Ollama Chat is a web chat client for Ollama that allows you to chat locally (and privately) with Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Platform independent - tested on macOS, Windows, and Linux
- Chat with any local Ollama model
- Save conversations for later viewing and interaction
- Single and multiline prompts
- Regenerate the most recent conversation response
- Delete the most recent conversation exchange
- View responses as Markdown or text
- Save conversations as Markdown text
- Multiple concurrent chat responses (with proper Ollama configuration)
To get up and running with Ollama Chat follows these steps:
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Install and start Ollama
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Install Ollama Chat
pip install ollama-chat
To update Ollama Chat:
pip install -U ollama-chat
To start Ollama Chat, open a terminal prompt and run the Ollama Chat application:
ollama-chat
A web browser is launched and opens the Ollama Chat web application.
By default, a configuration file, "ollama-chat.json", is created in the user's home directory.
To start a conversation from the command line, use the -m
argument:
ollama-chat -m "Why is the sky blue?"
This package is developed using python-build. It was started using python-template as follows:
template-specialize python-template/template/ ollama-chat/ -k package ollama-chat -k name 'Craig A. Hobbs' -k email 'craigahobbs@gmail.com' -k github 'craigahobbs' -k noapi 1