IronPrompt is a sleek, state-of-the-art desktop client for interacting with local Ollama LLMs. Designed with modern aesthetics and premium glassmorphism in mind, it provides a fast, tactile, and highly responsive user experience.
It is fully optimized for .NET 10 and built from the ground up to support 100% Native AOT (Ahead-of-Time) compilation, achieving near-instantaneous startup times and minimum memory footprints.
- Premium Glassmorphism UI: Harmony-driven dark mode color palette (
#101018base) styled with smooth gradient buttons, semi-transparent panels, and subtle micro-animations. - Integrated Model Manager: A premium tabbed overlay modal for managing Ollama models:
- Installed Models: View all locally installed models with formatted sizes in GB, select active session models, or securely delete models with warning confirmations.
- Download Models: Input and pull custom tags from Ollama Library (with real-time progress stream, validation tips, and robust localized error interception).
- Hot-Swappable Localization (TR / EN): Dynamic Turkish and English support. All static texts, placeholders, and error messages translate instantly without application restarts.
- Image Attachment & Vision Support: Add images to your chat sessions via drag-and-drop, clipboard pasting (
Ctrl+V), or open file picker. Uses connection-aware lazy capability checking to verify model compatibility. - Modern Settings Modal: An overlay modal for configuring application language and toggling the auto-scroll behavior (to control whether the chat automatically scrolls down as responses stream in).
- Intelligent Connection Monitoring: A background connection loop that detects when Ollama is offline, locks the UI with a red warning banner, and seamlessly updates capabilities once connection is restored.
- Advanced Markdown & Tables: Renders headers, lists, bold/italic, inline code blocks, and interactive markdown tables natively with auto-scaling columns.
- Smart Code Blocks: Syntax highlighting wrapper featuring a one-click copy button and horizontal scrolling.
- Thinking Process Visualization: Specialized styling and visual steps representing deep-thinking states (e.g.
<think>blocks in reasoning models) with active/completed states. - Session & Boundaries Persistence: Remembers window dimensions, position, maximized/minimized state, scroll offsets, active model choice, and session history.
- Framework: .NET 10 & Avalonia UI (MVVM)
- Code Generation: Utilizes source generators (
CommunityToolkit.Mvvm) for reactive bindings. - JSON Serialization: Configured using compile-time source-generated JSON reflection contexts (
System.Text.Json.Serialization.JsonSerializerContext) to ensure full Native AOT compatibility.
- Ollama: Ensure Ollama is installed and running locally on your machine:
ollama run gemma4:e4b # Or any model of your choice (e.g. gemma4:26b)
Because IronPrompt is compiled as a Native AOT self-contained application, it runs 100% independently on Windows. You do not need to install .NET 10 SDK, .NET Runtimes, or any other external frameworks!
- Go to the Releases page.
- Select your preferred distribution format:
- Standard Installer (
IronPromptSetup.exe): A professional installer wizard that automatically installs the program, registers shortcuts, and creates a Start Menu entry for easy access. - Portable Archive (
IronPrompt-win-x64.zip): A standalone, lightweight package. Simply extract the ZIP file anywhere on your system and runIronPrompt.exeimmediately without installation.
- Standard Installer (
If you want to compile the project yourself or contribute to the codebase:
- Install .NET 10 SDK: Download .NET 10 SDK
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/arda-ceylan/IronPrompt.git cd IronPrompt - Run the application using the dotnet CLI:
dotnet run --project IronPrompt/IronPrompt.csproj
To publish the application as a single-file, self-contained native executable with maximum optimization and no external dependencies:
dotnet publish IronPrompt/IronPrompt.csproj -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained trueThe resulting executable will be generated under bin\Release\net10.0\publish\win-x64\.
Figure 1: Main chat view featuring the custom TR/EN segmented switch and dark glassmorphism. |
Figure 2: Interactive deep thinking reasoning step visualization and syntax-highlighted code blocks. |
Figure 3: Complete, seamless dynamic English UI translation in action across all controls. |
Figure 4: Tactile chat session control with dynamic inline rename and right-click delete options. |
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