A Look Inside ChatGPT’s New ‘App Store’
Earlier this year, OpenAI announced ChatGPT apps. Not the ChatGPT app, mind you: That’s been out for more than a couple years now. ChatGPT apps, on the other hand, are programs that work within ChatGPT.
How It Works
You can access them in any given conversation with ChatGPT—in fact, they may appear based on the context of the conversation. These aren’t necessarily apps that OpenAI builds itself, either; rather, you’ll find options here based on apps you may use yourself.
Initial Batch of Apps
The initial batch of apps included with the feature’s rollout included Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow—big apps you’ve likely used before. While in a conversation with ChatGPT, you could ask the bot to help you book a flight to Paris via Expedia, find a particular listing through Zillow, or create a slide for a presentation with Canva.
OpenAI’s Perspective
From OpenAI’s perspective, this adds a host of additional functionality to ChatGPT the company couldn’t offer itself. OpenAI doesn’t need to build an apartment-hunting tool into ChatGPT; it can just pull in Zillow.
Future Plans
Speaking of more apps, the company plans to expand these apps overtime, as developers create ChatGPT-compatible extensions for their programs. That was part of yesterday’s news: OpenAI is now letting developers submit apps to ChatGPT en masse.
New App Directory
You’ll find this new app directory in the sidebar of ChatGPT, appropriately called “Apps.” The Download Newsletter Never miss a tech story Get the latest tech news, reviews, and advice from Jake and the team. By clicking Sign Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Current App List
Here are the apps I’m seeing at this time. Just note this might not be a complete list, especially as OpenAI continues to add more apps to the service:
Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express, Adobe Photoshop, Agentforce Sales, Aha!, Airtable, AllTrails, Amplitude, Apple Music, Asana, Atlassian Rovo, Azure Boards, Basecamp, Booking.com, Box, Canva, Clay, Cloudinary, Conductor, Coursera, Daloopa, DoorDash, Dropbox, Egnyte, Expedia, Figma, GitLab Issues, Google Drive, Help Scout, Hex, HighLevel, Hugging Face, Instacart, Intuit Credit Karma, Intuit Mailchimp, Intuit TurboTax, Khan Academy, Klaviyo, Linear, Lovable, LSEG, Monday.com, Morningstar, Netlify, Notion, OpenTable, Outlook Calendar, Outlook Email, Peloton, Pipedrive, PitchBook, Ramp, Replit, SharePoint, Slack, Spotify, Stripe, Target, Teams, Teamwork.com, TheFork, Thumbtack, Tripadvisor, Uber, Uber Eats, Vercel, Zillow, Zoho, Zoho Desk, Zoom
If you’re an avid ChatGPT user and frequently switch between it and any of the apps on this list, there might be some utility here. Maybe coders will find the integration with Hugging Face and Lovable to be beneficial, while Photoshop users might take advantage of the AI image editing tools this integration provides.
But I’m still left feeling like this is more gimmick than anything else: I don’t need to connect my Slack to ChatGPT to generate follow-ups for me: I’m perfectly capable of responding to emails myself, and managing my own calendar, so no need to connect Outlook or another email client to the bot.
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