flying. ✈️

Changelog

  • v1.2.4 17. May 2026
    ## [1.2.4] - 2026-05-17

    ### Added

    - **Batch Delete in Management** - Aircraft and plugin lists can now delete selected items at once, with failed items left in place and reported clearly.
    - **Scenery Smart Groups** - The Scenery manager can group related SimHeaven, Ortho tile, airport, and product packages with one-click enable and disable controls.
    - **Scenery Custom Groups** - Scenery packages can now be grouped manually in batches or from the right-click menu, removed from a group, and matched automatically by folder-name prefix or text per X-Plane path.

    ### Changed

    - **Log Analysis Navigation** - Removed the first-time Log Analysis tip bubble from the top navigation.
    - **Scenery Toolbar** - Scenery batch and custom group controls now use compact icon buttons, with a cleaner custom group icon.
    - **Scenery Custom Groups** - The custom group editor dialog is now narrower and better balanced.
    - **Addon Update Queue** - Update tasks in the addon drawer can now be started independently, so one running update no longer blocks another update or fresh install.

    ### Fixed

    - **Scenery Update Status** - Scenery update checks, update badges, and `Update All` availability now stay reliable after switching away and back, with clearer feedback when a check fails.
    - **Log Analysis Crash Detection** - Logs that stop before X-Plane writes a normal shutdown line are now reported as crashes.
    - **Lua Script ZIP Installs** - Lua script packages now keep nearby resource folders/files with the script during install.
    - **Archive Install Guidance** - Multi-part ZIP, 7z, and RAR downloads are now recognized as one addon source, and archive failures now explain missing volumes, incomplete downloads, and 7-Zip requirements more clearly.
    - **Atomic Install Staging** - Atomic installs can now fall back to another staging location when the X-Plane root cannot create the temporary install folder.
    - **Locked Folder Deletion** - Delete failures now explain likely causes such as X-Plane, file managers, antivirus, or folder permissions, and retry after clearing read-only permissions.
    - **Moved or Deleted Items** - Opening an item whose folder no longer exists now refreshes the list and explains that the item may have moved or been deleted.
    - **Aircraft Variant Toggles** - Per-variant aircraft enable/disable controls now stay in sync after each click and no longer fail when the file state changes while the ACF manager is open.
    - **Airport Flatten Selection** - Airport search results now keep the selected airport open, refresh stale flatten indexes when needed, and show a clear retry action when sources cannot be loaded.
    - **Gateway and Addon Update Errors** - Temporary upstream failures now retry briefly and show a clear service-unavailable message instead of raw server errors.
    - **Scenery Group Display** - Smart, custom, and ungrouped Scenery groups now start collapsed while search still expands matches, and unmatched scenery stays inside Ungrouped.
  • v1.2.3 08. May 2026
    ## [1.2.3]

    IMPORTANT FOR USERS UPGRADING FROM 1.2.2

    If scenery sorting caused problems in the previous version, rebuild the scenery index before using Auto Sort again.

    Go to Settings, rebuild the scenery index, and then run Auto Sort again.

    ### Added

    - **Output Cleanup** - Added a new page to clean selected X-Plane Output caches and generated files without removing the top-level Output folders.

    - **CSL Path Sync** - CSL packages can now be synced across CSL paths with a dedicated progress window during sync.

    ### Changed

    - **Scenery Index Recovery** - Rebuild and reset flow is now clearer when the local scenery index becomes outdated or incompatible.

    - **Airport Flatten Workflow** - Airport Flatten Manager now makes it easier to compare default and custom apt.dat sources and re-apply saved flatten settings.

    - **Renderer Cache Cleanup** - Log Analysis now includes a one-click renderer cache cleanup action.

    - **Bundled Library Links** - Added more community-contributed download links for missing libraries.

    ### Fixed

    - **Scenery Sorting Reliability** - Fixed scenery index and sorting issues that could affect load order stability.

    - **Addon Install Path Handling** - Improved install and extraction reliability when target folders are missing or paths resolve unexpectedly.

    - **Management Path Validation** - Reduced false path-related failures in addon analysis and management actions.

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3370 17. May 2026
Good, but need some improvements.

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Version: 1.2.4
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