TweakIdentifier

"Which addon keeps moving my minimap?" — point at the frame, and TweakIdentifier tells you.

Ever had a button drift, a panel go invisible, a bar get the wrong font, or a mystery frame show up — and no idea which of your 40 addons did it? TweakIdentifier watches a frame and names the culprit. It's a diagnostic tool: it only looks, it never changes your UI.

• 🔎 Names the addon that created a frame, and every addon that's messing with it.
• 🖱️ Point-and-click picker — hover any frame on screen, even ones you can't click.
• 🧾 Builds a case file per frame — what was changed, by whom, how many times — and remembers it across reloads and sessions.
• 🪶 Featherweight & safe — no libraries, nothing to configure, never touches the addons it's inspecting.

Quick start

1. Open it: type /twid to open the window (or /ti for short).
2. Aim: click Pick (or type /twid pick), then move your mouse over the frame you're curious about. A cyan outline shows what's highlighted and a tooltip tells you what it is.
   • The thing you want is often behind something else. Tap Up / Down to step through the stack of frames under your cursor until the right one is outlined.
3. Select: press Enter to start watching it (or Esc to cancel).
4. Read the answer: the Evidence panel fills in with the frame's creator and a list of every addon touching it, grouped by what they did (moved it, hid it, recolored it…). The Live log shows changes as they happen — click any line to see the full detail.
5. Just curious who made it? Use Identify (/twid identify) instead of Pick — it tells you about whatever you hover, without starting a watch.

💡 Want frame creators named? Turn on Deep investigation (/twid deep). It asks to reload once, then it can tell you the exact addon that built a frame — not just who's changing it. See below.

What it can tell you

It recognizes changes in these areas: position, size, show/hide, transparency, layering, re-parenting, drag/resize, mouse & keyboard input, scripts, textures & colors, text, and fonts — plus brand-new frames appearing on screen. Each shows up with a colored tag so you can tell at a glance what kind of change it was.

Slash commands

/twid — also /tweakid or /ti.

In Pick mode: Up / Down change which frame is highlighted, Enter selects, Esc cancels.

Deep investigation

Naming the addon that created a frame needs a bit of extra engine help that has a small performance cost, so it's off by default and opt-in.

• Type /twid deep (or click Deep). It explains the one-time reload, then reloads.
• After that, frame creators get named, and certain "hidden" changes — ones some addons route through Blizzard's system where the real culprit is normally invisible — get traced back to the addon responsible.
• It's tidy about it: if you already had the setting on, it leaves it on; if TweakIdentifier turned it on, it switches itself back off the next time you log in so nothing lingers. Use /twid deep persist if you'd rather keep it on.

If you don't turn Deep on, everything else still works — you just get a best-guess for creators instead of an exact name. The window will nudge you to enable Deep if it spots a change it can only fully explain with it.

Works on

Every flavor of WoW: Midnight / Retail (12.0+), Cataclysm Classic, MoP Classic, Classic Era, and TBC / Anniversary.

The only difference: pinpointing the addon that created a frame relies on a Retail (12.0+) feature. On the Classic flavors that line simply reads "creator unknown" — everything else (the picker, the live watching, the evidence, and Deep's hidden-change tracing) works the same everywhere.

Good to know

• It's a diagnostic tool, not a UI editor. It reports who changes your frames; it never changes them itself.
• Picking is paused in combat (a WoW restriction on the picker), and resumes when combat ends. Watching keeps running through combat.
• The watch lasts until you reload. Switching to a new frame just changes what's reported; a /reload clears everything cleanly.
• Made a bug report? Hit Copy for a ready-to-paste summary of what TweakIdentifier found — handy for telling an addon author exactly what their addon is doing.