Hanii
Your Windows handheld, as a console. Made for the ROG Ally and Ally X.
Where it stands
Hanii is built and running on our test PC, but there's no download yet. It will arrive here when its free edition is ready.
See what's insideThe home screen
No desktop and no mouse. Your games across the top, your apps below, and the controller moves between them.
- Games up front
Steam, Epic and Xbox games together. Rest on one for about a second and its store trailer plays behind it, muted.
- Apps inside
The app store, YouTube, Netflix, the web, music, wallpapers and themes, each a press away.
- At a glance
The time, Wi-Fi and battery.
- Every button named
The buttons that do something right now, labelled on screen.
- Your controller
Xbox-style pads, DualSense and DualShock 4, by USB or Bluetooth.
Five homes
Tiles
Big game tiles across the top, round app buttons below.
Wave
Categories side by side, your games and apps in a column.
Carousel
Games turning past like covers on a shelf.
Console
A menu on the left, the chosen game big.
Minimal
A clock and a list. Nothing else.
And it all mixes
9 logos, 11 moving backgrounds and 10 start-up animations, in any combination.
Library
Every game you have, from every store, on one shelf. Hanii starts them for you, and Steam, Epic and Xbox keep running them.
- LB and RB
Flip between all your games and the ones you added.
- The chosen game
It lifts towards you, with its store art.
- Details
Who added it, when you last played and how big it is.
- The buttons
A plays, Y makes it a favourite, Menu has options, X refreshes and B goes back.
Quick settings
Press View from anywhere. The things you change most slide in over whatever you're doing.
- LB and RB
Jump between groups: sound, screen, power.
- Volume
And the microphone, one switch below.
- Brightness
Slide it with the stick.
- Refresh rate
The screen's own rate, picked with one press.
- Resolution
1080p or 720p.
Controls
Every part of Hanii moves with the pad, from your games to typing into a web page with the on-screen keyboard. Pairing a Bluetooth pad happens inside Hanii too.
Got a controller? Connect it and press a button: this drawing lights up with it.
- ASelect
- BBack
- StickMove, with the left stick or the d-pad
- LB RBTabs, categories and sections
- LT RTJump, seek or zoom
- ViewQuick settings
- MenuOptions
- YFull view, on YouTube and the web
- XSearch, in the app store
- XboxBring Hanii up over a running game, then straight back. View and Menu together do the same.
Inside
Back to your game
The Xbox button brings Hanii up over a running game. Press it again and you're straight back in.
An app store for thumbs
Discord, game launchers and emulators through winget, with button presses. Emulators need your own game files. Hanii doesn't download ROMs.
Video and the web
YouTube in its TV layout, Netflix through Microsoft Edge, and any site with a pointer and tabs, all inside Hanii's frame.
Smooth by default
144 fps out of the box, drawn on the graphics card, with 120, 60 and 30 to save battery.
25 themes, or a colour of your own.
These are Hanii's real theme colours. Try one and this page changes with it.
Showing: Hanii Teal
Made for your hands.
- Handhelds
- Made for the ROG Ally and Ally X. Other Windows handhelds should work, but haven't been tried
- Controllers
- Xbox-style pads, DualSense and DualShock 4, by USB or Bluetooth. Paired from inside Hanii
- Games
- Your Steam, Epic and Xbox libraries in one place, started from Hanii
- Frame rate
- 144 fps by default, on the graphics card, with 120, 60 and 30 to save battery
Not tried yet
Hanii's ASUS performance modes follow the same route as G-Helper, but they haven't been tried on a real Ally yet. We'd rather say so now than have you find out.