Gheat1/tuistore: browse a curated catalog of TUIs, read the details, and install with a single

The TUI app store: find, search, and one-key-install hundreds of terminal apps, without leaving the terminal.

Browse a curated catalog of TUIs, read the details, and install with a single key — tuistore figures out how to install each one on your machine (cargo, brew, pacman, uv, go, docker…) so you never paste a command your box can't run. Star the ones you love straight to GitHub.

Want your TUI featured? Go here -> gheat.net/#p/tuistore

Built on 🍚 ricekit · seeded from awesome-tuis · made by @Gheat1

what it is

Finding good terminal apps means trawling GitHub and awesome-lists; installing them means guessing whether it's cargo install, brew install, pacman -S, uv tool install, a curl | sh script, or building from source — and half the commands in a README are for the wrong OS.

tuistore fixes both. It's a fast, mouse-and-keyboard TUI that:

• puts 740+ curated terminal apps one fuzzy-search away — full-screen TUIs and the modern CLI toolkit (fastfetch, neovim, ripgrep, bat, eza, starship, zoxide, fzf…),
• shows you the install commands that actually work on your machine, ranked,
• installs them with one key and streams the output live,
• and lets you ★ star anything you like on GitHub, from the store.

install

One-liner (picks the best of uv / pipx / pip automatically, installs uv first if none are found):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gheat1/tuistore/main/install.sh | sh

Homebrew:

brew install gheat1/tuistore/tuistore

Or straight from PyPI:

uv tool install tuistore     # recommended
pipx install tuistore
pip install tuistore

Latest main instead of the last release:

uv tool install git+https://github.com/Gheat1/tuistore
pipx install git+https://github.com/Gheat1/tuistore

Arch Linux (AUR):

yay -S tuistore     # or paru, or any other AUR helper

Then just run:

tuistore

_{Starring uses the gh CLI if you have it (gh auth login); everything else works without it. tuistore itself installs nothing but itself — it drives the package managers you already have.}

use it

Dead simple: type to search, arrow to browse, i to install.

 /            focus search — type a name, description, or language
 ↑ ↓ · j k    move through the list        g / G   jump to top / bottom
 enter        open / focus a tool
 i            install  (press a to pick a different method)
 r            read the README in-app (inspect before you install)
 u            update  ·  x  uninstall   (tools you installed via tuistore)
 s            star / unstar on GitHub    o       open the repo in your browser
 ,            manage (update tuistore · refetch catalog · update all)
 f            features / about            t       cycle theme
 ?            all keybindings             q       quit

Everything clicks, too — rows, the hint bar, and the draggable pane dividers.

how the install engine works

This is the hard part, and it's the point of tuistore.

1. It reads your machine. OS, Linux distro family (Arch, Debian, Fedora, SUSE, Void, Alpine, Gentoo…), CPU arch, and every package manager / toolchain actually on your PATH.
2. Every tool carries platform-gated install methods. A method knows what binaries it needs and where it's allowed to run, so pacman -S only appears on Arch, brew only where brew exists, cargo only where cargo is.
3. Methods come from three places, and the UI labels which is which:
   • ✓ official — commands the project itself documents (hand-verified for the featured suite),
   • ✓ from README — scraped straight out of each repo's README (kept only when the command actually names the tool, so dependency lines don't leak),
   • ⚠ unverified — a best-guess from the repo's language, flagged so you know to check it.
4. It ranks what's runnable and offers the winner as the default — a clean managed install (brew / cargo / uv) before a curl | sh, verified before guessed — with every alternative one keypress (a) away.
5. Before you commit, you can look. The install screen shows the exact command with a clear ✓ verified / ⚠ unverified badge (and a loud warning on remote curl | sh scripts), and r opens the project's README right in the store so you can inspect a tool before you install it.
6. It runs in your login shell and streams the output live — nothing is ever run silently; you always see the exact command and confirm it.

installed, updates & uninstall

tuistore isn't just a browser — it's a package manager for the tools it installs.

• It remembers what it installed (which manager, which command) and also detects what you already have — not just by binary on your PATH, but by asking brew, uv, npm, cargo, pipx what they've installed (so ripgrep→rg, bottom→btm, git-delta→delta all show up). The ◆ Installed filter lists everything you've got.
• On any installed tool, u updates it and x uninstalls it in place, with the right command for the manager (brew upgrade …, uv tool upgrade …, cargo uninstall …), streamed live. For a tool tuistore didn't install, it asks which manager you used.
• , opens the manage menu with update everything — a one-shot brew upgrade + uv tool upgrade --all + npm update -g … that upgrades all your packages, including ones installed outside tuistore — plus update tuistore itself, refetch the catalog, and clear cache.

it's a CLI package manager too

Everything works from the shell, so tuistore drops straight into dotfiles, setup scripts, and READMEs:

tuistore install lazygit     # resolve + install (platform-aware, confirmed)
tuistore install btop++ -y   # -y to skip the prompt (great for scripts/CI)
tuistore remove lazygit      # uninstall a tool you installed via tuistore
tuistore update lazygit      # update one tool
tuistore search git          # search the catalog
tuistore info btop++         # details + every install method

tuistore installed           # list what tuistore installed
tuistore upgrade             # update EVERYTHING (brew, uv, npm… all packages)
tuistore update              # update tuistore itself
tuistore update installed    # update only what tuistore installed
tuistore refetch catalog     # pull the latest catalog
tuistore --doctor            # what your machine looks like to the install engine

A shell install uses the same engine (verified-before-guessed, platform-gated) and is recorded in the same ledger — so tuistore installed, update, remove, and the TUI's ◆ Installed view all stay in sync.

the catalog

• ★ Featured. Gheat's suite — ltui, NaviTui, ricekit — plus a few hand-picked community tools, all pinned to the top.
• 740+ tools — rothgar/awesome-tuis plus a curated set of terminal essentials (the fetchers, editors, and modern CLI utilities people actually brew install), in browsable categories, each enriched with live GitHub stars, language, and freshness.

Refresh or grow the catalog any time — it's a single re-runnable script:

uv run python tools/build_catalog.py            # refresh stars + installs
uv run python tools/build_catalog.py --scrape 300   # scrape more READMEs

It parses awesome-tuis, batches a GraphQL sweep for stars/language/freshness, scrapes install commands for the most-starred tools, and infers the rest.

built on ricekit

tuistore is part of a family. It's built on 🍚 ricekit — the themes, widgets, modals, icons, and design doctrine behind the whole suite — so it shares the five themes (mocha · void · onyx · clear · system), the vim-and-mouse navigation, the drag-to-resize panes, and the cache-first speed.

If you like tuistore, you'll probably like the rest of the suite:

config & data

XDG dirs, via ricekit's AppDirs:

tuistore --doctor prints what your machine looks like to the install engine.