Cline launches Cline Desktop, a native app for its open-source coding agent

Key Info

Cline, the open-source AI coding agent, has launched Cline Desktop — a native desktop interface for the tool — and is making the Kimi K3 model free in the app for a limited time.

Highlights

• Cline Desktop is a native app wrapper for Cline, giving users a dedicated desktop environment for AI-assisted coding.
• The app includes a plugin marketplace; a 'jev-browser' plugin lets the agent operate a browser inside Cline.
• Kimi K3 is temporarily free in Cline Desktop, giving new users extra tokens to explore the app.