PopChat 0.1.2

A small release about getting started without a paid API key.

Free tiers are now one menu item

Settings › Providers → Add Provider… is a menu instead of a button. Alongside Custom… it lists a curated Free tiers section — Groq, Google Gemini, Mistral, Cerebras, NVIDIA NIM, Cohere, Hugging Face — and picking one creates an ordinary provider row already pointed at the right OpenAI-compatible base URL. Paste a key, hit ↻ to fetch the models, done.

• Template rows are normal custom providers: renameable, deletable, and they never change which provider the panel is currently using.
• Each one shows a green Free badge in the list and a one-line notice in its editor linking straight to that service's key page, plus the single caveat worth knowing (Mistral's Experiment plan opt-in, Cohere's trial cap, Hugging Face's monthly credit).
• Rate limits and model lists are deliberately not baked in — they go stale. Models come from the live /models fetch, and More free APIs… links the maintained free-llm-api-resources catalog this list was curated from.

Every included endpoint was verified OpenAI-shaped before it made the list. OpenRouter isn't in it because its preset already covers the free models there.

Install

Download PopChat-0.1.2.dmg below, open it, and drag PopChat to Applications. Signed and notarized; the hotkey (default ⌥Space) is rebindable in Settings.