ModelNap
Your local AI, on only when you use it
Details
- External ID
- 1262618
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ModelNap
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9378608082103913
- Tags
- Mac, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
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+.
Enrichment
- Theme
- focus timers and task planners
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local ai model resource manager for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 29 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 30 (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
- OmniMac · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Ollama v0.19 · ph · 2026-04-01 · 412 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Artifex · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- ChatOSS · hn · 2026-08-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- First Claude Code client for Ollama local models · hn · 2026-01-22 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- streamlit-ollama-chat · github · 2026-09-18 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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