Tools
Tools, in the sidebar, shows the tools that make or edit Swofty addons. Each tool has a large card with a picture, its name, who made it, what it does and a button.
The cards sit in one row. Scroll it sideways with the mouse wheel or a trackpad, or use the arrows at the top right. The row stops with a card lined up at its edge. The dots beside the arrows show which card you're on, and clicking a dot moves to that card.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Get | Opens the tool's download page in your browser |
| Open | Opens the tool: a launcher page, or a program that ships with the launcher |
| Turn on | Turns the tool's addon on in the active profile, when it's installed but off |
A link under the description, such as Team Simplified, opens the maker's page in your browser.
The tools
| Tool | Made by | What it does | Get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplified Suite | Team Simplified | Open-source modding tools for F1 25: Simplified Studio makes . mods, and the suite adds the SERPs Launcher, a track installer, swappers, editors and a database merger. The Simplified Importer turns mods made with them into Swofty addons. | GitHub |
| EGO GameDatabases Editor | PavelGames | A standalone editor for the F1 games' databases: drivers, teams, line-ups, tracks, the calendar, points and weather, and a key editor for any value. | Overtake |
The EGO GameDatabases Editor picture is PavelGames' screenshot from its Overtake page.
Adding a tool
The list is apps/launcher/assets/tools.json in the launcher's repository. Pictures are files in apps/launcher/assets/tools/, and the launcher embeds every file in that folder. A picture is a PNG, JPEG or WebP file, shown at 16:9 and cropped to fill the card. Replacing a picture's file with another image of the same name changes the card's picture.
Each entry has:
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
name | The tool's name |
maker | Who made it |
about | Two to four sentences on what it does |
image | Optional. The picture's file name in apps/launcher/assets/tools/ |
credit | Optional. A short credit shown on the picture, such as Screenshot: PavelGames |
icon | Optional. The icon shown when there's no picture: one of database, folder-input, app-window, user-pen, users, package, table, map, palette, code |
open | Optional. page:database, page:importer or page:addons opens that page; addon:<id> opens the addon's first page; program:<name> starts bin/<name> |
get | Optional. The download URL, used when open can't open anything |
more | Optional. A link to the maker, as { "label": …, "url": … } |