Chat for Ollama

A client for the Ollama server you run yourself. Streaming, model switching and thinking output stay free. One-time unlock instead of a subscription.

Chat for Ollama is a client for the Ollama server you already run yourself — on a Mac under the desk, in a homelab, or across your own private network. Your questions go to your machine and nowhere else. The app needs a running server: it does not run models on the phone and does not download any.

EVERYTHING YOUR SERVER CAN DO IS FREE

• Streaming answers from every model on your server
• Switch models mid-chat, the conversation stays
• Thinking output from reasoning models, collapsed above the answer
• Image input for models with vision
• System prompt, temperature, Top-P and context length per chat
• Unlimited history, stored on the device

No server feature is behind a purchase. What you pay for is convenience the app adds, not something Ollama already gives you.

CONNECTING, WITHOUT THE GUESSWORK

Most first attempts fail for one reason: Ollama listens on 127.0.0.1 by default, so the phone cannot reach it — and no error message says so.

• Scan your local network for servers on port 11434
• Paste a copied address straight from the clipboard
• When a connection fails you get a screen, not an error code: what was tried, what came back, what it means, and the exact command to fix it with a copy button
• Reachability dot per server

THE CHAT ITSELF

• Markdown, tables and code blocks with a copy button per block
• Speed readout after each answer: tokens per second and duration
• Context meter that warns before the server silently truncates the history
• Copy, regenerate, edit your own message, delete
• Stop button that really cancels the generation and keeps the partial text
• Loading indicator with a counter when a cold model has to be read from disk
• Chat list with automatic titles, search and pinning
• Split-view layout on iPad

ALSO WORKS WITH OPENAI-COMPATIBLE SERVERS

Anything serving /v1/chat/completions on a machine you run — LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM, or Ollama's own compatibility endpoint. Same chat, same streaming, same cancelling.

ONE-TIME UNLOCK, $5.99

No subscription and no second tier. The unlock adds:

• Several servers with quick switching
• Named presets for system prompt and parameters
• Attachments: text, Markdown, code and PDF files are extracted as text
• Export a chat as Markdown

PRIVACY

No account, no sign-up, no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting. Chats and server addresses stay on the device, API keys go into the Keychain. A network capture shows nothing but the server you entered yourself.

WHAT YOU NEED

An Ollama server (or an OpenAI-compatible one) that your iPhone can reach — same network, or through a mesh VPN you already use. There is a demo mode if you want to look around first.

Chat for Ollama is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Ollama project.