Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to AI Studio Desktop
Unofficial desktop client for Google Gemini & AI Studio
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Google AI Studio▲492Made using Google’s Lyria music model — an image → music translator. I’m a designer at Google, doing a self-initiated 30 days with Gemini experiment. This is technically a promo, but honestly just pleased with how this one turned out. I don’t write code — this was entirely vibecoded.
2025 · accounts.google.com · its alternatives →
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Code from images, debug with screenshots
2025 · developer.android.com · its alternatives →
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Supercharge productivity in your browser with Gemini AI
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Build your AI agent in minutes to delegate the daily grind
Dec 2025 · workspace.google.com · its alternatives →
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Gemini Canvas▲294Interact and collaborate with AI to create
2025 · gemini.google · its alternatives →
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Firebase Studio▲539A cloud-based, agentic dev environment powered by Gemini
2025 · firebase.studio · its alternatives →
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Gemini CLI▲224A simple weekend project, to check if chat conversation could be used on CLI. Uses Google Gemini's gemini-2.0-flash model. Configs will make it nicer, but I wanted to keep it simple to test and launch for now. I can add things for you :) Please give it a try!
2025 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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Turn your browser into an AI workspace
Mar 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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Option + Space and Gemini is right there
Apr 2026 · gemini.google · its alternatives →
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2023 · sagittarius.greg.technology · its alternatives →
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LUCI Desktopfree▲360Let your AI agents remember what you've seen
Sep 2026 · luci.memories.ai · its alternatives →
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Chrome extension allow the user to communicate with the AI
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Keep every project, chat, and file in one focused space
Apr 2026 · its alternatives →
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I've been building computer-use tools for a while, and I quietly launched this about a month ago (122 Stars on GH). I figured it was worth sharing here. Over the last few months, a lot of computer-use agents have come out: Codex, Claude Code, CUA, and others. Most of them seem to work roughly like this: 1. Take a screenshot 2. Have the model predict pixel coordinates 3. Click x,y 4. Take another screenshot 5. Repeat That works, but it's slow, expensive in tokens, and fragile. If the UI shifts a few pixels, things break. And the model still doesn't know what any element actually is. But the…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The Ultimate Open Source Library for Gemini & Nano
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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Vibe Pocket▲135Run AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode on mobile
Dec 2025 · vibepocket.com · its alternatives →
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Firebase Studio and agentic developer tools with Gemini
2025 · firebase.studio · its alternatives →
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Vibe-edit videos locally using Codex
Mar 2026 · harness.gg · its alternatives →
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The ultimate workflow enhancement for prompt engineering
2023 · aipromptstudio.com · its alternatives →
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AI agent IDE for Android with planning and edit prediction
Apr 2026 · android-developers.googleblog.com · its alternatives →
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