What's new in CouchMode

What's new

• Improved Xbox full-screen experience startup reliability on handheld PCs.
• Improved controller and handheld detection across different Windows devices.
• Improved Xbox full-screen session entry, focus, and desktop return reliability.
• Playnite now supports custom and portable installation locations more reliably.
• Improved update-check behaviour and clearer update messaging.
• Unified Xbox full-screen support checking in Settings.
• General reliability improvements.

What's new

• Upgrading to Pro is clearer: one obvious action to get Pro, and the options shown now match your account state.
• If you already have a membership, CouchMode offers to refresh it instead of asking you to connect again.
• Managing your membership is more complete. You can switch to a different account or release this PC at any time, and releasing a PC now asks for confirmation first.
• Signing in now finishes reliably even if you close the CouchMode window while it is still in progress.
• CouchMode now respects the Windows reduced-motion setting across the whole app.
• Fixed the Pro badge on the custom launcher option so it opens the upgrade prompt correctly.

What's new

• Steam Big Picture and Playnite Fullscreen are now available without Pro, alongside the Xbox full-screen experience.
• Custom launchers, Resource Control and Session Tweaks remain Pro features.
• Pre-existing Steam Big Picture sessions are preserved when the CouchMode session ends.
• More reliable Playnite handling: an already-open Playnite is recognised, including a minimized window, adopted instead of starting a second copy, and preserved when the CouchMode session ends.
• More reliable custom launchers: better focus handling, clearer process ownership and cleaner shutdown.
• Custom launchers now start in their own folder, so launchers that expect to run from their install directory work correctly.
• A launcher counts as ready only when one of its real windows is in front, so the controller can actually drive it.
• Improved Xbox full-screen detection across desktop PCs and Windows handhelds.
• Fixed cases where supported devices could appear unsupported or ask to be verified repeatedly.
• More accurate built-in and external controller detection, based on how a controller is connected rather than who made it.
• Clearer messaging when Windows does not present a controller as an Xbox (XInput) controller.
• More reliable Resource Control: better detection of the apps you selected, more dependable closing and reopening, and more accurate reporting of what was actually closed.
• More reliable Launch on Enter, Close on Exit, Launch on Exit and Display on Exit.
• Safer return to your desktop when a session ends.
• Improved diagnostics and problem reporting.
• General update and session reliability improvements.

What's new

• Improved Xbox full-screen detection across desktop PCs and Windows handhelds.
• Fixed cases where supported devices could incorrectly appear as unsupported or require repeated verification.
• Improved reliability when entering, leaving, and returning from Xbox full-screen sessions.
• Improved detection of built-in and external controllers, including external controllers that could be treated as integrated handheld controllers.
• Improved desktop restoration after a gaming session; CouchMode now avoids unnecessarily changing windows that are already accessible.
• Improved diagnostic information available with bug reports.
• Improved update-state handling and general reliability.

What's new

• Fixed an issue that could prevent Exit from responding from the tray menu.
• Improved the reliability of keeping open applications running and accessible after leaving Xbox mode.
• Improved safe recovery for windows that could otherwise remain off-screen or unusable.
• Improved built-in and external controller detection on handheld devices.
• Improved desktop-return verification and overall session stability.
• General reliability improvements.

What's new

• Steam Big Picture, Playnite fullscreen and a custom app of your choice are sessions CouchMode owns: they close reliably when the controller disconnects, and the desktop comes back.
• The return to the desktop is verified on every exit, not assumed.
• Optional Resource Control closes the apps you selected for the session and reopens them afterwards. It works from a list frozen before the session starts, so nothing you open later is ever touched.
• General reliability improvements for Pro access, membership checks, and startup licensing.
• Pricing, the 7-day trial, offline grace, tiers and device limits are unchanged.

What's new

• Report a problem can send user-approved reports.
• Update check added.
• Xbox full-screen unavailable state is calmer and persistent.
• Installer and app identity use CouchMode branding.