Llama

Local LLMs, one click away — right from your Windows system tray.

Llama is a Windows 11 tray app for running llama.cpp models locally. It's a WinUI 3 port of Llama for Mac.

Install

Grab the latest .msixbundle (x64 + ARM64) from Releases and double-click to install.

Highlights

• Lives in your tray — a borderless, Mica-backed flyout anchored to the tray icon
• Zero-setup llama.cpp — uses your existing llama.exe, or downloads one for you
• One-click models — browse and download recommended models from the Hugging Face Hub
• Model details — click any model for a context-length picker with per-option memory estimates (read from the GGUF header), remembered per model, plus chat, copy-model-ID, curl-request, and Hugging Face actions
• Standard storage — models live in the Hugging Face cache, shared with llama.cpp and other tools
• Spotlight-like overlay — press Alt+Space from any app to chat with your loaded model

The overlay

Alt+Space from any app opens a borderless window with the WebUI for whichever model is loaded. It hides instead of closing, so re-summoning is instant and your conversation is still there.

How it works

Llama manages a llama serve process and talks to it over its REST API. Your models stay in the standard Hugging Face cache (%USERPROFILE%\.cache\huggingface\hub), shared with llama.cpp and HF tooling. Settings and logs live under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Llama.

Building from source

You'll need the .NET 10 SDK with the Windows App SDK workload:

dotnet build -c Release -r win-x64   # or win-arm64
dotnet test                          # run the unit tests

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Made with 🦙 for Windows 11 · Models run 100% locally — your prompts never leave your machine.