Install cc-switch on macOS and Linux
Install cc-switch with one command
Pick your system, reveal the command, copy it, paste it into your terminal and press Enter. This command was taken from the project's own documentation and checked against it.
Not available for Windows yet.
cc-switch doesn't publish an install command for Windows anywhere we can verify, so there's nothing for us to show you. We won't invent one. It does document one for macOS and Linux — switch to that tab.
Pastes into PowerShell and installs cc-switch on your Windows machine in one step. Runs as your normal user account, and needs no administrator rights.
Not available for macOS yet.
cc-switch doesn't publish an install command for macOS or Linux anywhere we can verify, so there's nothing for us to show you. We won't invent one.
Installs cc-switch on your macOS or Linux machine and links it into your PATH — after this,
cc-switch just works from any directory. Runs as your normal user account, and needs no administrator rights.
What exactly does this do?
Open Terminal. On a Mac it's in Applications ▸ Utilities, or press Cmd+Space and type Terminal. On Linux, press Ctrl+Alt+T. Paste the command and press Enter.
Run cc-switch --help to see the available commands, and
cc-switch --version to confirm the install worked. If your shell complains about
permissions, that project usually documents a corrected command on its own site.
This asks Homebrew to fetch cc-switch and link it into /opt/homebrew/bin (Apple Silicon) or /usr/local/bin (Intel), so you can run it by name.
What cc-switch does
- Cross-Platform — Native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux, built with Tauri 2
- The MCP, Skills, Prompts, and Sessions panels opened from the Claude Desktop page apply to Claude Code
- Universal providers — One config syncs to Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI
- One-click switching, system tray quick switching (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok Build), drag-and-drop sorting, import/export
- Guides: Using GPT in Claude Code · Using Claude in Codex
- All three panels support search, and MCP and Skills can also be enabled or disabled all at once per tool
Summarised from cc-switch's own README.
About cc-switch
cc-switch is an open-source developer tool.
| Category | Developer tool |
|---|---|
| Install method | Homebrew |
| Windows | no install command published |
| macOS / Linux | documented install command available |
| Price | Free and open source |
| Command verified | Yes — checked against the project README |
| Popularity | 138k stars on the project's public repository |
On mobile
cc-switch is a command-line tool, so there is no phone app for it — a phone has no shell to run it in. You'll need a desktop, or a remote shell into a machine that has one.
cc-switch is developed by its own authors. This page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by the project. The command shown here was reproduced from the project's public documentation — always check the project's own documentation before running anything.