Desktop client for local AI chat powered by lemonade-server.
Lemonade provides a clean, user-friendly chat interface for interacting with large language models (LLMs) running locally on your machine, with support for GPU and NPU acceleration.
This snap requires lemonade-server to be installed and running. The server provides the AI backend that powers this desktop client.
Install lemonade-server:
sudo snap install lemonade-serverThe server starts automatically after installation. Verify it is running with:
snap services lemonade-serverThe desktop client connects to lemonade-server on localhost port 8000 by default. See Configuration to connect to a remote server.
sudo snap install lemonade- Modern chat interface for AI conversations
- Hardware-accelerated inference on GPUs and NPUs
- Runs entirely on your local machine for privacy
- Native Wayland and X11 support
By default, the client connects to lemonade-server at http://127.0.0.1:8000. You can configure the server URL:
sudo snap set lemonade server-url=http://192.168.1.100:8000Changes take effect on the next app launch.
To reset to default:
sudo snap set lemonade server-url=http://127.0.0.1:8000To build the snap locally:
snapcraftInstall the locally built snap:
sudo snap install lemonade_*.snap --dangerous- Lemonade SDK - Upstream project
- lemonade-server snap - Required server component
- Report Issues
The Lemonade SDK project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 and the snap packaging is licensed GPL-3