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The convenience of being able to change the whole avatar with a click is awesome. Roblox’s feature allowing us to store outfits encourages players to experiment with more avatar designs, allowing them to access many creations at the tip of their finger. However, there is one problem—well, two, three, or four, or more, actually.

You see: with Roblox’s built-in outfit loader, storage, or wardrobe—whatever you’d call it, anyone can easily index through Roblox’s public access endpoint to get a list of another user’s stored outfits. It becomes a serious privacy matter and a matter of ethics, as any user can easily do anything with the outfits to their disliking. Plus, there are more issues with it, but I want to first introduce the lord and savior of it all.

Introducing Vanita—an on-device outfit manager for Roblox! While Roblox caps outfits at 150, Vanita prides itself on allowing users to store an unlimited amount of Roblox outfits locally on the devices. That is as long as the users have the storage, which shouldn’t be a concern since a decent Roblox outfit could barely take up to 30 kilobytes, or 0.003% of a gigabyte.

To store outfits locally on the device means no one aside from users that have access to the device and the root folder of the respective user can access Roblox outfits. This is often great for targeted users and avoids any unwanted depictions of the outfits.

Worrying about losing access to the outfits when you get locked out of the device? No problem. Vanita allows you to set multiple mirror locations to folders governed by external cloud software like Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. Heck, if you want to share Roblox outfits with specifically some of your friends, then go for it. You can import and export outfits as files using its binary (.vanita) file format.

Vanita is currently maintained by a single web application developer, daw558, who worked on the extension when Roblox’s wardrobe was still capped at 50 outfits before October 2024.

I was frustrated that I couldn’t store more than 50 outfits on Roblox. It annoyed me, so I came up with the idea. While making the extension for myself, I realized that it would be lame to put so much of my time into it and yet not share it for others to benefit from it as well.

Now, Vanita offers more Quality of Life features for users to index through their outfit and search the outfits they feel like putting on: advanced filtering and sorting, easy outfit duplication, a built-in outfit editor, a built-in selective Roblox user outfit loader, and more. Selective outfit loader allows you to not just load a user’s currently equipped outfit but also index through their Roblox wardrobe outside of Catalog Avatar Creator. It’s anticipated that Vanita will have more features when the overhaul migration from Tauri to a better framework has completed and as the user base grows.

Back to the Roblox wardrobe. Roblox wardrobe has privacy flaws, allowing any user to load outfits from others and potentially do bad things, as known earlier. Roblox wardrobe also caps the amount of outfits, which can be inconvenient if you make tons of OCs and have a great interest in mass-producing tons of pixel fashion. As your wardrobe grows, it’s going to be hard to find outfits that could suit your present tastes. Roblox allows you to name outfits within the wardrobe, but they don’t have search or any support for user-filtering to save time finding the outfits. Vanita stands out in this by offering users to create and modify tags and enabling users to assign tags to outfits. The outfits can be filtered by tags or searched for outfits by their name with specific terms.

From my experience, Vanita is a decent application worth its price as it’s in development currently—still polished. I like how easy it is to just pin it to the taskbar and access the outfits anytime when I’m playing Roblox, without having to wait for Roblox’s avatar editor to load to change outfits. Its only disadvantage is that it requires administrator’s right to install the application on Windows, but I’m sure this will get patched in the overhaul.

To learn more about Vanita and obtain it, refer to Vanita’s Itch.io. Join the Vanita Discord server to receive more information about the updates and interact with users that have used it.

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