modelnap
Let idle local LLMs sleep and get your Mac's memory back. A native macOS menu bar app to turn Ollama on and off and auto-free idle model RAM. Free and open source.
Details
- External ID
- 1370829583
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- modelnap
- Website domain
- modelnap.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4606712785037151
- Tags
- ai, apple-silicon, llm, local-llm, macos, macos-app, memory, menu-bar-app, menubar, ollama, open-source, ram, swift, swiftui
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS utilities and system tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macos menu bar app for managing ollama memory and idle llms
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS menu bar app written in Swift that polls Ollama's local HTTP API and manages its process via launchctl or signals.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 81 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 82 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 296 days after the earliest competitor.
- ModelNap · ph · 2026-09-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Ollama v0.19 · ph · 2026-04-01 · 412 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- OmniMac · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Open Caffeine · ph · 2026-06-01 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- ModelHub · ph · 2026-05-24 · 318 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Prune · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- LidPilot — Your Mac. On your time. · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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- No other launches for this product.
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