Apps

Ollama ships two distinct user-facing applications:

• The ollama CLI binary (main.go, cmd/) — the primary entry point. It serves as the CLI, the ollama serve daemon, the inference runner subprocess, and the launch-integration host.
• The desktop app (app/) — an optional macOS/Windows wrapper that runs the daemon in the background and provides tray icons, dialogs, and an updater.

Both ship from the same Git repository and the same Go module, but they have different lifecycles and audiences.

Pages

• CLI — the ollama binary and how each subcommand maps to code.
• Desktop app — the tray app and its background-service plumbing.