Prerequisites

• I have searched all issues/PRs to ensure it has not already been reported or fixed.

Criteria

• Reasonably well-known and widely used
• English interface
• Latest stable version
• Full version (not a trial)
• Fairly standard install (version-specific download URL, simple electron-builder NSIS extraction)

Name

lmstudio

Description

LM Studio — desktop app to discover, download, and run local LLMs (llama.cpp, MLX). Provides a chat UI and an OpenAI-compatible local API server.

Homepage

https://lmstudio.ai

Download Link(s)

• x64: https://installers.lmstudio.ai/win32/x64/0.4.13-1/LM-Studio-0.4.13-1-x64.exe
• arm64: https://installers.lmstudio.ai/win32/arm64/0.4.13-1/LM-Studio-0.4.13-1-arm64.exe

Some Indication of Popularity/Repute

• ~11.2k followers on the lmstudio-ai GitHub org; flagship CLI repo lms has ~4.8k stars.
• Widely covered as one of the leading local-LLM desktop apps (alongside Ollama and Jan).
• LM Studio CLI is already installable via npm/pip SDKs; this PR provides a native Windows install path via Scoop.
• A PR with the manifest is ready: lmstudio: Add version 0.4.13-1 #17841

I will link this issue from the PR.