WFHelper

Unofficial Warframe companion app for Windows and Linux. It reads your inventory, prices it with live warframe.market data, scans relic rewards on screen and tracks your arbitration runs straight from EE.log.

wfhelper.com: download, the full feature tour, and FAQ.

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Features

In the app:

• Inventory: your whole account with platinum prices, order books and an equipment tab for weapons and frames
• Relics: the relics you own with their contents, drop sources and rewards
• Foundry: crafting requirements down to every component
• Mastery: what you have not mastered yet, and what you could build
• Rivens: your rivens compared with the market, plus a riven finder
• Market: manage your warframe.market orders in the app (sign-in optional)
• Arbitrations: each run analyzed from EE.log (kills, drones, rotations and vitus luck against the expected drop rates), plus the schedule with desktop notifications for favorited nodes
• World: cycles, fissures, invasions, bounties and circuit rotations
• Stats: daily platinum, credits and endo, plus your trade history
• Wiki: item drop locations and relic reward tables
• Themes: preset looks, or build your own

In-game overlays (Warframe in Borderless mode):

• Relic rewards: prices every reward when your squad's relics crack
• Relic planner: ranks the relics you own on the relic selection screen
• Riven scanner: reads the rolls and compares old and new stats while you reroll
• Arbitration summary: your run stats as soon as the mission ends

Notifications: in-game whispers, warframe.market DMs and arbitration windows can show desktop notifications while you play.

Set Warframe's interface language to English. Relic and riven scans only read English item names. WFHelper's own display language is separate and can be changed in Settings.

Install

Download the latest WFHelper-<version>-Setup.exe from Releases and run it.

Windows SmartScreen may warn you the first time because the installer is not code-signed: click "More info", then "Run anyway".

Linux

Download WFHelper-<version>.AppImage from Releases, make it executable and run it:

chmod +x WFHelper-*.AppImage
./WFHelper-*.AppImage

In a file manager instead: right-click the file, open Properties, then Permissions, tick "Allow executing as program" and double-click it.

Good to know:

• Warframe runs through Steam (Proton), Heroic, Lutris, Bottles or Wine. WFHelper finds the game's log on its own, including Flatpak installs and Snap Steam.
• Inventory comes straight from the running game. Nothing extra to download on Linux.
• Wayland picks its own backend. The app puts itself on XWayland so the overlays can sit on top of the game. Compositors without a real XWayland (niri) show no window at all, so WFHelper notices, restarts on native Wayland and remembers it. Settings lets you pick the backend by hand. Wayland gives no app a way to force itself above another, so overlays are best-effort there.
• Native Wayland has no global hotkeys. The overlay unlock key never fires there, so use "Switch to interactive overlays" in Settings > Overlays, or bind --toggle-overlay-interaction to a key in your compositor. In niri: Mod+I { spawn "/path/to/WFHelper.AppImage" "--toggle-overlay-interaction"; }
• SteamOS is untested. Desktop mode may work like any other distro. Game mode is not supported: gamescope only displays the game it launched, so forcing the app into it can freeze the session.
• Screen capture: on sway, Hyprland, river and niri, WFHelper copies the screen straight from the compositor with no dialog, also under XWayland. On GNOME, KDE Plasma and COSMIC the first overlay scan opens the screen-share dialog once per session. Pick the monitor Warframe runs on.
• On Steam, instant overlays need one launch option. Add PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to Warframe's launch options (right-click Warframe, Properties, Launch Options) and restart the game. The setup wizard shows the same string with a copy button. Without it the overlays still fire, just a few seconds later.

Linux requirements

• AppImage on Ubuntu 24.04 or newer: install libfuse2t64 and start the AppImage with --no-sandbox (Ubuntu's AppArmor blocks Electron's sandbox).
• Inventory from the running game and mission tracking: both read the game's memory, which Ubuntu, Arch and many other distributions block by default (kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=1). Allow it until the next reboot with sudo sysctl kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=0, or keep it with echo 'kernel.yama.ptrace_scope = 0' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-ptrace.conf followed by sudo sysctl --system. This lets any program you run read the memory of your other programs. If you would rather not allow that, use the JSON or AlecaFrame import.
• Reward and planner scans:
  • sway, Hyprland, river and niri: nothing to install and no dialog, also under XWayland. WFHelper copies the screen straight from the compositor. If you turned on Hyprland's permission prompts, allow screen copy for WFHelper.
  • GNOME, KDE Plasma and COSMIC: scans go through the desktop's screen-share portal. Install xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (GNOME), xdg-desktop-portal-kde (KDE Plasma) or xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic (COSMIC) and log out and back in. To check it, start a PipeWire screen capture in OBS or share your screen in a browser: a share dialog should open. Settings > Overlays > Set up screen capture opens that dialog before you play, so it does not hide behind the game on the first reward screen.
  • GNOME has no layer-shell overlays, so keep WFHelper on XWayland there.
  • On an X11 session there is no dialog and nothing to install.
• Saving your warframe.market login needs a keyring: gnome-keyring, KWallet or KeePassXC with Secret Service turned on. WFHelper uses it on its own when one is running. If you still have to sign in after every restart, start WFHelper with --password-store=gnome-libsecret (or --password-store=kwallet6 on KDE).

Inventory data

The game has no local inventory API, so the first-run wizard offers three sources:

• warframe-api-helper (recommended): on Windows it downloads Sainan/warframe-api-helper and loads its inventory.json snapshots while you play. On Linux this option is called "Read from the running game": WFHelper takes the login token from the running game and downloads your inventory itself
• JSON import: open an inventory.json export you already have
• AlecaFrame import: decrypts AlecaFrame's local lastData.dat cache

You can also pick "Continue without inventory". World, the warframe.market features and the relic reward, riven and arbitration overlays work without one. Everything based on what you own (owned counts, the relic planner, Foundry, Mastery) needs an inventory, which you can connect later in Settings.

Only the recommended helper ("Read from the running game" on Linux) and the optional mission tracking read the game's memory. The JSON and AlecaFrame imports and the overlays never do.

Privacy

Inventory snapshots, captured arbitration logs and stats stay on your PC. The app talks to its own caching backend for warframe.market prices, icons and new relic data, to the public game-data sources listed below, and to GitHub for updates. The app has no crash reporting or telemetry. Each backend request leaves a record of its route, status, timing and item slug in Cloudflare and Grafana, and the backend keeps an anonymous count of daily active users. The installed app checks for updates when it starts and every 6 hours; you choose when to download and install one.

Building from source

You need Node 22.12 or newer and pnpm 11 (through corepack).

corepack enable
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm run dev        # run in development
pnpm run dist:win   # build the Windows installer (NSIS)

Credits

• warframe.market: prices and order data
• Digital Extremes' Public Export: item data and images
• WFCD community projects: the item database (warframe-items), drop tables (drops.warframestat.us) and the world-state API
• browse.wf: extra item icons
• sves' arbi analyzer: the arbitration stats model this app's analyzer is ported from
• Sainan/warframe-api-helper: the inventory snapshot tool
• AlecaFrame: the lastData.dat format the import reads

Support

WFHelper is free and open source, with no ads or accounts. If it saves you plat, Patreon helps pay for the Cloudflare hosting it runs on. Supporters get a Discord role and a thank-you in the app.

Disclaimer

Unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Digital Extremes. "Warframe" and related assets are property of Digital Extremes Ltd.

License

MIT. The bundled Barlow and Rajdhani fonts in renderer/fonts/ are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.