---
title: "LM Studio"
category: "AI"
tagline: "Find, download and run open AI models on your own computer, with a chat window and a local API."
source: "Flathub"
package: "ai.lmstudio.lm-studio"
website: "https://lmstudio.ai/"
---

## What it is

LM Studio is a desktop app for running AI language models locally. You browse and download open models such as Llama, Qwen, Gemma or Mistral from inside the app, then chat with them in a window, with no account and no data sent to a cloud service.

It can also serve a loaded model over a local API that's compatible with OpenAI's, so other apps and scripts on your computer can use it in place of an online provider.

## Why it's here

- **Local and private.** Models run on your hardware, and your prompts stay on your computer.
- **A model catalog built in.** It shows which versions of a model will fit your memory.
- **A local server.** Point developer tools at it to test against a model without paying per request.

## On CoreDesktop

LM Studio is installed from Flathub. Open it from the app menu. Larger models need plenty of memory and run best with a capable GPU. `update` keeps LM Studio current with the rest of the Flatpaks.