VortexQ8Q8Booster

Every feature, in detail

The complete list, written the way the app describes it. Pro features are marked, and the split matches the licence code exactly. Anything not built yet says so.

Safe Boost & Games

A boost is one transaction: applied together, journaled together, undone together.

The Safe Boost preview listing each setting it will change, with its current and new value

Game library

Free

Reads Steam's and Epic's own install records, plus any folder you add. No browsing for executables.

Boost & Play

Free

One button launches the game and its boost. Each game can keep its own boost profile.

Power plan and Game Mode

Free

Switched for the session and put back afterwards. The current values are recorded first.

Background app review

Free

Lists what's running and closes only what you tick. Protected system processes are never offered.

Playtime

Free

Counted locally for every game, including ones no launcher tracks.

Graphics chip per game

Free

Pin a game to the high-performance or power-saving GPU, written where Windows keeps it so the Windows Graphics page shows it too. Laptops also get a hint when a game runs on the integrated chip.

Auto Safe Boost

Pro

Starts the boost when a game from your library starts, and ends it when the game closes.

Tuning Advisor

Pro

Suggestions for your settings based on your hardware, shown as suggestions you can take or leave.

Dashboard & Performance

What your PC is doing right now, and the settings that shape how games feel.

The Displays card showing two screens, which one is primary, and an HDR switch for each

Health verdict

Free

Runs the read-only health check on first open and lists findings worst first, each with the reading behind it.

PC diorama

Free

An isometric view of your PC where each part lights up only while it's actually being checked.

Live readings

Free

CPU, memory, disk and network, plus Windows boot time compared with what's usual for this PC.

Every screen

Free

Refresh rate, HDR and which screen is primary, for each monitor. A refresh-rate change reverts on its own unless you confirm, so a bad mode can't strand you.

Stutter Doctor

Free

Press Mark when you feel a hitch, and see what the CPU and memory were doing at that moment.

Graphics, page file and displays

Free

The settings Windows scatters across several pages, gathered together, with live sensors where the hardware reports them.

In-game frame-time capture

Coming

1% lows and frame-time distribution captured from the game itself.

Windows Toolkit

Sixteen sections. Every action previews its exact effect and is journaled before it runs.

The Windows Toolkit with its sixteen sections, from Health and Repair to Quick Toggles

Quick Toggles

Free

18 reversible Windows settings: taskbar, Start, file extensions, dark mode, Game Bar and more. Plus the classic right-click menu.

Repair

Free

Flush DNS, restart Explorer, rebuild the icon cache, clear the print queue, run DISM and SFC, or restart into BIOS.

Cleanup

Free

Scans without deleting, asks per category, and quarantines for 7 days so anything can come back.

Browsers

Free

Per-profile cleanup for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera and Firefox.

Health, Watch and Reliability

Free

The health check on demand or on a timer you opt into, plus Windows' own reliability history in plain words.

Startup and PC Boost

Free

Startup apps toggled the same way Task Manager does it, and a quick clear-out that reports the space actually freed.

Privacy, Mouse & Keyboard

Free

Nine privacy switches and nine input settings, each one reversible.

Storage and Drives

Free + Pro

Where your space went and the largest files. Formatting is handed to Windows itself.

The duplicate finder is Pro

Uninstall

Free + Pro

Runs the vendor's uninstaller first, then finds what it left behind and backs up registry entries to a .reg file before removing them.

Leftover and registry clean-up is Pro

App Updates

Free + Pro

Updates through winget, showing your version and the new one first. Refuses while a game is running.

Scheduled updates are Pro

Restore Center

The reason the rest of the app is safe to use. Free in full, permanently.

Restore Center with Restore everything and Windows restore points

Change journal

Free

Every change the app has made, what it was before, and when.

Exact restore

Free

Puts a value back to what it was, not to a default, including the difference between “empty” and “not present”.

Crash recovery

Free

An interrupted change is found on the next launch and put back before anything else happens.

Quarantine and registry backups

Free

Everything Cleanup moved aside and every .reg backup, restorable one by one.

System restore points

Free

Offered before deeper changes, using Windows' own mechanism.

Network

Measurement, not a speedometer. Every figure is a real round trip made from your PC.

Connection quality measured to three public servers, with latency, jitter and replies

Connection quality

Free

Latency and jitter to public resolvers, with how many replies actually came back.

Where the delay starts

Free

Separates your router from your ISP, so you know who to call.

Closest server region

Free

A real handshake to each of 9 regions, the answer to your game's server picker.

DNS Optimizer

Free

Compares 5 resolvers and switches with one reversible click. Includes an MTU tuner.

Adapter details

Free

IPv4, IPv6 with a verdict, DNS, MTU, VPN and wired-link checks, in plain language.

Loaded latency

Pro

What your ping does while the line is busy. The bufferbloat test that explains lag spikes a plain ping never shows.

Live speed monitor

Pro

Sustained throughput over time instead of one burst number.

Security & Privacy

Reading the machine and never weakening it.

Windows Security status for the antivirus, firewall and automatic updates

Windows Security status

Free

Defender, Firewall and Windows Update, reported plainly.

Hardening read-outs

Free

Secure Boot, TPM, VBS, memory integrity, Credential Guard, LSA protection, drive encryption and Remote Desktop.

Protection switches

Free

Opens the right Windows setting for you. The app itself never flips a protection.

Privacy Shield

Free

Privacy settings in one place, plus a watch on your default browser.

While you play

Two things that stay with you during a game.

Live Arabic subtitles

Early access

English speech turned into Arabic on a see-through band over the game. Recognition and translation run on your CPU, and the speech models download on first use.

Screen capture

Free

Draw a box anywhere to save or copy it.

Read my screen

Pro

Read or translate the text inside any part of the screen.

Prayer times

Free

Calculated on your PC for your location and method, and still shown over fullscreen games.

Qibla and Hijri date

Free

Qibla from the sun, no compass needed, and the Hijri date shown as calculated.

Hadith, dhikr and tasbih

Free

Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim only, each with narrator and number, plus a tasbih counter.

Apps & the app itself

Your software, and how Q8Booster behaves.

Apps library

Free

123 programs installed through winget with real icons, including drivers and vendor tools, game runtimes, antivirus and AI apps, plus 18 web tools.

App Usage

Free + Pro

Off until you turn it on, stored only on your PC, with a weekly view and top apps.

History across sessions is Pro

Arabic and English

Free

The whole interface, including Help, errors and full right-to-left layout.

Command palette

Free

Ctrl+K jumps anywhere in the app. Settings are searchable.

Offline Help

Free

The full manual inside the app in both languages. Press F1. Includes an “Ask for a change” box.

Move to another PC

Free

Exports language, appearance, game profiles and preferences. Deliberately not the licence or the undo history.

Six things it will never do

Change anything on its own

No background schedule and no side effect of opening a page. A change happens when you press the button that describes it.

Touch a game

No injection, no hooks, no kernel driver, no reading a game's memory or files.

Weaken Windows security

Defender, UAC, SmartScreen and the firewall are reported on, never switched off.

Delete without a way back

Cleanup quarantines, registry residue is exported first, and the journal keeps every original value.

Send your data anywhere

Local by default. The licence check carries a key and an anonymous device hash. Telemetry is opt-in and off.

Show a number it didn't measure

No score out of 100, no invented percentage gains, no progress bar pretending to work.

System requirements

Windows
Windows 10 22H2, or Windows 11 23H2 and later. 64-bit.
Download
About 7 MB. Installs for your user account, with no administrator prompt.
Permissions
Actions that truly need admin rights ask at that moment, and say why.
Internet
Once, to activate Pro. Never needed for the free features or while you play.
Graphics
Any GPU that runs Windows. Visual effects can be turned down or off in Settings.

Ready when you are

Install it free. Nothing changes on your PC until you press a button.