RKrkwz·Jul 31, 2025
[Shameless Plug]
I built my own Ollama macOS app written in SwiftUI: https://github.com/sheshbabu/Chital
Launches fast and weighs less than 2MB in size!
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Chital
A native macOS app for chatting with local LLMs
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4Mentions
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What it is
A native macOS app for chatting with local LLMs
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 2024 | 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Oct 2024 | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2024 | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2024 | 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jan 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2025 | 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2025 | 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2025 | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2025 | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2025 | 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2025 | 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesChatGPT has a Mac app. If you want to run your own models, Ollama with Chital is great.
https://github.com/sheshbabu/Chital
In Llama-3.3-70B-InstructIf you’re using a Mac, I’ve built a lightweight native app - https://github.com/sheshbabu/Chital
In Bringing K/V context quantisation to OllamaShow HN: Native macOS app for chatting with Ollama models
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 :)
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