ChatGPT Introduces Third-Party App Integration, Transforming into a New App Platform

You can now chat with third-party apps in ChatGPT - here's how

The feature supports Booking.com, Coursera, Expedia, and a few others. Submit a question or request to ChatGPT, and the AI will typically search its own database or turn to the web to find the answer. But what if you'd like to use a specific service to dig up more relevant information that you can act upon? Now, you can do just that, courtesy of OpenAI's latest third-party app integration. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET's parent company, filed an April 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.) Unveiled on Monday by OpenAI, the latest capability turns ChatGPT into its own app platform. By prefacing your request with the name of a supported third-party app, you can chat with it directly. ChatGPT may also suggest adding an external app to the conversation if the topic lends itself that way. The app can even spice things up with visuals you can interact with. Also: Everything OpenAI announced at DevDay 2025: Agent Kit, Apps SDK, ChatGPT, and more "The magic of this new generation of apps in ChatGPT is how they blend familiar interactive elements -- like maps, playlists and presentations -- with new ways of interacting through conversation," OpenAI said in its Monday blog post. "You can start with an outline and ask Canva to transform it into a slide deck, or take a course with Coursera and ask ChatGPT to elaborate on something in the video as you watch." The app integration is available to all ChatGPT users outside the EU on the free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. You can access the apps through the ChatGPT website, the Windows and Mac apps, and the iOS and Android apps. Also: You can use ChatGPT to build a personalized Spotify playlist now - here's how For now, the third-party integration works with Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify and Zillow. Later in the year, more apps are expected to hop on board, while support will arrive in the EU. To try this out, fire up the ChatGPT website, Windows or Mac app, or one of the mobile apps. The first time you try to incorporate a supported app into the conversation, you'll be asked for permission to connect. From there, you can conduct the conversation until you get all the information you need. How does this all work in actuality? Let's check it with the various supported apps. With Booking.com, you can make reservations for everything from flights to hotel rooms. Start your prompt by typing booking.com. You should see the name appear in bold with a link underneath. Enter the rest of the prompt by typing a request for a specific hotel, airline flight, car rental, or cruise. Here, I typed the follow: "Booking.com find hotels in London near the West End for the week of November 10 to 21 2025." Want more stories about AI? Sign up for Innovation, our weekly newsletter. Since this was my first time using Booking.com with ChatGPT, I was asked for permission to connect the two. I clicked Continue and then Connect to proceed. In response, Booking.com showed me three possible hotels with the names, prices, and links to reviews. I was also asked if I wanted to amend my request to focus on the lowest-priced hotels. Otherwise, I could click the link to one of the suggested hotels to book it through Booking.com. Canva can help you create and modify images for websites, presentations, documents, brochures, ads, greeting cards, and other media. To try this out, I submitted the following prompt: "Canva create a greeting card for a wife's birthday with an image of a man bursting out of a large white birthday cake." In response, the app generated a few different cards with just the right image and a birthday greeting. I could then select a specific card and save it to my Canva account to modify it or add a personal message to it. With Coursera, you can sign up for online courses to further your career or just explore new topics. Here, I entered the following prompt: "Coursera find a course in time management for writers." The first suggested course from Coursera didn't meet my request, so I asked it to try again. This time, it came up with a more general course called Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity. From there, I could click a link to Coursera's website to enroll in the class. Figma helps you design websites, apps, and other types of digital content. At ChatGPT, I submitted the prompt: "Figma help me design a website to serve as my writing portfolio." After suggesting some details to consider, it asked me if I wanted to generate a flowchart in FigJam to visualize the site structure first or jump straight into a Figma wireframe layout for the home page. After I chose the latter option, Figma asked for some specifics, such as the name of the site, the color, a hero image, and more. I supplied the necessary information, which Figma should have used to design the home page layout. But here I ran into a hiccup. To get started, I already needed a project file in Figma itself to share in ChatGPT. I tried doing this, but couldn't get the process to work correctly. So this one was a bust. Another site for travel and hotel arrangements, Expedia is a popular one among travelers. Here, I submitted the following prompt at ChatGPT: "Expedia find one-way flights with American Airlines from JFK to San Francisco for November 15." In response, Expedia showed me several possible flights, any of which I could click to book directly on the website. Otherwise, I could add more details to my request by specifying non-stop flights only or basic economy seats only. I could also ask that the list be sorted or filtered by certain criteria. With Spotify as a popular music streamer, I asked ChatGPT to use Spotify to give me a list of the top ten greatest jazz songs from the 20th century. I was told that the ability to create playlists and make advanced requests is available only with Spotify Premium. (I have a free Spotify account). But the app still provided several lists, any of which I could select to add them as playlists to listen to in Spotify. Finally, I tried using Zillow to dig up real estate listings. Here, I asked it to find two-bedroom condos for sale in New York City on the East Side near Central Park. In response, the app located a host of possible homes with price tags and locations shown on a map. Clicking a specific listing then took me to its page on Zillow where I could learn more about it. Overall, ChatGPT's app integration performed relatively well, though it dropped the ball with certain apps and requests. Some tasks require an actual account with the third-party website, while others won't work unless you start on the website itself. But as a first attempt, this seems like a promising way to narrow your results to work with a specific app.

ChatGPT now lets you 'chat with' other apps like Spotify and Zillow

The list of supported apps is still small, but OpenAI expects it to grow by the end of this year. It recently became possible to shop directly within ChatGPT, and now OpenAI has announced via blog post that it has further upgraded the AI chatbot's integration with external services. ChatGPT can now chat with other apps, but only in English for now. In other words, ChatGPT will now be able to ask other apps to do things on your behalf, such as booking a suitable hotel room or creating a playlist for that upcoming weekend party. You'll be able to direct yourself to specific apps by mentioning them in the chat, but ChatGPT will also be able to suggest suitable apps for your requests. For now, ChatGPT only supports external communication with these apps: Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Expedia, Figma, Spotify, and Zillow. However, OpenAI has released the development tools for app integration, and the AI chatbot will support more apps later this year, including Trip Advisor, Uber, and Khan Academy. The new feature will initially not be available in the EU, but OpenAI says it expects to launch the feature there soon.

ChatGPT gets app store, OpenAI takes on Apple and Google in bid to create new platform

TL;DR: OpenAI is integrating native apps into ChatGPT, enabling users to launch and interact with apps like Coursera, Canva, and Zillow directly within the chat interface. This new SDK fosters a seamless ecosystem, enhancing user experience and monetization opportunities while positioning ChatGPT as a competitive app platform. ChatGPT users will soon be able to launch apps without leaving the prompt window, effectively turning the AI model into a budding ecosystem. OpenAI is bringing native app integration to ChatGPT. The new feature was demoed at OpenAI's DevDay 2025, showing how the apps will work within ChatGPT in real time. Users query the app directly--in this case, Coursera--and the app responds, even going so far as to automatically pin video content to the top of the screen. It's all made possible by OpenAI's new apps software development kit (SDK), which allows ChatGPT to directly communicate with the apps. Essentially, ChatGPT is a kind of interpreter and fetcher of information that's provided directly from the app, all within the context of user queries. OpenAI showed off three apps working directly in ChatGPT, Coursera, Canva, and Zillow. Other apps that were confirmed include Booking.com, Expedia, Figma, and Spotify. All of these apps are working within ChatGPT today. The idea is to create an environment where users don't have to leave ChatGPT. This new app store is a bid to take on Google and Apple while OpenAI creates a new platform. Monetization is coming, too; ChatGPT has over 800 million monthly active users. Other app partners include: * Alltrails * Doordash * Khan Academy * Instacart * Peloton * OpenTable * Target * The Fork * TripAdvisor * Thumbtack * Uber OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said this about ChatGPT's new apps infrastructure: "This is just the beginning. We're going to roll out more apps from more partners in the weeks ahead. For developers, the apps SDK is in preview to start developing today. The goal is to get this in your hands early, hear your feedback, and build it together with you. And later this year, developers will be able to submit apps for review and publication. "We'll also release a directory that users can browse in addition to discovery and conversation. Any apps that meet our guidelines will be eligible to be listed. Apps that meet higher standards for design and functionality will be featured more prominently, including in the directory and the apps suggested in conversations."