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Elyra Hex

A save editor that only lets you build what the game can.

A native macOS save editor and full companion for the Generation I through V Pokémon games — from Red/Blue/Yellow through Black/White and Black 2/White 2. It only offers what the game can legally produce, never corrupts a save, and folds the whole game — Walkthrough, Hexdex and Records — into one window.

macOS 14+Sonoma or later
Freenotarized & signed
Twenty gamesGenerations I–V
Elyra Hex's welcome screen — ready to open a supported Pokémon save
Why Elyra Hex

Build anything the game can.
Nothing it can't.

What PKHeX would be if it were built for macOS instead of ported to it — constrained by the rules of the game by design, and grown into a full companion around them.

Game-aware, always

The moment a save loads, Elyra Hex knows which of twenty games it is — and only ever offers the species, moves, items and abilities that can legally exist there.

Legal by construction

Every dropdown is the computed legal set — the move picker is the species' real movepool for that game. One switch flips to Permissive when you want the full tables.

Never corrupts a save

The parse→write round-trip is byte-identical, the whole document is validated before serializing, and your original file is backed up before the first write.

More than an editor

A save-aware Walkthrough, a living Hexdex, a Records module and an Item Hex — all reading the same save, so the whole game is in one window.

Bundled sprites, offline

All 649 species ship with regular and shiny artwork inside the app, so every grid is full and instant with no network at all.

A native bronze codex

Pure SwiftUI for macOS: an ornate bronze interface with an elemental gem for every type and wax-seal legality badges — light & dark, full keyboard and VoiceOver.

Inside Elyra Hex

Far more than a save editor.

Every module reads the one save you loaded — so the guide, the dex, your records and the editor all know the same game, the same badges and the same team.

Walkthrough

Every step, aware of your save.

A complete, save-aware walkthrough for all twenty supported games, shown as one scrolling timeline — the full route to the Pokémon League and the postgame. It reads your save to track where you are, what's missable and what's worth catching next, with a milestones panel of your badges, League clears, Pokédex, play time and money.

Elyra Hex — Walkthrough
Hexdex

A living dex that plans the catch.

A version- and save-aware living Pokédex. Browse every species and get a step-by-step plan to obtain it in your exact game — where it lives on the region map, real per-encounter catch odds sorted rarest-last, its stats, moves and type matchups, and a one-click "Create Legal One".

Elyra Hex — Hexdex
Records

Your trainer's whole history.

Your trainer's own history, read straight from the save: the in-game Trainer Card and its stars, achievements that tier up as you play, Hall of Fame teams, Game Corner and minigame high scores, every Ribbon earned, and a lifetime-stats table down to how many times you've used Splash.

Elyra Hex — Records
Inspector

Edit anything — legally.

Species, stats, moves and origin fields are editable wherever that game stores them, and every dropdown offers only what the open game allows. A live legality seal flags anything a real cartridge could never have produced.

Elyra Hex — Inspector
PC Boxes

Every box, at a glance.

Every PC box and the party in one fast, native grid — each Pokémon shown with bundled artwork, level and type gem. Flick between boxes, search the whole save by name, and drag a Pokémon to any slot.

Elyra Hex — PC Boxes
Create

Build one from scratch.

Make a brand-new, fully-legal Pokémon: pick the species, set moves from the game's real movepool, dial in stats and origin, and drop it straight into a box or your party. Strict keeps it cartridge-legal; Permissive opens the full tables when you want them.

Elyra Hex — Create
And there's more

A whole companion,
not just an editor.

Competitive presets, the real event distributions, an item encyclopaedia and a training planner — all game-aware, all reading your save.

Elyra Hex — Competitive presets
Competitive presets

One-click legal movesets.

Per-game best sets for every Pokémon — pick Utility or Offensive and Elyra Hex fills the moves, EV spread, nature and item, all built to be legal in your exact game.

Elyra Hex — Special events
Special events

Re-create the real distributions.

Re-create the official ticket & map distributions on your save exactly as the real event did — Mystic Ticket, Aurora Ticket and more — unlocked only once your save is far enough along to actually use them.

Item Hex

Browse version-specific item names, effects and known acquisition data, with pocket-aware bag editing in the supported formats.

EV Training planner

Pick a stat and it ranks the best reachable spots to train it by the yield you'll actually get — spawn rate × yield.

Trainers browser

Browse supported trainer rosters and every gym, Elite Four and Champion board with levels, moves and rematches.

Pokémon import / export

Move individual Pokémon in or out using PKHeX-compatible .pk3, .pk4 and .pk5 records.

Native to the Mac

Safe by design.

A pure-Swift core parses your save; the SwiftUI app never touches the bytes directly. The parse→write round-trip is proven byte-identical against cartridge fixtures, your original file is backed up before the first write, and the whole document is validated before anything is saved. The numbers and rules are derived at build time from open reference data and decompilations — facts, not copyrighted game text.

What's new

Changelog

v0.7.5 6 Aug 2026
New
  • Edit a Pokémon's level right in the Stats tab — a slider with a typeable field above the IVs; experience follows the species' growth curve and battle stats recompute automatically.
Improved
  • The EV section now explains the competitive 508 cap: a stat point needs a complete 4 EVs, so 252 + 252 + 4 is the efficient maximum — presets that stop at 508 are exactly right.
Read the full changelog →
The whole save

Everything, in one window.

Elyra Hex — the party board and inspector for a FireRed save, the whole game in one window
Get Elyra Hex

Free. Native. Yours.

Download the latest build, open a supported Generation I–V save, and start editing — safely.

Download for macOS

Universal build · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · notarized.
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