MCP Clients

MCP clients are the applications that connect to MCP servers.

Claude Desktop
Free
(4)
- Desktop
- Tools
- Resources
- Prompts
- Roots
- Apps
- DCR
Anthropic's official desktop app for Claude on macOS and Windows. The original reference MCP client — install MCP servers via the config file and Claude can call their tools, read their resources, and use their prompts mid-conversation.
Continue
Free
(2)
- VS Code Extension
- JetBrains Plugin
- Tools
- Resources
- Prompts
- Apps
Continue is an open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. It speaks MCP, so any MCP server you connect — for docs, databases, deploy tools — becomes a tool the model can call inside autocomplete and chat.
TypeScript
Apache 2.0
Goose
Free
(2)
- Desktop
- Tools
- Resources
- Prompts
- Discovery
- Instructions
- Sampling
- Roots
- Elicitation
- Apps
- DCR
Goose is a general-purpose AI agent that can dynamically plug into new extensions and learn how to use them. It solves higher-level problems using tools from multiple extensions and can interact with multiple extensions at once.
Rust
Apache 2.0
VS Code GitHub Copilot
Free
(2)
- Desktop
- Tools
- Resources
- Prompts
- Discovery
- Instructions
- Sampling
- Roots
- Elicitation
- Tasks
- Apps
- CIMD
- DCR
VS Code integrates MCP with GitHub Copilot through agent mode, allowing direct interaction with MCP-provided tools within your agentic coding workflow.
TypeScript
MIT License
Postman
Paid
(2)
- Desktop
- Web
- Tools
- Resources
- Prompts
- Discovery
- Sampling
- Elicitation
- Apps
Postman is the platform where teams build those APIs together. With built-in support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Postman helps you design, test, and manage APIs that power both human workflows and intelligent agents.
Archestra
Free
(0)
- Tools
- Apps
- CIMD
- DCR
- Enterprise-Managed Authorization
Archestra is an enterprise AI platform that combines an LLM proxy, MCP registry/orchestrator, MCP gateway, agent runtime, and chat UI into a single control plane for building, routing, and securing AI workflows.
Claude.ai
Free
(0)
- Web
- Tools
- Resources
- Prompts
- Apps
- CIMD
- DCR
Claude.ai is Anthropic's web-based AI assistant that provides MCP support for remote servers.
Joey
Free
(0)
- Mobile
- Tools
- Prompts
- Sampling
- Elicitation
- Apps
Joey is a mobile-first MCP client for iOS and Android (also available on macOS, Windows, and Linux) that connects to AI models via OpenRouter and remote MCP servers over Streamable HTTP.
MCPJam
Free
(0)
- Tools
- Resources
- Prompts
- Instructions
- Elicitation
- Tasks
- Apps
- CIMD
- DCR
MCPJam Inspector is the local development client for ChatGPT apps, MCP ext-apps, and MCP servers.