After targeting the iPhone crowd, OpenAI has finally launched a ChatGPT app for Android.
After teasing it last week, the company’s ChatGPT app went live today on the Google Play Store. For now, the Android app is only available for users in the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil. But OpenAI plans on rolling out access to more countries in the coming days.
The app is free and syncs with activity on the web-based ChatGPT, allowing you to view your chat history. In addition, you can clear your chat history and opt out from OpenAI using your data for training purposes in the app’s data controls tab
Like the iOS version, the Android app offers voice input. Simply tap the microphone icon next to the text prompt to say your request. When you’re done talking, tap the app again, and it’ll stop recording and transcribe your words into text.
For now, it looks like the Android app only supports access to the GPT-3.5 model, not the latest GPT-4 algorithm. The paid ChatGPT Plus is currently listed as a feature that’s coming soon.
The Android app could help bring even more users to ChatGPT, which has started to see stagnating user traffic in recent weeks after several months of skyrocketing growth. OpenAI has also had to fight off accusations that ChatGPT has gotten dumber. To make the technology more appealing, the company recently introduced a new “custom instructions” feature for ChatGPT Plus, which can help personalize the responses from ChatGPT even more.
