Install gemini-cli on macOS and Linux
Install gemini-cli 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.
gemini-cli 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 gemini-cli on your Windows machine in one step. Runs as your normal user account, and needs no administrator rights.
Not available for macOS yet.
gemini-cli 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 gemini-cli on your macOS or Linux machine and links it into your PATH — after this,
gemini-cli 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 gemini-cli --help to see the available commands, and
gemini-cli --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 gemini-cli and link it into /opt/homebrew/bin (Apple Silicon) or /usr/local/bin (Intel), so you can run it by name.
What gemini-cli does
- Built-in tools: Google Search grounding, file operations, shell
- Run non-interactively in scripts for workflow automation
- Free tier: 60 requests/min and 1,000 requests/day with personal Google
- Powerful Gemini 3 models: Access to improved reasoning and 1M token
- Query and edit large codebases
- Generate new apps from PDFs, images, or sketches using multimodal capabilities
Summarised from gemini-cli's own README.
About gemini-cli
gemini-cli is an open-source developer tool.
| Category | Command-line 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 | 107k stars on the project's public repository |
On mobile
gemini-cli 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.
gemini-cli 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.