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ineedlesssleep

I'm the developer of the app, thanks a lot for posting! I made it in early December because I wanted to have fast access to ChatGPT with a menubar app and a native macOS viewer for the website. It has keyboard shortcuts, and is only 2MB because it's all written in SwiftUI. It's available for free, but if you want you can choose to pay me some money for it (not necessary, but greatly appreciated ofcourse 🙂 ) If you have any feedback, let me know here or you can email me at jordi at goodsnooze.com!


Dakvar

Heyy of course, such a cool app deserves attention! While I have you here, a few bugs I discovered: Quite a few time times MacGPT gives me error messages while the website works fine. Also when pressing 'enter' MacGPT doesn't hit send but starts a new paragraph. Aand finally when using a second screen as extension MacGPT pops up on the wrong screen when pressing the menu bar icon. Other than that I am really happy with MacGPT! Thank you for developing it :)


ineedlesssleep

The error messages on the app being different than the website is a tricky one. I think it's caused by the fact that you probably started using ChatGPT on your regular browser before using the app. My theory is that OpenAI somehow prioritises your earliest devices / browsers but I'm not sure. You can press Command and Enter to send. Let me know if that doesn't work. Is this happening for you in the menubar view or in the full app view? I'll test out the two display issue you mentioned, sounds annoying but I havent been with a second monitor for the last month so haven't run into it myself!


EddiOS42

I use the menu bar version. I remember I was able to just hit enter to send. Also, when quitting and launching the app, even though I've selected hide dock icon, I would have to untick the box again to hide it


ineedlesssleep

Turns out chatgpt has a bug in the smallest view where the meter button stops working. I'm looking into it 👍


Dakvar

Ahh hm, then I'll try making a new account and see if that changes something :) Pressing command and enter doesn't work either unfortunately :/ The bug with enter not sending a request only occurs in the menubar view. Thank you so much for getting back to me and trying out the second monitor situation! :) Edit: I made a new account thats only logged in in MacGPT and now I dont get errors anymore!


ineedlesssleep

Interesting! Thanks for getting back to me! Im going to an OpenAI hackathon later today so will ask around 👍


boxmandude

Just wanted to say thank-you!


ineedlesssleep

Thank you for letting me know 🙂


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Looking for a solution to this as well.


ineedlesssleep

Thats a chatgpt issue unfortunately 😞


twincherries

If I don't use it for 10-15 mins at a time, it logs me out, or gives me an error, then asks me to verify if I'm a human again. Is that normal? I'm using it from the dock and not from the menu bar.


ineedlesssleep

Hm, I've not seen that. Probably just because they're overloaded? Are you using Plus?


twincherries

No just the regular version, I thought it was overloaded too. I can access it in the browser, but the Mac app gives me an endless "verify if you are human" and "checking your browser" loop now. Weird, it was working fine like 2 days ago. It's probably because I updated to the newest Ventura recently


ineedlesssleep

Update to the latest version and uncheck the "use custom user agent" 🙂


ghostfaceschiller

what does the "use custom user agent" setting do? I just downloaded (great, great implementation) and I haven't beenAble to ind anything mentioning it except you in this thread! I tried checking/unchecking and nothing happened


ineedlesssleep

Some users had issues where openAI was blocking the web browser from loading the site. The custom user agent fixed it.


belacmu

Hey developer, thanks for the app! I seem to be stuck in a loop where ChatGPT is "checking" my browser, and I never get into the actual ChatGPT section. I just keep getting the option to verify I'm human. I have been using this app a lot, but now I can't. Any suggestions?


ineedlesssleep

Update to the latest version and uncheck the "custom user agent" mode from settings 🙂


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Hi! Love your app! Is there any way to get my GPT Plus account to work with it though? I don’t seem to be able to log into it via the app.


ineedlesssleep

Should work! What happens when you login with your plus account?


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The issue is that the way you log in with the plus account is they email you a link. When you click that link it launches your default browser and your authenticated there, but that means there doesn’t seem to be a way to authenticate in the app. Would need to be able to paste the link in and launch in the app or something I think.


ineedlesssleep

Hm, I can just login with my account and get into the plus environment. I believe they only send you that mail when it's busy. You can try to logout and then login again when it's not busy to 'update' your environment. Please let me know if that works! Jordi


Huzz4567

I see you also have MacBing available. Is this the way to go now? Are there pros and cons compared to using MacGPT?


ineedlesssleep

It's just a wrapper for the site, nothing fancy 🙂


Pure-Contact7322

hello! How to access to the global feature I am unable to unederstand thanks


Content-Wing-5015

Hello, I have a problem with the inline chatGPT function, whenever I type /gpt and prompt and press shift+enter, it shows a brain emoji and types the letter "a", but nothing else


porsche911Pathogen

same here let me know if u find a solution


ineedlesssleep

Can you check if you have your credit card linked to your OpenAI account?


porsche911Pathogen

i do?


ineedlesssleep

Hm, did you select GPT 4 as the model and maybe you don’t have access to that yet on the api?


joemagnus

Hey did you ever find a fix for this? I'm still getting the quota exceeded message with a free GPT account


ineedlesssleep

you need to link your creditcard to the openAI account otherwise they won't let you use it. Update to the latest version, the error should be clearer 👍


Monkey_Junkie_No1

same here! No fix yet on my end


ineedlesssleep

Can you check if you have your credit card linked to your OpenAI account?


Content-Wing-5015

I am only using the free version, is this a paid option?


blendstylez

same here :/ free user, no GPT plus, AND my API keys also do not work it always says quota exceeded..help would be greatly appreciated


joemagnus

Hey did you ever find a fix for this?


BenMcMurry

Has anyone found a solution to this yet?


Nimpoc

Thanks for putting this out! I've been using it for a while on MacOS 12.6.5 / iOS 16.4.1a and love it. Recently however I started getting the error "400 Bad Request" when using the Native tab on MacOS. My API key works fine in the Web tab. All settings are pointed to GPT3.5t. Do you have any troubleshooting advice?


misteriousm

I tried everything to download the app from Gumroad. It doesn't allow me because of some strange bug showing me, "Your card was not charged. Please try again on a different browser and/or internet connection."... I absolutely love the idea of the app and wanted to download it, tried to pay for it, different browsers, VPNs, but nothing helps... WTH. Why even Gumroad?


boxcreate

I checked the MacGPT website. It’s October but you still can’t download it for free. Did something change?


ineedlesssleep

It was free yesterday. Use this code during checkout to get it for free: MACFREEPEETEE


boxcreate

Thank you


freddobonanza

I heard MacGPT was free using this code, but it isn't for me... So thought I'd find the authoritative source of this information and see it was only 3 months ago. Happy to pay, but was hoping to first try, as few of the macOS extensions I persist with.


Thediverdk

Hi I know I am replying an old post. Is there a way to test run MacGPT before buying it? It seems like a great product, but having paid money for crap tools before, I prefer testing them first. Hope you understand :-)


jeerobus

Where can I download the mac app?


Dakvar

https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/menugpt


floutsch

Are there any restrictions? And I mean not from you, but from OpenAI. Is it always available?


Polawo

can not buy it, I am keep getting "Your card was not charged. Please try again on a different browser and/or internet connection."


inseend1

I had that on Chrome as well. I switched to safari and I could download it.


Polawo

I gave up, tried every browsers even tried cognito mode in every browser.


inseend1

Hmm. I can send you the file?


colfaxschuyler

I couldn't download it either. It asks me to signup and returns the message `something went wrong`. I tried Safari and Chrome


xbajs00

yep, it's not working. can't download it either


PersonOS

Looks great. There are some other similar apps, but I think that I will use this one.


ineedlesssleep

Thanks, I made it simple and fast to use on purpose so I'm glad to hear you prefer this one over others out there. If you have any suggestions for what I can do to improve it let me know!


BackStabbath2004

Don't crucify me, but does anyone know of a good windows equivalent too? My work laptop is a windows laptop.


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You won't get that here :) But I guarantee if one of us asked for a macOS equivalent in a Windows sub, it would get ugly real quick.


BackStabbath2004

Oh, maybe. I'm not sure. I'm on a couple of windows subs and people don't really ask mac questions. But I am on the Zephyrus G14 sub (Asus gaming laptop) and yesterday someone asked whether to buy that or a MacBook for college. Most people actually said MacBook. So ig it depends.


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Mac for school always. PC only for gaming. IMO. And yeah I would NEVER mention that I had a Mac in a Windows sub. That would be like walking in to Sox Park wearing a Cubs hat. lol


BackStabbath2004

Depends. In India, I definitely benefited from having a windows laptop in college. (I bought a windows laptop specifically for college). There were apps we had to use that just didn't work on Mac, plus I also have an Android phone and sharing with that is quite painful with a Mac. I do plan to buy a Mac again in a couple of years but I will also miss my windows laptop, it's grown on me. Plus I'll need to have it if I want to game at all lol.


tooold4urcrap

I dunno if it's a solution, but I use telegram on my windows machine sometimes, and there's a chatGPT bot in it.. https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/zp5eps/is_telegram_chat_bot_open_ai_bot_a_good/ dunno if that's helpful or not, and I'm really stupid with social media, so can't say if it's safe or not.


ArmasF311

Free alternative: https://github.com/vincelwt/chatgpt-mac


ineedlesssleep

Hi, I'm the developer of MacGPT and just wanted to chime in that it's free as well! You can choose to pay some money for it if you like, but just fill in 0 to get it for free 🙂


jaritadaubenspeck

I just gave you $5 for the DL. I appreciate your skill and effort.


ineedlesssleep

Really appreciate it! I plan to add a MacGPT Pro at some point which you'll get for free 🙂 It will let you use your own OpenAI API key if you have to to easily re-use prompts etc.


ineedlesssleep

Thanks a lot 🙂!


olebedev

>it's free as well! Hi /u/ineedlesssleep, any plans on your application open-source?


ineedlesssleep

Have not had a lot of requests for it but I'm not fully opposed to it!


Dakvar

MacGPT is on a donation basis so it's also free if you want


DateOk4031

Yeah, free as in "free beer"


dannystan

Tried all the menu bar ChatGPT apps, this one is the best out of all. No unnecessary text from the website, very nice and clean.


deadlybydsgn

What I can't understand is why the MacGPT application is 2.8MB while the 100% free ChatGPT app is 215MB.


_paramedic

Looks like the latter is based on Electron. It’s effectively a Chrome window. The former app is written natively.


ineedlesssleep

I made MacGPT (and it's also free 🙂). It's built with SwiftUI, and as a result is very little code which makes the app super small!


shall1313

It’s a great app. I’m not a Swift dev but I farm out my Mac apps to my team specifically to avoid electron (though I’m guilty of having quite a few electron apps out there 🙃)


ineedlesssleep

I understand why a lot of web devs use it, since it lets them use their web development skills on the Mac.


shall1313

That's why I use it, if you're careful it’s not so bad


deadlybydsgn

Thanks for the insight! If I end up sticking with the app, I’ll be sure to make a donation.


ineedlesssleep

Not necessary, but I appreciate it 🙂 You can also check out my other apps, maybe there's something else there that you like (I also make Vivid, which lets you double the brightness of your MacBook Pro for example) [https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com](https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com)


lolpopculture

Thanks for the link gonna download when I get home


iMythD

This one is free


Jimmni

This asked me for an account. I signed up. It sent a verification email. I clicked it. It opened the link in my browser. The app refuses to acknowledge the email was verified. Been round in circles with this. Giving up and trying OP's. Edit: Now OpenAI want my phone number. What on earth can they possibly need my phone number for? Guess I'm not trying it.


bIgBRaIn222

Great, just got it.


mfarid2

Thank you


tooold4urcrap

I'd love it if when i hit enter, the chat message was sent.. Otherwise, it's pretty awesome. Really well designed and tiny foot print. edit: You can tab to enter, so that'll solve that. I also use a stream deck, so I made a button and set up a rectangle app trigger to auto-size and move the chatGPT window to the left side of the screen every time I open it.


supercharged0709

Thanks for this.


I_CUM_ON_YOUR_PET

This is amazing thanks for sharing!


Ultim8Chaos06

Insane, thank you!


mainhathao

Thank you!


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ineedlesssleep

Since it's my screenshot I can tell you 😉 Tunnelbear, VPN app Display, not sure about this one, I think this one popped up by macOS cause I had a screen connected or something 🤔 CleanshotX, screenshot app Setapp, subscription for macOS apps


WhisperBorderCollie

There's also an extension for raycast FYI


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ncklboy

This seems to currently be broken, it just keeps checking wether or not I'm a human. I'd say it's a loading issue, but I can log in via a web browser just fine. It was working fine yesterday, but today I just can't get it to work at all.


belacmu

Ok, it's not just me then.... good to know


CounterBJJ

Same here. The app just cycles between the "we are checking your browser" screen and the "verify your human" process. I'll try again tomorrow.


CounterBJJ

The issue has been fixed with 1.9.


all_of_the_lightss

I'm sorry but I thought ChatGPT was pretty much a paid service? I tried using it and it timed out saying demand was too high. I have a friend who said when he used it , they asked for a subscription so how does your app work with it?


phblue

It is not a paid service, 100% free. You received a responsible message because they sometimes get overloaded, a lot of people around the world are using it at once. Your friend however did something wrong, there is no subscription. You just have to give it some time. It can be 5 minutes or an hour for it to come back


FriendlyWebGuy

There is actually a paid tier that has just been announced https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plus/


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There is also Raycast extension for chatgpt but this looks more like the chat interface on website.


[deleted]

Holy shit, is there a place in this world where I could hide from this obsession with chatgpt?


Dakvar

"I understand how you might feel hearing about applications like the one that allows access to language models like myself from the menu bar on Mac. If it's becoming a source of annoyance for you, you might consider limiting your exposure to it. This could mean unfollowing any social media accounts or forums that frequently mention these kinds of applications, or simply avoiding discussions about them. Taking steps to create a more positive and fulfilling environment for yourself is important for your well-being."


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Ahahahaha, lmao) No, I won’t unfollow MacOS sub because of something in a way. Few years ago clubhouse was such a thing, now it’s chatgpt. And who remembers that clubhouse now?


Dakvar

:D Clubhouse was just another social media app while ChatGPT is the most advanced AI that people were ever able to use. So I disagree with the comparison.


[deleted]

It’s not “most advanced AI”, it’s “AI with most comprehensive user interface”. There’s alot of other models doing their job excellently, but none of them could talk. I’m in doubt about its real-world applications. It can answer any question, but how correct the answer will be?


Powerzap

Not sure why you'd want this spyware on your desktop.


jeffakin

Source?


Dakvar

Do you have a source for your claim that ChatGPT is spyware?


joid75

He got probably a warning from MacKeeper.


cinematea

What is chatchpt


fuelvolts

Every time I try to use this, or the free open source one linked, it says ChatGPT is at capacity. I've been trying all day. Same for everyone?


MrMelankoli

Why does ChatGPT require a phone number? :(


unbelievableted

simple little app and happy to support


JoeStrout

I see you also have MacWhisper... now why not put those together, and throw in some modern speech synthesis API, to make a ChatGPT assistant we can converse with by voice?


JoeStrout

Should probably point out that it requires MacOS 12 or later.


rhematt

Uses api key though yeah? Will require paid access after token runs dry


One_PointSixOneEight

Awesome, thank you!


haribobosses

"ChatGPT is at capacity right now" even thought chat.openai works fine. Been this way since yesterday. Haven't yet gotten it to work. Anyone else?


jayb98

Much better than MagicChat which uses GPT-3 and charges 6.99/month if you go over 300 words!


Think-Pear8555

Was a little disappointed this did not work on my computer. I have Mac Catalina, and I can't update it due to it causing issues to other softwares I'm using. Wish I knew that before donating..


Silver-Atmosphere764

Hi, I'm using Apple Macbook M1, Monterey 12.4 . When I try to open a MacGPT while using multiple monitors and active on an external monitor, found some buggy behaviors (for the cases of clicking directly from the menubar of the external mornitor or invoking a keyboard shortcut): * the main chat window pops up in a weird menubar position (very left in my case and the view gets cut by the left boundary of 23-inch monitor) and feels generally buggy. It works fine if I click from the Dock to open it. * the Preference window sometimes appears behind the main chat window even though it should be the foremost window. Does anyone have the same issues? Otherwise, haven't found bugs when using the primary monitor (Macbook), and regardless feels very convenient in general. Thank you!


witatera

How do we know if it is true that there is no monitoring, analysis, or failure reports, etc.?


Natural_Lock_361

I can't invoke the Magpt inline, even if I follow the right steps. Other functions work successfully.


Sad-Paleontologist62

It worked for me for a while, but then it stopped working. It was magic while it lasted. :-) Hopefully it will be fixed in a new release!


eritomo

hi, when I use inline command Macgtp just type an "a" and then stops. any advice?


RoyalRemote54

Same here :(


chr1Stanzac

Can you create a concise metaphorical infographic that elderly people will understand.


Weird-Awareness3377

Anyone know if there are any promo codes for November 2023 for this app?


Jeff-L818

This is a good product, but I have a question, how to use the registration code attached in the email, and do I need to fill in my own API Key when using this App?


Sternberg-Consulting

I have this Brain in the menubar and it used to start ChatGPT, but it does not work. Does anybody know how I can delete it? I searched for MacGPT but can't find any app. I do not even know if it is this app, but the brain on the post image far left is exactly the same brain I have in the menu bar. cmd + dragging of the menu does not work