OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its ChatGPT app for macOS, including help for Apple Notes and a spread of well-liked third-party apps. The replace builds on final month’s launch that launched the power to learn on-screen content material from choose Mac apps.
This enlargement ought to broaden ChatGPT’s utility for each informal customers and builders utilizing macOS, because the AI assistant can now work together with content material in Apple Notes, Notion, and Quip, alongside quite a few growth environments together with BBEdit, Android Studio, and varied JetBrains IDEs.
For builders, the replace additionally provides help for extra IDEs together with VSCode forks (VSCodium, Cursor, WindSurf) and terminal apps like Immediate and Warp. The AI can analyze code from a number of apps concurrently, providing ideas for enhancements with out guide copy-pasting.
OpenAI says that customers preserve full management over which apps ChatGPT can entry, and all information dealing with follows the identical OpenAI privateness protocols because the app’s common dialog historical past. The expanded app integration function stays unique to paid subscribers, together with ChatGPT Plus, Professional, Group, Enterprise, and Edu customers.
To get ChatGPT working with apps, allow the Work with Apps possibility in ChatGPT ➝ Settings and permit the required permissions by way of Handle Apps. Then you’ll be able to entry ChatGPT inside supported apps within the following means:
- With ChatGPT open, open a supported app (similar to Apple Notes).
- Press Choice + Shift + 1 to invoke the ChatGPT bar.
- Sort queries or use superior voice mode for hands-free interplay.
The superior voice mode is very helpful on this context, because it means that you can communicate handsfree to ChatGPT and get ideas or modifications to your on-screen content material. OpenAI lately demonstrated the function utilizing a vacation occasion planning situation, the place ChatGPT supplied track suggestions and occasion concepts utilizing a Santa voice persona.
The ChatGPT app for macOS is out there for obtain from OpenAI’s web site.