Ask HN: What are some of the best ChatGPT Clients out there?

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Post by thsbrown » Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 6:50 PM UTC

Likely similar to many of you, I have been using ChatGPT quite a bit lately. My main gripe with it though is that the actual interface is quite limited, and I don't like having to navigate to the site every time I want to use it.

Given the above, I've been looking in to a good ChatGPT client that offers additional functionality (exporting chats for example). There were quite a few out there, but I was curious what the community was using?

I am currently using Windows, however it would be awesome to hear what the community thinks of the best clients for any given platform!

To start things off, here is some I've found * lencx/ChatGPT (Windows, MacOS, Linux) * lisiur/ChatWizard (Windows, MacOS, Linux). * EasyChat AI (Windows) * Machato (Mac) * ChatHub (Chrome / Edge)

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Post by nyellin » Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 6:51 PM UTC

CLI: https://github.com/npiv/chatblade

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Post by copperx » Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 7:02 PM UTC

For quick and easy, I like https://www.chatbotui.com

Plug in your API key and start chatting. Chats are stored in your browser. You can also run it locally, if you wish. https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui

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Post by DigitalDopamine » Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 7:05 PM UTC

For web i use -> https://www.chatbotui.com (has exports, and custom prompts)

For CLI -> https://github.com/lennardv2/hey-chatgpt-cli

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Post by rmorey » Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 7:05 PM UTC

Not sure if it's exactly what you're going for, but on Apple platforms, I really like Federico Viticci's S-GPT: https://www.macstories.net/ios/introducing-s-gpt-a-shortcut-...

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Post by huijzer » Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 7:06 PM UTC

> My main gripe with it though is that the actual interface is quite limited, and I don't like having to navigate to the site every time I want to use it.

https://github.com/rikhuijzer/ata. Written in Rust. Does streaming responses and supports Emacs keyboard shortcuts. That's it. All that's needed for quickly looking up things.

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Post by cmer » Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 7:07 PM UTC

TypingMind is quite good. There's a MacOS wrapper, or you could wrap it into an executable for Windows yourself.

https://www.typingmind.com

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Post by kirillrogovoy » Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 7:08 PM UTC

I use https://github.com/karthink/gptel to talk to GPT in Emacs and, by extension, have a record of all my conversations (unless intentionally removed) as simple Org files in my single Org-Roam network.

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Post by DerJacques » Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 7:09 PM UTC

I built https://chitty-app.com/, which is a free client for MacOS (available via the App Store). It supports GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in a simple iMessage-like UI.

Chitty also allows you to create custom assistants. It comes pre-loaded with Abraham Lincoln, Alan Turing, Jane Austen, etc., but you it's easy to add your own. I added myself as a custom assistant, which allows for ultimate rubber ducking :D

The app supports streaming responses and markdown (incl. multi-line code blocks).

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Post by jakear » Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 7:14 PM UTC

I recently made a VS Code extension for this, basically you use VS Code's Notebooks as the chat substrate. The benefit with this is you can edit both sides (actually all three sides, including "system") of the conversation to better tune the agent's responses.

The notebook format on disk is simple JSON that can easily be consumed by other code, supports version control, parameters like temp/etc.

It even has experimental (initial) support for LLaMa/other local models. And it can run the remote models (GPT-*) on web (https://vscode.dev / https://github.dev)!

Search "LLM Book" in vscode extension page or just follow the link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jaaxxx.l...

(Technically not "ChatGPT" as it's the paid API powered model, but this way is far more powerful in my experience and you pay pennies. That said the endpoint can be configured to talk to any OpenAI-like endpoint.)

Happy to talk issues/feature requests at https://github.com/JacksonKearl/ai-book