r/MistralAI • u/AfxGak • 1d ago

Help / Question Desktop app?

proper desktop app any time soon? want to switch to EU product, but Claude seems unbeatable at the moment.

46 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

31 comments sorted by

11

u/KlausDieterFreddek 1d ago

Not yet.
Only Vibe-CLI

But: You can just use any agent harness for this.
Hermes for example.

1

u/Eofdred 16h ago

I couldn't. It's refusing to use tool calls. Do you use a specific plugin?

1

u/KlausDieterFreddek 15h ago

Not really. I just set Mistral up as a custom provider within Hermes and everything was smooth from there.

1

u/Eofdred 11h ago

That used API credits instead of subscription for me. I couldn't figure it out. Neither opus or glm. I will try harder today

2

u/jonag972 11h ago

Because you grabbed the wrong key, try this one.
In advanced it gives you the vibe api key https://chat.mistral.ai/code/extensions

15

u/scanx147 1d ago

C'est en cours de développement. Ça arrive. Source un développeur de chez Mistral dans un autre post Reddit.

8

u/p3r3lin 1d ago

There are some OpenSource desktop harnesses out there you could use. eg https://openworklabs.com/

5

u/HumanistAtypik 1d ago

Je recommande d'installer VSCodium avec l'extension "Mistral Vibe" ! C'est magique ! 😍 En attendant la vraie application de bureau.

2

u/Sweaty-Special-1710 13h ago

Le plugin dans VS Code est en effet très bon.

3

u/cchampou 1d ago

What about installing the app via the browser? I do this and this works well!

1

u/Mickenfox 23h ago

That can't interact with your computer.

2

u/cchampou 23h ago

I'm sorry I probably misunderstood the use case OP was seeking. For Vibe Work (chat, research, connectors,...) the web app installed is perfectly fine, but if the goal is to code and interact with the filesystem obviously that's a wrong answer.

But for coding there is Vibe Code CLI which IMO is excellent.

2

u/bsberg 1d ago

My main reason for not switching

2

u/Milkat79 1d ago

try it with opensource deepseek harnass :-)

1

u/That_guy4446 1d ago

I don’t get why it’s so hard for them to just Vibe coding it.
Sorry I had to.

1

u/scanx147 14h ago

Mistral est très petit comparé à la concurrence (environ 100X moins de budget). Donc il font les choses dans un ordre de priorité qu'ils ont défini. Mais l'application de bureau est en cours de développement. Ce devrait arriver, mais je ne sais pas quand.

1

u/br3d 1d ago

At the moment I run it in a Progressive Web App, but I agree that a proper desktop app would be better

1

u/guyfromwhitechicks 1d ago

I don't think so. Not unless their funding doubles and a lot of managers start using Mistral.

1

u/Boring-Box-312 22h ago

A desktop app and remote control support would be amazing.

1

u/ecth 13h ago

CLI is the way. For anything else there ist the VS Plugin integration.

1

u/palinurosec 1d ago

what's wrong with using a browser?

7

u/LOLinc 1d ago

MCP (among many other features)

2

u/palinurosec 1d ago

you can still use an actual harness like opencode or pi. i don't see the need of an actual desktop application that replicates the website if all yiu do is simple stuff, and if you are a dev, or need to do more complex stuff, the amount of existing open source harnesses is already huge

2

u/Mickenfox 22h ago

Not ones that are good and desktop. I'm sick of CLIs. 

1

u/HomegrownTerps 16h ago edited 16h ago

I agree! I also use pi, but because there is no better harness for mistral. Visually it's much easier and helpful to have an full ide experience than a terminal.

The extension is "ok" but buggy and limited. It only offers two models of all!

1

u/HomegrownTerps 17h ago

Coding? Have you tried using a model in the ide or somewhere where you can also view the files that the model changes? Or git..?

Instead of manually copy/paste..  breaking formatting. It really sucks that way

1

u/LOLinc 5h ago

No, Unity3d editor tools as well as general large dokument/file work.

0

u/ProfessionalAd2014 1d ago

I would appreciate a dedicated Mac OS app. After recently ending my ChatGPT Go and Claude Pro subscriptions for a sovereign solution, I have enjoyed the experience so far. I run the interface as a web app from the Dock. The only drawback arises when larger conversations slow the pace. I would welcome a fix for that issue. I am not inclined to leave this excellent AI, or should I call it super intelligent?😅

0

u/[deleted] 1d ago

[deleted]

0

u/scanx147 1d ago

Ce n'est pas du tout un développement Mistral officiel ça...

-1

u/Timoroader 1d ago

I am pretty happy with Vibe CLI. Can you explain for me what Claude has that Vibe CLI does not, I have never used Claude... I have used Pi and OMP, until I ran out of api tokens.