Hi there everybody 👋
It's been some time since the last update, three months to be precise (god, time passes quickly). I've been collecting various features and improvements to the app. And today's the day I'll be releasing them all into the wild.
As always, if you stumble across any errors or inconsistencies, or you have an idea for a feature, feel free to open a new issue report. Have fun.
~ Jakob
Localization
Thanks to many users on Crowdin, I'm happy to announce that Ollama App will be available in three new languages:
- Chinese (Simplified), thanks to Ruifeng and Pinkman Zhang
- Italian, thanks to Intranox
- Turkish, thanks to ShLerP
If you'd like to see your language added as well, help to localize the project. Read more in the Contribution Guide.
Added features
- Ability to add models
- You remember seeing the message that adding models in the app is not supported? That's a thing of the past, in the latest version of Ollama App, you'll be able to download your favorite model directly from within the app
- Timeout multiplier
- Were you ever in the situation that a request for a message fails because of your slow internet connection or because your host is too slow? Timeout multiplier is the solution. It'll multiply every timeout value in the app, so those situations can be prevented
- Toggle to disable system message
- This is implemented, so the system message specified in the Modelfile of the model can be used. It is used global and not model specific, maybe that'll be added in the future
- Ollama App for Desktop
- As you might have already noticed, down below you're able to download a Windows and a Linux version of the app. Yes, that's correct; Flutter, the underlying framework, enables me to easily port Ollama App to multiple platforms without a major rewrite.
- You should be able to use the app in production use, but (potentially severe) issues might occur. Please make an issue report if you come across any
- Learn how to install here
Improvements
- Reworked titles to be more stream lined, and actually working (they were broken before)
- No restart is required when changing theme or brightness of the app
- The new theme worker makes the app more fluent that ever before
- Android 15's predictive back is now supported
- Tooltips are now available in most spots
- Voice Mode reports if TTS is available
- Improved update worker
- Automatically enable show model tags if there are two identical models installed (only works if not toggled before)
- All licenses are now shown in the About settings section
- Technical: Properly implemented the toggle, it's no longer hacky
- Various other additions ...