diff --git a/tests/gh-r.zunit b/tests/gh-r.zunit
index 262b32d5a..164a3566b 100755
--- a/tests/gh-r.zunit
+++ b/tests/gh-r.zunit
@@ -593,14 +593,19 @@
   local navi="$ZPFX/bin/navi" && assert "$navi" is_executable
   $navi --version && assert $state equals 0
 }
-@test 'neovim' {
-  run zinit sbin'**/nvim' for neovim/neovim
-  assert $state equals 0
+@test 'neovim::binary' {
+  run zinit sbin'**/nvim' id-as'neovim/binary' for neovim/neovim
+  assert $state equals 0; assert $output does_not_contain 'appimage'
   local nvim="$ZPFX/bin/nvim"
   assert "$nvim" is_executable
   $nvim --version
   assert $state equals 0
 }
+@test 'neovim::appimage' {
+  run zinit bpick'*appimage*' id-as'neovim/appimage' for neovim/neovim
+  assert $state equals 0; assert $output does_not_contain 'appimage.'
+  assert "$ZINIT[PLUGINS_DIR]/neovim---appimage/nvim.appimage" is_file
+}
 @test 'onefetch' {
   run zinit sbin'**/onefetch' for o2sh/onefetch; assert $state equals 0
   local onefetch="$ZPFX/bin/onefetch"; assert "$onefetch" is_executable
diff --git a/zinit-install.zsh b/zinit-install.zsh
index e87c344e4..0af15d913 100644
--- a/zinit-install.zsh
+++ b/zinit-install.zsh
@@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@ builtin source "${ZINIT[BIN_DIR]}/zinit-side.zsh" || {
             list=( ${(M)list[@]:#(#i)*/$~bpick} )
         }
 
-        list=( ${list[@]:#*(a(ccoutrements|ppimage)|s(ha256sum|ig)|manifest|sh|(sha1|md5)sums|sha256|md5|pkg|txt)(#e)} )
+        list=( ${list[@]:#*(a(ccoutrements|ppimage.[a-z]*)|s(ha256sum|ig)|manifest|.sh|(sha1|md5)sums|sha256|md5|pkg|txt)(#e)} )
 
         # filter .deb packages if dpkg-deb present
         if (( $#list < 1 && ${+commands[dpkg-deb]} == 1 )) {