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EDCA

Elite Dangerous Colonisation Assistant

Colonisation runs on one question: what still needs hauling and where to. EDCA answers it from your journal as you fly, so the shopping list, your carrier's hold and where that carrier is heading are all current without you tabbing out. No spreadsheets, no accounts, nothing leaves your PC.

Windows and Linux · opens in your browser automatically; reachable from a tablet on your local network at <your-PC-IP>:47021/app

Where to start

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Colonisation

The per-system shopping list of everything still needed across your construction sites, plus the completed ones you can stop thinking about.

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Fleet carriers

What your carrier holds, what it is offering, what it runs on and where it is heading, whether or not you are standing on it.

How it works

Install, launch, play. What happens on the first run, what it needs and how to put it on a tablet beside the cockpit.

What it is

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Journal-driven, automatic

EDCA reads your Elite Dangerous journal as you play and pushes what changed straight to the page. Deliver a load and the numbers move while you are still at the pad, with nothing to refresh and nothing to type in. Even your commander name comes from the journal rather than a settings box.

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Browser HUD, tablet-ready

A lightweight web HUD you can open on a second screen or a cockpit tablet over your own network, with a keep-screen-awake option for long sessions.

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Local-first, no accounts

EDCA runs entirely on your machine. No external services, no accounts and no telemetry; it reads your journal and nothing of yours leaves your PC. The one thing it ever sends anywhere is a version check when it starts: an anonymous request asking GitHub what the latest release is, carrying no identifier and no journal data. It prompts you when a new version is out, so you hear about upgrades without being watched.

Get EDCA

Download EDCA

Download the newest release with one click on Windows; on Linux you build the Flatpak yourself. Free and open source under LGPL-3.0; it runs entirely on your machine and nothing leaves your PC.

Latest release
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Windows

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

Download for Windows

Installer (.exe)

Windows may show a SmartScreen warning when you run this: here's why.

Run the installer: there is nothing to configure and EDCA opens in your browser when it starts. Already have it? The same installer upgrades in place, in one pass.

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Linux

Any distribution with Flatpak

How to build it

Flatpak, built from a checkout

There is no downloadable Linux package. Clone the repository and run ./build_flatpak.sh, which builds the app, installs it and writes a .flatpak file you can copy to another machine. You can also run it straight from source.

Next See what it tracks

Start with colonisation: the shopping list that tells you what to haul next.

Continue