Free & open source · MIT

A native UI for Colima.

Manage container VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, profiles, and AI workloads across macOS, Windows, and Linux — plus a full-featured TUI. A genuine, free alternative to OrbStack.

Download for macOS All platforms

              ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
   SwiftUI ──▶│                                              │
   WinUI 3 ──▶│   colima-daemon  (Go · gRPC: colima_ui.proto)│──▶ colima / limactl / kubectl
   GTK4    ──▶│   providers: local · remote-SSH · WSL2/Docker│──▶ Docker API (socket / npipe)
   TUI     ──▶│                                              │
              └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Everything `colima` can do — from a UI.

Native everywhere

SwiftUI on macOS, WinUI 3 on Windows, GTK4 on Linux, Bubble Tea in the terminal. No Electron, zero overhead.

One backend brain

A shared Go daemon (gRPC) drives every frontend identically from a single frozen contract.

Full CLI parity

VM lifecycle, profiles, Docker, Kubernetes (k3s), configuration, networking, runtimes, and AI models.

Turnkey

Auto-installs and auto-updates Colima and its dependencies on first launch (Sparkle on macOS).

Remote + local

Drive a local machine or a remote colima/Lima host over SSH; on Windows, local WSL2/Docker too.

AI workloads

Pull, run, and serve models via colima model with krunkit GPU acceleration.

Four frontends, one core.

Platform	Stack	Backend	Status
macOS	SwiftUI + AppKit	local colima + Docker socket	shipping
Terminal	Bubble Tea (Go)	daemon gRPC	shipping
Windows	WinUI 3 (WinRT)	remote-SSH + WSL2/Docker	in progress
Linux	GTK4 (gtk4-rs)	local colima	in progress

Install

macOS

Download the DMG from Releases, or build from source:

brew install xcodegen
xcodegen generate
xcodebuild build -scheme ColimaDesktop \
  -destination 'platform=macOS'

Terminal (TUI)

# start the shared daemon
go run ./daemon/cmd --socket /tmp/colima-desktop.sock &
# run the TUI
cd tui && go run . --socket /tmp/colima-desktop.sock