Get Installed Apps MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides information about installed applications on your computer, support MacOS and Windows.

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What is the Get Installed Apps MCP server?

Connect Get Installed Apps to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides information about installed applications on your computer, support MacOS and Windows. The get installed apps mcp server is what makes that connection.

What the server does

  • Returns a comprehensive list of installed applications on your computer
  • Simple integration with any MCP-compatible AI client
  • Lightweight implementation with minimal dependencies

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

Installation

Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at npm on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.

Where it fits

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Get Installed Apps's toolset — Raycast, Cursor, Success and 1 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by Xutaotaotao; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

This entry was verified against Get Installed Apps's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.

Worth knowing first

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
Raycastrequires installing the MCP plugin
Cursorhttps://docs.cursor.com/context/model-context-protocol#configuring-mcp-servers
SuccessText content containing JSON data of all installed applications
FailureText content containing error information

How to install the Get Installed Apps MCP server

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "get-installed-apps": {
            "command": "node",
            "args": [
                "mcp-get-installed-apps/build/index.js"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Get Installed Apps to Raycast.
  • Use Get Installed Apps to Cursor.
  • Use Get Installed Apps to Success.

Frequently asked questions

Clone the repository, run `npm install` and `npm run build` to build the server.