ChatGPT for macOS now works with Apple Notes and more third-party apps

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OpenAI last month announced a major update to the macOS ChatGPT app, which gained the ability to read on-screen content in certain apps. The company is now rolling out an update that expands support for Apple Notes and even more third-party apps.

What’s new in ChatGPT for macOS

According to OpenAI, the latest update of ChatGPT for macOS enables support for even more third-party apps. For instance, it can now read content from Apple Notes, Notion, and Quip. In addition, the list of supported apps now includes BBEdit, Android Studio, AppCode, and many more. Here’s the full list of new apps supported by ChatGPT on Mac:

New IDEs: BBEdit, MatLab, Nova, Script Editor, and TextMate;
VS Code forks: VSCode Insiders, VSCodium, Cursor, and WindSurf;
Jetbrains IDEs: Android Studio, AppCode, CLion, DataGrip, GoLand, IntelliJ IDEA, PHPStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, RustRover, and WebStorm;
Terminal apps: Prompt and Warp;
Productivity apps: Apple Notes, Notion, and Quip

When the feature was introduced, it only worked with iTerm 2, Terminal, TextEdit, VS Code, and Apple’s Xcode. As an example, users can ask ChatGPT to read code from an Xcode project and ask for suggestions on how to improve it without having to manually copy and paste the code into the ChatGPT app. It can even read content from more than one app at the same time, which is very useful for working with developer tools.

For privacy reasons, users can control at any time when and which apps ChatGPT can read. “You have the same controls over how this data is stored or processed as you normally would over anything else in your conversation history,” says OpenAI.

Integration with third-party apps is only available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Team, Enterprise, and Edu subscribers. There’s no word on when (or if) the feature will become available to free ChatGPT users.

You can download the ChatGPT app for macOS from OpenAI’s website. It’s available for free, while ChatGPT Plus subscribers can sign in and access their full account. It’s worth noting that macOS 15.2, which was recently released to the public, lets users interact with ChatGPT directly from Siri.