📚 pybrary

A beautiful, vim-inspired terminal library manager built with Textual.

pybrary is a keyboard-first library manager that lives entirely in your terminal. Grabbing a book, adding a new title or checking what is out on loan is a few keystrokes away — no mouse, no bloated UI, just a beautiful vim-inspired dashboard.

Why pybrary?

• Keyboard-first. Every action has a binding you already know from Vim: j/k to navigate, gg/G to jump, / to search.
• Live search. Filter the catalogue as you type, across title, author and genre.
• Beautiful out of the box. A clean dark theme with a statistics sidebar, zebra-striped table and Nerd Font loan statuses.
• Real persistence. Everything is stored in a portable SQLite database — carry your catalogue anywhere.
• Charts. Turning genre data into PNG graphs is one keypress away.

Sneak peek

Search with highlighted matches	Adding a book

The full key reference is one keystroke away.

Get started with the installation guide.