Zama is a cross-platform lightweight desktop application to manage and chat with local large language models using Ollama, it's built with Tauri and Preact.
The only feature that requires you to be connected to the internet is model lookup and model installation.
Build: 
Lint: 
- Browse model library
- Install models
- Chat with models
- Customize temperature, context length, and system prompt
- Select models
- Copy responses (clipboard icon under model responses)
- Remove/delete models
- Auto update
- Ollama status check and auto-start functionality
- Dark/light mode support
- Chat history
- Markdown support
- Huggingface and Ollama model support. (GGUF format, only text-generation is supported for now.)
and more to come soon!
You can download and run the latest release installer script directly from GitHub.
Bash/Linux/macOS:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/myferr/zama/main/scripts/install.sh | bashPowerShell/Windows: (Requires PowerShell 7 or later)
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/myferr/zama/main/scripts/install.ps1" -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1; Remove-Item install.ps1; setx OLLAMA_ORIGINS "*"If you wish to build Zama from source, you'll need git, Rust toolchain, Node.js, pnpm/yarn/npm/bun, and Ollama.
git clone https://github.com/myferr/zama.git
cd zama
npm install # or yarn, pnpm, bun
npm run tauri build # or yarn, pnpm, bunFor installation guides, the contribution guide, and more check out the Wiki page
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
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