- [Voice] Add Kokoro Chinese-English TTS with 103 voices for Windows x64, Linux and macOS, and Qwen3-TTS for Apple Silicon. Download models from Settings > Local Models before first use.
- [Voice] Show live audio spectra in speech playback and dictation controls. Restore the microphone after empty dictation.
- [Voice] Add local FunASR speech transcription on Windows, Linux and macOS.
- [Cherry Cloud] Add subscription plan and quota usage visibility to the Global edition, with limited-time-free and exhausted-quota descriptions for managed models.
- [Cherry Cloud] Add a compact anchored sidebar account menu. Avatar and nickname open Personal Information settings; Appearance and Login stay in the menu.
- [Cherry Cloud] Preserve login during temporary connection or refresh failures.
Cherry Studio by CherryHQ
Open-source desktop AI client for Windows, macOS and Linux with chat, autonomous agents and 300+ ready assistants, connecting to many cloud and local LLM providers.
General-purpose AI agents
New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 20, 2026Open source · AGPL-3.0Free to start
Price
Free (OSS)
free and open source
Popularity
#9 in General
Gid Score 44 / 100 · #60 of 260 ranked AI agents
Trend
Gaining stars
about +36 GitHub stars a day
Development
Actively updated
latest 2.1.7, 2d ago
Community
52.8K GitHub stars
public signals
Usage data: latest readings Oct 20, 2026, last checked Oct 20, 22:24 UTC. Date of each number
What Cherry Studio does
It is free and open source (AGPL-3.0); you pay only for the models it calls.
Key facts
| Maker | CherryHQ |
|---|---|
| First released | May 2024 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| Main language | TypeScript |
| Open issues and PRs | 1,900 |
Pricing
Open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
, checked Oct 20, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Yes
- Open source?Yes (AGPL-3.0)
- Closest alternativeOpenClaw · all alternatives
Cherry Studio alternatives
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OpenClawOpenClaw Foundation (nonprofit); created by Peter Steinberger |
75 | 2.1M | down 46.2% | up 3.2% | 393K+217/day | 2026.10.53d ago | Free (OSS) | |||
| 12 |
Hermes AgentNous Research |
63 | 214K | — | — | 255K+338/day | 0.22.26d ago | Free (OSS) | |||
| 17 |
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60 | 300K | down 16.3% | up 2.7% | 255K+952/day | — | Free | |||
| 29 |
ManusButterfly Effect Pte. Ltd. (Manus AI), Singapore |
54 | — | — | — | — | — | Free + $20/mo | |||
| 41 |
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49 | 28.7K | up 48.7% | up 88.8% | 49.2K+37/day | 0.3.536d ago | Free (OSS) | |||
| 43 |
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49 | 40.3K | up 1,177% | up 85.2% | 35.9K+39/day | 2.2.26d ago | Free (OSS) | |||
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Ratings from people who use Cherry Studio
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Cherry Studio news
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17 agents added to AgentGid
Hindsight, Cherry Studio, Google Workspace CLI, Hypit, Cognee, GenOffice, Ego Lite, cc-haha, Hive, Moli, Vibe-Trading, MemOS and 5 more
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Cherry Studio 2.1.7 released
[Voice] Add Kokoro Chinese-English TTS with 103 voices for Windows x64, Linux and macOS, and Qwen3-TTS for Apple Silicon. Download models from Settings > Local Models before first use.; [Voice] Show live audio spectra in speech playback and dictation…
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Cherry Studio 2.1.6 released
[Search] Fix searches for programming languages with hash symbols (e.g., C#, F#) not matching messages.; [Backup] Fix restore failing on Windows when browser storage is locked by the current session. Restore progress now stays monotonic, failed attempts are…
What changed: recent Cherry Studio releases
22 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- [Search] Fix searches for programming languages with hash symbols (e.g., C#, F#) not matching messages.
- [Backup] Fix restore failing on Windows when browser storage is locked by the current session. Restore progress now stays monotonic, failed attempts are reported with retry guidance, and orphaned…
- [Errors] Stop misreporting client-refusal errors as "invalid API key" — now shows the correct permission guidance instead of sending users to regenerate working keys.
- [Chat] Context-usage token counts now follow the selected interface language and update when it changes.
- fix(scheduled-tasks): match run-log date searches to displayed timestamps
- hotfix(release): fix draft verification credentials
Earlier releases
- [Remote Access] Upload images and files to remote Agent sessions from your paired mobile device, with resumable transfers up to 1 GiB per file.
- [Channels] Add WeCom and DingTalk channels with QR setup, Agent conversations, streaming replies, notifications, and attachments.
- [MCP] Support MCP SDK v2 with interactive requests, validated forms, cancellation, and structured results across chat and agent runtimes.
- [Agent] Upgrade Pi runtime to 1.0 with native sandboxed Code Mode and MCP support. Action required: update custom Pi scripts to the native codemode API.
- [Doctor] System Doctor gains an AI analysis section that reads diagnostic reports and proposes bounded fixes you can apply and undo.
- [Device Connections] Improve mobile onboarding with platform-specific downloads, remembered progress, and automatic mobile previews.
- [Device connections] Connect over reachable LAN or externally configured VPN networks with IPv4/IPv6 support, automatic address prioritization, and manual selection by network interface. Action…
- [Messages] Add export to multi-select action bar: export selected messages as Markdown, Word, or to Notion/Yuque/Obsidian/Joplin/Siyuan.
- [Models] Add GPT-6.1 Sol support for OpenAI and OpenAI Codex, including pricing and reasoning settings.
- [Models] Add Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 with thinking controls and native web-tool eligibility.
- [Models] Claude Code provider now offers Claude Opus 5.5 (with fast mode) and Claude Fable 5.1.
- [Models] Add MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview with five reasoning effort levels.
- [Remote] Device Connections: pair a compatible mobile client to import providers and use desktop Agents over an encrypted LAN connection, with reconnect recovery, execution failures, approvals and…
- [Document] Support self-hosted MinerU 4 document parsing while retaining compatibility with legacy Open MinerU servers.
- [Screenshot] Use system OCR on macOS and Windows to select and copy screenshot text without downloading a local model.
- [Models] Add Claude Opus 5.5 to API chat with updated model limits, pricing, reasoning controls, and web-tool eligibility.
- [Models] Add GPT-6 Sol and Luna catalog metadata, OpenAI web-search eligibility, and OpenAI Codex model entries.
- [Models] Add Grok 4.7 to the model catalog (xAI, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, OpenCode, Copilot) with the xhigh reasoning effort; Grok CLI now lists Grok 4.6, Grok 4.7 and Grok 4.7 Fast; Grok…
- [Model] Add oMLX as a built-in local provider, with its base URL preset and no API key required.
- [Model] Add Moonshot AI global endpoint for users of the international Moonshot console.
- [Settings] Renamed Recycle Bin to Archive and promoted it to a standalone settings page with improved layout and navigation.
- [MCP] The built-in mcp-auto-install server now keeps its Registry cache and config writes inside Cherry's config directory.
- [Sign-in] CherryIN sign-in now uses a local HTTP callback instead of the system custom-protocol handler.
- [Agents] Return to the original chat from a link at the fork boundary.
Cherry Studio popularity and usage data
The GitHub repository has 52.8K stars, 1,027 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 2.1.7, published Oct 19, 2026; there were 6 stable releases in the past 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: cherry-studio.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption—
Community72
Attention—
Momentum51
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
How fresh these numbers are
| Number | Latest reading | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | Oct 20, 2026 | Oct 20, 22:24 UTC |
We fetch every source once a day. Registries publish downloads and page views a day or two late, so their latest reading trails the check. A reading more than 4 days old is marked out of date; the Gid Score still uses it until a newer one arrives.
Cherry Studio FAQ
How much does Cherry Studio cost?
Open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Is Cherry Studio open source?
Yes. Cherry Studio is open source, released under the AGPL-3.0 license.
How popular is Cherry Studio?
The GitHub repository has 52.8K stars, 1,027 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 2.1.7, published Oct 19, 2026; there were 6 stable releases in the past 30 days.
What is the latest version of Cherry Studio?
The latest stable release we track is 2.1.7, published on Oct 19, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Cherry Studio?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, DeepSeek Harness, Manus.
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Where these numbers come from
GitHub: cherryhq/cherry-studio. Site rank: cherryai.com on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: cherryai.com, github.com.