Assets Manager

Assets Manager is a standalone desktop application (not a Unity Editor plugin) for organizing the .unitypackage files that pile up across Unity projects. Rather than digging through folders of similarly named package exports, it indexes the contents of each package so plugins, models, scripts, and other assets can be found by browsing or searching instead of re-opening every archive by hand.

Legacy tool. Assets Manager has not been updated in several years. It is not sold on the Unity Asset Store: the Pro and Free versions are both distributed through Gumroad, and the Free version is the easiest way to check how it handles your own package library today.

Point it at your Asset Store download folder and any other folders where you keep packages. It searches them recursively, then lists every package with its version number, author, category, and path, all searchable with regular expressions. A grid view shows each package's Asset Store icon, and a hierarchical folder view is also available. The Pro version has been tested with folders containing thousands of packages.

Use cases

• Finding which package contains a texture, model, or script you remember buying, without importing anything
• Renaming packages consistently with their version number, and sorting them into folders named after their Asset Store categories
• Checking which packages in your library have a newer version available
• Recovering content from a package the Unity Editor reports as corrupted

Key features (Pro)

• Packages Manager tab: index, sort, and filter packages from any folder on disk
• Assets Manager tab: search individual assets across all packages, shown as a thumbnail grid
• Extract a whole package like a zip archive, or a single asset from the Show Content popup
• Asset Store details popup with the package description, documentation links, videos, and pictures
• Update checker that opens the package's Asset Store page in Unity so you can download the new version
• Store Search and Latest Assets tabs to browse the Asset Store without leaving the app
• List generator and CSV exporter
• Windows Explorer right-click menu on .unitypackage files (Windows only)

Compatibility

The Gumroad listing states PC and Mac support. Both versions also include a Unity Editor plugin that lists your packages so you can import one with a click, without Assets Manager open.

Common questions

Does this run inside the Unity Editor? The main application runs outside Unity, as a desktop app on Windows or macOS. The included Unity Editor plugin only lists your packages for quick import.

What's the difference between the free and full version? The Free version (UnityPackage Manager Free) covers indexing, regex search, list/grid/hierarchical views, Asset Store page lookup, the Windows right-click menu, and the Unity Editor plugin. The Pro version adds asset-level search and extraction, package extraction, renaming and category sorting, the update checker, the Store Search and Latest Assets tabs, and CSV export.

Can I extract a model together with its materials and textures? Not automatically. Dependencies still have to be selected by hand, because they can't be resolved reliably before Unity imports the package.

Assets Manager Pro on Gumroad · Free version on Gumroad · Manual (PDF)