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Follamac

Work with Ollama from GUI.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing: themes and dark mode.

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
  • “pulling/deleting models sending prompts to Ollama (chat or generate) selecting role for a message in the chat mode and possibility to send a system message with the generate mode - basic options (temperature,…” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Follamac is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Few recent updates

About

You need Ollama running on your localhost with some model. Once Ollama is running the model can be pulled from follamac or from command line. From command line type something like: ollama pull llama3 If you wish to pull from follamac you can write llama3 into "Model name to pull" input box and click the PULL button. Follamac is a desktop application which provides convenient way to work with Ollama and large language models (LLMs) and provides these features: pulling/deleting models sending prompts to Ollama (chat or generate) selecting role for a message in the chat mode and possibility to send a system message with the generate mode - basic options (temperature, threads) basic info about selected model code highlighting multiple chats editing/deleting chats editing/deleting messages copy code or whole message to clipboard light and dark theme (defaults to the system setting)

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: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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