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Show HN: Native macOS app for chatting with Ollama models

by rkwz on 9/30/24, 1:14 PM with 0 comments

Hello everyone,

I've built a simple macOS app for chatting with models downloaded by Ollama - https://github.com/sheshbabu/Chital

It's written in Swift, consumes less memory and loads fast.

It has these features:

* Support for multiple chat threads

* Switch between different models

* Markdown support

* Automatic chat thread title summarization

It's my first time working with Swift and Xcode, and it has been an interesting journey. The performance of the application is a big plus when building native apps, but I wonder if I'll be able to add features like document processing, RAG and other capabilities that are easy to implement using Python.

Give it a try and let me know what you think :)