Free, open source desktop app that notifies you when Steam sales start, when free games drop on Epic/Steam/GOG, and when games on your Steam wishlist go on sale.
Optional store sign-in enables wishlist alerts. No API keys or telemetry; DealDrop runs in your system tray.
| Wishlist | Hot deals | Settings |
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- Steam sale alerts — notified the moment a major seasonal sale goes live, plus a heads-up the day before it starts
- Free game alerts — Epic, Steam and GOG giveaways, de-duplicated across sources; mark the ones you've claimed (dimmed, sorted last, left out of the count)
- Coming next on Epic — the next free Epic games and the date they turn free
- Free DLC & loot (optional) — in-game items and DLC giveaways from GamerPower, off by default; never notified or counted
- Steam free-to-keep games — includes qualifying DLC, clearly tagged as DLC
- Free weekend alerts — Steam free-to-play weekends
- Store sales — current discounts from Steam, GOG and Epic Games, browsable per store
- Search everything — Ctrl+K (⌘K on macOS) finds a game across free games, store sales, hot deals and wishlist and jumps to it
- Search and sort — find deals, store sales and wishlist games by title, discount or price; discount chips and wishlist sale-only filters narrow results
- Remembered list choices — last page, sort order and discount toggles stay on this computer; search text is cleared when the app closes
- Wishlists from Steam, GOG and Epic — sign in once for alerts when games drop 20% or more (you choose the discount); the empty Wishlist page offers sign-in buttons when no store is connected; long wishlists show 100 games at a time
- Hot deals — top discounts across 30+ stores (via CheapShark, no key needed) with their Steam rating, filterable by store, sortable by rating, with an optional alert above a discount you choose
- "Lowest ever" badge — hot deals and wishlist games at their all-time low price (CheapShark; USD prices only)
- "New" tags — hot deals, store sales and wishlist sales you haven't seen yet are tagged New, with a dot on the sidebar item
- Hide games — hide a title from hot deals, store sales or free games; it also drops out of notifications (hidden wishlist games stay listed but send no alerts); unhide in Settings
- Wishlist price targets — set "tell me at or below $X" on a wishlist game for one alert when it (or a cheaper store) gets there (USD prices)
- Wishlist links go to the cheapest store — like deals.gg, a wishlist game that is cheaper elsewhere shows the best offer and opens it
- Themes — 6 built-in themes (Midnight, Lavender, Spooktober, Forest, Graphite, Daylight), optional rounded window corners, plus a seasonal theme with falling leaves / snow / petals / lanterns that unlocks and switches on automatically while each Steam sale is live (your own pick is remembered)
- Your accounts in the sidebar — avatar (or store logo), store tag, click to open your profile; a red "Something went wrong" box with a Copy error button appears only when a source fails
- Open in your launcher — Steam and Epic, plus GOG Galaxy for GOG games; choose a preference in Settings
- Sales calendar — Steam seasonal sales with countdown; click one to open it in Steam
- System tray — minimizes to tray, polls in the background on your chosen interval; the tray menu jumps to Free now or Wishlist with their counts; optionally starts when you log in, hidden in the tray
- Welcome guide and keyboard shortcuts — quick setup on first run, with shortcuts for common actions (J / K to move between items in lists)
- Accessible updates and loading — live result/refresh feedback and lightweight loading skeletons while the first snapshot arrives
- Keyboard-friendly cards — press Enter on a free game, store sale or hot deal to open its store page; launcher and browser buttons remain available
- Responsive layouts — card grids fill wide windows while keeping rows and text at a readable width
- Bundled fonts — DM Sans and DM Mono load locally, with no third-party font requests
- Safe settings — an unreadable
config.jsonis kept aside asconfig.bad.jsoninstead of being overwritten - Native Rust backend (Tauri) — small download, low memory
- Updates itself on Linux: when a new release is out, the sidebar shows Update to vX.Y.Z; one click installs it and restarts (Windows/macOS: opens the download page). Settings → About → Check for updates checks right away
Every release ships all three builds. Download the file for your OS from Releases: Linux Flatpak, Windows .msi, or universal macOS .dmg (Intel and Apple Silicon).
Run DealDrop_*.msi. Windows SmartScreen may warn because the build is unsigned — More info → Run anyway.
Open DealDrop_*.dmg and drag DealDrop to Applications. Unsigned build: on first launch right-click → Open, or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/DealDrop.app.
Download the latest DealDrop_*_x86_64.flatpak from Releases, then open it with your software center (Discover, GNOME Software) or run:
flatpak install --user DealDrop_*_x86_64.flatpak
flatpak run com.dealdrop.desktopIt needs Flatpak with the Flathub remote (the GNOME runtime is fetched from there on first install). After that DealDrop updates itself: click Update to vX.Y.Z in the sidebar when it appears.
Coming from the AppImage (v0.9.2 and older)? Install the Flatpak and delete the AppImage: settings, sign-ins and "Start when I log in" carry over (the Flatpak uses the same ~/.config/dealdrop/). The AppImage gets no more updates.
The Flatpak is allowed to talk to the host's Flatpak (org.freedesktop.Flatpak) so it can install its own updates and see which game launchers you have; it can only read and write ~/.config/dealdrop, ~/.local/share/com.dealdrop.desktop and ~/.config/autostart.
Requires Rust, webkit2gtk-4.1/GTK dev packages (Linux only), and cargo install tauri-cli --version "^2".
git clone https://github.com/SusieeTheLinuxUser/dealdrop
cd dealdrop/src-tauri
cargo tauri dev # run in dev mode
../scripts/release-linux.sh # Linux Flatpak bundle (NO_UPLOAD=1 to only build it)
cargo tauri build # Windows MSI or macOS DMG on that OSRun ./target/release/dealdrop --tui for the read-only terminal view of free games, hot deals, and store sales. It needs an interactive terminal; Windows release builds have no console, so use a debug build there.
Run the dependency-free renderer helper self-check from the repo root with node tools/preview/selfcheck.mjs.
DealDrop is designed so no secrets ever live in the source code.
- Sign-in tokens are stored locally in the OS config dir (
~/.config/dealdrop/config.jsonon Linux), never in the repo - Steam login uses OpenID — DealDrop never sees your password, only your public Steam ID
- External API calls run in the Rust/Tauri backend; the renderer does not call external APIs
- No telemetry or analytics; network requests go to Steam, GOG, Epic, GamerPower and CheapShark
- Full details in SECURITY.md
APIs DealDrop talks to:
| Endpoint | Purpose | Auth |
|---|---|---|
store.steampowered.com/api/featured, /featuredcategories |
Free Steam games, sale & free-weekend detection | None |
store.steampowered.com/search/results?specials=1 |
Steam sales list | None |
api.steampowered.com/IWishlistService/GetWishlist |
Steam wishlist (app ids) | None (profile must be public) |
api.steampowered.com/IStoreBrowseService/GetItems |
Names & prices for many apps in one request | None |
steamcommunity.com/profiles/<id>?xml=1 |
Profile name & avatar | None |
steamcommunity.com/openid/login, /profiles/{id}/?xml=1 |
Steam sign-in, profile fallback, privacy check | Entered on Steam's own page |
catalog.gog.com/v1/catalog |
GOG sales | None |
auth.gog.com, embed.gog.com/user/wishlist.json, api.gog.com/products |
GOG sign-in, wishlist, prices | Entered on GOG's own page |
store-site-backend-static.ak.epicgames.com/freeGamesPromotions |
Free Epic games | None |
store.epicgames.com/graphql |
Epic sales | None |
account-public-service-prod03.ol.epicgames.com, launcher.store.epicgames.com/graphql |
Epic sign-in & wishlist | Entered on Epic's own page |
www.gamerpower.com/api/giveaways |
PC giveaway aggregation | None |
www.cheapshark.com/api/1.0 |
Hot deals, cheapest store for a wishlist game | None |
None needed — everything works without any key. Sign in to Steam, GOG and Epic from the sidebar; your name and avatar (Steam, GOG) show up there.
- Steam — click Sign in next to Steam, log in on Steam's page, and set your wishlist to Public in Steam → Privacy Settings.
- GOG / Epic Games — click Sign in next to the store and log in on its own page. The wishlist then appears in the same tab, filterable per store.
GOG and Epic wishlist sync use the launchers' public OAuth flows. If a store changes its API the wishlist tab shows the error instead of staying silently empty.
See CONTRIBUTING.md. PRs welcome.
MIT — free to use, modify, and distribute.