llmman-desktop

llmman's web UI in a native window. Chat, pull models, generate images, video and audio, and the Shell tab: everything llmman serve shows at http://127.0.0.1:17434/, without a browser tab.

Builds on llmman rather than re-implementing any of it. Each package ships the llmman release binary for its platform next to the app. On launch:

• if a daemon already answers on 127.0.0.1:17434 (one the CLI started, say), the window uses it and leaves it running when closed;
• otherwise the app runs the llmman serve next to it (or else the one on PATH) and shows its progress. On a first run that includes fetching llama.cpp, which can take minutes. Closing the window stops the daemon. A daemon that exits shows its log and a Retry button. The log is at llmman-desktop-serve.log in the system temp directory.

Links to other sites open in the system browser; downloads (Export chats, generated media) go to the Downloads folder.

Install

From the latest release, for the same five platforms as llmman:

Platform	Asset
macOS, Apple Silicon	llmman-desktop-aarch64-apple-darwin.zip (llmman.app)
Linux x86_64	llmman-desktop-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Linux aarch64	llmman-desktop-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Windows x86_64	llmman-desktop-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip
Windows ARM64	llmman-desktop-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip

checksums.txt in the same release covers them all.

• macOS: unzip and move llmman.app to Applications. The app is ad-hoc signed, not notarized, so the first launch needs right-click → Open (or xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine llmman.app).
• Linux: extract and run llmman-desktop/llmman-desktop. It needs WebKitGTK 4.1 and GTK 3 (libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 on Debian/Ubuntu, webkit2gtk4.1 on Fedora).
• Windows: extract and run llmman-desktop\llmman-desktop.exe. It uses the WebView2 runtime, which Windows 10 and 11 already have.

Keep llmman-desktop and llmman together: the app runs the llmman next to it.

Building

Rust (stable), plus WebKitGTK and GTK development headers on Linux (libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libgtk-3-dev):

cargo build --release
./target/release/llmman-desktop   # uses the llmman on PATH

packaging/package.sh <target> <version> <llmman-tag> bundles a release build with that llmman release into dist/, as CI does. As in llmman, every commit on main is a release, versioned MAJOR.MINOR.<commit count> (packaging/version.sh).