Use this command to install InferenceHub with WinGet:
winget install --id=InferenceHub.InferenceHub -e
InferenceHub Desktop is a lightweight native client designed to provide seamless access to advanced AI chat capabilities directly from your desktop. This tool enables users to engage with cutting-edge models like Claude and other open-weight models, while incorporating features such as web search, deep research, and project-file analysis.
Key Features
Native Desktop Experience: Built using Tauri, InferenceHub Desktop offers a smooth experience without the need for bundled Chromium.
Single Sign-On: Seamlessly sign in via your system browser to access AI chat interfaces effortlessly.
AI Model Access: Communicate with frontier models like Claude and other open-weight models directly from your desktop.
Resource Efficiency: Enjoy low resource usage, making it ideal for systems with limited processing power.
On-Device Transcription: Utilize whisper.cpp for live transcription, ensuring all processing happens locally on your device.
Privacy-Focused Design: The application ships without telemetry and ensures data privacy by routing chats exclusively through the InferenceHub backend.
Target Audience and Benefits
Ideal for AI professionals, researchers, developers, and anyone seeking a reliable desktop client for AI interactions. Users benefit from efficient resource usage, enhanced privacy, and direct access to cutting-edge AI models like Claude. The application is particularly advantageous for those prioritizing performance, security, and ease of deployment.
InferenceHub Desktop is available via Winget, enabling users to install or deploy the application using the Windows Package Manager with commands such as winget install InferenceHub.Desktop, ensuring a smooth and automated setup process.
README
InferenceHub Desktop
A lightweight native desktop client for InferenceHub chat
(chat.inferencehub.tech). Sign in once with your InferenceHub account and chat with frontier
(Claude) and open-weight models — web search, deep research, and project-file RAG included.
Built with Tauri 2 (Rust + system WebView) — no bundled Chromium, a few-MB
download. No telemetry: the app phones home to nothing; your chats go only to the InferenceHub
backend that serves them.
Current builds are unsigned preview builds — your OS will warn on first run. Code signing
(Apple notarization, Windows Authenticode) is in progress; until then:
macOS — drag InferenceHub.app into /Applications, then either open
System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway next to the "InferenceHub was
blocked" notice (macOS 15+), or clear the quarantine flag from a terminal:
Windows — run the setup .exe (per-user install, no admin prompt). SmartScreen shows
"Windows protected your PC" → click More info → Run anyway. If the WebView2 Runtime is missing
(rare), the installer fetches it automatically.
> Windows Defender note: unsigned, low-prevalence apps sometimes trip Defender's
> machine-learning heuristics (detections like Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.B!ml). This is a known
> false-positive pattern for unsigned Tauri apps — the app is built in public CI from the source
> in this repository. We report each affected release to Microsoft for false-positive review, and
> signed builds are on the roadmap. If Defender quarantines the app, you can restore it and add an
> exclusion, or wait for the cleared/signed build.
cd desktop
bun install
bun run tauri dev # run locally
bun run tauri build # package for your platform
On macOS, build the live-transcription helper once before packaging:
./src-tauri/helper/build-helper.sh
Windows installers are packaged by CI (.github/workflows/build-windows.yml) — NSIS packaging
needs a native Windows runner. See desktop/README.md for development notes.
Privacy
No analytics, no crash reporters, no update pings to third parties.
Sign-in uses your default browser against the InferenceHub gateway; the app holds a session for
chat.inferencehub.tech and a read-only status token for the tray budget display.
Live transcription runs entirely on-device (whisper.cpp, Metal).