Our commitments

What Bedside does today

• It deletes nothing on its own. What it sets aside goes to quarantine — a move, not an erasure — and comes back file by file. If the system recycle bin is unavailable, it gives up rather than erase for good.
• A picture of the Mods folder is taken before any bulk action, and when it cannot be taken, it says so instead of carrying on in silence. One exception to reversibility, written down rather than hidden: the thumbnail cache is erased for good — the game rebuilds it on its own at the next launch.
• No game file is rewritten. The only files Bedside edits are settings files, and never without four guards: a dated copy laid beside the original, a flat refusal while the game is running, the changed line shown, and no key ever invented when it is missing.
• Diagnosis runs on your machine, offline. No account to create, no sign-up.
• Telemetry starts off. It only turns on by your hand, and the exact list of what would leave is shown before you tick the box.
• No update ever installs itself. HTTPS required, signed manifest, checksum verified; without a public key the manifest is refused rather than taken on trust. The file is handed to you, and you are the one who runs it.
• A finding never names a cause it has not measured. When Bedside cannot check, it writes "not verifiable" — never "all good". The most visible case is updates: as long as no service answers, Bedside writes "up to date" on no mod at all, and a test stops it from doing so. Writing "up to date" without having checked would be more pleasant, and false.
• Streamer mode replaces sensitive file names with a stable alias, so that showing your screen costs no one anything.
• The free/paid line lives in exactly one place in the code. Full scan, reversible quarantine, enable and disable, import, cleanup, profiles: everything that diagnoses and puts things back is on the free side.

What Bedside will never do

• Never a toll gate on rescue. No function that repairs, isolates or explains will ever become paid. A distress screen will never meet a paid button.
• Never a byte about you without an explicit act on your part.
• Never a bought review, never a fake account.
• Never a false urgency, never an invented verdict.
• Never modify or redistribute a creator's file.
• Never an action on your files without a way back. Nothing is deleted or overwritten: what Bedside sets aside is moved, and comes back. This restraint is not an intention: it is held by an automated bench that replays each action before every release — the quarantine that moves, the return that brings the same file back, the recycle bin that, when it fails, makes the program give up rather than destroy. If any of those behaviours changed, the release would stop.
• Never talk another tool down.
• Never a cancellation trap: support stops the day you stop it, and the program stays whole.

Other people's work

Bedside arrives after ten years of volunteer work, and it depends on it.

• We link, we do not copy. The lists of broken mods kept by hand on the EA forum are ten years of volunteer testing and a protected database. Bedside points to them with a link, with their author's agreement, and extracts nothing from them.
• Bedside is not a substitute for manual testing. No file analysis sees everything, its own included. The 50/50 assistant is the method the community has taught for ten years, given tools — not a house invention.
• Better Exceptions, by TwistedMexi, is complementary. Install it: it sees the exception the second it happens. Bedside reads its report and adds what it finds on disk — never "it is wrong".
• The sheets other tools embed are read, and their authors are named. Today, the one in the PlumbBuddy format, a Llama Logic format. The format is theirs; only the reading is ours, and Bedside extracts nothing from it that it does not show. It also writes its own, whose format is written down in the open — any creator who wants to put one in their file can, and nobody has to.
• No public comparison by name. This page says what Bedside does; it publishes no table of what the others do not.

What is not true yet

• Bedside is not released, and no executable is signed as of today. While this line stands, a Windows warning at install time is normal — and there is no download to offer yet.
• The online services do not answer yet: the shared knowledge base, the version index, the badge, telemetry. While they are silent, Bedside writes "not verifiable" and never "up to date".
• Windows only. Nothing is proven elsewhere.
• No outsider has put it to the test yet. What this page claims can be read in the program; it is not yet the experience of thousands of players.