Winter. Evolved.
Pasture
An iOS app for Ollama that became Shio.
It became Shio.
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.
Became ShioThe cross-platform terminal for the agent era.
pasture.sh
- Status
- Evolved into Shio
- Runs on
- iPhone and Mac
- Since
- 2026; shelved in June 2026
- Built with
- Swift and SwiftUI; Ollama on the Mac
- Signature
- Never announced, never shipped, fully documented
The print
A pasture
An old horse in a snowy field. The print is called Vieillesse, old age.
1931. All three inks, in winter colours: federal blue, aqua, violet. Source. CC0.
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