🚀 Intro
May 25, 2026 · View on GitHub
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There are many great community made GRUB themes to spice up your bootloader before booting into your system proper. Unfortunately, they're scattered across multiple sites and it can be difficult to find good ones. As another user told me, the majority of themes on Pling (the largest host of GRUB themes currently) are fairly low effort and can be boring to trawl through. Hence, I decided to put together this page to bring attention to some decent themes I've found around the internet over time.
🌟 Useful Links
GitZip - Download individual folders and files from Github repositories without having to download the entire repo. Asks for a Token, but seems to work without just fine.
GRUB-Tweaks - Multiple guides on various tweaks and additions you can make to further customize, or repair, your GRUB install.
Theme Tutorial and Theme References - Pretty complex, but the best set of information I've managed to find so far. It may be easier to start by taking an existing theme and making edits to it yourself, rather than diving straight in and starting from scratch.
GRUB2 Theme Preview - Very useful software to preview GRUB themes without having to reboot your entire system. Requires a lot of dependencies (since it's spinning up a whole VM), but there's an easy command to install them all in the GRUB-Tweaks repo.
Background Cycler - A script I made to cycle a theme between different backgrounds each time your system is rebooted.
Theme Installer (Community Made) - Script created by FLEXIY0 that can automatically download and install a large amount of themes. May encounter errors on some edge-cases.
🛠️ Installing a theme
👍 How to contribute
🎨 Themes
If you like a theme, please do consider giving it a rating on Pling or starring its repo on Github. It's very rare for anyone to rate on Pling and that's half the reason good themes are so hard to find. Plus, it always feels nice to see that people are enjoying the product you created.
