KestrelUI

All-in-one themed UI for retail and WoW Forever: frames, bars, nameplates, chat, bags and bank, quest tracker, and More!
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KestrelUI-0.10.9

File nameKestrelUI-0.10.9.zip
Uploader
_Kestrel__Kestrel_
Uploaded
Nov 10, 2026
Downloads
21
Size
1.7 MB
Flavors
ForeverRetail
File ID
9536139
Type
R
Release
Supported game versions
  • 12.1.7
  • 1.60.1

What's new

0.10.9

Combat text (Options > Combat Text, /kui ct)

  • Your target's numbers fly from its nameplate along a motion you pick: Crescent (out from the centre, round and down like half a moon), Fountain, Rise, Fall, Diagonal or Classic.
  • Sliders for width, drop, duration, text size and crit size; sides (alternate, right, left, crits left); presets (Crescent, Classic, Calm) and your own saved one.
  • Colours for hits, crits (or your theme's colour), heals, damage taken and misses, plus spell school colours.
  • Damage you take drops on the left of you and heals rise in green.
  • Try it shows samples beside the options window.
  • Blizzard's numbers over your targets are hidden while it's on, and come back when you turn that off.

Meters

  • Damage meter (/kui meter): themed bars with class colours; damage, DPS, healing, HPS, absorbs, interrupts, dispels, damage taken or avoidable damage; this fight or overall. Short numbers (1.2K, 45M).
  • Threat meter (/kui threat): you and your group on your target, highest first, with an aggro warning for non-tanks at 90%.

Quest tracker & compass

  • Compass: a slim ring at the top of the screen points at your tracked quest or waypoint, with distance, time and quest name. With KestrelSky loaded, its compass is used.
  • Click a quest in the tracker to bring up the compass pointed at it (KestrelSky's when it's loaded, ahead of a running route). Click again to let go.
  • Party's quests: a section for quests your party has and you don't.
  • Share my quests with the party: one quest per click.
  • Party names on quests also without KestrelSky's sharing.
  • Routes KestrelUI plans itself put timed quests first and hard ones last.

Chat

  • The game's own chat windows in KestrelUI's style are the chat again: your own tabs, sticky /p and /g, slash commands and Battle.net popups all work as in the game. The classic KestrelUI chat windows stay available as an option, off by default.
  • Whispers in the chat window, their own tab or both.
  • Unread counts on tabs.
  • Quick channel buttons (S, G, P, R, I, W).
  • People panel: friends, guild members online and recent whispers; click to whisper, right-click to invite.
  • A coloured line under the chat box for where you're typing.
  • Battle.net toasts in a spot you can move.
  • Clickable /way lines that set a waypoint (KestrelSky's map flies there).
  • AFK screen: the away summary has a Reply button.

Bags

  • Upgrade arrows know your spec: stats are weighed for your class and spec, only gear you can use counts (a druid gets nothing for bows, a strength warrior nothing for intellect plate), and the tooltip says by how much. Options > Bags & Items > Weigh gear for: Automatic or a role.
  • "Do I still need this?" (/kui clean): quest items you're done with and toys, mounts and recipes you already know are marked Done; "?" on quest items no quest uses. Nothing is deleted for you.
  • Reagent bag inside the main bag window, with a used/total count. Right-click works like any slot (mail, sell, deposit, use).
  • Library books (WoW: Forever): all 40 books marked as needed, with the librarian who takes them and your progress to the next reward; /kui books.
  • Camp items (WoW: Forever): every placeable campfire object gets a flame, an orange border and a Camp label.
  • Empty bag slots are plain black, so they fit every theme.

Unit frames

  • Boss frames (boss 1 to 5).
  • Vehicles: the player frame shows the vehicle you ride.
  • Incoming heals and shields on every frame.
  • Dispel highlight and threat glow on party frames.
  • Role icons, and ready check, summon and resurrection icons.
  • Elite, Rare and Boss tags above target, focus and boss frames.
  • Target and focus fade out of range.
  • Missing health text for healers on party frames.

Fixes

  • Bags stay full size with the bank open.
  • Bags close with B or Escape after a reload.
  • The bag search box can be clicked and typed in again, and the sort button takes clicks anywhere on it.
  • Item tooltips' Sell Price is written as text (Blizzard's money display errored at vendors and the auction house).
  • Share quest, Invite and the guild message of the day go through the game's own UI or chat box, since the game no longer lets add-ons do them directly.
  • Unit frames work in combat when the game hides health, power, names and auras; cast bars stay grey for casts you can't interrupt; frames refresh on death, release and tapped mobs.
  • Blizzard's hidden player and target frame bars no longer update in the background (they errored after opening the Character window).
  • Finishing first-time setup after combat asks to reload instead of reloading by itself.

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