cherryhq/cherry-studio

Cherry Studio is a desktop application for Windows, Mac, and Linux that gives you a single, unified place to chat with many different AI language models. The problem it solves is that accessing multiple AI providers normally means juggling separate websites or apps, one for OpenAI's ChatGPT, another for Anthropic's Claude, another for Google's Gemini, and so on. Cherry Studio connects to over a dozen cloud AI services as well as locally-run models (via Ollama or LM Studio), letting you switch between them or even run conversations with multiple models side by side to compare their answers. Beyond simple chat, the application comes with over 300 pre-configured AI assistants, pre-set personas or system prompts for specific tasks like coding, translation, writing, or analysis, and lets you create your own. It handles document and image uploads so you can ask questions about PDFs, Office files, and images. There is a built-in AI translation tool, a global search across all your conversations, topic management to keep chats organized, and support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which is a standard that lets AI models connect to external tools and data sources. The interface supports light and dark themes and renders rich text formatting (Markdown, code with syntax highlighting, and Mermaid diagrams). You would use Cherry Studio if you are a developer, writer, researcher, or anyone who works with AI regularly and wants the convenience of one desktop app instead of many browser tabs. It requires no special environment setup, it is distributed as an installer. The application is built with TypeScript using the Electron framework, which packages web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) into a cross-platform desktop app.