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Cherry Studio

Desktop AI client unifying frontier LLMs and local models.

Category
Assistant
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Open core
Hosting
Local
Platforms
macOSWindowsLinux
Models
Multi-model
Verified
Jun 6, 2026

A cross-platform desktop AI productivity app for chatting across cloud and local models, with autonomous agents and 300+ prebuilt assistants. It runs on your own machine and supports local models via Ollama and LM Studio alongside cloud providers using your own keys. The community edition is AGPL-3.0; organizations over ten people require a paid commercial license.

Capabilities 3

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Multi-model access (primary capability)
  • Chat with documents (secondary capability)
  • Translation (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Cross-platform desktop, runs locally
  • Cloud + local models (Ollama, LM Studio)
  • Autonomous agents and prebuilt assistants
  • Open-source community edition
  • AGPL: 10+ person orgs need commercial license
  • Bring-your-own API keys
  • Desktop only, no mobile

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