Find Any itch.io Username with WhatsMyName App

itch.io hosts over a million published products, from finished commercial games to jam entries, tools, zines and tabletop rulebooks. Anyone can publish there in minutes, which is the point and also the reason a developer handle is worth checking before you download or pay. WhatsMyName App checks an itch.io handle alongside 731 other platforms in one search.

Platform: Gaming, indie marketplace · Over one million published products

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What Is itch.io and Why Username Searches Matter

itch.io is an open marketplace for independent games and interactive work, running since 2013. As of mid 2026 it carries more than a million products, including over 557,000 entries from community run game jams, and creators keep up to all of their revenue with nothing to pay to publish. That openness is what makes it the natural home for experimental work and the first place most developers ever ship anything.

Every account gets two addresses. There is the profile at itch.io/profile/handle, and there is a personal subdomain at handle.itch.io which is where their published pages live. Both are derived from the same username, so the handle is the developer's whole identity on the platform rather than just a display name.

People check these handles for the same reasons they check any open marketplace. Players deciding whether to run an unfamiliar executable want to know whether the developer has a history. Journalists and curators covering a jam entry need the person behind it. Buyers of asset packs and tools want to know they are dealing with the original author rather than someone reuploading. And developers check their own, since itch.io is often the first public trace of a career.

How itch.io Usernames Work

The username determines both the profile path and the subdomain, so changing it changes every published URL a developer has. itch.io allows the change from account settings with a one week cooldown between changes, and sets up automatic redirects so old links keep working.

Those redirects are worth knowing about when you read a result. Unlike most platforms, an old itch.io link does not simply break, so a handle you found in a two year old article may quietly resolve to a developer using a different name today. Open the profile rather than assuming the handle you searched is the one in use.

Handle reuse is very high in this community because itch.io is a portfolio. Developers link the same name to GitHub for source, to Steam for their commercial releases, to Gumroad or Ko-fi for asset sales, and to Twitter or Bluesky for announcements. A developer selling a tool with no presence beyond the store page is the case that warrants a closer look.

Profile URL format: itch.io/profile/handle
Every account also gets a subdomain at handle.itch.io
Usernames can be changed with a one week cooldown
Old links redirect rather than breaking
Very high handle overlap with GitHub, Steam and Gumroad

How to Search an itch.io Username with WhatsMyName App

No account, no install, no cost. Results in under 90 seconds.

Step 1

Go to WhatsMyName App

Open whatsmynameapp.us in any browser. No account, nothing to install.

Step 2

Get the developer handle

Take it from the subdomain of the game page, the part before .itch.io, or from the profile link on the page.

Step 3

Run the search

Type the handle into the search bar and click Search. All 732 platforms are checked in parallel, including itch.io.

Step 4

Find the itch.io result

Results stream in as checks complete. Look for the itch.io entry showing confirmed or not found.

Step 5

Open the profile

A confirmed result links to the developer's profile, showing everything they have published and how long the account has existed.

Step 6

Check the developer cluster

Look at the GitHub, Steam, Gumroad and Twitter results in the same scan. A real developer usually has a trail across several of them.

Step 7

Export the results

When the scan finishes, export every found account to CSV if you are compiling credits or reviewing a purchase.

What WhatsMyName App Shows for itch.io

A confirmed result links to the developer profile. What matters there is the body of work rather than any single page: how many projects, whether they span time or all appeared in one week, whether devlogs show actual development, and whether the account participated in jams, which is a hard thing to fake retrospectively.

A not-found result usually means the game title was searched instead of the developer handle, which is easy to do because the game name is the prominent one. It can also mean the developer renamed, in which case the old link would still redirect but the old handle no longer resolves as an account.

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After Finding an itch.io Account

Before running an unfamiliar executable, weigh the developer's history rather than the store page. A handle with several years of jam entries, devlogs and a GitHub account carrying the source is a person building things in public. A handle created last month with one downloadable and no presence anywhere else is not something you can assess at all, and open marketplaces are used for distribution precisely because they are open.

For asset packs and tools, reuploading someone else's work under a new handle is a recurring problem. The check that resolves it is whether the handle has a history that matches the work: an artist selling a sprite pack usually has years of related output, not a single upload.

If you publish on itch.io, your handle is the address of everything you have shipped. Renaming redirects your old links, which is genuinely useful, but every credit, jam page and article that names the old handle still names it. Search it before you change it so you know what you are leaving behind.

Judge the body of work, not the store page
Jam participation is hard to fabricate after the fact
A single upload with no history elsewhere is the reupload pattern
Renaming redirects your links but not your credits

Frequently Asked Questions about itch.io Username Search

How do I find out who made an itch.io game?

Take the handle from the subdomain of the game page, the part before .itch.io, and search it in WhatsMyName App. The rest of the scan shows where the same handle appears on GitHub, Steam and elsewhere.

What is the difference between the profile and the subdomain?

Both come from the same username. The profile lives at itch.io/profile/handle and the developer's published pages live at handle.itch.io. Changing the username changes both.

Can itch.io usernames be changed?

Yes, from account settings, with a one week cooldown between changes. itch.io sets up automatic redirects, so old links keep working even though the old handle no longer resolves as an account.

Is it safe to download games from itch.io?

Anyone can publish there, so judge the developer rather than the platform. A handle with years of jam entries, devlogs and a matching GitHub is a very different proposition from a week old account with one executable.

Why did my itch.io search return not found?

Most often because the game title was searched instead of the developer handle. It can also mean the developer renamed, since old links redirect but the previous handle stops resolving as an account.

Is searching an itch.io handle legal?

Yes. Only public profile pages are requested, exactly as a browser would load them. See whether WhatsMyName App is safe to use.

I publish on itch.io, why check my own handle?

Because it is the address of everything you have shipped, and it is often the first public trace of your career. Knowing where else it resolves tells you what a publisher or an employer finds when they look you up.

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