README.md
February 16, 2026 · View on GitHub
Alpaca
Alpaca is an Ollama client where you can manage and chat with multiple models, Alpaca provides an easy and beginner friendly way of interacting with local AI, everything is open source and powered by Ollama.
You can also use third party AI providers such as Gemini, ChatGPT and more!
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.
Important
Please be aware that GNOME Code of Conduct applies to Alpaca before interacting with this repository.
Warning
AI generated issues and PRs will be denied, repeated offense will result in a ban from the repository, AI can be a useful tool but I don't want Alpaca to be vibe-developed, thanks.
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 / Edit messages
- Regenerate messages
- YouTube recognition (Ask questions about a YouTube video using the transcript)
- Website recognition (Ask questions about a certain website by pasting the URL)
- Talk to cloud-hosted models with OpenAI-compatible APIs using your own API keys
Screenies
| Normal conversation | Image recognition | Custom Character | Integrated Script Execution | Web Search Integration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Documentation
The documentation of Alpaca and tutorials are now available at jeffser.com.
Translators
| Language | Contributors |
|---|---|
| Russian | Alex K DasHi Snowflake |
| Spanish | Jeffry Samuel |
| French | Louis Chauvet-Villaret , Théo FORTIN |
| Brazilian Portuguese | Daimar Stein , Bruno Antunes , Lucas Loura |
| Norwegian | CounterFlow64 |
| Bengali | Aritra Saha |
| Simplified Chinese | Yuehao Sui , Aleksana |
| Hindi | Aritra Saha |
| Turkish | YusaBecerikli |
| Ukrainian | Simon |
| German | Marcel Margenberg , Magnus Schlinsog , Ina Krapp |
| Hebrew | Yosef Or Boczko |
| Telugu | Aryan Karamtoth |
| Italian | Edoardo Brogiolo |
| Japanese | Shidore |
| Dutch | Henk Leerssen |
| Indonesian | Nofal Briansah |
| Tamil | Harimanish |
| Georgian | Ekaterine Papava |
| Kannada | Jeethan Roche |
| Arabic | Ahmed Najmawi |
| Belarusian | Aliaksandr Kliujeŭ |
| Kabyle | Athmane MOKRAOUI , MoonShadow |
Want to add a language? Visit this wiki page to get started!
Thanks
- not-a-dev-stein for their help with requesting a new icon and bug reports
- TylerLaBree for their requests and ideas
- Imbev for their reports and suggestions
- Nokse for their contributions to the UI and table rendering
- Louis Chauvet-Villaret for their suggestions
- Aleksana for her help with better handling of directories
- Gnome Builder Team for the awesome IDE I use to develop Alpaca
- Sponsors for giving me enough money to be able to take a ride to my campus every time I need to <3
- Everyone that has shared kind words of encouragement!
Packaging Alpaca
If you want to package Alpaca in a different packaging method please read this wiki page.