PoE 2 Buddy List

See when your friends are playing Path of Exile 2 — where they are, what they're levelling, when they die — without giving up anything you didn't choose to share.

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Or install with winget (no SmartScreen prompt):

winget install HoodedOne.PoE2BuddyList

How it works

1. It reads the game's log — and nothing else

The app tails Client.txt read-only. It never touches the game process, memory, files, network, or input, and never scrapes the screen.

2. You choose what to share

Every fact — online, area, level-ups, deaths, AFK, character — is a separate opt-in toggle, and every one starts off.

3. Buddies see it out of game or in an overlay

Follow anyone who publishes. A draggable in-game overlay (F8) shows your list and pops toasts when a buddy levels, enters a new act, or dies.

Privacy, structurally

Raw log lines never leave your PC. The wire protocol has no chat or whisper message type at all, so private messages cannot be uploaded — there is nothing to put them in.
The server re-checks your settings on every event it receives, so even a misbehaving client can't publish something you turned off.
Following is one-way and needs no friends list from the game. Sign-in is a code sent to your email — no password to leak.
"Online" means in game, derived from the log. Having the app open reveals nothing by itself.

Installing

winget is the recommended route: installers it fetches don't trigger Windows SmartScreen. If winget reports the package isn't found yet, the listing is still in review — use the direct download.
Direct download installers are not code-signed with a paid certificate, so SmartScreen will show "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway. It installs for your user only; no admin rights needed.
Updates are automatic. Every update is verified against a signing key built into the app before it is installed, so an update can't be swapped out in transit.
Windows 10/11, 64-bit. Requires the game to write its usual Client.txt.