Alpaca

Alpaca is an Ollama client where you can manage and chat with multiple models, Alpaca provides an easy and begginer friendly way of interacting with local AI, everything is open source and powered by Ollama.

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Warning

This project is not affiliated at all with Ollama, I'm not responsible for any damages to your device or software caused by running code given by any AI models.

Features!

• Talk to multiple models in the same conversation
• Pull and delete models from the app
• Image recognition
• Document recognition (plain text files)
• Code highlighting
• Multiple conversations
• Notifications
• Import / Export chats
• Delete messages

Future features!

• YouTube recognition (Ask questions about a YouTube video using the transcript)
• Edit messages
• Snap Package (maybe)

Screenies

Code highlighting	Chatting with models	Managing models

Preview

1. Clone repo using Gnome Builder
2. Press the run button

Instalation

1. Go to the releases page
2. Download the latest flatpak package
3. Open it

Ollama session tips

Migrate Ollama session to Alpaca's integrated session

For now Alpaca doesn't offer a way to do this from the GUI but it's really simple, when you are using Ollama it creates a folder in the home directory called .ollama, you just need to move that folder to ~/.var/app/com.jeffser.Alpaca/data/

Change the port of the integrated Ollama instance

Go to ~/.var/app/com.jeffser.Alpaca/config/server.json and change the "local_port" value, by default it is 11435.

Backup all the chats

The chat data is located in ~/.var/app/com.jeffser.Alpaca/data/chats you can copy that directory wherever you want to.

Force showing the welcome dialog

To do that you just need to delete the file ~/.var/app/com.jeffser.Alpaca/config/server.json, this won't affect your saved chats or models.

Add/Change environment variables for Ollama

You can change anything except $HOME and $OLLAMA_HOST, to do this go to ~/.var/app/com.jeffser.Alpaca/config/server.json and change ollama_overrides accordingly, some overrides are available to change on the GUI.

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Thanks

• not-a-dev-stein for their help with requesting a new icon, bug reports and the translation to Brazilian Portuguese
• TylerLaBree for their requests and ideas
• Alexkdeveloper for their help translating the app to Russian
• Imbev for their reports and suggestions
• Nokse for their contributions to the UI
• Louis Chauvet-Villaret for their suggestions and help translating the app to French

About forks

If you want to fork this... I mean, I think it would be better if you start from scratch, my code isn't well documented at all, but if you really want to, please give me some credit, that's all I ask for... And maybe a donation (joke)