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Cherry Studio

An open-source desktop AI chat app for Windows, macOS and Linux that connects to local models through Ollama or LM Studio and to cloud providers.

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Cherry Studio is a desktop AI chat app for people who use several model providers and want one place to manage their conversations. It supports local model connections as well as cloud services.

  • Local and cloud models: Connect to Ollama or LM Studio, or use providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini.
  • Assistants and conversations: Choose preconfigured assistants, create your own and hold simultaneous conversations with different models.
  • Documents and visual output: Work with text, images, Office files and PDFs, and view Markdown, syntax-highlighted code and Mermaid diagrams.
  • Tools and organization: Connect external tools through MCP server support, translate text, search across the app and organize conversations by topic.
  • File backups: Use WebDAV for file management and backups.

The community desktop app runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and is open source under AGPL-3.0. Local model connections use Ollama or LM Studio on your hardware. Requests to cloud models go to the selected provider.

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