Crosshair X vs Overwolf

Crosshair X places a custom crosshair over PC games, including games without their own built-in crosshair. Its designer offers lines, dots, outlines, color, opacity, animations, and image uploads. Crosshairs can react to firing with multi-stage or per-button animations. Players can add PNG or animated GIF overlays and layer text, emoji, or status indicators. Display controls let users select a monitor, save positions for different games, and toggle the crosshair with shortcuts or mouse states. For exclusive-fullscreen games, Crosshair X uses Xbox Game Bar; windowed and borderless games use a separate transparent overlay. Its maker says the app does not inject code, change game files, read or write game memory, simulate input, scan gameplay, or communicate with game servers. Steam Workshop users can browse community designs and publish their own, and crosshairs can be shared by code or exported as image files. Crosshair X runs on Windows. The Microsoft Store listing is free at free, with a free trial available. The Steam version costs 3.99 USD once; the Epic Games Store base game costs 9.99 USD once.

Overwolf is a platform for creating and using apps alongside games. Apps can show live game statistics, record video, or manage mods across more than 1,500 supported games. Users can access it without signing in or creating an account, and the Overwolf Appstore offers apps for PC games. Creators can use its SDK to build game overlays and desktop apps with JavaScript and HTML; the developer suite includes real-time alerts, a Game Event API, monetization tools, performance optimization, analytics, and support. CurseForge is its mod hub for games including Minecraft, World of Warcraft, and The Sims 4. Published apps are manually checked for quality, malware, performance, and compliance with game-developer terms. Overwolf says it anonymizes data used to improve the experience and lets users opt out. The Windows version requires Windows 10 or 11 64-bit, 350 MB of storage,.NET Framework 4.8, and at least 8 GB of RAM. Overwolf costs nothing; some apps may require subscriptions.