Light like the Terminal – Meet GTK LLM Chat Front End
Author here. I wanted to keep my conversation with #Gemini about code handy while discussing something creative with #ChatGPT and using #DeepSeek in another window. I think it's a waste to have Electron apps and so wanted to chat with LLMs on my own terms. When I discovered the llm CLI tool I really wanted to have convenient and pretty looking access to my conversations, and so I wrote gtk-llm-chat - a plugin for llm that provides an applet and a simple window to interact with LLM models. Make sure you've configure llm first (https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/) I'd…
Light like the Terminal – Meet GTK LLM Chat Front End launched on April 21, 2025 with 35 votes, #678 of 7,818 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
GTK LLM Chat Front End is a lightweight desktop application for interacting with multiple large language models including Gemini, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek. Built as a plugin for the llm CLI tool, it provides a native GTK interface to manage conversations across different AI services simultaneously without relying on resource-heavy Electron apps. Users can access and organize their chat history in a simple, clean window while keeping different conversations readily available side-by-side.
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From the sources
A GTK graphical interface for chatting with large language models (LLMs) - icarito/gtk-llm-chat
In the maker’s words, at launch
Author here. I wanted to keep my conversation with #Gemini about code handy while discussing something creative with #ChatGPT and using #DeepSeek in another window. I think it's a waste to have Electron apps and so wanted to chat with LLMs on my own terms. When I discovered the llm CLI tool I really wanted to have…
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