Uninstalling Loca

Removing Loca is straightforward, and a later reinstall starts clean rather than trying to reach a Core that is gone. Nothing is scattered across your system: the Client is a single app, and the Core keeps all of its state under ~/.loca. Each part has its own native uninstaller, which is also where you choose what data to keep.

Remove Loca

• Windows. Open Settings > Apps (Add or remove programs). Loca has two entries, the app and Loca Core; remove each you installed. The Core’s uninstaller asks whether to keep your data (sessions, memories, and settings) and whether to also remove downloaded models; from a terminal, the same choices are uninstall.exe /S with /KEEPDATA and /PURGEMODELS. Removing the app takes it off the machine along with its own settings.
• macOS. The installer places an uninstaller beside the Core’s files. Run sudo /usr/local/lib/loca-latest/uninstall.sh in Terminal: it quits and removes the app, stops the Core’s background service, and removes its data. Add --keep-data to keep sessions, memories, and settings, --purge-models to also remove downloaded models, or --keep-client to leave the app in Applications. If you only installed the Client, just drag it to the Trash.
• Linux. The Client is an AppImage: delete that file to remove it. Remove the Core with your package manager: sudo apt remove loca-core-latest stops the service but keeps your data for a reinstall, and sudo apt purge (or dpkg -P) removes the data too. On Red Hat, sudo dnf remove removes the Core and its data in one step.
• Android. Press and hold the Loca icon and choose Uninstall.

A reinstall never gets stuck on a local Core that is gone: on its next launch the Client automatically drops a paired local Core whose Core is no longer installed on this device.

What Loca leaves behind

Downloaded models are kept by default, whichever way you remove loca. They can be many gigabytes and are shared across channels, so only an explicit choice removes them: the models option in the uninstaller on Windows and macOS, or deleting the ~/.loca/models folder by hand on Linux.

If you run Loca on more than one channel, each is a separate install with its own state under ~/.loca and its own uninstaller entries, so you remove one channel at a time. See Updates and Channels for how channels stay isolated.

That is everything Loca leaves on your machine, and how to take it back. If you are setting up again rather than leaving, head back to installing Loca.