Community:Manage VRChat
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Manage VRChat encompasses the tasks involved in organizing and controlling a user's VRChat experience, including avatars, worlds, groups, social connections, inventory, and account settings. These tasks can be performed through VRChat's in-game menus, the VRChat website, or third-party applications that interact with VRChat through the VRChat API.
Account
Main articles: VRChat Account, Account Linking, VRC+
A VRChat account provides access to the VRChat website, the VRChat SDK, and other VRChat services. Users who originally signed up through a platform such as Steam or Meta can link their platform account to a full VRChat account to unlock additional features. An active VRC+ subscription expands storage limits for avatar favorites, world favorites, and inventory items.
Avatars
Main articles: Avatars, Public Avatars, Avatar Marketplace
Users can manage their avatar collection by favoriting avatars they encounter, cloning avatars from other users (if cloning is enabled), or browsing public avatars in the Shop. Additional avatars can be purchased through the Avatar Marketplace. Users with the required trust rank can upload custom avatars using the VRChat SDK.
Worlds
Main articles: Worlds, Instances, Community Labs
VRChat provides several tools for organizing worlds. Users can set a home world, maintain favorite world lists, and browse world categories or search for specific worlds. Creators can upload worlds using the VRChat SDK, which first appear in Community Labs before becoming fully public. Each world can have multiple instances with different access types and regions.
Groups
Main article: Groups
Groups allow users to form and organize communities within VRChat. Members can join up to 100 groups (or 200 with VRC+), represent a group on their nameplate and profile, and participate in group instances and events. Group owners can configure roles, permissions, and membership visibility.
Social
Main articles: Social, Trust Rank, Reporting
VRChat's social features include a friends list, friend favorites, user profiles, statuses, invites, and friend notes. Users can manage who they interact with through blocking, muting, and reporting. The Trust Rank system determines what level of content a user can see by default from other users.
Inventory
Main articles: Inventory, Emojis, Stickers, Items
The Inventory system allows users to manage photos, prints, user icons, emojis, stickers, and items. Some inventory features, such as custom user icons and the photo gallery, require an active VRC+ subscription. Users can upload custom emojis and use stickers and items during gameplay.
VRChat website
Main article: Resources
Many management tasks can also be performed outside of the VRChat client through the VRChat website. The website provides access to friends, worlds, avatars, groups, and profile settings. It also serves as the primary interface for account management, including password resets and two-factor authentication.
Third-party tools
In addition to VRChat's built-in tools, third-party applications provide alternative interfaces for managing VRChat through the VRChat API. These tools often extend built-in features with additions such as unlimited local favorites, activity logging, and desktop notifications.
Feature comparison
| Feature | VRChat | VRCX | VRCNext |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends and social | |||
| View friends list | Yes | Yes, + fuzzy search, instance grouping | Yes |
| Add or remove friends | Yes | Yes, + bulk unfriend | Yes |
| Favorite friends | Yes (3 lists) | Yes, + unlimited local favorites | Yes |
| Friend notes | Yes (up to 5,000) | Yes, + unlimited local memos, custom color tags | Yes |
| Block or mute users | Yes | Yes | Yes, + blocked/muted list view |
| Friend activity log | No | Yes (status, avatar, location, bio, name changes) | Yes (online/offline, status, bio) |
| Time spent tracking | No | Yes (time together, friendship dates, activity heatmap, avatar wear time) | Yes (time with users, time in worlds) |
| Mutual friends | Yes | Yes, + interactive graph visualization | Yes |
| Messenger | No | No | Yes (via invite/response messages; rate-limited) |
| Multi-invite to instance | No | Yes (searchable dialog, shows who is already present) | Yes (with progress bar; rate-limited) |
| Worlds and instances | |||
| Search for worlds | Yes | Yes, + paste IDs or URLs | Yes |
| View world details | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Create instances | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Create group instances | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Favorite worlds | Yes (4 lists / 8 with VRC+) | Yes, + unlimited local favorites | Yes, + move between groups |
| View active instances | Yes | Yes, + instance activity chart | Yes |
| Avatars | |||
| Change avatar | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Search avatars | Yes | Yes, + configurable external avatar databases | Yes, + avtrdb.com, Rose Database |
| Favorite avatars | Yes (1 list / 6 with VRC+) | Yes, + unlimited local favorites | Yes |
| Upload avatar/world images | No | Yes (with automatic resizing) | No |
| Edit avatar/world details | No | Yes (name, description, tags; bulk content tag editor) | No |
| Groups | |||
| View and manage groups | Yes | Yes, + CSV export | Yes |
| Create group posts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| View group gallery | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Group favorites export/import | No | Yes | No |
| Profile | |||
| Edit status and bio | Yes | Yes, + saved status presets | Yes |
| Change profile picture | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Edit social links | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Notifications | |||
| Friend requests | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instance invites | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Real-time notifications | In-game only | Yes, + desktop toasts, VR overlay | Yes, + toast cards, inline accept/deny |
| Media and photos | |||
| View VRChat photos | Yes | Yes, + world metadata search | Yes, + sorted by date, infinite scroll, filters |
| Photo world metadata | In-game only | Yes, + metadata search | Yes (requires VRCCam metadata) |
| Discord webhook relay | No | No | Yes (up to 4 webhooks; custom bot name/avatar) |
| Integration and utilities | |||
| Discord Rich Presence | In-game only | Yes, + world thumbnail, player count, join button | No |
| VR overlay | N/A | Yes (HMD + wrist overlay; live notification feed) | Yes (friends tab with quick invite; world location tab) |
| Auto-launch companion apps | No | Yes | Yes |
| Chatbox relay (now playing, stats) | No | No | Yes (Spotify/iTunes, AFK, CPU/RAM, time, session duration; live preview) |
| OSC parameter control | In-game only | No | Yes, + auto-detect parameters |
| World persistence | Yes | Partial (being deprecated in favor of VRChat's native implementation) | No |
| Crash recovery and auto-rejoin | No | Yes | No |
| Events calendar | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VRCVideoCacher integration | No | No | Yes (install, update, start/stop from app) |
| Platform availability | |||
| Windows | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes (in-game via Steam/Proton) | Yes (Electron AppImage) | Partial (early build; porting in progress) |
| macOS | Website only | Yes (Electron; Homebrew available) | No |
| Android / iOS | Yes | No | No |
