ChatGPT Mac app is now available to all users — here's how to get it

When OpenAI introduced GPT-4o, one of many extra thrilling items of stories was that its beloved ChatGPT app would come to Mac. It has been fairly quiet since then, however the firm has formally launched the app, making it accessible to many Mac customers.

On the Mac app’s web site, ChatGPT cites its means to “Chat about electronic mail, screenshots, information, and something in your display.”

It is value noting that the app is barely accessible for gadgets operating macOS 14+ with Apple Silicon (M1 or higher). When you’re on an older gadget or a more recent one with an Intel chip, you will not capable of take pleasure in ChatGPT in app type. Nevertheless, you possibly can proceed utilizing the AI’s browser model to ask your important queries.

The voice options proven through the GPT-4o demo might be accessible within the Mac app, so downloading the app is a good suggestion if speaking to your favourite AI appeals to you (as soon as the characteristic launches). Our AI knowledgeable Ryan Morrison put the ChatGPT Voice options towards Google Gemini Stay to see which was extra pure. He mentioned, “ChatGPT Voice sounds extra pure, can detect and reply to emotion and vocal tones and even adapt in real-time to the way you ask it to talk.”

If you wish to obtain ChatGPT in your Mac, you possibly can head to OpenAI’s web site and click on Obtain to get the DMG file. Set up it as you’ll every other utility and see if having ChatGPT in your Mac is a workflow changer or just a enjoyable distraction for making attention-grabbing AI photographs.

We examined the Mac app in its beta type and located it to be fairly succesful. “The addition of the brand new multimodal GPT-4o mannequin provides the app quicker response occasions, improved reasoning and higher understanding of images and different content material varieties,” mentioned Tom’s Information AI Editor Ryan Morrison.

It is a free app, and you do not want a paid ChatGPT subscription, so when you’ve got a suitable Mac, there is not any cause to not obtain it and see should you prefer it.