Cline is also building a native Desktop app.

Cline's biggest upgrade
https://cline.bot/blog/how-we-migrated-11-million-users-to-clines-biggest-harness-upgrade
Cline started in 2024 as a VSCode extension, back in the days of Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Each new model and provider had to be adapted manually. The new Cline SDK has been extracted into a separate modular runtime: prompts rewritten, loop simplified, context and tool definitions updated for native tool calling of 2026-era models instead of XML tags parsed from text. All 11M users have now been fully migrated to it.

Cline for Desktop (Beta)
https://cline.bot/desktop
https://github.com/cline/cline/releases/
They started testing a separate native app for macOS (Universal) and Windows — as is trendy now — without a code editor. Inside is the same open-source Cline harness now used in the IDE and CLI. Built with Tauri 2 + Bun-sidecar + Next.js: Tauri handles only the window and updates, the Bun sidecar runs Cline Hub and talks to the UI over websocket, the frontend is Next.js.

It works via BYOK — Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, open-weights or a local endpoint, models can be switched right in the middle of a project. Integrated with their Cline Pass subscription for $9.99/month for open-weights models such as GLM 5.3/5.2, Kimi K3/K2.7 Code/K2.6, DeepSeek V4 Pro/Flash, MiniMax M3, MiMo V2.5/Pro, Qwen 3.7-Max/Plus and 3.8-Max.

Already has queued messages to add edits while the agent is working, fork & edit — edit an old message and the session forks with the workspace reverted to a checkpoint, session history in one place — desktop, CLI, extension and scheduled runs, with a filter for session origin.

On my Windows machine it still throws a bunch of errors when configuring models and doesn't work.

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