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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.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a model & infra tool for Fintech yet.