Anatawa12 is an independent open-source developer focused on streamlining the VRChat content creation workflow through lightweight, cross-platform tooling. The publisher’s two utilities—ALCOM and vrc-get—act as complementary gateways to the VRChat Package Manager ecosystem, giving creators faster, scriptable control over avatar and world projects without the overhead of the official VRChat Creator Companion. ALCOM presents a minimal, open-source GUI that replicates the core functions of the official companion while starting instantly, updating packages in the background, and running natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux. vrc-get, its command-line sibling, enables power-users and build servers to automate dependency resolution, template installation, and project migration with a single executable that can be dropped into any CI pipeline. Together the tools serve indie avatar artists, world teams, and commercial studios that need repeatable, offline-capable package management for Unity-based VRChat content. Typical use cases range from rapidly switching Unity versions across multiple side projects to batch-updating dozens of private packages during game-jam weekends. Both utilities stay in lock-step with the official VRChat Package Manager schema, ensuring compatibility with community repositories, curated templates, and self-hosted Git packages while remaining entirely free of telemetry. Anatawa12’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always install the latest upstream builds, and can be queued for batch installation alongside other applications.

ALCOM

A crossplatform fast open-source alternative of VRChat Creator Companion

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vrc-get

Fast Open Source command line client of VRChat Package Manager.

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