Recommended GUIs and Web UIs for Ollama

Interacting with Ollama in the command line works, but using a graphic user interface (GUI) provides a premium chat experience.

1. Popular Frontend Web UIs

Open WebUI (Recommended Web Client)

• Link: github.com/open-webui/open-webui
• Description: A feature-rich ChatGPT-style web UI. Supports RAG document uploads, multi-user management, and model branching.
• Docker Quickstart:

docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

2. Desktop native GUI Clients

If you want lightweight desktop apps instead of Docker installations:

Chatbox

• Link: chatboxai.app
• Description: A cross-platform app supporting Ollama API connections. Configures by entering http://127.0.0.1:11434 as the API host.

LM Studio

• Link: lmstudio.ai
• Description: A desktop application to discover, download, and run Hugging Face GGUF models locally.