OpenAI's ChatGPT for Mac app is now available for all users

OpenAI has launched the official ChatGPT app for Mac for all customers. The app had been in beta for some time earlier than it was made accessible for everybody.

The ChatGPT Mac app requires an account to make use of, not like the online model of the AI chatbot, which you need to use with out signing up with some limitations. Talking of which, the app does have some restrictions. Customers who’ve a ChatGPT Plus subscription can use the premium options straight within the app.

What can ChatGPT app for Mac do?

Many individuals could ask, why use the ChatGPT app as a substitute of merely accessing it by way of a browser? That could be a honest level, however the app presents a fast strategy to entry ChatGPT. To illustrate you might be writing a mail, or engaged on a doc, you may simply press Choice + House to open the chat bar and enter your queries. That is sooner than opening a browser, visiting the ChatGPT web site, and typing your question. The macOS app makes use of OpenAI’s GPT4o, however you may swap to GPT3.5.

The desktop app can do greater than the online model. You should utilize it to take screenshots, by clicking on the Pin icon that seems within the ChatGPT bar. The screenshot utility can seize the whole display screen or a selected window that you choose, it additionally saves the picture to the clipboard. T

Customers can add recordsdata or photographs, and ChatGPT will analyze the content material, and make it prepared for interactions. The AI-powered software has OCR (optical character recognition) capabilities, so you need to use it to research textual content inside a picture. Apple’s Preview app can do the identical, however the ChatGPT app is smarter, as it could summarize the content material for you. OpenAI demonstrated a situation the place the software not solely scanned the textual content, however even rewrote the code that was within the screenshot.

ChatGPT works throughout apps, so you may choose textual content in a distinct app, invoke ChatGPT and use it for varied duties. e.g. to proofread textual content, examine your code, and so on. You’ll be able to communicate with ChatGPT to make use of it with voice-commands, and it transcribes your queries. This shouldn’t be confused with the Voice Mode that OpenAI promised.

ChatGPT Reminiscence and Analytics

ChatGPT’s app can bear in mind your chats, study from it and use the information to tailor its responses to you. This function is known as Reminiscence, it isn’t enabled by default.

However, the app has a telemetry setting that’s enabled by default, you’ll find it beneath the “Knowledge Controls” tab within the Settings. It makes use of your information to enhance the mannequin for everybody, however you may flip it off. The ChatGPT app comes with a built-in spell examine software, however it’s essential to allow it manually from the Settings web page. I do not assume it’s moral to have options like these enabled by default, however such privacy-unfriendly issues are fairly widespread today, as folks select comfort over privateness and safety.

The ChatGPT app isn’t accessible on the Mac App Retailer, you will want to obtain it from OpenAI’s web site. The app is appropriate with Apple Silicon Macs which can be operating on macOS 14 Sonoma and above, which implies it doesn’t help Intel Macs. OpenAI has confirmed that it’ll launch ChatGPT for Home windows later this yr.

The ChatGPT app will doubtless be overshadowed when macOS 15 Sequoia is launched this Fall, as it’s going to embody Apple Intelligence and the improved Siri expertise that makes use of ChatGPT.

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