First run
You have the app open and it has nothing in it. This page gets you to a first reply, and points at the rest.
The wizard
Section titled “The wizard”A fresh install opens a four-step wizard: a welcome, your profile, your first server, done. It can be skipped, and everything in it is reachable later from Settings.
The welcome screen also offers restore from a backup, which is the right answer if you are setting up a second machine or replacing one. See Data.
An instance can suppress the wizard entirely with PUBLIC_DISABLE_ONBOARDING=true, for deployments
that arrive pre-configured.
Connecting a provider
Section titled “Connecting a provider”Nothing works until Llooma can reach a model. Settings → Servers → Add a server opens a grid of providers: Ollama, OpenAI, Claude, Infomaniak, or anything OpenAI-compatible.
Pick one, paste an API key if it needs one, and the model list fills in. The details per provider, including where to get a key, are on the providers page.
You can add several. Each connection gets a colour, assigned from the unused ones, and that colour follows its models everywhere they appear, so you always know which endpoint is about to be billed.
On a shared instance the connections are the admin’s business, not yours: models simply appear in the picker. An admin may or may not allow you to add your own on top.
A first answer
Section titled “A first answer”The home screen is a composer. Type, pick a model from the control in the header, send.
Three things to know from the first message:
- Add context attaches knowledge, images and documents. Each becomes a removable pill.
- The toggles next to the composer arm web search and web fetch for that message only.
- The ring in the composer fills as the conversation does. Grey until 60%, then amber, then red. Tap or hover it for the figures. When it worries you, that is what compaction is for.
The conversation names itself after the first reply.