Local AI Extra UI
The application is provided as freeware without warranty of any kind, for users to use at their own risk.
Local AI Extra (v1.0.2) is a GUI that makes using Ollama models on a local machine, a lot easier compared to using the command line. Obviously, the GUI is useless without Ollama running and installed on a host machine. The developer is not connected with or endorsed by Ollama.
The app has been tested on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04. It has only been tested on machines with plenty of RAM, and no AI viable GPU. Ollama will use GPU when available, the UI does not need to handle that.
An artisan project, testing has only been conducted by the developer, there has been no external audit of the code or the system.
- Selector to loads models, unloads them when swapping before loading a new model.
- An editable chat history makes maintaining context easy, even when switching models.
- Identifies models equipped with vision and automatically amends UI presentation to enable images to be passed.
- Allows image scaling to reduce size of passed in images.
- Input and output pane text scaling.
- Handles cancelling queries.
- Shows ticker when processing.
- Logs errors.
- Estimates query + context size, and lower and upper permissible bounds.
- Monitors available RAM.
- Allows selection of processor cores to use from available.
As the app is provided without any kind of support service, getting the hang of it through some experimentation is advisable. Built in May 2026, functionality depends on Ollama endpoints remaining the same / app being updated if they change.