First launch may show a Windows "unknown publisher" notice — that's normal for a new indie app. Click More info → Run anyway. The auto-updater is cryptographically signed.
How it works
Tune what you measured.Undo what you didn't.
01
Open it — your rig, scored
It launches in about 200 ms to a dashboard that already knows your hardware: live CPU, RAM and a tweaks-applied count, with one button to tune. The suite-wide auto-update banner sits up top, so you're always on the signed latest build.
02
Every tweak shows its source
This is the whole point. Browse ~100 audited tweaks, each with a risk rating and a real citation — a Microsoft Learn doc, an NVIDIA dev note, a vendor whitepaper. The other tuners don't print sources because they don't have any.
03
One-click revert, any tweak, any time
Everything you apply is snapshotted to a local ledger. "Your Tune" lists every change with its live status — still in place, or quietly reverted by a Windows update — and puts each one back with a single click. Undo is never a paid tier.
04
Measure before and after
A one-shot Diagnostics snapshot reads your real specs, thermals, disk, driver health and live latency — so you tune against numbers, not vibes, and can prove the change actually helped on your rig.
The receipts
One hundred tweaks.All cited.
01 · The Audit
Every tweak prints its source.
Microsoft Learn doc. Vendor whitepaper. NVIDIA dev note. The other tuners don't cite because they can't. We open the citation in your browser before you flip the switch.
02 · The Size
3.6 MB. Hone is 200.
Tauri-on-Rust ships smaller than your discord avatar. No Electron. No 300 MB Chromium binary. Opens in 200 ms.
Hone.gg200 MB
Paragon Tweaks81 MB
Optimizationmaxxing3.6 MB
Installer size · lower is better · 56× smaller than Hone
03 · The Undo
One UAC. Full revert.
Whole preset applies behind a single elevation prompt. Every tweak snapshots its pre-state. Roll any change back at any time — undo isn't a paid tier.
04 · The Presets
10 presets. Or roll your own.
Esports · BR · Streamer · Frame Pacing · Tournament FPS · five more. Each one a curated bundle. Each tweak still toggleable. Build a custom preset in the same panel.
05 · The Measure
Live DPC. Live ping. Live frame time.
DPC latency sparkline. Bufferbloat probe. PCIe link-state readout. We show the before, the after, and the delta — not a "trust me" toggle.
06 · The Hardware
Knows your rig before you do.
Detects CPU vendor, RAM kit, OS build, laptop vs desktop. Hides every tweak that doesn't apply. Laptops never see PCIe ASPM off. AMD rigs never see Intel-only flags.
The audit
Every tweak ships with its source.
Hone has none. Paragon has none. We publish every citation, every category, every audit trail.
0audited tweaks · in the build
Citation of the day
RAMMicrosoft Learn
MMAgent prefetch + standby tuning
Suppresses prefetcher churn on 32 GB+ rigs where the cache outlives the launch.
No. Every tweak cites a Microsoft Learn doc, NVIDIA dev note, or vendor whitepaper before you flip the switch. Twenty live on this page; the other 80 ship cited inside the build. Hone publishes none of theirs. Paragon publishes none of theirs.
Will it brick my PC?
No. Every action snapshots its pre-state to a local SQLite ledger before applying. One-click revert at any time, any tweak. Zero BIOS writes, zero kernel drivers — that line is a hard refusal in the engine.
What's the catch?
Free. 3.6 MB. The catch is that a handful of the more aggressive tweaks (CPU set pinning, certain registry deep cuts) live behind a one-time $8 VIP unlock. Everything else — including full undo — is unlocked from the install.
