This release is more relevant as there have been very many fake ChatGPT apps that leveraged OpenAI's branding.

Case in point, the App Store release app subtitle is "The official app by OpenAI"

I clicked on the link on my PC.

Noted the name of the app ("Openai ChatGP") and the description ("The official app by OpenAI")

I opened App Store on my iPhone and typed the name of the app, verbatim.

The official/correct app was not in the first 20 entries (which is as far as I was willing to scroll).

Which, to me:

1. Shows why an official app is needed even though the web version works perfectly fine on iPhone and is probably easier

2. Doesn't actually seem to solve the problem

3. Puts to shame all the touted benefits of a "walled garden/closed ecosystem".

Jeez, the app is impossible to find among all the fakes. I had to go to openai's website and use the link there.

For people outside the US: use a second apple account with Region set to US.

I have used this many times for country specific public transport or delivery apps but same thing works here. You do not lose access to other apps, sync features or subscriptions.

Go into the App Store app, not your phone settings, click your profile and scroll all the way down to log out. Then log in with a US account, download the app and switch again.

You can continue using the US only apps after switching back

"This app is not available in your country or region"

Seriously?

When is this idiotic corporate idea going to die? Internet has no regions.

(BTW, I pay for ChatGPT plus)

For all those curious about what is in the ChatGPT iOS app, this thread does a deep dive: https://twitter.com/emergetools/status/1659283367710322702

Funnily enough I've been in contact with the Apple Support Team complaining about the scam "GPT" apps. Their reply, verbatim:

"We take reports of fraudulent behavior very seriously. Please provide the following so we can investigate the situation:

Steps to reproduce the behavior: Screenshots of the behavior on the iTunes Store or App Store: Names and links to the Apps:

After we receive this information, our team will investigate your concern."

Am I supposed to provide unpaid work for a $2 trillion company?

Also, worth mentioning the "tracking" of the "official" app:

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity: Contact Info Identifiers Diagnostics User Content Usage Data

Thanks, but no thanks!

Disclosure: I developed an iOS app that uses the OpenAI API, but somehow managed to not include any tracking.

AKME is free and doesn't include any tracking. The app supports a BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) model, as well as buying in-app tokens https://apps.apple.com/app/akme-ai-knowledge/id6446436196

I was excited to try this because I want to be able to use ChatGPT hands-free in certain circumstances. The ideal would be to put it into voice assistant mode, have it listen to me and then answer after a sufficient break in speech.

From what I can see, this app lags behind their web interface a bit, and I wouldn't be surprised if they had some approval trouble at Apple and will be rolling out updates more frequently now that the official app is out the door. As it stands, the voice transcription feature returns an API error and it doesn't seem to have any option to read the response to you with text to speech.

I'm hopeful to see what updates they roll out in the coming weeks

The people complaining that you can’t find it by searching verbatim: this is always the case for the first 1-2 days with an iOS app launch.

Sadly, more and more, releases these days means U.S. only. Here in Germany, App store tells me, not available in your region or country.

That been said, Bing-App is pretty good so far, waiting to look at openAI one. Far too many fake ones masquerading as chatGPT apps and it is really painful to see my friends paying for some of these fake ones to remove adverts and trying to figure out how to make it do things.

What does this add over opening chat.openai.com in Safari? It seems like I could perhaps browse conversation history offline (but I can't tell for sure), and voice dictation. I've just used it in Safari with no problems, so I want to know if any compelling reasons exist to use the app.

I'd guess it includes additional tracking enabled by an app and other undesirable aspects of an app.

> This official app is free (no ads!), syncs your history across devices, and brings you the newest model improvements from OpenAI.

It now looks like the short term ChatGPT copycat grifter apps on the App Store are now going to start packing their bags now. If they don't, Apple will do it for them.

Expect this one to take over the app store and remain the top 10 apps for a very long time.

Wow, just tried to search organically and there are an awful lot of existing apps already spun up to give you access to ChatGPT. I wonder if Apple will help them be prioritized in the rankings or if they'll be pushed into spending ad dollars to appear at the top of the search.

Works really well. I'm happy to have an official app. I've never been entirely comfortable with passing my chats through a third party, I prefer to keep the number of people eavesdropping on me to a minimum.

Here's to hoping it doesn't log you out constantly like the web app.

now that's what I call haptic feedback

"App Not Available The app is currently not available in your country or region"

FFS, I'm a ChatGPT Plus subscriber, but I can't get the app. Why would they even restrict this?

GPT-4 works great, super impressive, but I am significantly less impressed by OpenAI as a business. I'm still locked out of creating a work account because I used up the two accounts-per-phone number limit that they have hardcoded (with no way to free up one of those slots by deleting an account) and can't create a new account. Dozens of posts on their support forum about the same thing, basically impossible to get any kind of human support from them to resolve it.

I have access to plugins, browsing, etc. through the website but not through the app. Hopefully they bring that over soon.

I misclicked a birthday year that’s too recent and no matter what, I’m no longer able to login with any method now. Sad.

Only available in the US at the moment.

"Not available in your country", as usual.

So this is why they changed the model dropdown to buttons, more touch friendly.

Tried this for few minutes, and it makes my phone run hot. Whats the CPU/GPu intensive work this app is doing on the device? I thought all the queries are sent to the server and no on device processing.

My experience:

- literally impossible to find on the App store, even when searched for by its exact name caps and all; only able to get it by navigating from OpenAI page

- weekend-project level UX

- no access to my Beta plugins or browsing

My conclusion:

This is a placeholder, not a product.

Waiting the android one, will love it.

Btw is there anyway to export or do quick copy paste over long conversation? Seems like not possible to easily scroll and select the whole convo.

I was a little upset I had to scroll through and endless series of "OpenAI" apps, but then I realized they locked the app to the US Appstore only. Pity

Couldn't find it searching the App Store, had to go onto safari, go to OpenAi's website and then click the link which re-directed me to the App Store

What a cesspool the AppStore is. It's awash in ChatGPT backend clients that are either subscription based and/or use dark patterns.

It's not available on the Paraguayan App Store yet. The same thing happened with ChatGPT itself, it wasn't available in Paraguay for a couple of months and no explanation as to why. I get that it's a free research preview and they don't have to, but it would be nice if I could get these things when most others do.

I can switch stores but would need to cancel subscriptions.

>The ChatGPT app is free to use and syncs your history across devices

Chat history on the mobile app took a while to sync. In the time it synced, I asked ChatGPT is history is synced across devices. It said: (paraphrasing) "History is separate from the app and desktop, due to privacy considerations and the way the system was designed"

I see my history now after 5 minutes of waiting on the app

- Couldn't find it searching the App Store.

- Go to OpenAi's website and then click the link which re-directed me to the App Store

- Not available in your country!

"This app requires iOS 16.1 or later".

I really like how it has the open ai whisper speech-to-text model built in so you can use your voice to talk to the model.

US only. Great. Typical.

Not available in Germany. That’s a pity.

Thank you to the team there that worked on getting this out. I'm very excited to use it!

Unavailable in my region?

Seriously?

I spent an hour writing a small Signal bot, and I've had ChatGPT on my phone for ages. The experience is the best out of any client I've used, as it's just a chat. I prefer it over a full fledged app.

Why not available in the UK?

Does it use Whisper for transcription?

(also transcription API call is bugged AF right now)

Is the GPT-4 access still limited to 25 messages every 3 hours for iOS?

So, does this run on iOS, or is it a wrapper of some privacy invading cloud thing?

It says it syncs between devices. Is it E2E sync, which is kind of table-stakes for the iOS ecosystem at this point?

I wonder if they’ll release an iPad app too, I’d appreciate that.

Using "Add to Home Screen" for the chat.openai.com URL actually is better for now IMO.

It has more features like selecting GPT-4 sub-models with browsing, plugins, etc...

Kudos to the responsive CSS

Is there an iOS SDK to leverage their APIs?

Seems like they'd need one to build this app so it would be nice for them to release it to the broader dev community.

Just this week, GPT-4 helped me:

* Find new artists to listen that combine techno with psytrance

* Navigate a tricky personal communication situation

* Debug a LOT of different issues

* Write new code in a language I'm not really familiar with

* Explore political ideas through simulated debate

* Search current visa requirements

* Find answers to some random history questions

* Calculate whether my tent would be blown of a mountain cliff or not

* Adjust a recipe to my taste, amount of servings and available ingridients

* Name some very abstract variables

* Remember a name of historical figure

Sure, I could do most of these just with Google, but it would take me a lot more time. Sometimes 2, sometimes 10 times more.

Can't wait when this app will be available in my region.

I'd be worried downloading it because there's so many fake spyware ChatGPT apps in the store.

But I have Android anyway.. Hopefully that will come too!

The top search results for "openai chatgpt" are all fakes/scamware. Be sure you use the official link from the linked page.

I've been using the Bing app for my mobile AI needs. It works on Android, has voice input and is allegedly powered by GPT4.

Gonna be cool when I can take a photo with this and ask CGPT what's in the photo/translate/how to repair/etc.

Not available in several European markets...

Again, the notorious iOS-first... It's 2023 and releasing multi-platform fully-feature apps is easy!

Why did it take them so long to the point where there are a million wrapper apps out there anyway?

Says not available in my region (UK)?

Unfortunately no beta internet plug-in access in iOS app even when I have it through their website.

Seems noticeably faster text generation on iOS than on the web, not sure if I'm imagining it?

NOT loving the excessive vibrations on the phone. It increases my anxiety somehow... I'd remove it honestly or make it 10% of what it is in certain cases only.

I might be alone in this, but we've been trained for vibrations to mean something. Vibrating the phone on every line or response from ChatGPT seems excessive to me (and a battery drain as well!).

Yeah can't find app on appstore even by searching. All the top ones are not by OpenAI.

I recently read a news article that Sam Altman is attending the Bilderberg Meeting [0]. The timing is perfect.

[0] https://bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2023/partici...

Not available for my region. Sad.

Not available outside of US App Store? Not sure why they restrict by geography

Unfortunately they disabled ability to install it on Apple silicon macOS :(

Anyone know of a reason why this isn't available on the UK app store?

Why is this an app? What does it enable that the website can't?

Lmao literally can’t login, crashes every which way i try

Didn't they bring it to iOS with https://chat.openai.com ?

Normalize people using the web. And FirefoxAndroid... don't refresh an idle tab unless I tell you to!

The app appears to be region locked, at least from the UK.

I wonder how Microsoft and the Bing team feel about this.

Is it prepared to handle markets like India and China?

Not available in my country sadly (the Netherlands).

Assume this won't work with custom API keys?

Digging the use of haptics across this app.

It's not available for outside US.

Not for iPad :(

Its privacy report card is not great.

it seems to be not available in all countries yet. Can't find it in the German app store.

Not available in Taiwan... why?

Everyone want their 30% cut.

Wish this was available in Canada. Super pumped to have easier mobile access than the website.

Or use Poe, which also offers GPT-4 at the same price as a ChatGPT sub.

This app appears to be region locked. Not available in Canada.

Bye bye Google.

US only :/

They are rolling out software at breathtaking pace!

Wonder what permissions it wants

App not available in India yet.

Sigh. Another iOS only launch.

Not available in Italy lol

> P.S. Android users, you're next! ChatGPT will be coming to your devices soon.

I'm getting a good chuckle out of this.

The thought-leaders have been warning us that large language models will put 99% of professionals out of work and will threaten the nature of human existence... and yet today's leading LLM apparently can't be used to generate code for a boilerplate user interface using the Android SDK.

Don't Panic

UAE: This app is currently not available in your country or region.

"This app requires iOS 16.1 or later"

Pure laziness.