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MCP Clients

MCP clients are the applications that connect to MCP servers.

  • (2)
    • Desktop
    • Tools

    LM Studio is a desktop app for running open-source LLMs locally on Mac, Windows and Linux via llama.cpp and MLX. It supports MCP, so local models can call tools and read resources from any MCP server you configure.

    • 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
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    • Desktop
    • Tools
    • Discovery

    Windsurf (formerly Codeium) is an agentic IDE forked from VS Code, built around AI pair programming. It speaks MCP, so any MCP server you connect becomes a tool the agent can call inside Cascade chats and edits.

    TypeScript
  • Zed

    Zed

    Free
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    • Desktop
    • Tools
    • Prompts

    Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. Its agent panel speaks MCP, so any MCP server you configure becomes a tool the assistant can call alongside your codebase context.

    Rust
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    • CLI
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    AskIt is a Python asyncio library and CLI that lets LLM models call tools from MCP servers as well as locally-defined Python functions. Supports STDIO, SSE and Streamable HTTP transports and multiple LLM providers including OpenAI and xAI.

    Python
    • CLI
    • Tools

    Dolphin-MCP is an open-source multi-server bridging client for MCP. It lets you connect any MCP-compatible server to any LLM (local or remote), enabling flexible tool usage and resource access in real time.

    Python
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    • Desktop
    • Tools

    Kiln is a free tool for building production-ready AI systems. It runs locally, supports MCP tool calling, RAG pipelines, evaluations, agents, synthetic data generation and fine-tuning — with both a desktop app and a Python library.

    Python
  • mcpc

    Free
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    • CLI
    • Tools
    • Resources
    • Prompts
    • Discovery
    • Instructions

    mcpc is a MCP CLI client that maps MCP operations to intuitive commands for interactive shell use, scripts, and AI coding agents. It is useful for inspecting servers, scripting, and enabling AI coding agents to use MCP "code mode" in shell.

    • CLI
    • Tools

    A small command-line MCP client that runs an LLM prompt against any MCP server. Useful for quickly testing tools, prompts and resources without spinning up a UI.

    Python
    MIT License
  • Memex

    Paid
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    • Desktop
    • Tools
    • Resources
    • Prompts

    Memex is a desktop app that is both an MCP client and an MCP server builder. Generate functional MCP servers from natural language, test and debug them autonomously, then use them in the same conversation alongside any existing MCP server.

  • Nerve

    Free
    (2)
    • CLI
    • Tools

    Nerve is an ADK (Agent Development Kit) and CLI designed to be a simple yet powerful platform for creating and executing LLM-based agents fully integrated with MCP.

    Python
  • oterm

    Free
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    • CLI
    • Tools
    • Prompts
    • Sampling

    A terminal client for Ollama, with support for MCP servers.

    Python
    MIT License
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    • Desktop
    • Web
    • Tools
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    • 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.

  • Tambo

    Free
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    • Web
    • Tools
    • Prompts
    • Discovery
    • Sampling
    • Elicitation

    SDK for integrating natural language control, with MCP support, into your React app.

    JavaScript
    TypeScript
  • y-cli

    Free
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    • CLI
    • Tools

    A tiny command-line interface chat application that brings AI conversations to your terminal. Features include chat data storage in JSONL files, interactive chat interface, support for multiple bot configurations compatible with OpenAI chat completi…

    Python
    MIT License
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    • Desktop
    • Tools

    Argo is a localized large model agent builder. Build agents with local & Cloud LLMs, RAG, MCP tools. Users can share these creations in our community, download AI agents from others. Key features: * Download opensource LLMs from ollama, huggingface…

    Python
    • CLI
    • Tools

    Enjoy seamless interactions with ChatGPT, MistralAI, Claude by Anthropic, Grok by xAI, Gemini by Google and DeepSeek directly from your command line. Elevate your chat experience with efficiency and ease.

    TypeScript
    Apache 2.0
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    • Desktop
    • Tools

    DeepChat is a cross-platform desktop AI assistant, MCP client. DeepChat brings the power of AI to your desktop with privacy and efficiency, making it your ideal companion for productive work.

    TypeScript
    Apache 2.0
    • CLI
    • Tools
    • Resources
    • Prompts
    • Sampling

    A powerful universal CLI client for MCP Servers that provides seamless integration with multiple protocols, AI models, and tools through an intelligent interface.

    Python
    MIT License
    • Desktop
    • Web
    • Tools

    Add MCP Capabilities to Chatgpt, Gemini, Grok, Google AI Studio, DeepSeek, AI Studio, OpenRouter, T3 Chat, Mistral and Github Copilot. This extension allows you to connect to any MCP server and use its tools, models, and capabilities directly from y…

    TypeScript
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    Runbear enables teams to easily create AI agents in communication tools like Slack, MS Teams, and HubSpot. It supports MCP through remote transports and provides managed MCP servers for easy integration.

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    • Desktop
    • Tools

    SeekChat supports MCP tool execution, enabling AI to directly control your computer and perform various tasks. Easily automate file management, data analysis, code development, and more, turning AI into a truly intelligent assistant.

    TypeScript
    Apache 2.0
  • Witsy

    Free
    (2)
    • Desktop
    • Tools

    Witsy is a cross-platform AI desktop assistant that hooks into every major LLM provider and is one keyboard shortcut away. It supports MCP servers, giving the assistant access to external tools and data sources.

    TypeScript
    Apache 2.0
    • CLI
    • Web
    • Tools

    A powerful yet lightweight, fast, simple and flexible client for interacting with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers through local LLMs. This tool allows you to connect to and utilize various tools from multiple MCP servers through an easy-to-use…

    Python
    Apache 2.0
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    • Desktop
    • Tools

    ChatMCP is an AI chat client implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

    Dart
    Apache 2.0
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    • Tools

    AstrBot is an open-source, multi-platform LLM chatbot framework that ships with MCP support. Deploy bots to QQ, Telegram, Discord and more, and let them call any MCP-compatible tool from inside a conversation.

    Python
    TypeScript
    • Desktop
    • Tools

    Cherry Studio is a desktop client that supports for multiple LLM providers, available on Windows, Mac and Linux.

    TypeScript
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    • Tools

    A command-line AI tool built on the Model Context Protocol, providing streaming chat interaction and tool calling. Supports NapCat connection to QQ.

    • CLI
    • Tools

    This CLI chatbot demo integrates the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling tool support via MCP servers and compatibility with any OpenAI API-standard LLM provider.

    Python
    MIT License
  • Chatty

    Paid
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    • CLI
    • Tools

    Chatty

    Rust
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    • Desktop
    • Tools
    • CIMD
    • DCR

    AgentOne is a fully-featured AI agent desktop app that takes a goal in plain language and carries it out end-to-end across your apps. It connects 4000+ AI models from 30+ providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Cerebras, and more) with 7,000+ extensio…

    Rust
    TypeScript
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    • Desktop
    • Tools
    • Resources
    • Prompts
    • Discovery
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    • Elicitation

    AIQL TUUI is a native, cross-platform desktop AI chat application with MCP support. It supports multiple AI providers (e.g., Anthropic, Cloudflare, Deepseek, OpenAI, Qwen), local AI models (via vLLM, Ray, etc.), and aggregated API platforms (such as…

    Apache 2.0
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    • Desktop
    • Tools

    Chatbox is a better UI and desktop app for ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLMs, available on Windows, Mac, Linux, and the web. It's open-source and has garnered 37K stars on GitHub.

  • Joey

    Free
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    • 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.

  • Tome

    Free
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    • Desktop
    • Tools

    Tome is an open source cross-platform desktop app designed for working with local LLMs and MCP servers. It is designed to be beginner friendly and abstract away the nitty gritty of configuration for people getting started with MCP.

    Apache 2.0