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awesome-shadcn/ui vs Shoogle

2 compared on 6 criteria

On what you get without paying, awesome-shadcn/ui is All of it, MIT and Shoogle is Everything on the site. On cheapest paid option, awesome-shadcn/ui does not publish it and Shoogle does not publish it. On what it publishes, awesome-shadcn/ui does not publish it and Shoogle is 292 registries; item count not published. On how you install from it, awesome-shadcn/ui does not publish it and Shoogle is Through the official shadcn CLI, as a namespace. On how something gets listed, awesome-shadcn/ui is Pull request, against five published rules and Shoogle is Pulled from shadcn's own directory, plus submissions. On what it says about the code's quality, awesome-shadcn/ui is Human review plus three CI workflows and Shoogle does not publish it. BlockDex publishes this table and is one of the things in it, so read the case for the other side below rather than taking the table's word for it. Every figure was read off the named company's own page on or since 2026-09-06; the URLs and the dates are at the foot of this page, and a job re-fetches each one on a schedule and fails when a figure is no longer on the page it came from.

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Criterionawesome-shadcn/uiShoogleWhat you get without payingAll of it, MITA public GitHub repository — 20.3k stars, MIT licence shown in its own sidebar — and free use is also a condition of being listed: "It is free to use. Open source is the norm here … What does not get in is a product that is paid end to end, with no free tier and no public code."Everything on the siteThere is no pricing page — https://shoogle.dev/pricing returned 404 when this row was checked — and no account gate on browsing, the directory or the MCP endpoint. The only commercial surface anywhere in the navigation is Sponsor, which is the same model SkillWorks runs and the opposite of a per-seat catalogue.Cheapest paid optionNot publishedThere is nothing to buy: the list is a repository, and it publishes no price, plan or sponsorship tier for readers. Read on the repository's own page on 14 August 2026.Not publishedNo plans, no tiers and no purchase surface. /pricing 404s and the MCP page's only call to action is the Discord. Read as sponsor-funded rather than free-forever: the site publishes no commitment either way, so this is what the page carries rather than what a visitor can infer.What it publishesNot publishedThe list is a set of markdown tables with a Name, Description, Link and Date column, and publishes no total. Its headline numbers are repository numbers — 20.3k stars, 1.3k forks — not item counts.292 registries; item count not published"S 292 registries" on the directory, over the same community set shadcn's own directory lists. The MCP page carries a UI-components counter and a registries counter, but both render as animated digit rollers rather than a number, so the page states no item total. The registry endpoint is bounded rather than complete in another way too: https://shoogle.dev/r/registry.json?q=button answers with pagination {"hasMore":false,"limit":100,"total":100} — a top-100 per query, not a corpus size.How you install from itNot publishedThere is no installer and no manifest; every row is a link, and installation is whatever the linked project documents. What the list does require is that the thing be installable somewhere — its first acceptance rule names "a registry you can install from, a port, a plugin, a tool built for shadcn projects".Through the official shadcn CLI, as a namespace"Search with npx shadcn@latest search @shoogle — filter by type, limit, and offset without leaving your terminal." It is a shadcn registry namespace, so results come back already addressed to their SOURCE registry — the button row of that endpoint carries "addCommandArgument": "@animate-ui/primitives-buttons-button" — and the install runs against the origin registry rather than through Shoogle. The same index is also served as an MCP server over streamable HTTP for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and Cline. No other entry in this table is reachable from inside the CLI.How something gets listedPull request, against five published rules"Two ways to submit" — a form on awesomeshadcn.dev that opens the pull request for you, or editing README.md directly — and "either way, one resource per pull request". Acceptance is explicit: "a resource has to clear all five", the first being that it is genuinely about shadcn/ui rather than merely using it.Pulled from shadcn's own directory, plus submissions"Community registries pulled from the shadcn/ui directory, with sorting to make it easier to track newly added registries." So the inclusion decision is shadcn's, not Shoogle's, with a documented route for a registry that is not in it yet. Categories are assigned per registry — Design System, Marketing UI, AI Blocks and twenty more — and the sort is by when the registry was added.What it says about the code's qualityHuman review plus three CI workflows"Three workflows run on your pull request and on main": Format README, which "fails if any name or url is duplicated, or if a row has no usable link"; Add dates, which stamps the date column; and Link check, which "runs weekly across the whole list and reports broken links in an issue". The only automated ongoing check of the four — and it checks that links resolve, not that code works.Not publishedNothing on the directory or the MCP page claims review, curation, testing or any check of the code behind a listing. The one quality statement the site makes is about itself: every page carries an Alpha badge beside the wordmark.

BlockDex publishes this table and is not one of the 2 compared. "Not published" means that company does not state the figure on the page cited below. It is not a claim that no such figure exists: this table prints what was read, not what was inferred.

awesome-shadcn/ui vs Shoogle — what you get without paying?

awesome-shadcn/ui: All of it, MIT. A public GitHub repository — 20.3k stars, MIT licence shown in its own sidebar — and free use is also a condition of being listed: "It is free to use. Open source is the norm here … What does not get in is a product that is paid end to end, with no free tier and no public code.". Shoogle: Everything on the site. There is no pricing page — https://shoogle.dev/pricing returned 404 when this row was checked — and no account gate on browsing, the directory or the MCP endpoint. The only commercial surface anywhere in the navigation is Sponsor, which is the same model SkillWorks runs and the opposite of a per-seat catalogue. Read from github.com and shoogle.dev on 2026-09-06.

awesome-shadcn/ui vs Shoogle — cheapest paid option?

awesome-shadcn/ui does not state it on github.com. There is nothing to buy: the list is a repository, and it publishes no price, plan or sponsorship tier for readers. Read on the repository's own page on 14 August 2026. Shoogle does not state it on shoogle.dev. No plans, no tiers and no purchase surface. /pricing 404s and the MCP page's only call to action is the Discord. Read as sponsor-funded rather than free-forever: the site publishes no commitment either way, so this is what the page carries rather than what a visitor can infer. Read from github.com and shoogle.dev on 2026-09-06.

awesome-shadcn/ui vs Shoogle — what it publishes?

awesome-shadcn/ui does not state it on github.com. The list is a set of markdown tables with a Name, Description, Link and Date column, and publishes no total. Its headline numbers are repository numbers — 20.3k stars, 1.3k forks — not item counts. Shoogle: 292 registries; item count not published. "S 292 registries" on the directory, over the same community set shadcn's own directory lists. The MCP page carries a UI-components counter and a registries counter, but both render as animated digit rollers rather than a number, so the page states no item total. The registry endpoint is bounded rather than complete in another way too: https://shoogle.dev/r/registry.json?q=button answers with pagination {"hasMore":false,"limit":100,"total":100} — a top-100 per query, not a corpus size. Read from github.com and shoogle.dev on 2026-09-06.

When should I pick awesome-shadcn/ui, and when Shoogle?

awesome-shadcn/ui — You want the rules a listing was judged by written down where you can read them, and you want to browse rather than install. It is the only one of the four that publishes its acceptance criteria in full — "this page is the full set of rules a submission is judged by - nothing is checked that isn't written here", five conditions, one resource per pull request — and the only one running an automated link check across its whole list every week. It is also the only one whose free-to-use requirement is a listing criterion rather than a pricing decision. Shoogle — You want the answer inside the tool you are already in rather than in a browser tab. Shoogle is the only one here that registers as a shadcn NAMESPACE, so `npx shadcn@latest search @shoogle` searches across community registries from the terminal and the install runs through the official CLI — no site, no copy-paste, and the same route works from any MCP client that speaks streamable HTTP. It is the shortest path from "is there a component for this" to the component being in the project. It also labels itself Alpha, and it publishes no figure for how many items that search covers.

When each of these is the right pick

BlockDex does not sell any of these and scores them. Each case below is the one that option wins.

  • awesome-shadcn/ui: You want the rules a listing was judged by written down where you can read them, and you want to browse rather than install. It is the only one of the four that publishes its acceptance criteria in full — "this page is the full set of rules a submission is judged by - nothing is checked that isn't written here", five conditions, one resource per pull request — and the only one running an automated link check across its whole list every week. It is also the only one whose free-to-use requirement is a listing criterion rather than a pricing decision.
  • Shoogle: You want the answer inside the tool you are already in rather than in a browser tab. Shoogle is the only one here that registers as a shadcn NAMESPACE, so `npx shadcn@latest search @shoogle` searches across community registries from the terminal and the install runs through the official CLI — no site, no copy-paste, and the same route works from any MCP client that speaks streamable HTTP. It is the shortest path from "is there a component for this" to the component being in the project. It also labels itself Alpha, and it publishes no figure for how many items that search covers.

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