🚀 PocketAI v0.6.0

🚀 PocketAI v0.6.0

This is the first public release of PocketAI!

PocketAI is a fast, privacy-first terminal AI assistant powered by Ollama. It combines local AI chat, conversation management, and document-based RAG into a polished Rich terminal interface.

✨ Highlights

• 🤖 Local AI chat powered by Ollama
• 📄 Document Chat (RAG)
• 📚 ChromaDB semantic search
• 💾 Conversation management
• 📤 Export to Markdown, TXT, and PDF
• 🎨 Multiple themes
• ⚡ First-run setup wizard
• 🔒 100% local and private

📦 Requirements

• Ollama installed and running
• At least one chat model (e.g. qwen3:4b)
• nomic-embed-text for Document Chat

📥 Assets

• PocketAI-v0.6.0-Windows.zip – Standalone Windows executable

Thank you to everyone who tries PocketAI. Feedback, bug reports, and feature requests are always welcome!

🚀 PocketAI v0.5.2 — First-Run Setup Wizard

🚀 PocketAI v0.5.2

This release focuses on delivering a polished first-run experience, making PocketAI easier to install and use than ever before.

✨ Highlights

• 🚀 Interactive First-Run Setup Wizard
• 🤖 Automatic Ollama Server Detection
• 📦 Automatic Installed Model Detection
• ⭐ Intelligent Recommended Model Selection
• ⚙️ Automatic Configuration File Creation
• 🎨 Improved Rich Terminal UI
• 🔍 Conversation Search
• 📤 Export Conversations (Markdown, TXT & PDF)
• 📦 Model Manager
• 🔄 Built-in Update Checker
• 🛡️ Graceful Ctrl+C Exit Confirmation
• 🖥️ Better EXE Distribution

🎨 Improvements

• Cleaner onboarding experience
• Better theme integration
• Improved help menu
• Improved configuration management
• Better terminal workflow
• Codebase refactoring and cleanup

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed configuration loading issues
• Fixed first-launch experience
• Improved EXE compatibility
• Removed manual configuration requirements
• General UI polish
• Various bug fixes

📥 Installation

Choose one of the following options:

Option 1 — Standalone EXE (Recommended)

Download PocketAI.exe from the Assets section below and run it directly.

Option 2 — ZIP Package

Download the ZIP package from the Assets section below, extract it, and run PocketAI.exe.

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On first launch, PocketAI will automatically:

• 🤖 Detect your Ollama server
• 📦 Find installed AI models
• ⭐ Recommend the best model
• ⚙️ Create config.json
• 🚀 Launch PocketAI

No manual configuration is required.

❤️ Thanks to everyone who tested PocketAI.

The next major milestone will be v0.6.0, focusing on document chat (RAG), voice support, and a true self-updater.

Full Changelog: v0.5.1...v0.5.2

🚀 PocketAI v0.5.1 – Stability Release

🚀 PocketAI v0.5.1 – Stability Release

This release focuses on stability, usability, and productivity.

✨ New Features

• 🔍 Conversation Search
• 📤 Export to Markdown (.md)
• 📄 Export to Plain Text (.txt)
• 📕 Export to PDF (.pdf)
• 📦 Model Manager
• 🔄 Built-in Update Checker

🎨 Improvements

• Better Help Menu
• Improved Search UI
• Response Statistics Panel
• Theme Improvements
• Better Conversation Management
• Refined Terminal UI

📦 Distribution

• Windows executable (PocketAI.exe)
• Include config.json in the same folder as PocketAI.exe before launching the application.

🛠 Fixes

• General bug fixes
• UI polish
• Internal refactoring
• README improvements

⚠️ Known Limitation

For this release, config.json must be placed alongside PocketAI.exe. Automatic first-run configuration and setup will be introduced in v0.5.2.

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.5.1

🚀 PocketAI v0.4.0 – Chat Management & Theme System

This release brings PocketAI one step closer to becoming a complete terminal AI assistant.

Version v0.4.0 introduces a brand-new chat management system, theme customization, and several improvements to the Rich-based terminal interface.

✨ What's New

💬 Chat Management

• Save conversations
• Browse chat history
• Load previous conversations
• Rename saved chats
• Delete saved chats
• Automatic chat titles

🎨 Theme System

• Multiple built-in themes
• Theme aliases (/theme cyber, /theme blue, etc.)
• Live theme switching
• Improved Rich UI styling

🖥️ UI Improvements

• Redesigned dashboard
• Improved help menu
• Better configuration panel
• Cleaner success, warning, and error dialogs
• Improved history viewer

📊 Statistics

• Response statistics
• Prompt evaluation speed
• Generation speed
• Token count information

⚙️ Improvements

• Better project structure
• Cleaner codebase
• Bug fixes
• Improved README
• Better command handling

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📦 Commands Added

/save
/history
/load <id>
/rename <id> <title>
/delete <id>
/theme
/theme <name>

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🔒 Privacy

PocketAI continues to run 100% locally using Ollama.

No cloud.
No telemetry.
No subscriptions.

Your conversations stay on your own device.

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🚀 What's Next (v0.5)

Planned features include:

• Export conversations
• Voice input
• Text-to-Speech
• Model manager
• Search chat history
• Better markdown rendering

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Thank you for checking out PocketAI!

If you enjoy the project, consider giving it a ⭐ on GitHub.

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PocketAI v0.3.0 – Chat Memory, Streaming & Statistics

🚀 PocketAI v0.3.0

PocketAI is a lightweight local AI assistant powered by Ollama, designed for fast, private, and offline conversations directly from your terminal.

✨ New Features

• 🧠 Conversation memory using the Ollama Chat API
• ⚡ Real-time streaming responses
• 📊 Toggleable response statistics (/stats)
• 📖 Improved help menu
• ⚙️ Configuration viewer
• ℹ️ About page
• 🧹 Reset conversation command
• 🔄 Random status messages while the AI is thinking
• 🎨 Improved terminal UI and formatting

🔧 Improvements

• Migrated from /api/generate to /api/chat
• Better code structure
• Cleaner command handling
• Improved error handling
• Enhanced CLI experience

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⭐ If you enjoy PocketAI, consider giving the repository a star!

PocketAI v0.2.0 - Improved UI & Configuration

🚀 PocketAI v0.2.0

PocketAI is a lightweight Python CLI that lets you chat with local AI models running on Ollama. This release focuses on improving the user experience, project structure, and terminal interface.

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✨ New Features

• 🤖 Beautiful terminal startup banner
• 📖 Interactive /help command
• ⚙️ /config command to display current configuration
• 🧹 /clear command to clear the screen
• 🧠 Thinking indicator while waiting for AI responses
• 📦 Configuration system using config.json
• 🛡️ Better connection error handling
• 🏗️ Cleaner and modular project architecture

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📁 Project Structure

PocketAI/
│
├── config.json
├── requirements.txt
├── README.md
│
└── pocketai/
    ├── ai.py
    ├── config.py
    └── main.py

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🛠 Built With

• Python 3
• Ollama
• Requests

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Edit config.json:

{
    "url": "http://YOUR_PHONE_IP:11434/api/generate",
    "model": "gemma3:270m",
    "version": "0.2.0"
}

3. Start PocketAI:

python pocketai/main.py

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📋 Commands

Command	Description
/help	Show available commands
/config	Show current configuration
/clear	Clear the terminal
/bye	Exit PocketAI

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🎯 What's Next

Planned for v0.3.0

• Streaming responses
• Colored terminal output
• Chat history
• Model switching
• Performance statistics

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Thank you for checking out PocketAI! ⭐
If you like the project, consider giving it a star.

PocketAI v0.1.0 - Initial CLI Release

🚀 Initial Release

PocketAI is a lightweight Python CLI that connects to a local Ollama server running on Android (Termux) or a computer.

Features

• Chat with local AI models
• Ollama API integration
• Simple CLI interface
• /help command
• /bye command

Built with Python and the Requests library.