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Managing models

Ekorbia has a built-in model manager — download new models and delete old ones without touching a terminal. Everything still goes through your local Ollama install; the manager is a friendlier face on ollama pull and ollama rm.

Opening the manager

Three ways in:

  • Settings → Models — the manager lives as a Settings tab.
  • The model picker — click the model name in the bottom-right of the composer, then Manage models… at the bottom of the list. (If you have no models at all, the picker shows a Download a model… button instead.)
  • The startup dialog — if Ekorbia launches and your selected model isn’t installed, the “Model not found” dialog offers Download a model… directly.

Downloading a model

Type any model name from ollama.com/library into the box — gemma4:e4b, llama3.2:3b, whatever you like — and click Pull. Or click Pull on one of the suggestions, which include the Gemma 4 family and the nomic-embed-text embedding model that folder attachments and search rely on.

While a download runs you’ll see a live progress bar with percentage and bytes. Downloads keep running if you close the manager — reopen it any time to check progress, and a notification toast appears when the model is ready. Cancel stops a download immediately; partially-downloaded layers are kept by Ollama, so retrying later resumes cheaply.

You can queue several downloads at once; each gets its own progress row.

Deleting a model

Click Delete next to any installed model. A confirmation explains what’s about to happen — deleting removes the model from disk, but you can always pull it again later. If you delete the model you’re currently chatting with, Ekorbia falls back to another installed model at the next launch so you’re never stranded.

The terminal still works

Everything the manager does can also be done with the Ollama CLI (ollama pull, ollama rm, ollama list) — the manager and the CLI see the same models, so use whichever you prefer.