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Free, open source menu bar app that turns Ollama and Splash on and off in one click and unloads idle models from memory. It stops Ollama the way it started (Ollama.app, brew services or ollama serve). No accounts, no telemetry. macOS 14+.
PH · launched Sep 28, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Open Source
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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More like this: all 312 launches in macos menu bar utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward native macOS menu bar utility that executes shell commands and calls Ollama's local HTTP API to toggle processes and unload models.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 66 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 67 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 249 days after the earliest competitor.
- modelnap · github · 2026-09-15 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- ModelHub · ph · 2026-05-24 · 318 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ollama-windows-model-library-manager · github · 2026-10-19 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- GlassChat · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- OmniMac · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Ollama v0.19 · ph · 2026-04-01 · 412 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- OpenNavo · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Artifex · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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