If your workflow feels scattered, this update is the fastest fix you can try today.
I asked ChatGPT, half-asleep, to order my usual latte. It didn’t give me a recipe or a link. It pinged a café, confirmed the order, and sent a tracking ETA. The whole thing finished before my first yawn turned into an email. That moment is the point: the assistant moved from advice to action.
We spend large parts of our day stitching context across apps: copying dates between calendars, dragging screenshots into design tools, re-typing flight details into expense sheets. That friction costs time and attention. The promise of Apps in ChatGPT is straightforward — run your stack from a single conversational surface so the minutes you used to waste on switching become minutes you get back.
What this feature actually is…
At a systems level, an “app” is a small web service that exposes a clear API and a manifest OpenAI can read. Developers declare endpoints, inputs and outputs; ChatGPT knows when to call them and how to present the responses inside the conversation. For people, that feels like asking a trusted assistant to fetch, act, or create on your behalf without leaving the chat.
