Samuel Axon
OpenAI’s official ChatGPT app for macOS is now available to all users for the primary time, supplied they’re working macOS Sonoma or later.
It was beforehand being rolled out step by step to paid subscribers to ChatGPT’s Plus premium plan.
The ChatGPT Mac app principally acts as a desktop window model of the online app, permitting you to keep on back-and-forth prompt-and-response conversations. You can choose between the GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and GPT-4o fashions. It additionally helps the extra specialised GPTs available within the internet model, together with the DALL-E picture generator and customized GPTs.
There is one essential omission on this desktop app: It would not help utilizing the API. For that, these wanting a desktop app will nonetheless want to use a third-party one like Jordi Bruin’s MacGPT.
OpenAI’s app permits you to allow a system-wide keyboard shortcut (possibility + house by default) to kind in a immediate any time; it really works a bit like opening a Spotlight search in macOS.
It was introduced alongside the GPT-4o mannequin, which is quicker and cheaper to use than GPT-4 with related (albeit not precisely the identical) accuracy and high quality, and which expands the mannequin’s potential to work together with photos and movies.
At the identical time it unveiled GPT-4o and the Mac app, OpenAI demonstrated a brand new, conversational method to voice chatting with ChatGPT. That’s not but extensively available, nevertheless it’s mentioned to be coming quickly. For now, the Mac app helps the outdated model of back-and-forth voice chats with the chatbot.
The Mac app is unavailable within the Mac App Store, however you’ll be able to obtain it immediately from OpenAI’s web site.
Note that, just like the iPhone or Android ChatGPT app, this is distinct from the ChatGPT integration coming to Apple’s working programs this fall. That integration will see Siri referring users to ChatGPT (and presumably different fashions sooner or later) to reply queries which might be exterior Siri’s common scope, and it will likely be baked into the working system.
There’s nonetheless no Windows app. Why not? At least one report claimed that OpenAI prioritized a Mac app over a Windows app “as a result of that is the place most of its users are.” Of course, Windows users aren’t hurting for AI chatbot choices, as Microsoft has been throwing ChatGPT-powered Copilot into the whole lot it could actually of late.