In case you are a ChatGPT superuser, downloading the app in your desktop could make interacting with the chatbot and incorporating it into your on a regular basis workflow far more seamless. Nonetheless, the app has been restricted to MacOS customers — till now.
On Thursday, OpenAI introduced through an X submit that Home windows customers can now begin testing an early model of the Home windows desktop app. Nonetheless, this selection will solely be obtainable to ChatGPT Plus, Enterprise, and Edu customers.
Which means particular person customers interested by downloading the Home windows app should subscribe to ChatGPT Plus, OpenAI’s ChatGPT premium subscription mannequin, for $20 monthly. Different perks of the subscription embrace entry to the entire newest OpenAI fashions, together with o1-preview, 5x larger messages for GPT-4o, Superior Voice Mode, and extra.
The 2 main perks of the ChatGPT desktop app are that it’s extra simply accessible (you should utilize the Alt + Area shortcut) and it’s conscious of your display screen, making it simpler to get help on what you’re engaged on with fewer explanations and extra context.
To obtain the app, you could go to the ChatGPT web site and click on on “Check an early model of the Home windows app.” If you happen to do not need to pay for ChatGPT Plus, you could possibly wait as OpenAI shared it plans to launch the “full expertise to all ChatGPT customers later this 12 months.”
It’s common OpenAI apply to first roll out options to ChatGPT Plus customers after which all customers, and it even did so with its MacOS app rollout initially. All MacOS customers can obtain the app following the identical steps above however clicking on obtain for MacOS as a substitute.
When reviewing the MacOS app, ZDNET’s Maria Diaz discovered that some of the useful options was the convenience of entry with the keyboard shortcut. In case you are a Home windows consumer ready for the free rollout, an economical various within the meantime could possibly be to maintain the ChatGPT web site bookmarked in your browser.