When OpenAI announced GPT-4o, one of the more exciting pieces of news was that its beloved ChatGPT app was coming to the Mac. It's been pretty quiet since then, but the company has officially released the app and made it available to many Mac users.

The Mac app's website cites ChatGPT's ability to "chat about emails, screenshots, files, and anything else on your screen."

It is worth noting that the app is only available on devices running macOS 14+ with Apple Silicon (M1 or higher). If you are using an older device or a newer device with an Intel chip, you will not be able to enjoy ChatGPT in app form. However, you can continue to use the browser version of AI to ask the necessary questions.

The voice features demonstrated in the GPT-4o demo will be available in a Mac app, so if talking with your favorite AI app appeals to you, you may want to download it (once the feature is launched). Our AI expert Ryan Morrison compared the ChatGPT Voice feature to Google Gemini Live to see which is more natural. He said, "ChatGPT Voice sounds more natural, can detect and respond to emotion and tone of voice, and can even adapt in real time to how you ask it to speak."

If you want to download ChatGPT on your Mac, you can go to the OpenAI website and click Download to get the DMG file. Install it as you would any other application and try it out to see if installing ChatGPT on your Mac will change your workflow or simply be a fun distraction for creating interesting AI images.

We tested the Mac app in beta and found it to be very capable. Says Ryan Morrison, AI editor of Tom's Guide, "The addition of the new multimodal GPT-4o model has made the app faster in response time, improved inferences, and better understands photos and other content types."

This is a free app and does not require a paid ChatGPT subscription.