Ollama Desktop App
The easiest way to chat with local AI
Ollama Desktop App launched on August 1, 2025 with 481 votes, #44 of 8,530 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Ollama Desktop App is a chat interface for running open-source AI models locally on macOS and Windows. Users can interact with large language models, process images with multimodal models, and analyze files directly on their computers. The application prioritizes privacy by keeping all processing local rather than sending data to external servers, making it suitable for developers and anyone seeking private AI interactions.
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From the sources
Ollama's new official desktop app for macOS and Windows makes it easy to run open-source models locally. Chat with LLMs, use multimodal models with images, or reason about files, all from a simple, private interface.
Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
Ollama’s new app is now available for macOS and Windows. Ollama’s macOS and Windows now include a way to download and chat with models. Ollama’s new app supports file drag and drop, making it easier to reason with text or PDFs. For processing large documents, Ollama’s context length can be increased in the settings. Note: this will require more memory. Building on Ollama’s new multimodal engine , images can be sent to models that support them, such as Google DeepMind’s Gemma 3 model. Download Ollama’s new app today on macOS and Windows . For pure CLI versions of Ollama, standalone downloads are available on Ollama’s GitHub releasesfrom ollama.com
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