Msty, now sold as Msty Studio, is a closed-source desktop app from CloudStack, LLC that puts local models (through Ollama, llama.cpp or MLX, which it installs for you) and cloud models in one chat window, with split chats, document search and MCP tools in the free tier. The free version is for personal, non-commercial use only; paid work needs Aurum at $149 a year (about £112) or $349 once (about £262), VAT not mentioned, as of 22 October 2026. It is a strong choice for a Mac user who wants more than a plain chat box without touching Terminal, less so if you need open source or a tidy, single-product story. My rating: ★★★½☆ 3.5/5. Its following is small: 5,276 Discord members and an estimated 53.5K website visits in September 2026, against 3.4M for LM Studio's site. If you only want the engine underneath, start with the Ollama guide.
Key facts
- What it does: A desktop chat app (Msty Studio Desktop) for local and cloud AI models, with a browser version (Msty Studio Web) for paying users. Installs and manages Ollama, llama.cpp and MLX for you.
- Made by: CloudStack, LLC, United States (no city or address given on its site)
- Price: Aurum $149 per user per year (about £112) or Aurum Lifetime $349 one-time (about £262); Enterprise and Teams $300 per user per year (about £225), five-seat minimum. VAT not mentioned.
- Free plan or trial: Free tier "Forever" for personal, non-commercial use; 14-day no-questions refund on Aurum
- Runs on: macOS 12 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows (x64 installer), Linux (AppImage and .deb)
- Open source: No. Only documentation and supporting files are on GitHub.
- Best for: Non-technical Mac users who want local and cloud models, document search and side-by-side model comparison in one app
- Users: No figure published; 5,276 Discord members (22 October 2026) and an estimated 53.5K website visits in September 2026 (Semrush)
- Our rating: ★★★½☆ 3.5/5
On this page
- What is Msty?
- How many people use Msty?
- How to install Msty on a Mac
- What Msty costs
- What I like
- What I'd want fixed
- What people say on Reddit and X
- Who should use Msty?
- Is it safe to use? Privacy and data
- Using Msty in the UK
- Alternatives to Msty
- My verdict
- Frequently asked questions
What is Msty?
Msty started as a single desktop app for chatting with local and online AI models. In July 2025 the company moved from msty.app to msty.ai and said the original "Msty App" would be "phased out and replaced with Msty Studio Desktop".
Studio comes in two forms. Studio Desktop is the free download for Mac, Windows and Linux, "the recommended path for new users" according to the documentation. Studio Web runs in a browser at msty.studio, needs an Aurum licence, stores data in the browser's local storage and must connect to a Desktop install (or a helper app called Sidecar) to reach local models and MCP tools. There is no self-hosted server edition.
The maker is CloudStack, LLC. Its About page lists Ashok Gelal as co-founder and CEO and Adam Miedema as COO, with a ten-person team, but the site gives no address. Msty is also now four products: Studio (reviewed here), Go (AI agents with a phone app, free in beta), Nexus (a model gateway) and Stack ("Coming soon").
Under the bonnet, Msty is a manager rather than an engine: it "can install and manage Ollama, MLX, or Llama.cpp services for local models", and "generally recommends MLX when an MLX format is available" on Apple Silicon. Its managed Ollama is labelled "Local AI" in the settings and listens on port 11964 by default, not the standard 11434 covered in the Ollama troubleshooting guide.
On the cloud side it supports 13 named providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and OpenRouter, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Agent Mode and a Vibe CLI Proxy plug in command-line tools such as Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI. The features most people will use are below.
| Feature | What it does | Free tier? |
|---|---|---|
| Split Chat | Sends one message to several models side by side and lets you save the layout as a preset | Yes |
| Knowledge Stacks | Msty's name for RAG: files, folders, notes and YouTube links embedded with a local model, with PII scrubbing and a reranker in the Next Gen version | Yes, marked "Limited" |
| Prompt Studio | A prompt library with folders and variables; the AI assistant, Sandbox and Versions are "Aurum Perk" | Yes, marked "Limited" |
| Real-Time Data | Web search fed to the model; standard Google and Brave are free, while SearXNG, Tavily, Exa and the API versions are "Aurum Perk" | Yes, marked "Limited" |
| Toolbox (MCP) | Adds MCP servers over STDIO or Streamable HTTP; SSE needs a bridge such as mcp-remote | Yes, marked "Limited" |
| Turnstiles | "Reusable multi-step AI workflows with queueing, branching, loops, and checkpoints" | No |
| Live Contexts, Forge Mode, Shadow Personas, Insights | API calls mid-chat, a writing mode, an extra persona type and usage analytics | No |
The current stable download is Msty Studio 2.9.12, released on 14 October 2026 according to the app's update manifest; a 3.0 beta (Beta 15, dated 7 October 2026) is an opt-in preview with a redesigned interface, recommended only for individual users. New to MCP? Read What is MCP? before you touch the Toolbox.
Msty's official "Getting Started with Msty Studio" video, which the Studio documentation embeds on its welcome page, introduces the app and how to get started.
How many people use Msty?
Not many, compared with its rivals. CloudStack publishes no user or download figure that I could find; the homepage shows logos, including Schindler and Freightos, under "Trusted by people at" instead. The best public number is its Discord server, which showed 5,276 members, 645 of them online, on its public invite page on 22 October 2026. The company calls that Discord "a real feedback loop" for Studio.
| Measure | Figure | Source and date |
|---|---|---|
| Discord members | 5,276 (645 online) | Msty Discord invite page, 22 October 2026 |
| Homebrew installs, mstystudio cask | 87 in 30 days, 225 in 90 days, 1,072 in a year | Homebrew analytics, 22 October 2026 |
| Homebrew installs, old msty cask (1.x, discontinued) | 47 in 30 days, 135 in 90 days, 909 in a year | Homebrew analytics, 22 October 2026 |
| X followers, @msty_ai | 2,082 | X profile, 22 October 2026 |
| r/Msty_AI subreddit | 193 weekly visitors, 4 weekly contributions | Reddit, 22 October 2026 |
| msty.ai website visits (estimate) | 53.5K visits, 42.5K unique visitors, both down on August | Semrush, September 2026 |
| UK Google organic visits to msty.ai (estimate) | 1.4K a month | Semrush, October 2026 |
Site visits are not app users, since many people download once and never return, but the gap is wide: Semrush puts lmstudio.ai at 3.4M visits and openwebui.com at 841.6K in the same month. Semrush also estimates about 1,600 UK searches a month for "msty", though MSTY is also the ticker of a US exchange-traded fund, so not all of those want the app.
Homebrew points the same way. Most Mac users download the disk image instead, so these counts are a relative signal, not a total, but LM Studio's cask recorded 56,503 installs in the same year.
Size matters more for a closed-source app. If an open-source project's backers walk away, the code stays public for others to carry on; Msty's future rests on one small company. Take regular zip backups, and remember a Lifetime licence lasts as long as CloudStack does.
How to install Msty on a Mac
No Terminal is needed. The Homebrew cask lists macOS 12 or later, and the Apple Silicon disk image is about 260 MB before any model is downloaded.
- Download MstyStudio_arm64.dmg (Apple Silicon) or MstyStudio_x64.dmg (Intel) from msty.ai, open it and drag the app to Applications.
- Open the app and pick an intent: "Just exploring", "For work" or "I'm a developer". Msty uses this to choose a recommended model and starter resources.
- Let it check your hardware and recommend an engine (MLX on Apple Silicon where available) and a model, which you can nudge between "Light" and "Powerful" before it downloads.
- Optionally add a cloud provider from Model Hub, paste an API key and add at least one model from it.
Or use Homebrew:
brew install --cask mstystudioYou can keep the old Msty App 1.x installed alongside Studio, and a migration tool moves "some" of its data across. If the built-in Ollama installer fails, download the Ollama archive from its GitHub releases page and point Settings, then Local AI, then Service Version at the file. The documentation does not describe using an Ollama you already run, so expect two copies if you have followed the Ollama guide.
Not sure which model your Mac can handle? The memory calculator gives a straight answer from your RAM.
What Msty costs
Msty Studio Desktop is free for personal, non-commercial use, and Aurum costs $149 a year (about £112) or $349 once (about £262). The pricing page lists dollars only and says nothing about VAT. Converted at 0.75, as of 22 October 2026:
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 "Forever" | Core Studio Desktop: local and online chat, Persona and Crew conversations, Agent Mode, Knowledge Stacks, and the Prompt, Persona, Skill and Media Studios, several marked "Limited" |
| Aurum | $149 per user per year (about £112) | Studio Web, Azure and Bedrock providers, Studio Assistants, Shadow Personas, Turnstiles, Insights, Forge Mode and "power-user features"; up to two devices |
| Aurum Lifetime | $349 one-time (about £262) | "All features of Aurum" plus "Lifetime updates and access"; up to two devices |
| Enterprise and Teams | "Talk to us" on the pricing page; the Teams flyer says $300 per user per year (about £225), five-seat minimum | SSO, user and team management, role-based access, audit log, shared stacks and prompts |
The catch is in the terms, not the price list. The free tier is for "your own, private, non-commercial purposes", and the terms spell out that work you are paid for does not count as personal use "even if it's just teamwork or writing work reports". If you use Msty for your job, the company expects you to buy Aurum or Enterprise. That is stricter than LM Studio, and easy to miss.
A price rise announced for 2 December 2025, in a blog post that skipped Black Friday discounts on principle, took yearly Aurum from $129 to $149 and Lifetime from $249 to $349, with the line "Over time, our prices only move in one direction, up". The Lifetime licence "does not expire, and you will receive all future updates for free", though the terms add that this guarantee "applies only to the desktop version".
Refunds are 14 days, "no questions asked", and nothing after that. Annual subscriptions can be cancelled at any time and run to the end of the billing period. Payments go through Lemon Squeezy or Stripe, so check the checkout total for UK VAT before you pay; the pricing page will not tell you.
Is Aurum worth it? For most individuals, probably not; one reviewer calls $149 a year "a hard sell for individuals" when the headline additions are Studio Web and enterprise cloud providers. Lifetime makes more sense if you will use Turnstiles, the paid search providers and the web app for years. If you only chat with local models at home, the free tier is the product.
What I like
- Installs and manages Ollama, llama.cpp and MLX itself, and picks MLX on Apple Silicon. No Terminal, no port numbers.
- Split Chat is a proper feature with saved presets, not a bolt-on. Comparing a local model with GPT or Claude on the same prompt is the fastest way to learn what local AI can and cannot do.
- Knowledge Stacks, MCP tools and a prompt library in the free tier.
- The privacy policy states in capitals that the company does "NOT collect product analytics, usage telemetry, or crash-reporting telemetry".
- A one-time licence still exists, with a stated 14-day refund.
- UK English is one of nine interface languages.
What I'd want fixed
- Closed source. For an app whose whole pitch is privacy, you are taking the no-telemetry claim on trust.
- "Limited" appears eleven times in the free column of the feature matrix and is never defined.
- The non-commercial clause on the free tier catches anyone who writes a work email with it.
- Four products, a rebrand (Claw became Go), a domain move and a 2.9 versus 3.0 beta split make it hard to know what you are downloading.
- No GDPR or UK GDPR mention in the privacy policy, no postal address, and SOC 2 and ISO 27001 "not yet complete".
- Data "does not sync automatically between devices"; backups are a manual zip export.
What people say on Reddit and X
These are individual users' opinions, not claims I have checked. Reddit had plenty; on X I found only posts from Msty and its staff, no independent users.
- On getting started: "msty and jan are worth trying if you just need a clean chat interface without the full kitchen sink" - a user in r/LocalLLaMA, February 2026 thread
- On everyday use: "Msty has been my go to for a while now and works better in so many ways than any of the other options." - a user in r/LocalLLaMA, March 2026 thread
- On Knowledge Stacks: "Very stable product! I highly recommend it. Knowledge stack is awesome." - a user in r/Msty_AI, May 2026 thread
- On Aurum: "The features are nice, but none are a game-breaker." - a user in r/Msty_AI, May 2026 thread
- On the interface: "Font size everywhere is huge, except for the chats, and font selection itself has 4 items that are all equally bad." - a user in r/oMLX, April 2026 thread
- On the move from 1.x: "Studio was rather flaky and there was a lot of grumbling when it first released" - a user in r/LocalLLaMA, October 2025 thread
The praise is mostly about how fast a non-technical user gets a working chat and how well Knowledge Stacks work. The complaints cluster around the bumpy switch from 1.x, whether Aurum is worth paying for, the interface and paywalled extras such as using your own SearXNG search; this year's bug reports look minor, such as an October 2026 post about downloaded models missing from the model list in 2.9.12 on Windows.
Who should use Msty?
Msty suits the reader this site is written for: someone with a Mac who wants to run a local model for private questions, keep a cloud model to hand for the hard ones, and ask questions of their own documents, all without learning what a port is. The free tier covers that whole use case at home.
It also suits tinkerers who want personas, multi-step Turnstiles and MCP tools, the features that justify Aurum.
Skip it if you need open source (Jan and AnythingLLM), a shared server for a household or team (Open WebUI, see the self-hosted LLM guide), or SSO for fewer than five people, since Teams starts at five seats. Developers who mostly want a local API will be happier with Ollama alone.
Is it safe to use? Privacy and data
The privacy policy, updated 16 September 2026, says CloudStack "does not collect or transmit data from product sessions, including product telemetry, usage logs, crash reports", prompts or model responses. The desktop app goes online only for things you choose: model downloads, updates, licensing and any cloud provider you add.
The company keeps account details, payment metadata without full card numbers, and licence keys with their activated devices; the website uses One Dollar Stats analytics.
Now the caveats. The app is closed source, so none of that can be checked in code; CloudStack's public GitHub holds documentation and, as PromptQuorum notes, prompt and translation files. The policy does not mention the GDPR, the UK GDPR or the Data Protection Act, and gives no address or governing law. The security page admits "Formal SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification are not yet complete".
Two practical points. Prompts sent to a cloud provider go under that provider's terms, so Msty's promise stops at the edge of your Mac (see Is ChatGPT private?). And the experimental Workspace Lock's passphrase cannot be recovered if you forget it.
One security warning to know about. On 13 September 2026 security researcher Migel Tissera said on X that Drost had found a "critical zero-day RCE chain" (a way to run code on your computer) in Msty Studio 2.9.9, and told users to stop using prompt packs. Msty released 2.9.10 the same day with "security fixes for imported content", according to its changelog. Two days later Tissera said he had not been able to reach Msty and would publish details after a 30-day embargo. As of 23 October 2026 I could find no published write-up or CVE, so the full details are unconfirmed. Keep Msty updated (2.9.11 is the current stable release) and only import prompt packs from sources you trust.
Using Msty in the UK
Msty has no UK presence, prices in US dollars and does not mention VAT, so budget about £112 a year or £262 once plus whatever the checkout adds. The licence allows two devices per user, which covers a MacBook and a desk Mac but not a family.
The local-first design helps with data protection: nothing leaves your machine unless you connect a cloud provider or use Real-Time Data search. For work with personal data, the AI agents and UK GDPR guide explains where responsibility sits; the free tier is not licensed for work anyway.
Msty recommends a model to match your Mac, but it cannot make a 30 billion parameter model fit in 16 GB of memory; the Which Mac to buy for local AI guide has UK prices.
Alternatives to Msty
Msty vs LM Studio is the comparison most people are really making. LM Studio (version 0.4.26 as of 22 October 2026) uses the same llama.cpp and MLX engines, is also proprietary, and its free plan covers "personal and / or internal business purposes". Pick LM Studio for raw speed on Apple Silicon or a local server for other apps; pick Msty for document search, split chats and MCP tools in the free tier. The LM Studio guide goes deeper.
| App | Open source? | How it runs | Best when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Msty Studio | No | Desktop app; manages Ollama, llama.cpp, MLX | You want the most features without Terminal |
| LM Studio | No, proprietary | Desktop app; llama.cpp and MLX built in | Speed on a Mac and a local API server |
| Open WebUI | Yes, Open WebUI License (keeps branding) | Server via Docker or pip, used in a browser | Several people or devices share one machine |
| AnythingLLM | Yes, MIT | Desktop app; can use Ollama or LM Studio as the engine | Document chat and no-code agents |
| Jan | Yes, Apache 2.0 | Desktop app; bundles llama.cpp, local server on port 1337 | Fully offline and auditable |
| Ollama | Yes, MIT | Engine with a basic app and a command line | You are happy in Terminal |
Reviews of each are on this site: the Open WebUI review, the AnythingLLM review, Ollama vs LM Studio and the three-way Ollama vs LM Studio vs Jan.
My verdict
| Area | Score |
|---|---|
| Usefulness | 4/5 |
| Getting started | 4/5 |
| Value for money | 3/5 |
| Trust and privacy | 3/5 |
| UK fit | 3/5 |
| Overall | ★★★½☆ 3.5/5 |
Msty does the hard part well: a Mac user gets a local model, a cloud model and their own documents in one window without Terminal, and the free tier is generous for home use, hence 4 for usefulness and getting started.
Value and trust sit at 3 because the non-commercial clause pushes anyone who works with it towards £112 a year for features most will not touch, and because a small, closed-source company asking me to believe its no-telemetry policy is still asking. UK fit is 3 for the missing GDPR language and dollar-only pricing.
Frequently asked questions
Is Msty free?
Msty Studio Desktop has a free tier the pricing page labels "Forever", with local and online chat, Knowledge Stacks, Split Chats, Agent Mode and MCP tools. The terms limit it to personal, non-commercial use, so paid work needs an Aurum or Enterprise licence. Studio Web, Turnstiles, Forge Mode and the premium search providers are not in the free tier.
How much does Msty Aurum cost in the UK?
As of 22 October 2026, Aurum is $149 per user per year, about £112, or $349 as a one-time Lifetime licence, about £262. The pricing page does not mention VAT, so check the checkout total. Both allow up to two devices and come with a 14-day refund.
Is Msty open source?
No. The Msty Studio app's source code is not published; the only public CloudStack repository on GitHub is the documentation site. If open source matters to you, Jan (Apache 2.0), AnythingLLM (MIT) and Open WebUI (its own licence) are the usual alternatives.
Does Msty need Ollama?
Not separately. Msty Studio installs and manages its own Ollama, llama.cpp or MLX service, picks one based on your hardware, and labels the managed Ollama "Local AI" in its settings. The documentation does not describe connecting it to an Ollama you already run, so you may end up with two copies if you have followed an Ollama guide before.
Is Msty Studio the same as Msty?
Msty Studio is the current product, and the original Msty App (version 1.x) is being phased out. Msty announced this in July 2025, when the site moved from msty.app to msty.ai. Studio comes as a free desktop app and a paid web version. The company also sells Msty Go, Nexus and Stack, which are separate products.
How many people use Msty?
CloudStack does not publish user or download numbers. As of 22 October 2026 its Discord server shows 5,276 members, and Homebrew recorded 1,072 installs of the Msty Studio cask in the past year. Semrush estimates msty.ai had 53.5K visits in September 2026, against 3.4M for lmstudio.ai, so its community is far smaller than LM Studio's.
Does Msty send my chats anywhere?
Chats only leave your Mac if you connect a cloud provider or switch on Real-Time Data web search. The privacy policy, updated 16 September 2026, says the company does not collect product telemetry, usage logs, crash reports, prompts or model responses, and that session data stays on your device. The app is closed source, so this rests on the policy rather than on code you can inspect.
Msty vs LM Studio: which should I choose?
Choose Msty if you want document search, side-by-side model comparison and MCP tools in a free desktop app and do not mind closed source. Choose LM Studio if you want the leanest path to fast local models on Apple Silicon and a local server other apps can call. Both run llama.cpp and MLX underneath, so model speed is similar; the difference is what sits on top.
Read next
- Ollama guide: install, models, cloud pricing, updating, uninstalling
- Ollama vs LM Studio
- Open WebUI review
- AnythingLLM review
- LM Studio guide
- Ollama vs LM Studio vs Jan
- Can my Mac run this model? Memory calculator
Sources
- Msty homepage, CloudStack, LLC: product line-up (Studio, Go, Nexus, Stack), maker and governance claims, "Trusted by people at" logos, no user figure - checked 22 October 2026
- Studio pricing, Msty: Free, Aurum, Aurum Lifetime and Enterprise tiers, feature matrix - checked 22 October 2026
- Terms of service, Msty: non-commercial free tier, two-device limit, refunds, lifetime licence wording - checked 22 October 2026
- Privacy policy, Msty: no-telemetry statements, data retained, payment processors, last updated 16 September 2026 - checked 22 October 2026
- Security, Msty: SOC 2 and ISO 27001 status - checked 22 October 2026
- About, Msty: team and leadership - checked 22 October 2026
- Changelog, Msty: 2.9.x releases and 3.0.0 Beta 15 dated 7 October 2026 - checked 22 October 2026
- Studio Desktop update manifest, Msty: version 2.9.12, release date 14 October 2026, download sizes - checked 22 October 2026
- Msty Studio - Into the Future, Msty blog: domain move, retirement of Msty App 1.x, device limits - checked 22 October 2026
- Introducing Msty Studio Desktop Free, Msty blog: free tier contents and Aurum feature list - checked 22 October 2026
- Black Friday Update, Msty blog: December 2025 price rise from $129 and $249 - checked 22 October 2026
- Newsletter Edition 004, Msty blog: Studio 3.0 Beta as opt-in preview, Claw renamed Go - checked 22 October 2026
- Msty Studio Teams flyer, Msty: $300 per user per year, five-seat minimum - checked 22 October 2026
- Welcome, Msty Studio docs: Desktop versus Web, browser local storage, no sync - checked 22 October 2026
- Quick Start, Msty Studio docs: install steps, engine management, Ollama archive fallback - checked 22 October 2026
- Download Desktop, Msty Studio docs: Mac file names, coexistence with 1.x, migration tool - checked 22 October 2026
- mstystudio cask, Homebrew: install command, version 2.9.12, macOS 12 requirement, install analytics for 30, 90 and 365 days - checked 22 October 2026
- msty cask, Homebrew: old Msty 1.x cask, marked discontinued, install analytics - checked 22 October 2026
- lm-studio cask, Homebrew: LM Studio install analytics for comparison - checked 22 October 2026
- Msty Discord invite page, Discord: 5,276 members and 645 online - checked 22 October 2026
- Closing Out 2025, Msty blog: Discord described as "a real feedback loop", 30 December 2025 - checked 22 October 2026
- Msty AI (@msty_ai), X: 2,082 followers, joined January 2024 - checked 22 October 2026
- r/Msty_AI, Reddit: 193 weekly visitors and 4 weekly contributions - checked 22 October 2026
- Semrush Traffic Analytics and Domain Overview (estimates): website visits for September 2026 and UK organic search traffic - checked 22 October 2026
- MSTY fund page, YieldMax: MSTY is also the ticker of a US exchange-traded fund - checked 22 October 2026
- Are there any alternatives to Open WebUI that don't have terrible UX?, r/LocalLLaMA: user comment on Msty and Jan, 9 February 2026 - checked 22 October 2026
- Is there an easy to use local LLM? For a non-tech small business., r/LocalLLaMA: user praise, 26 March 2026 - checked 22 October 2026
- Concern about Aurum pricing..., r/Msty_AI: user comments on Aurum value and Knowledge Stacks, May and June 2026 - checked 22 October 2026
- A good frontend that's not in the browser?, r/oMLX: user complaint on fonts and paid SearXNG, 6 May 2026 - checked 22 October 2026
- Seems like Msty is dead?, r/LocalLLaMA: user comments on the switch from 1.x to Studio, 16 October 2025 - checked 22 October 2026
- Visibility of Local Msty models, r/Msty_AI: bug report on version 2.9.12, 21 October 2026 - checked 22 October 2026
- Local Models, Msty Studio docs: Ollama, MLX and llama.cpp engines, MLX recommendation, GGUF import - checked 22 October 2026
- Online Providers, Msty Studio docs: 13 providers and OpenAI-compatible endpoints - checked 22 October 2026
- Remote Connections, Msty Studio docs: Local AI port 11964 and Ollama API - checked 22 October 2026
- Split Chat, Msty Studio docs: duplication mode and presets - checked 22 October 2026
- Knowledge Stacks, Msty Studio docs: sources, local embedding, PII scrubbing, rerank - checked 22 October 2026
- Prompt Studio, Msty Studio docs: versions, variables, Aurum Perk labels - checked 22 October 2026
- Real-Time Data, Msty Studio docs: search providers and which are Aurum Perk - checked 22 October 2026
- Toolbox Tools, Msty Studio docs: MCP over STDIO and Streamable HTTP, SSE note - checked 22 October 2026
- Turnstiles, Msty Studio docs: workflow description - checked 22 October 2026
- Vibe CLI Proxy, Msty Studio docs: supported CLI tools - checked 22 October 2026
- Agent Mode, Msty Studio docs: Codex, Claude Code and Gemini CLI agents - checked 22 October 2026
- Lock and Secrets Encryption, Msty Studio docs: passphrase warning - checked 22 October 2026
- Data Backups, Msty Studio docs: zip export and restore - checked 22 October 2026
- Language Support, Msty Studio docs: nine languages including UK English - checked 22 October 2026
- msty-studio-docs, GitHub: the only public CloudStack repository, documentation site code - checked 22 October 2026
- Msty Review, PromptQuorum: independent review, closed-source and freemium observations, 5 September 2026 - checked 22 October 2026
- Msty Review 2026, AISO Tools: "hard sell for individuals" and fragmentation comments, July 2026; the page carries affiliate links - checked 22 October 2026
- Pricing, LM Studio: free plan and Bionic+ at $20 a month - checked 22 October 2026
- Download, LM Studio: version 0.4.26 - checked 22 October 2026
- Terms of use, LM Studio: proprietary licence covering personal and internal business use - checked 22 October 2026
- open-webui, GitHub: licence, Docker and pip install, Ollama and OpenAI-compatible support - checked 22 October 2026
- anything-llm, GitHub: MIT licence, desktop platforms, Ollama and LM Studio providers - checked 22 October 2026
- jan, GitHub: Apache 2.0 licence, bundled llama.cpp, local server on port 1337 - checked 22 October 2026
- ollama, GitHub: MIT licence - checked 22 October 2026
- Migel Tissera on X, 13 September 2026: zero-day claim in Msty Studio 2.9.9 - checked 23 October 2026
- Migel Tissera on X, 15 September 2026: 30-day embargo - checked 23 October 2026
