ChatGPT Client Tools

Comments discuss various desktop, web, and CLI tools that aggregate, enhance, or provide alternative interfaces to ChatGPT and other AI chat services, with frequent recommendations of projects like Aider, ai-shell, and AgentGPT.

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laksmanv Aug 17, 2024 View on HN

curious how are tools like this made? are most AI tools just using chatgpt's API + new interface?

tedmiston Jan 21, 2023 View on HN

> ChatGPT is coming to our API soon, sign up to stay updatedon https://beta.openai.com/overview

zhangshuo1991 Jan 4, 2026 View on HN

This tool aggregates all AI chat websites into a single application, offering a web-like user experience. It supports both Windows and macOS, and its size is significantly smaller than the native clients of all those AI websites—just 2 MB for the macOS package. It stores chat histories from all sites locally, enabling convenient search functionality, and includes many customizable features. The code is fully open-source—give it a try!

llagerlof Jul 18, 2024 View on HN

Nice tool. I am using ai-shell for that purpose.https://github.com/BuilderIO/ai-shell

quickthrower2 Dec 25, 2023 View on HN

Easiest is OpenAI assistants api. Use the playground and it’s a no code experience.

zaptrem Dec 1, 2022 View on HN

Have you tried this out yet? https://chat.openai.com/It's been providing real value to me over the past day for practicing Spanish, explaining Machine Learning concepts, and doing fancy write-ups in LaTeX. And this one can't even use Google yet! (other research teams have already created models capable of doing so, it's only a matter of time until these innovations are brought together in one pl

-_- Sep 17, 2025 View on HN

Have you heard of https://puffer.ai? Might fit your use case

pests Feb 26, 2024 View on HN

Have you checked out aider-chat? Seems very similar to what you're working on.

zainhoda May 25, 2023 View on HN

I’m building exactly this! https://vanna.ai

tarasglek Oct 31, 2024 View on HN

I wrote chatcraft.org for dev and mobile use cases. It can run code for validation does voice input. Anthropic is the first ui that's end competitive, aider is another interesting one. Special trick in chatcraft is that it allows using very advanced models for free without any signups and logins