Currently, the unadulterated mac application of chat GPT is really efficient ! Try it urgently if you are using a compatible Mac.
When OpenAI introduced its new ChatGPT application for Mac, it was available exclusively for ChatGPT Plus. In truth, if you did not want to pay the $20 asked per month, the only alternative was to use either the web app or the mobile application on your smartphone. Indeed, for quite some time now, the Mac app has come with no price tag and is open to the public. And quite honestly you should try it.
OpenAI has developed an application for Mac with the familiar design of ChatGPT at first sight. On getting to the sign in you will find the saved chats in the sidebar simulating the web and the mobile applications. You can type in spots with your prompts in the corresponding sections, hit the microphone button to ask questions out loud, and click the headset icon to go to the Voice mode. You also can: use Temporary Conversations (message which don’t appear in the chat history), change templates of GPT, use DALL-E to generate images, access to GPTs.
Then a better experience is from the web app.
It is, however, possible to find several Mac-specific features that put this app to a little bit more enjoyment than the web one. First of all, unlike Files or Photos apps, in addition to pasting files and photos into ChatGPT, you can now take a screenshot of any window on a Mac directly in the app. If you click the paperclip icon and choose Take a screenshot, you will be able to choose an active window and immediately share it with the ChatGPT. If it is the first time you employ this code, it will prompt the ChatGPT app for screen permission to record.
You can also capture a screenshot of the window individually and then insert it into the ChatGPT as an image, but the first one is way easier, as well as more coupled with macOS.
Likely as useful is the ChatGPT launcher that exists in the toolset. In short, it looks like a Spotlight search, only source is ChatGPT. You can bring the input box of ChatGPT directly to the top of any window on Mac by using a hotkey and then type with the bot. The two of you will be transferred into the app to communicate further with each other. Necessary to keep you from exiting an app to begin a conversation; if you see something on your Mac and wish to know more about it, use OS + Space to type away.
This launcher also includes the paperclip icon of the app, which indicates that it is to attach files and also, take screenshots through the shortcut. To sum it up, if you are an intense user of ChatGPT then this launcher is actually very useful.
However, as of now, OpenAI is only releasing this ChatGPT app for Macs that have the M chip; that is, a machine that has Apple Silicon. Unfortunately, you can only use the web app for now to enjoy ChatGPT on your computer provided you have an Intel Mac.
Starting from M1 Mac, you can download the app on OpenAI official website.
