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Alpaca

Alpaca is an AI chat assistant, available on Linux: choice of several models and providers, image understanding, data import and export.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Alpaca is an AI chat assistant, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: choice of several models and providers, image understanding, data import and export, local model execution.

Services and protocols mentioned: Gemini.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Chat with AI models” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “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.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Image recognition (Only available with compatible models)” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Import and export chats” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “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.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Alpaca is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

A private AI client Features Talk to multiple models in the same conversation Pull and delete models from the app Have multiple conversations Image recognition (Only available with compatible models) Plain text documents recognition Import and export chats Append YouTube transcripts to the prompt Append text from a website to the prompt PDF recognition Disclaimer 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 models.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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