ChatGPT Desktop Application is free Windows Based application that serves as a wrapper for the Open AI ChatGPT web interface with some extras. The Desktop application is also available for Linux and Mac.
The Desktop application provides some handy shortcut keys and a provision to download the ChatGPT conversations in the PNG, PDF and Markdown format. The developers have mentioned of a new feature called Awesome ChatGPT prompts. It helps you to import interesting features (like English translator, Javascript console etc) into the Desktop App and works identical to a Telegram Bot Command where you can type a character starting with ‘/’ to bring up the command prompt and then press the spacebar to populate the input area with the text associated with the command. I tried to test this feature, but it was not working or responding.
How it Works:
1. Click on the link provided at the end of this article to download the ChatGPT Desktop application.
2. Install the application and launch it by double clicking its icon.
3. Since the ChatGPT Desktop Application is simply a wrapper for the ChatGPT web interface, the method of usage remains unchanged.
4. Just login to your Open AI ChatGPT account, type the text prompt and press enter to get a response.
5. Once you get a response, you can click on any of the 3 buttons adjacent to ‘Regenerate Response’ to export the current ChatGPT conversation in the Markdown, PNG or PDF format.
6. The ChatGPT Desktop provides some handy shortcut keys to improve your speed. Click on the ‘View’ in the menu bar at the top of the window to know more about the shortcuts.
7. Press Ctrl + Shift + P to visit the control center to configure basic settings related to Theme, Auto-update and more. You can also click on ‘Download’ to view a list of all the ChatGPT conversations that you have downloaded in the PDF / PNG format or you can click on ‘Notes’ to view the conversations downloaded in the Markdown format.
Downside:
- The Awesome ChatGPT prompts feature described above doesn’t seem to work despite trying it out numerous times.
- While testing the desktop application, I found that the screen goes blank at certain times and I had to close and restart the application to get rid of this issue.
Closing Comments:
The ChatGPT Desktop application is very handy to get any responses from ChatGPT as and when you like without opening any browser window. It is a good attempt at developing an application that has taken the world by storm but there are some issues that need to be addressed by the developers for it to be widely acceptable.
Click here to download ChatGPT Desktop application for Windows, Linux and Mac.
Did you know that you can also use voice commands to converse with ChatGPT and get the required responses. Click here to learn more about this.
