Cline Desktop gives you an open-source workspace to put your favourite model to work - run multiple agent sessions, automate recurring tasks, extend their capabilities through Cline’s Marketplace, and continue work from agents like Claude Code and Codex. Choose the models and providers that work best for you, while Cline’s agent harness, optimized for open-weight models, powers the work behind them. All without being tied to a closed ecosystem.
Cline started as a VS Code extension and is now used by more than 11 million developers. Today, we’re launching Cline Desktop, an early version of our open source app for open weight models.
It brings the same Cline agent harness into a dedicated workspace where you can run agents in parallel, automate recurring work, extend what Cline can do through the Marketplace, and import tasks from other coding agents to keep going in Cline.
Cline Desktop is available on Mac, with Windows in beta.
As we started delegating more work to agents ourselves, we found that keeping track of multiple agents, tasks, and context gets difficult pretty quickly.
The IDE extension and CLI work well when you’re actively working alongside an agent. But as you delegate more work, we think there should be a better place to manage those tasks together.
We also want Cline to complement the tools you already use. We jump between models and agents too, so being able to import a task from Claude Code or Codex and continue it in Cline was important to us.
What you can do with Cline Desktop ✨
🔷 Choose the models and providers that work best for you, including 300+ models through Cline, open-weight models through ClinePass, local models, or your own API keys 🔷 Import tasks from Claude Code, Codex, and other supported agents and continue with the existing context 🔷 Run multiple agents in parallel across coding, research, and other work 🔷 Schedule recurring tasks like PR reviews, repo checks, and documentation updates 🔷 Discover and manage plugins, MCP servers, and skills through Cline’s Marketplace 🔷 Use web search and voice input to bring in outside context and give longer instructions 🔷 You can also start a task in Cline CLI or VS Code extension and pick it up again in the Desktop app.
Where we’re headed ✨ This is still an early version, and we want to learn how people use agents beyond the IDE and terminal.
We’re excited to share Cline Desktop with the Product Hunt community and would love your feedback on what works, what feels rough, and what you’d like us to build next.
This could be a great fit for repository maintenance and dependency checks, test coverage, small refactors, documentation updates, and similar tasks that tend to accumulate.
This feels less like another coding assistant and more like an environment for managing AI assisted development.
The concept of a parallel agent workflow is truly fascinating. It certainly holds potential for accelerating large scale projects.
The open source + model gnostic approach is a strong combination. Developers get more control over both the agent and the models underneath it.
Importing a task from Claude Code or Codex into Desktop with the context intact is such a clean handoff. Would love the same continuity for MCP and tool state so the agent doesn't have to relearn the environment.
Congrats @sdrzn on the launch of your desktop app. I believe being able to run the same task across different open-weight models side by side and compare outputs would be huge, especially for picking which model fits which task type. Would love to see that as a built-in comparison view. Great work on this!
I like that Cline isn’t locked to one model or provider. Having that flexibility feels important as open weight models keep improving.
The ability to run multiple agent sessions in one workspace sounds really useful. It could make handling coding tasks much easier.
Can users schedule different models for different tasks based on cost or performance?
About Cline Desktop App on Product Hunt
“An open-source app for open-weight models”
Cline Desktop App launched on Product Hunt on September 11th, 2026 and earned 256 upvotes and 20 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Cline Desktop gives you an open-source workspace to put your favourite model to work - run multiple agent sessions, automate recurring tasks, extend their capabilities through Cline’s Marketplace, and continue work from agents like Claude Code and Codex. Choose the models and providers that work best for you, while Cline’s agent harness, optimized for open-weight models, powers the work behind them. All without being tied to a closed ecosystem.
Cline Desktop App was featured in Task Management (84.3k followers), Software Engineering (43k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (478.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 141.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Cline Desktop App?
Cline Desktop App was hunted by Rohan Chaubey. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Rohan Chaubey
👋 Hey Product Hunt - I’m Saoud, founder of Cline.
What we’re launching today 🚀
Cline started as a VS Code extension and is now used by more than 11 million developers. Today, we’re launching Cline Desktop, an early version of our open source app for open weight models.
It brings the same Cline agent harness into a dedicated workspace where you can run agents in parallel, automate recurring work, extend what Cline can do through the Marketplace, and import tasks from other coding agents to keep going in Cline.
Cline Desktop is available on Mac, with Windows in beta.
👉 Download Cline Desktop: https://cline.bot/desktop
Why Cline Desktop❓
As we started delegating more work to agents ourselves, we found that keeping track of multiple agents, tasks, and context gets difficult pretty quickly.
The IDE extension and CLI work well when you’re actively working alongside an agent. But as you delegate more work, we think there should be a better place to manage those tasks together.
We also want Cline to complement the tools you already use. We jump between models and agents too, so being able to import a task from Claude Code or Codex and continue it in Cline was important to us.
What you can do with Cline Desktop ✨
🔷 Choose the models and providers that work best for you, including 300+ models through Cline, open-weight models through ClinePass, local models, or your own API keys
🔷 Import tasks from Claude Code, Codex, and other supported agents and continue with the existing context
🔷 Run multiple agents in parallel across coding, research, and other work
🔷 Schedule recurring tasks like PR reviews, repo checks, and documentation updates
🔷 Discover and manage plugins, MCP servers, and skills through Cline’s Marketplace
🔷 Use web search and voice input to bring in outside context and give longer instructions
🔷 You can also start a task in Cline CLI or VS Code extension and pick it up again in the Desktop app.
Where we’re headed ✨
This is still an early version, and we want to learn how people use agents beyond the IDE and terminal.
We’re excited to share Cline Desktop with the Product Hunt community and would love your feedback on what works, what feels rough, and what you’d like us to build next.