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Pasture

Local AI chat on your iPhone, with Ollama on your Mac. It became Shio.

pasture.sh

It became Shio.

A chat client for iPhone and Mac that talked to Ollama on your own machine, with nothing in between.

platforms

iPhone and Mac

since

2026; shelved in June 2026

links

pasture.sh

stack

Swift and SwiftUI; Ollama on the Mac

status

Evolved into Shio

signature

Never announced, never shipped, fully documented

the problem

Local models ran on the Mac, but the phone had no honest way to talk to them.

the approach

A chat client for iPhone and Mac that talks to Ollama on your own machine, nothing in between: no account, no relay, no cloud.

what we learned

Chatting with a local model is not the product; reaching the machine is. As everything, Ollama included, moved to agents, the question changed, and the answer became Shio.

next

None. Its ideas live in Shio; pasture.sh stays up as the record.