Stardock Launches DesktopGPT 1.0: Bringing AI Chatbots to Windows Desktop

Stardock's DesktopGPT brings your favorite LLMs straight to your desktop

Stardock is adding a new app to its portfolio of Windows tools today, and this time, it's all about AI. The new app is DesktopGPT, and as you can probably infer, it's an app that lets you use OpenAI's GPT models, such as GPT-4o Mini and GPT-4 Turbo, directly from your desktop, while also making it easier to get the responses you want. ✕ Remove Ads Related How to integrate ChatGPT into your Windows experience ChatGPT can be an incredibly useful tool, so why not make it easier to access right on Windows 11? How DesktopGPT works Image credit: Stardock Simply put, DesktopGPT is a search bar that you can bring up at any time over your Windows 11 desktop, providing you quick access to large language models such as those form OpenAI. In this search bar, you can type in any query and get the response from the model as you normally would, just without having to open the ChatGPT website. ✕ Remove Ads The big distinction comes from the fact that the app is designed to speed up the process. DesktopGPT includes templates, quick actions you can trigger that give the GPT models detailed commands that specifically target the kind of response you want. For example, the Reflect template asks the model to carefully consider the pros and cons in a given scenario, and provide a detailed analysis of both sides. What's more, you can create your own templates or modify existing ones to specifically get a certain kind of answer. Templates are quick commands that send longer inputs to the model, making it easier to perfect the responses you get. Image credit: Stardock Additionally, DesktopGPT also comes with response modifiers, follow-up actions you can take to refine the result of a previous interaction. For example, you can ask the model to make a response longer, or make it sound more professional. You can also ask it to explain something for you. ✕ Remove Ads Image credit: Stardock DesktopGPT is available now DesktopGPT is available starting today as part of the Object Desktop suite from Stardock. The app comes at no additional cost to subscribers. However, unlike other Stardock apps, there are currently no plans to offer the app as a standalone release. If you want access to DesktopGPT, you need to subscribe to Object Desktop. Related Start11 v2 review: Making the Windows 11 Start menu actually useful With tons of configuration options for appearance and organization, Start11 makes the Start menu and taskbar so much richer As a reminder, this suite includes apps such as Start11 v2 (which we highly recommend), ObjectDock, Fences, and much more. You can chekc it out below if you're interested. Object Desktop Object Desktop is a suite of Windows customization apps that's available as a subscription service. It now includes DesktopGPT at no additional cost. $40 at Stardock ✕ Remove Ads

DesktopGPT Leaves Beta, Puts ChatGPT on Your Windows Desktop

ChatGPT isn't as useful when it's confined to a web browser and a simple chatbox. Stardock's DesktopGPT app brings the chatbot to your Windows desktop, and it's now out of beta. ✕ Remove Ads Stardock has just announced the final rollout of DesktopGPT, a new desktop app that makes it pretty easy to use generative AI on Windows 10 and 11. We've reported on DesktopGPT a few times now, but it was technically pre-release software and is only available through Object Desktop rather than standalone. It's still available through Object Desktop and we'll need to wait a bit for a standalone version, but now, we have the very first stable version of it. DesktopGPT provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with various large language models (LLMs), including GPT-4 Mini and GPT-4 Turbo, right from your desktop. Just boot your PC up, wait for the widget to load, and fire up your inquiry. ✕ Remove Ads One of the key features of DesktopGPT is its powerful template system. These templates allow users to quickly and easily perform a variety of tasks, such as translating text, writing cover letters, and generating email subject lines. You can also create your own templates or edit existing ones to suit your individual needs. "DesktopGPT is the evolution of a tool that we were using internally at Stardock to help us be more effective with our AI interactions," said Brad Sams, General Manager of Stardock Software. "And at the heart of DesktopGPT are templates that are a powerful way to streamline your repetitive tasks." DesktopGPT is designed to be a keyboard-first experience, making it quick and easy to interact with AI models. It is also built to be flexible and adaptable. It's just an LLM, meaning that it won't integrate with your PC or perform actions for you -- you'd use this exactly the way you use ChatGPT on a browser. Having AI help us with actual features in our computers is not something that's possible today, not even through Microsoft's own Copilot integration, but if we ever get there, it probably won't be through this. ✕ Remove Ads You can get DesktopGPT from Stardock's website. It's only available as part of the Object Desktop package, which costs $39.99 per year. Source: Stardock