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osu! skins in lazer
Short answer: stable skins work in lazer, but only during gameplay. The osu! wiki grades lazer's skin support as Partial, footnoted "Gameplay only" — your hit circles, sliders, cursor and hitsounds are used while you play; song select and the results screen are still lazer's own. ppy have said they will "do our best to bring back as much of this as we can", and that menu cursor support "will likely" return.
Installing a .osk
Identical on both clients, and it is the reason every skin here is
distributed as a .osk: open the file, or drag it onto the running game. The client
imports it and selects it for you. On stable, a skin that came as a .zip or .7z instead
has to be extracted into the Skins folder, after which
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S makes it
appear without a restart.
Where lazer keeps skins — and why you cannot find the folder
This is the question behind most "where are my osu! skins" searches from
lazer users, and the answer is that lazer has no Skins folder at
all. Its file store lives at:
| OS | Path |
|---|---|
| Windows | %appdata%/osu |
| Linux | ~/.local/share/osu |
| macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/osu |
| Android | Android/data/sh.ppy.osulazer/files |
Inside it, every imported file is stored under its own SHA-256 hash —
files/1/1a/1a47929b… — with a database mapping names to hashes. There is
nothing browsable, and that is deliberate: it deduplicates identical files and stops
anything outside the game from tampering with them. The wiki is explicit that the
supported way to change a skin by hand is to
export it, edit it, and import
it again. Desktop builds can move the whole store with
Change folder location… in settings.
Moving from stable to lazer
Beatmaps, skins, scores, replays and collections all import. Settings do not — the wiki says you will need to set those up from scratch. If both installs are on one drive, the migration uses hard links, so importing does not consume the space twice even though Explorer will report that it does.
Skins that suit lazer
Lazer renders at your display's real resolution, so a skin drawn at
@2x stays sharp where a 1x one goes soft. 429 of the archives we
have opened ship HD elements. Sorted by how often they were actually used:
Facts on this page come from the osu! wiki source, checked 2026-08-25. If lazer has changed since and this is now wrong, tell us — a stale guide is the only kind worth deleting.