DeckyHub

Your Steam Deck's plugin hub — right inside Gaming Mode.

Find, install and update Decky Loader plugins with your controller — from DeckyHub's plugin list, or any plugin on GitHub.

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[!CAUTION] DeckyHub only fetches releases from their authors' GitHub repositories. It doesn't make, review or vouch for these plugins and isn't responsible for anything they do to your device or data. Install at your own risk.

Tired of tabbing out to Desktop Mode, hunting through GitHub releases, and manually downloading ZIPs every time a plugin updates? DeckyHub brings plugin discovery and updates straight to your controller. Browse a catalog of over 500 Steam Deck plugins, search GitHub for any other Decky plugin and install it on the spot, and get notified when an update drops — all without leaving your couch. It's the first and last plugin you'll ever install from a ZIP.

A note on how this is made. Most of DeckyHub's code was written with the help of AI tools (Claude and Codex). That doesn't mean it ships untested — every release is verified on real hardware before it goes out. I'm telling you this upfront so you know exactly what you're installing and how it got built.

Contents: Why you'll like it · What it does · The plugin list · Requirements · Installing · Using DeckyHub · Uninstalling · Troubleshooting · Privacy · Disclaimer · Getting help

Why you'll like it

• Any plugin on GitHub, one search away — Search & Install finds Decky plugins that aren't in the Decky store or DeckyHub's list and installs them right from Gaming Mode. No Desktop Mode, no browser, no Developer Mode URL pasting.
• Never miss an update — DeckyHub checks your installed plugins against their latest GitHub releases every few hours and pings you with a toast when something new is available.
• Built for the couch — full gamepad navigation, color-coded status at a glance, and one-tap downloads designed for Gaming Mode, not a desktop browser squeezed onto a small screen.
• You stay in control — DeckyHub never installs or runs anything on its own. Nothing touches your system until you say so, and installs go through Decky Loader's own installer and confirmation dialog (see Manage).

What it does

• Discover — browse DeckyHub's list of Steam Deck plugins/tools, filter by search or installed status, and see release info at a glance, color-coded by status.
• Search & Install — search GitHub for Decky plugins and install one in a tap, or add it to track its updates.
• Updates — see which of your tracked, installed tools have a newer release available and what each one brings, and update the Decky plugins among them in one go with Update All. DeckyHub checks in the background every few hours, so the dot on its icon and a toast tell you when new updates show up, and each card says Installing… until Decky finishes, then a toast confirms it.
• Settings — language, display, an optional GitHub token, downloads, your tracked repositories and custom registries, and log export.
• Quick Access Menu — DeckyHub has its own tab (the four-square DeckyHub icon, with a dot when updates are waiting) in the Quick Access tab strip, next to Decky's, and still opens from Decky's plugin list too. It shows Discover, Search and Settings, plus Updates with a count whenever updates are waiting. Below them: DeckyHub's own version and update check, and a Cleanup section (shown when the download folder has files) that empties it after confirmation.

If you'd rather install a plugin yourself, Download ZIP saves the release instead, and you install it the same way as DeckyHub itself (see Installing DeckyHub, step 3).

The plugin list

No setup, no configuration — the plugin list shows up in Discover the moment you install DeckyHub. It lives in mazillka/deckyhub-registry and refreshes every time DeckyHub starts, so new apps show up without a DeckyHub update. DeckyHub keeps the last list it downloaded for offline use; a fresh install needs to reach GitHub once.

Where the plugins come from:

• Suggested: plugins people suggest through the registry's issues and pull requests.
• Decky Extended Plugins by beallio: a community catalog of the Decky store plus community plugins, with a security audit.
• Decky Plugins Explorer by SafetZahirovic: a nightly crawl of every public GitHub repository with a Decky plugin.json.

A daily job checks both catalogs, plus its own search of GitHub for repositories tagged or named like Decky plugins, for plugins that aren't listed yet, skips ones that look unfinished (brand new, nobody using them yet, a placeholder version), and opens a pull request with the ones that qualify. Every plugin, however it was found, has to have a stable GitHub release with exactly one plugin ZIP whose plugin.json name matches. These are automatic checks for a working release: nobody reviews the plugins themselves, for safety or anything else; the catalog and Discover flag plugins that run as root, haven't had a release in a year, or got a warning from the security audit (see Badges).

• Browse it: the plugin catalog lists every plugin, searchable and by category, with downloads and stars.
• Suggest a plugin: open an issue or a pull request in the registry repository.
• Want more? Find any other Decky plugin on GitHub with Search & Install.

Requirements

• A Steam Deck, or another SteamOS device, with Decky Loader 3.x installed.
• An internet connection that can reach GitHub. No GitHub account is needed.

Installing DeckyHub

1. Make sure Decky Loader is installed.
2. Download the latest DeckyHub-v*.zip from the Releases page.
3. In Gaming Mode, open the Quick Access Menu → Decky → settings (gear icon). Turn on Developer mode under General if it's off, then go to Developer → Install Plugin from ZIP and select the downloaded file.
4. Open the Quick Access Menu and pick DeckyHub's four-square icon in the tab strip (or Decky → DeckyHub).

From then on, DeckyHub installs and updates your other plugins, and itself, right from Gaming Mode.

Using DeckyHub

Controller buttons

DeckyHub uses the standard Steam Deck controls, plus extra shortcuts on every Install / Update button (on Discover and Updates cards, on Search results, in the Manage window, and for DeckyHub's own update):

Button	What it does
X	Download that release's ZIP to /home/deck/Downloads/deckyhub instead of installing it. Not shown when Download ZIP is hidden in Settings.
Y	Show the release notes (what that release changes) without installing anything.
Menu (☰)	Open the plugin's GitHub page. Not on DeckyHub's own update.

Steam's footer shows these actions for whichever button is focused.

Discover

Discover opens on three shelves, Most popular, Recently updated and New in DeckyHub, under a row of category chips with how many plugins each holds. Tap a chip, or See all on a shelf, to browse the whole list: as a compact list of every plugin (the default), or as a Grid of cards a page at a time (L1 / R1 turn the page). Updates and Search have the same Grid / List switch, and DeckyHub remembers your choice. The first time, a short welcome above the shelves says what DeckyHub does and how to stay safe.

Each card is color-coded (green once it's up to date, yellow when an update is available, red on an error) so you can spot what needs attention at a glance, and says Checking… while its latest release is still being looked up. Listed plugins also show their all-time downloads, GitHub stars and when they were last updated; the page header shows the total downloads. A card set to the pre-release Channel says so; stable is the default and isn't labelled. Tap Manage on any card to pick a channel and version, then download the release asset you want.

Search, filters and sorting

Search the list by name, repository, category or description, and open Filters to narrow it:

• Status: All, Installed, or Not Installed.
• Category: any of the list's categories.
• Sort: A to Z, Z to A, Most downloaded, Most stars, Recently updated, or Recently added (newest additions to the list first). Plugins with an update always come first, and Then by orders plugins the first sort leaves tied.

Every Status and Category option shows how many plugins it would list.

Badges

Cards can carry these badges. More on the "What the badges on plugins mean" notice at the top of Discover explains them in the app too.

Badge	What it means
Runs as root	Its backend runs as root, with full access to the system. Install only if you trust the author.
No release in a year	No new release for over a year, so it may be abandoned.
Fork	A fork that carries a plugin on after its original stopped. DeckyHub lists it only while it's the active one.

These warnings come from Decky Extended Plugins' automated security audit of the release you'd install. Routine findings like sudo, mount or systemctl aren't shown. A warning isn't proof of harm, and no warning isn't proof of safety.

Warning	What the audit found
Blocked by audit	Malware or a broken archive. Not recommended for installation.
Reads private data	It reads Steam login data, SSH keys or secrets from the environment.
Changes system startup	It edits shell profiles, preloads libraries, loads kernel modules or adds device rules, which keep working outside Decky.
Code not in its repo	The release has scripts or programs that aren't in its GitHub source, so you can't read what they do.
Hidden code	It contains encoded or packed code that's hard to read.
Skips HTTPS checks	It turns off certificate checks, so what it downloads could be tampered with.
Runs downloaded scripts	It downloads a script and runs it straight away.
Known vulnerabilities	It bundles libraries with published security flaws.

A warning about a newer pre-release is labelled Pre-release:. Download counts, stars and warnings come from the registry, refreshed every hour.

Search & Install

Not every Decky plugin is in the Decky store or DeckyHub's list. Open Search from the Quick Access Menu, type what you're after, and DeckyHub looks it up on GitHub, right from Gaming Mode.

• Only Decky plugins — results are limited to repositories that are actually Decky plugins, so awesome-lists, guides and unrelated projects don't get in the way.
• Install — adds the repository to your tracked list and hands its latest release to Decky Loader's own installer, behind the usual confirmation. From then on it shows up in Discover with update checks, like any listed plugin.
• Add (the + beside Install) — only tracks the repository, so you can look at it in Discover and install it later. Results already in DeckyHub say In DeckyHub.
• Y on a result's Install shows that release's notes, and X downloads its ZIP instead.

[!WARNING] Search results come straight from GitHub and nobody has reviewed them: not DeckyHub, not the Decky store. A plugin can do anything on your Deck, so only install plugins from authors you trust.

Tracked repositories are listed in Settings → Repositories, where you can remove them or export and import the list.

Updates

Shows every tracked tool that's installed and has a newer release available, along with its installed and latest version. Update a plugin from its Manage window, or, when more than one Decky plugin is waiting, tap Update All to hand them all to Decky Loader's installer behind a single confirmation. A few plugins can't be updated in place because of a Decky Loader bug: Update All leaves them out, and their Manage window explains that DeckyHub removes the installed version before Decky installs the new one. The Updates button in the Quick Access Menu shows how many updates are waiting.

Manage

Tap Manage on any card in Discover or Updates to:

• pick the release channel and a specific version. Stable shows only stable releases; Pre-release shows every release, newest first, so a stable release that comes out after the last pre-release is still offered;
• Download ZIP, open the Release Page, or Check for Updates for that app;
• for a Decky plugin, Install (not installed yet) or Update (the selected version is newer than the installed one). DeckyHub downloads the release ZIP (with a progress window, then a spinner until Decky is ready) and hands it to Decky Loader's own installer, the same one the Decky store uses. Decky asks you to confirm and installs it, verifying the SHA-256 checksum GitHub publishes for the ZIP. Older releases (files uploaded before mid-2025) have no checksum and Decky installs them without that check;
• for an installed Decky plugin, Uninstall, which asks you to confirm and then removes the plugin and its settings through Decky Loader.

Settings

Settings is split into tabs; L1 / R1 switch between them.

Tab	What's in it
General	The language, and the display: Grid or List, Default or Compact density, items per row, haptics, whether DeckyHub has its own tab in Quick Access, and which Manage-window buttons to hide.
GitHub	An optional personal access token that raises GitHub's rate limit (see Troubleshooting). Type it, or load it from a text file in Downloads.
Downloads	The download folder and the Overwrite Existing toggle (see Downloads).
Repositories	Your tracked repositories, export and import, and Custom Registries (see Repositories).
Logs	Export Logs, for bug reports.
About	What DeckyHub is, and the catalogs it builds on.

DeckyHub comes in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Italian, Polish, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). Translations other than English are made automatically, so they may have mistakes; corrections are welcome.

A tracked app's release channel isn't set here: use its Manage window.

Downloads

All downloads are saved to /home/deck/Downloads/deckyhub. Cleanup → Empty Folder in the Quick Access Menu clears that folder after confirmation. Starting a download opens a progress dialog with a Cancel button; once it finishes, the same dialog shows where the ZIP was saved and how to install it. If a download is interrupted, no partial file is left behind.

When GitHub provides a checksum for a release asset, DeckyHub always verifies it before keeping the download. By default, downloading a file again overwrites the previous copy; turn off Overwrite Existing in Settings if you'd rather keep both.

Repositories

Repositories is a tab in Settings. Add a repository from Search with the + beside a result's Install (results already in DeckyHub say In DeckyHub instead). Export your custom repositories to DeckyHub-repositories.json in /home/deck/Downloads to back them up or share them, or import that file back in. Any repository you've added can be removed again here; the plugins in DeckyHub's own list stay available and can't be removed. Prefer a bigger screen? The Registry Editor is a browser-based tool for building or editing a repository list file before importing it.

Under Custom Registries, add someone else's app list by its GitHub owner/repo (DeckyHub reads its registry/apps.json) or any HTTPS .json URL. Its apps join Discover alongside DeckyHub's own; up to 10 registries are allowed, and Refresh registries downloads them all again. An added registry can only add apps: it can't change or replace one DeckyHub already lists, including the plugins you have installed.

Keeping DeckyHub itself updated

The Quick Access Menu shows the installed version (DeckyHub vX.Y.Z) and checks for a newer DeckyHub release in the background, with a notification the first time one appears; a note names the new version and an Update button installs it straight away, like an app card's. Manage opens DeckyHub's update window, where you pick a channel (Stable releases, or Pre-releases for every release) and a version, then:

• Update to / Reinstall / Downgrade to vX.Y.Z — downloads that release (with a progress window) and hands it to Decky Loader's own installer (the same one the Decky store uses), which verifies its SHA-256 checksum and installs it in place. Only releases with a published checksum are offered.
• Download ZIP — the classic path: saves the release ZIP to /home/deck/Downloads/deckyhub, which you then install yourself (see Installing DeckyHub, step 3).

Registry Channel, in DeckyHub's own Manage window (Quick Access → DeckyHub → Manage), picks which version of DeckyHub's own plugin list you see. Stable (the default) is what everyone gets. Pre-release shows plugins and list changes that are still being tested, and Updates and Discover say Pre-release registry while it's on; if that list can't be loaded, DeckyHub uses the stable one. Switching reloads the list straight away.

Uninstalling DeckyHub

Open Decky's settings (gear icon) → Plugins, open the menu next to DeckyHub and choose Uninstall. Decky removes DeckyHub together with its settings and cached lists. Plugins you installed through DeckyHub stay installed.

Files DeckyHub saved to Downloads aren't removed: release ZIPs in /home/deck/Downloads/deckyhub, and any exported repository lists or log ZIPs in /home/deck/Downloads. Use Cleanup → Empty Folder before uninstalling, or delete them in Desktop Mode.

Troubleshooting

• "Rate limit" errors. DeckyHub talks to GitHub without needing you to log in. Release info for DeckyHub's list comes from one file the registry refreshes every hour, so browsing doesn't use up GitHub's public rate limit (60 requests/hour). Searching and repositories you added yourself still ask GitHub directly, so very heavy use may hit it; the error then says roughly how long to wait. To raise the limit to 5,000/hour, add a personal access token in Settings → GitHub (no scopes needed; see Privacy for where it goes).
• A new release doesn't show up. Release information is cached for 30 minutes. Every Check for Updates and Refresh button skips the cache, though a brand-new release can take up to an hour to reach the plugin list's release file.
• Discover is empty on a fresh install. DeckyHub needs to reach GitHub once to download the plugin list; after that it works offline from the last copy.
• Install, Update or DeckyHub's own update doesn't work. On an older Decky Loader build, one-tap installs may not be available. Use Download ZIP and install it from Decky's Developer settings (see Installing DeckyHub, step 3), or update Decky Loader.
• Anything else. Open an issue (see Getting help) and attach the ZIP from Export Logs.

Downloads only ever happen over HTTPS.

Privacy

DeckyHub has no account, analytics or telemetry, and sends nothing to its author or to any server of its own.

• What it connects to: only GitHub — raw.githubusercontent.com and github.com for the plugin list, release info and downloads, and api.github.com for search and repositories that aren't in the list — plus the HTTPS address of any custom registry you add. GitHub sees these requests as it would any browser's (your IP address and which repositories are looked up), under GitHub's privacy statement. Links such as a plugin's repository or the audit page open only when you tap them.
• What stays on your Deck: your settings, tracked repositories, custom registries and the cached plugin list and release info. The settings file is readable only by your user.
• Your GitHub token is optional, needs no scopes, is only ever sent to api.github.com, and is never written to the logs.
• Logs never leave the Deck on their own. Export Logs saves a ZIP to your Downloads folder with what DeckyHub did and any errors (repository names, file paths, versions); you decide whether to attach it to an issue.

Disclaimer

Not affiliated with Valve or the Decky Loader project. DeckyHub is a discovery and download tool: plugin information comes from public GitHub repositories, and every plugin belongs to its own authors. DeckyHub doesn't review, own or endorse any third-party plugin or its content, and isn't responsible for what one does. Plugins are installed at your own risk, so look at a plugin's repository before you install it, especially one found through Search.

License

GPL-3.0-or-later — see LICENSE.md.

Getting help

Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue on the GitHub repository with a description of what happened; attaching the ZIP from Export Logs (Settings → Logs) helps. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome.

Want to build DeckyHub from source or contribute a change? See CONTRIBUTING.md.