GNOME's New Local/Cloud AI Chat App Gains More Features

Coming about the past few months has been Moose as a GNOME-aligned AI chat application built around GTK4 and libadwaita. It began as a local AI chat app for the GNOME desktop and grew to support cloud AI services as well. This past week marked the latest feature release for Moose. Moose 0.6 adds support for secure cloud connections with protected credential storage for those wanting to make use of cloud AI platforms. There is also now a Local-Only mode for using Ollama managed by Moose on your own device. Permission handling can also now be set per-chat or remembers across chats of the same provider. The updated GNOME AI chat app also now has a GNOME Files browser for interacting with files on your system and attaching them to an AI chat conversation. There is also an expanded local model catalog for chat / vision / reasoning / coding purposes. Moose 0.6.1 was also released with some follow-on changes, including support for connecting to Mistral AI and DeepSeek from Moose. Moose can be downloaded from GitHub and also available in Flatpak form on Flathub. More details on the new Moose release and other GNOME app updates for the past week can be found via This Week in GNOME.