We are going to explain what it is and what you can do with the ChatGPT app launched by OpenAI. It’s an application that hasn’t arrived for everyone yet, as it’s still only in the United States and only for iOS, but it’s the first step in having ChatGPT natively on your mobile.
With this, OpenAI looks like it’s going to eliminate the dozens of apps that allow you to use ChatGPT on your mobile for a fee, and it’s going to do so by offering a free official app. So, while we wait for its official launch, we are going to explain everything you need to know about it.
What is this app
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence model that has been trained to answer the questions you ask in a natural way. It can be to ask questions, so that it interacts with the content you provide, or to generate new content for you. It is a GPT-based chat available through its website.
If you want to use ChatGPT on mobile, you can do it through its official website with a browser. You also have bots like LuzIA for WhatsApp available, and there are dozens of applications that allow you to interact with GPT for free, but many also pay. And don’t forget that ChatGPT is free unless you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus with GPT-4.
But with the advent of this app everything changes. This is the official ChatGPT mobile application created by OpenAI, the company that created the original ChatGPT. It’s a free application that you can install on your iPhone, although you can also use it in-app if you have a subscription to ChatGPT Plus.
Hence, it allows you to use ChatGPT for free in a standalone app without having to resort to a browser or other third-party apps. At the moment it is only available for iOS, but later its Android version will also be released.
Lastly, you should know that the app will need to collect some data associated with your identity in order to work. This data is your contact information, identifiers, your user content that you generate, app usage data, and diagnostic data.
What can this app do?
In short, we can say that the ChatGPT app can do the same as ChatGPT in the browser, but from an application environment. You will be able to ask it for accurate information, although keep in mind that ChatGPT is an AI whose database is not updated.
You will also be able to ask chats for advice or create guides for you, to inspire your creativity by giving you ideas, scripts, presentations or even writing poems. All of this, remember, can be done in Spanish or many other languages as well.
ChatGPT can help you trade with ideas, give you feedback, summarize texts for you, or try to explain technical texts or concepts in a more accessible way. And of course, he can also act as a translator, he can help you learn subjects like languages or history, whatever you want.
In addition, the app will also allow you to recover a complete history of what you talked about in previous conversations or chats. And in its mobile interface, you’ll be able to dictate what you want to type so as not to rely solely on the keyboard. But come on, just like ChatGPT on the web.
How to keep ChatGPT app in your mobile
At the moment, the ChatGPT app has some limitations. For example, it only has an iOS version and is only for accounts in the United States, so you still won’t be able to use it in Spain. However, the company intends to deploy the app in all countries and launch a version for Android as well.
If you want to install it, our colleagues at Applesfera leave you a guide in which they tell you that you need to meet some requirements and take some steps to be able to get it. Here’s what you’ll need to do:
- Have a US postal address and phone number.
- The second authentication factor must be a mobile number to validate (you can use a Spanish number for this).
- It is not necessary to enter bank details or credit cards. In the payment method, you can indicate “None” (since the app is free and you will not need it).
- On iPhone, sign out of App Store (no need to sign out of iCloud account, only from App Store app) and sign in to this newly created US account.
- Click this direct link to the official ChatGPT app in the App Store.
And all. Once you do this, you must have already installed the ChatGPT app for iOS on your mobile. And if you don’t want to complicate your life so much, it will start rolling out to other countries and Android soon, so you’ll just have to wait a while.
