Desktop Apps

Full GUI clients that bundle the runtime, a plugin manager and a chat surface. They trade a little flexibility for a lot less setup: one installer, no terminal, plugins added from a list. We track 117 repositories in this bucket, 16% of the 714 projects in the directory. Together they hold about 86.6k GitHub stars, though the median project sits near 94 — the headline number comes from a handful of very large repos, as usual in a young ecosystem.

By language the mix is JavaScript (49), TypeScript (45), Rust (7); by license it is MIT (77), no license (17). 117 of 117 have been pushed since August 2026, so the bucket is still moving. The three largest projects by stars are dsh-desktop, dsh-desktop, desktop-cc-gui.

Compare installers rather than feature lists. The one that ships a working plugin manager will save you the most time. Sort by last update rather than stars for anything you plan to depend on, and open the README before installing: a plugin that is three months stale may still work, but you want to know that going in.

Browsing the whole set instead? The full plugin index lists all 714 repositories with stars, language and last-update date in one table. Adjacent categories worth a look: UI & Themes, Models & Routing, Agents & Teams, Markets & Registries. If you are still choosing a runtime, read the install guide first.