Botspot / pi-apps

The most popular app store for Raspberry Pi computers. 100% free, open-source and written in shell scripts. View changelog | Apps List | Report an error | Make a general suggestion | Suggest new app | Submit a new app Made with ❤ by Botspot , theofficialgman , and contributors Check out our website: pi-apps.io Introduction Installing software on ARM Linux is easy... until it isn't. Many popular apps just don't appear in the repositories, and it's very easy for inexperienced users to mess up their OS trying to install such apps manually. **We're trying to solve this problem.** Introducing Pi-Apps, a well-maintained collection of scripts that automatically install hard-to-install apps. See the full list here. Pi-Apps is not your average app store. Rather than require any standardized packaging format or centralized hosting, our shell scripts download the app from *where it already is*. Scripts offer tremendous flexibility. If you can manually install it, then Pi-Apps can automatically install it. Please help us expand our list of apps. *You don't have to be the app developer to get it added to Pi-Apps!* (You just have to know a little bit of bash scripting) Pi-Apps now serves **over 1,000,000 people** and hosts over 200 apps. Install Pi-Apps Open a terminal and run this command: Supported systems: Raspberry Pi (2 v1.2/3/Zero 2 W/4/5) • **Raspberry Pi OS** (32-bit Bookworm/64-bit Bookworm/64-bit Trixie): fully supported • **Ubuntu** (Jammy/Noble): fully supported Nintendo Switch • **Switchroot L4T Ubuntu Noble (24.04)**: fully supported • **Switchroot L4T Ubuntu Jammy (22.04)**: fully supported Nvidia Jetson • **Nvidia Jetpack 7** (Ubuntu Noble): fully supported • **Nvidia Jetpack 6** (Ubuntu Jammy): fully supported Apple Silicon Macs • **Ubuntu Asahi** (Ubuntu Noble): Not actively tested but all available apps should work **Pine64**, **Orange Pi**, **Radxa**, **Banana Pi**, **Khadas**, **Inovato**, **Libre Computer**, and other **ARMv7/ARMv8/ARMv9** Devices • Debian Bookworm/Trixie (Official Releases from Debian **ONLY**): Not actively tested but all available apps should work • Ubuntu Jammy/Noble (Official Releases from Canonical **ONLY**): Not actively tested but all available apps should work Unsupported systems: • 32-bit ARM operating systems. We've stopped supporting Trixie 32-bit due to how many apps depend on 32-bit packages that Debian renamed to mitigate yk2038. • Bookworm 32-bit is still supported until EOL. • Raspberry Pi Pico: These devices are microcontrollers and cannot run linux. • All **UNOFFICIAL** Debian and Ubuntu based releases (unless mentioned above): Expect many apps to have issues. • Examples: **Orange Pi OS**, **Pop_OS!**, **Kali Linux**, and **ChromeOS Crostini** Debian Container • Anything Non-Debian and Non-Ubuntu: Expect the majority of apps and the appstore to be broken. • Examples: **Slackware**, **RHEL**, **Fedora**, **SUSE**, **Arch Linux**, **Gentoo**, **Void Linux**, **NixOS** • Anything not already mentioned: Expect nothing to work. • Examples: **Microsoft Windows**, **MacOS**, **Android**, and **ChromeOS** To install Pi-Apps manually if you prefer to see what happens under the hood To uninstall Pi-Apps This will not uninstall any apps that you installed through Pi-Apps. To run Pi-Apps • From the start menu: Accessories -> Pi-Apps • Use the terminal command: • Run Pi-Apps from its directory: To update Pi-Apps • Pi-apps will automatically check for updates on boot and display a notification to update. • To manually run the updater, use this command: • It also supports a cli interface: What do others say about Pi-Apps? > Message from a **pi-top** employee: "Happy to say that I recommend pi-apps to almost every school I work with when they start using Raspberry Pi" > Video by **ETA Prime**: "It's an awesome Raspberry Pi app store and it works really well and there's lots of great stuff in here and it's super easy to install. I want to give the devs of Pi-Apps a big shout-out." > Video by **leepspvideo**: "Thanks so much to Botspot for creating this; it's a great program." > Video by **Novaspirit Tech** (RIP): "This is an awesome application for your Pi." > Email from a **Raspberry Pi employee**: "I gave Pi-Apps a go a while back and have suggested it to others quite a few times. > We can't provide all the options people may want, so it helps a lot that there are people like you who can help bridge the gap. Thank you Botspot!" > **ShiftPlusOne** (Raspberry Pi forum moderator): "Thanks for the great work making it all simple for everybody." > Message from one of our many satisfied users: "Thank you for making pi-apps, it has helped me a ton (no more searching hours to find how to install etcher) and I cannot thank you enough." Basic usage Pi-Apps is very easy to use. • This is the **main window**. • Search for apps. • Open pi-apps settings. • Click on a category to open it. • Opening a category will reveal a **list of apps**: • Go back to the main list of categories. • Click on an App name to see its details (see **details window** below) • On the right is the app **details window**: • View the shell-scripts responsible for installing or uninstalling the selected app. • Modify the app's description, icons, or scripts. (This button is hidden unless you enable it in Settings) • Install the selected app. • Uninstall the selected app. • If you install/uninstall an app, you will see the **progress window**, keep installing/uninstalling apps to add them to the queue: • Pi-Apps Settings can be configured by launching Menu -> Preferences -> Pi-Apps Settings. In addition to changeable settings, this window also gives access to these tools: • Does that one app seem to be in the wrong category? With this button, you can change it. • Create a new app with a wizard-style set of dialogs. We recommend reading the tutorial. • View the past weeks-worth of installation logs. This is useful if you ever encounter an app that won't…