Ollama UI is an open-source, minimal HTML user interface for Ollama, the popular local LLM runner: it gives your locally served models a clean chat window in the browser without any build step or framework. Released under the MIT license, it has about 1,100 stars on GitHub and was last updated in 2026.
Ollama makes running large language models on your own machine a one-command affair, but it speaks through a terminal and an API. Ollama UI fills the gap with deliberately simple technology: a single static HTML interface that talks to your Ollama server, so you can chat with local models like Llama, Mistral or Qwen from any browser. There is nothing to compile and almost nothing to configure: clone the repository, run the included make target, and open the page. The same interface is also packaged as a Chrome extension, putting a local-model chat panel one click away while browsing. In an ecosystem of increasingly heavy chat front-ends, this project is the featherweight option: easy to audit, easy to fork, and private by design because everything it talks to runs on your own hardware.
Ollama UI is completely free and open source under the MIT license. There are no accounts, subscriptions or hosted services; it runs entirely against your own local Ollama installation.
Ollama UI is for anyone running LLMs locally with Ollama who wants a friendly chat window instead of the terminal, especially privacy-conscious users and developers who prefer the lightest possible front-end.