Find and install terminal apps faster with tuistore

tuistore is useful if your terminal setup keeps turning into a tab full of GitHub READMEs, package-manager guesses, and stale install snippets. It gives you a searchable TUI catalog of terminal apps and CLI utilities, then ranks install methods based on the operating system, distro family, architecture, and package managers it detects locally.

The practical value is the install guardrail. Before running anything, tuistore shows the exact command, labels whether the method is official, README-derived, or inferred, and streams the output instead of hiding it behind a background installer. That makes it a good discovery tool for modern CLI stacks, but also a safer way to compare whether a tool should come from Homebrew, uv, pipx, cargo, npm, pacman, winget, or another manager.

The current checked release is v0.4.5, published July 20, 2026, with the catalog expanded to 800+ tools and broader Linux distro support for Gentoo, Solus, Void, and Alpine workflows. PyPI lists version 0.4.5 as GPL-3.0-or-later and requires Python 3.11 or newer.

Check before using

• Review any remote shell installer before accepting it, even when tuistore flags it clearly.
• Confirm license and branding terms if you redistribute or fork the project.
• Expect catalog coverage to be best for popular terminal apps; niche tools may still need manual review.
• On locked-down work machines, test it in a disposable dev environment before letting it manage global packages.

Sources

• GitHub repository: project overview, install flow, catalog behavior, platform-aware method ranking, CLI commands, and license notes.
• GitHub v0.4.5 release: current release date, catalog-size update, and expanded Linux distro support.
• PyPI package metadata: published package name, current version, Python requirement, repository link, and GPL-3.0-or-later license metadata.