ChatGPT App for macOS Support Expanded to Apple Notes and Other Third-Party Apps

OpenAI added help for a number of note-taking and coding apps inside the ChatGPT app for macOS on Thursday. The AI agency described this characteristic as agentic and highlighted that the chatbot will be capable to learn on-screen info within the supported apps and assist customers with queries. This characteristic is at present obtainable to solely the paid subscribers of the AI platform and customers can use the Advanced Voice Mode whereas working with these apps. OpenAI acknowledged that Windows customers and people on the free tier of the app will get this characteristic subsequent 12 months.

ChatGPT Now Works With Some Third-Party Apps

The new characteristic was introduced on day 11 of OpenAI’s 12-day transport schedule. This new agentic functionality, which permits the chatbot to learn info in a number of note-taking and coding apps is being added to the macOS app of ChatGPT, the corporate highlighted in an X (previously generally known as Twitter) post.

Kevin Weil, the Chief Product Officer at OpenAI additional revealed that ChatGPT can work with roughly 30 macOS apps. The full listing consists of Apple Notes, BBEdit, MatLab, Nova, Script Editor, TextMate, VSCode Insiders, VSCodium, Cursor, WindSurf, Android Studio, AppCode, CLion, DataGrip, GoLand, IntelliJ IDEA, PHPStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, RustRover, WebStorm, Prompts, Warp, Notion, and Quip.

ChatGPT for macOS working with Notion
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With this characteristic, customers can open a supported app and go to any display screen or content material. They can then use the shortcut Option + Space to open a small text-field view of the app. The chatbot can see what the consumer sees within the app, as soon as activated. Then, the consumer can both use textual content prompts or the Advanced Voice Mode to ask queries, and ChatGPT can reply to them. Users may spotlight a selected a part of textual content or code after which use pure instructions corresponding to “find out how to make this higher” and the AI will perceive the context.

While the corporate calls it an agentic characteristic, it’s technically extra of a vision-based characteristic. The agentic perform is required solely when gaining permission to entry these apps. However, ChatGPT won’t be able to work together with these apps and can’t carry out duties corresponding to writing textual content or code or altering current info.

For privateness, customers will be capable to management when and which apps could be accessed by ChatGPT. Additionally, OpenAI acknowledged that customers could have the identical stage of management over this information as they might over anything of their dialog historical past.

This characteristic is at present obtainable to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Teams, Enterprise, and Edu subscribers. Free customers and people utilizing the Windows app should wait until the following 12 months to get this characteristic.