ChatGPT Desktop App for Windows is available

One of the most often requested ChatGPT features just went into public beta.

If you want to get straight to the point, here is the link to the landing page with the download:

https://openai.com/chatgpt/download/

It’s an early version, I am expecting a few hiccups, but I am also really happy that it finally arrived!

Happy chatting everyone!

And here’s the fineprint:

The early version of the Windows app is currently only available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users. Access to the app may depend on your company’s IT policies.

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Thanks.

Now if this had an API, preferably C or Python, so we could customize it.

  • Store conversations in folders (on the users Windows machine)
  • Tag conversations or even specific prompts and replies
  • Search conversations
  • Turn sets of conversations into a notebook for learning a course
  • Compare older prompts completions with different models, including models not by OpenAI
  • Run generated code on our local machine
  • Collaborate with others using shared conversations
  • Add icons before or after a prompt in the left panel
  • Integrate with other tools such as VSCode
  • Assist with Git pull request
  • Read forums such and Discourse and Zulip for interesting information
  • Create a unified summary of all of the sites visited each day.
  • Create a semantic search database of information on your computer and be able to access it from a conversation
  • Run tests after model updates to confirm that the AI has not degraded
  • Create different local personas that will change the setting, model, memory, etc.
  • Tack limits such as o1 prompts. Would be nice to know in real time how many are left, etc.
  • When starting a new conversation default to a preset or cheaper model. I sometimes use a more expensive model by mistake when it is not needed.
  • Find news that is of interest to me.
  • Resync with other ChatGPT windows on other devices.
  • Work with the canvas directly via the API for the models that can work with canvas.
  • Track shared conversations so that they are not accidently deleted.
  • Allow one to include local models in the selection list. Think models such as those from Hugging Face.
  • Access via a REST API
  • Intelligent copy and paste. Currently thinking that if source is pasted in the canvas should open and recognize the source code language correctly.
  • Add ability to search for text in the conversation. Searching is possible with ChatGPT as a web page but not currently (10/28/24) as a Windows desktop app.
  • Manage multiple canvases, e.g. when converting code from one programming language to another it is nice to have two canvas open.
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I’m really excited for this. What are the chances we will be able to give it access to read/modify directories in the future? I would love for it to be able to directly access the app I’m developing and suggest changes across all files.

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Thanks!

I have one suggestion: please make the font size adjustable.
It’s too small, especially when using 2K/4K monitors

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Is there a direct download version? My university blocks the Windows Store.

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You may have to contact your IT to find a workaround.
Good luck!

That is why I asked for a downloadable / non-windows store install. That is a work-around.

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its amazing what yous do and all the hard work !! i appreciate the chance to learn from the best…

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Some Bugs on Windows 10

  1. When i collapse the Chat to this small note version i can’t restore it to the full view version
  2. There is no possiblity to zoom in to the text with STRG + + or Zoom Out.
  3. In Dark Mode the White title header is a bit annoying.

Microsoft Store is broken on my computer.
Never in my life have I ever needed it until now.

Please provide a link to download the installer like every other sensible company in the world.

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At present I think it is wise to only make the app available via the Microsoft store.

If others provided a link to the download, that could be to a fake app.

Also when using winget there were a few spoofed apps in the list that others might think are the real OpenAI ChatGPT Windows Desktop app. The real OpenAI ChatGPT Windows desktop app is currently not installable by winget.

*The Windows app is currently only available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users. This is an early version, and we plan to bring the full experience to all users later this year.

lmao so gotta be a paying beta tester?

Is it possible to start chatgpt with windows?

I want to have access to the cmd + spacebar feature without having to manually starting chatgpt once after every reboot.

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You should ask ChatGPT that.

hey! does anyone try it under Wine? I’m managed to run ~/chatgpt_x64/app/ChatGPT.exe. However, after logging in through the browser, the app gets stuck on the login icon.

Downloaded, installed. Was really hoping for voice capabilities - and I can hear it when I select different voices (in Settings) but seemingly no way to interact via voice with the model.

How will it be a ‘fake app’ if the download link is from OpenAI’s servers and includes a hash/checksum (e.g. SHA-256, MD5, CRC32) to verify the file’s integrity? :man_shrugging:

If you are referring to the ‘chatgpt’ items listed from using winget then think about what WinGet means. On Debian based Linux there is app-get and the same was desired for Windows. So WinGet is like app-get in that individuals can create application for download using the package manager. The noted chatgpt apps installable by WinGet were not created by OpenAI, not published to the WinGet app repository by OpenAI and OpenAI does not manage the WinGet repository. So just like with app-get one has to be diligent about what one installs.

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On Windows with the OpenAI Windows Desktop ChatGPT app open, just received a notification that updates were available and that ChatGPT might need to be restarted. So clicked to update then ChatGPT restarted.

Was pleasantly surprised to see this. Thanks OpenAI, can now cross that off the list.


ChatGPT Search

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I wasn’t referring to WinGet as I hadn’t heard of it until now.

On the official download page there’s a direct link to the Mac .dmg, but for Windows it a link to the stupid MS Store that no one I know has ever willingly used in their life.

It’s hopelessly broken on my computer, I guess rando WinGet packages are my only option. :melting_face:
Thanks OpenAI.

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