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Desktop AI Assistant / Universal MCP Client

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winget install --id KochavaStudios.Witsy
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About Witsy

Witsy is a BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys) AI application: it means you need to have API keys for the LLM providers you want to use. Alternatively, you can use Ollama to run models locally on your machine for free and use them in Witsy. It is the first of very few (only?) universal MCP clients: Witsy allows you to run MCP servers with virtually any LLM! Non-exhaustive feature list: - OpenAI, Ollama, Anthropic, MistralAI, Google, xAI, Azure, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Groq and Cerebras models supported - Connect other provide...

What's new in 3.5.2

Added - Search text inside chat (Cmd+F/Ctrl+F) - Navigation inside the chat during searches (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/531) - LM Studio Embedding model support (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/532) - Support new Grok Image/Video generation capabilities (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/537) Changed - N/A Fixed - Text pasted as image fix - Crash when attaching large files (256MB arbitrary limit) - DeepResearch planning failing (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/543) - Fix--infinite-waiting-on-request-body-on-failed-network-requests (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/pull/536) Removed - N/A

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Version history

Version Updated Notes
3.5.2 Unknown Added - Search text inside chat (Cmd+F/Ctrl+F) - Navigation inside the chat during searches (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/531) - LM Studio Embedding model support (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/wi...
3.5.1 Unknown Added - Google Base URL - Support LM Studio authentication (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/525) - Show conversations date time creation (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/522) - "Scan for C...
3.5.0 Unknown Added - Ability to Exclude Folders from RAG (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/515) - Ollama image generation support (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/521) - Stop agent execution buttons Cha...
3.4.2 Unknown Added - More Quick dictation options and keyboard shortcuts - CLI port persistence (saves port when using -p or /port command) - macOS permission options in Settings Advanced - Request cooldown time per provider (https:/...
3.4.0 Unknown Added - Parakeet WebGPU support - Apple SpeechAnalyzer support (macOS 26+ required) - New quick dictation window (Speech-to-text renamed to Audio Booth) - Re-authenticate link in MCP server editor - Favicon display for H...
3.3.2 Unknown Added - CLI filesystem access and tool display fixes - Parakeet STT local model support (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/471) - SearXNG support Changed - Agent runs now capture agent info (name, step desc...
3.3.1 Unknown Added - Add priority selection option for OpenAI (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/508) - Multi-line input support - allow typing Enter when writing a prompt (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issue...
3.3.0 Unknown Added - [Google] Support for Gemini 3 Preview (thoughtSignature) - [Openrouter] Support for reasoning models - [Google] Support for Nano Banana Pro - Favorites management (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/...
3.2.3 Unknown Added - Add Support for Advanced Model Parameters like 'Thinking Mode' for Ollama model (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/491) Changed - Allow uploading raw text files (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/w...
3.2.2 Unknown Release notes
3.2.1 Unknown Added - Scratchpad action on assistant messages Changed - Agent import tries MCP tool remapping - HTTP server listens on localhost only Fixed - Agent refresh issues - Design Studio Drawing Canvas icons - Large documents...
3.2.0 Unknown Added - Edit messages, quote user message (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/479) - LocalAI image models not listed in Design Studio (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/482) - Conversation usag...
3.1.1 Unknown Added - Easy QoL: right-click context menu to copy/paste in messages chat field (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/480) Changed - N/A Fixed - Cannot Add New Experts (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy...
3.1.0 Unknown Added - Experts categories - Sandboxed python runtime - Duplicate agent - Experts attached to agent step - Import Markdown back into conversations (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/469) - MiniMax Text-to-S...
3.0.4 Unknown Added - Knowledge plugin to automatically connect knowledge base connections (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/450) - Set folder default settings dialog (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/454...
3.0.3 Unknown Added - Auth for MCP SSE servers (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/442) - Custom OpenAI-compatible TTS Endpoints (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/449) Changed - Agent run view redesign - Up...
3.0.2 Unknown Added - Improved chat and agent abort capability - Helpful message when search fails - Groq and Cerebras reasoning Changed - Major refactoring of agent system (executor, runner, a2a communication) - New DeepResearch exec...
2.14.0 Unknown Added - HTML Artifacts preview - Artifacts download formats (text, markdown, html, pdf) - Add Deep Research title generation feature - Nano Banana Support Changed - Support for secure api storage (https://github.com/Koch...
2.13.2 Unknown Added - Add Support for Anthropic's 'thinking.budget_tokens' Parameter (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/392) - MCP OAuth support (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/398) - Preserve markdown w...
2.13.1 Unknown Added - Artifacts instructions option with specific display mode - Show the model that was used for each response (https://github.com/Kochava-Studios/witsy/issues/387) - Add Support for Advanced Model Parameters like 'Th...