gemini-desktop

by kkrishnan90 · MCP Clients & Apps · ★ 101

gemini-desktop is an app that connects to MCP servers by kkrishnan90. The MCP Gemini Electron App is a cross-platform desktop application that creates a seamless chat interface for Google's Gemini AI models with extensible capabilities through a Model Context Protocol (MCP) framework. It has 101 GitHub stars and ranks #158 of 595 in MCP Clients & Apps by stars.

Category: MCP Clients & Apps
Author: kkrishnan90
GitHub stars: 101
This week: Tracking since 18 Oct 2026
Language: Python
License: Not stated
Last update: 2025-08-16 (14 months ago)
Links: Source

How to install gemini-desktop

Install steps differ per project, so follow the README in the gemini-desktop repository. Most MCP servers start with a single command (npx -y <package>, uvx <package> or a Docker image) that you add to your client's config. The install guide shows where that goes in Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and VS Code.

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What is gemini-desktop?

gemini-desktop is an app that connects to MCP servers by kkrishnan90 in the MCP Clients & Apps category. The MCP Gemini Electron App is a cross-platform desktop application that creates a seamless chat interface for Google's Gemini AI models with extensible capabilities through a Model Context Protocol (MCP) framework. It has 101 GitHub stars and ranks #158 of 595 in MCP Clients & Apps by stars.

Is gemini-desktop free and open source?

The listing has no license field, which usually means the repository does not declare one. Without a license the code is not open source by default, so ask the maintainer before reusing it. You can still read the code and the README at the source link.

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