Title Installers

Title installers allow you to install legal and illegal backups to your Nintendo Switch. The four most well known installers are Tinfoil, Awoo Installer, and Goldleaf

Tinfoil

Benefits ✨

• Allows custom theming

• Only title installer to have shop functionality

• Can backup save files

• Can act as cheat manager

• Can manage tickets

• Has NCA verification so that you don't install modified files, but this can be turned off

• Has its own USB installer program called NUT

• Uses titledb to automatically fetch covers and blurbs for games

• Updates frequently

• Supports NSZ and XCZ formats

• Installs itself to nand for faster performance

• Has file browser

• Can download from a private shared drive

Detriments 📛

• Has been known to include offensive statements within the installer

• Some features are locked away behind a SX OS license

• Not open source

• Has shop DRM built in

Awoo Installer

Benefits ✨

• Can download through public Google Drive links

• Supports USB installing through NS-USBloader

• Installs quickly

• Supports NSZ and XCZ file formats

• Has NCA verification

• You can turn off the anime

• Based on Old Tinfoil

• Has translations

• Updates semi-frequently

Detriments 📛

• Doesn't support shops

• Cannot manage tickets

• Doesn't have a file browser

• Built in sigpatches aren't maintained

Goldleaf

Benefits ✨

• Can change avatar to custom image

• Supports USB installing using Quark

• Integrated emuiibo manager

• Has web browser

• User friendly interface

• Can locally unlink Nintendo accounts from local accounts

• Can dump system firmware

• Can manage tickets

Detriments 📛

• Not frequently updated

• Randomly fails when installing

• Cannot download from any cloud service

• Does not have NCA verification

• Does not have forwarder support