About ChatGPT Desktop App: What you need to know.
Today, OpenAI released GPT4o, and they released a desktop App that you might not need Raycast AI or Alfred ChatGPT workflow anymore.
Since the App is in rolling out currently, so there are various issues. Below is what I know so far:
MacOS Requirement
The current App only supports Apple Silicon (macOS 14+).
OpenAI planned to launch a Windows version later this year.
App Download
if you got the access, you will see a notification on the Web. If you don’t see it, don’t worry, you can download it directly via the official link.
The official link is: https://persistent.oaistatic.com/sidekick/public/ChatGPT_Desktop_public_latest.dmg
Login Failed
If you are a Plus user and have not received a download notification as mentioned above, you can solve it by a Hack method.
The principle is to use a proxy tool to do a MitM on a specific request of the ChatGPT App and modify the authentication result to log in.
For example, with Surge, you can directly solve it by installing this module:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alanhg/surge-config/main/chatgpt-desktop.sgmodule
Charles/Proxyman or other tools are similar, find https://ab.chatgpt.com/v1/initialize , choose map local, replace all false with true as shown. Related Twitter also has similar tutorial posts, see https://twitter.com/NickADobos/status/1790172046552674803
Once the modification is completed, log back in and find it works.
If there is a failure, you need to make sure the proxy is working. If it still doesn’t work, you can try delete some cache:
1 | rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.openai.chat.* |
Free tier users/Plus users
As mentioned above, free tier users can login through the hack method, but can’t use normally.
Shortcuts
The App provides Shortcuts support, which is similar to the iOS version, thus you can easily integrate and use it.
URL Scheme
After analyse with the application. I found out that it only supports App launch currently:
GPT4o
We’ll roll out a new versionof Voice Mode with GPT-4o in alpha within ChatGPTPlus in the coming weeks.
The voice mode of GPT4o will come soon.
The App-GPT4o supports the DALL-E3 and text. The corresponding API has been released to the public.
At the end
Above is all I known so far.