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Cult UI

82 free design-engineer components plus 10 paid full-stack AI starters

Tier A · StrongRegistryComponent LibraryBlock Collectioncult-ui.com

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Cult UI is a shadcn-compatible registry of 82 MIT components aimed at design engineers, best known for its Apple-flavoured pieces — Dynamic Island, Dock, Family Button, Family Drawer, Expandable Screen — alongside texture cards, shader lens blur, dithered images, and pixel typography. A separate paid tier (Cult Pro at pro.cult-ui.com) sells 10 full-stack Next.js starters and a library of AI-agent interface patterns built on the Vercel AI SDK. For developers who want interface moments that feel hand-crafted rather than generic, and for teams who want a working AI product skeleton instead of loose components.

Install

npx shadcn@latest add https://cult-ui.com/registry/styles/default/texture-card.json

For an agent

Reach for Cult UI when the brief asks for a specific Apple-style interaction — Dynamic Island, a Dock, an expanding Family Button, a morphing drawer — because those are hard to rebuild and Cult ships them working. It layers cleanly on shadcn/ui since it reuses the same Radix primitives and the same default/new-york style folders. Two operational warnings: cult-ui.com sits behind a Vercel security checkpoint that returns 429 to non-browser clients, so a headless fetch of the docs or the registry JSON will fail and you should pull component source from the GitHub repo at apps/www/registry/default/ui instead; and the AI-agent patterns advertised on the homepage live in the paid Cult Pro tier, not in the MIT repo.

Why it is here. The reference implementation for Apple-grade interaction moments in React — six thousand stars because nobody else ships a credible Dynamic Island you can paste in.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License: MIT, Commercial license
Pricing: Freemium, Open source, One-time purchase
Framework: React, Next.js
Styling: Tailwind CSS, CSS custom properties, Shader / GLSL
Distribution: shadcn registry, Copy-paste snippet, GitHub repository, CLI installer
Platform: Web
Content type: Code
Agent readiness: Machine-readable registry item, Copy-paste ready code, Readable open source, CLI installable, Blocks bots
Accessibility: Built on accessible primitives, Keyboard navigable, Known accessibility gaps
Maturity: Actively maintained
Pricing detail: Free registry is MIT. Cult Pro is a one-time lifetime purchase covering 416+ components and blocks plus the 10 starters; the storefront showed a '$50 off, limited time' banner and no base price at the time of checking.
GitHub stars: 6,045

Components it ships

82 total

Helps you build

Homepage Features Onboarding Web App Onboarding Checklist AI Chat Panel Settings Web App Feed Pricing Website Waitlist Blog

Templates

Notable for

Dynamic Island, Dock, Family Button, and Family Drawer
Shader lens blur, dithered images, and liquid-metal heroes
Registry blocked to non-browser clients by a Vercel checkpoint
10 paid full-stack Next.js AI starters
Pixel typography and texture card systems

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 429. https://github.com/nolly-studio/cult-ui (README), gh api repos/nolly-studio/cult-ui git tree (82 component files enumerated at apps/www/registry/default/ui plus the public registry JSON tree), https://pro.cult-ui.com/?ref=newcult.co (10 templates enumerated), https://www.newcult.co (307 redirect). cult-ui.com itself returned HTTP 429 'Vercel Security Checkpoint' on every attempt (/, /docs/components, /r/registry.json, /registry/styles/default/*.json), so the component list came from the repo, not the site. The install command above is the shadcn URL form derived from the repo's public/registry tree and was NOT confirmed live because of the block.

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