Disclosed are a hand-held picking apparatus for cherries and a picking method thereof. The hand-held picking apparatus for cherries comprises a casing (11), a driving part, a transmitting part and anexecuting part, wherein a saw blade fixing plate groove (12) for fixing a saw blade (2) is fixedly connected with the casing (11), a saw blade fixing plate (3) is meshed with a driving wheel (5) so asto perform repeated rotation, the rotating stroke of the saw blade fixing plate (3) is limited by the saw blade fixing plate groove (12), the saw blade (2) is fixed on the saw blade fixing plate (3)so as to perform repeated sawing rotation, a protective sleeve (1) is fixedly connected with the saw blade fixing plate (3), and the protective sleeve (1) comprises a plurality of protective blocks with predetermined intervals, wherein each predetermined interval is a distance between a cherry stem and a branch connecting the cherry stem.