ChatGPT is a powerful generalist. It can generate poems, essays, songs, Craigslist ads for your old car, and just about anything else you can dream up. But sometimes you don't need a generalist. For certain tasks, it's often better to enlist the help of a specialist AI that's really, really good at one specific thing.
In those instances, OpenAI's GPT store is your best friend. It's filled with custom builds of ChatGPT that have been trained for specific tasks, like planning trips, optimizing Excel sheets, or helping you find a new job. You'll need to pay for a ChatGPT Plus subscription ($20 per month) in order to access all these specialist GPTs, but in our experience, many of them are well worth the extra cost.
With that in mind, we've rounded up all the best GPTs that can save you time, money, and sanity. Just keep in mind that, as with any AI, it's always possible that these custom chatbots can hallucinate, so it's always a good idea to fact-check the results.
Tech Support Advisor
When technology doesn't doesn't work properly, it can push you toward a meltdown. Instead of slogging through user forums and troubleshooting documents for help, you can simply direct your questions to Tech Support Advisor. You can ask the AI for general advice about, say, pairing Bluetooth headphones to your laptop, or get more specific help by telling the AI exactly what model you have. Aside from the assistance, one of the best parts is that it won't judge you for any outbursts.
Presentation and Slides GPT
If you hate public speaking and dread the thought of creating a presentation, don't worry; you can leave the latter to Presentation and Slides GPT. This chtabot will take all of the information you need to exhibit (including incomplete notes, documents, graphs, and more) and organize it into a presentable set of slides. The AI can also export your slides in PPT, Google Slides, or PDF form, so if you want to manually adjust the presentation, you can do so with just a few clicks.
Excel AI
Excel can do amazing things, but if you're not a spreadsheet supergenius, figuring out how to use all of its functions can take up hours and hours of your time. So, instead of trudging your way through an endless array of tutorials and explainers, you can enter your basic spreadsheet into Excel AI and let it work some magic on your data. It can clean up messy and disorganized cells, reorder data, create graphs and tables, and even help you make sense of what all those numbers mean.
Resume
Effectively summing up your career and skills is one of the toughest tasks you'll face when searching for a new job. Resume handles the hard parts. You can put in as little or as much information as you have, including just a link to your LinkedIn profile, and Resume will write up a CV for you, asking you questions along the way to fill in any blanks. Should you already have a resume, you can get targeted, detailed feedback on what works and what needs to be improved. If you have a specific job in mind, you can enter its requirements and get a rewrite of your resume to use for that particular application.
Personal Assistant
A good personal assistant aims to make your life easier by knowing what your goals and commitments are and then helping you organize your life around the things that are important to you. It's much the same with Personal Assistant: a specialized chatbot that takes in your requests and then asks you questions about your priorities and responsibilities. Once it knows those things, it'll make suggestions on how you might organize your day to best tackle what's on your plate.
Canva
One of the best tools out there for creating sharp, professional-looking graphics and documents is Canva. The app itself makes it incredibly simple to create visually stunning documents of all kinds, but with this custom GPT version of Canva, there's even less effort required on your part. You can type up your graphic design request and see your vision realized almost immediately.
Wix AI Website Builder
You don't need design or coding skills when you have Wix AI Website Builder. What you do need is a Wix account. Once you're set up with one, you can just talk to Wix AI Website Builder as you would to a web designer about what style and functionality you're looking for and you'll receive fully functional, tailor-made designs that you can alter with the AI or on your own. There's truly no easier way to create a website.
Trip Planner
All of the information you need to plan a trip for yourself is widely available on the internet, but it can still be an extremely time-consuming task. That's where Trip Planner comes in. It lets you talk through what you want in a trip and can even suggest places for you to go. While ChatGPT itself can spit out an itinerary to your specifications, it starts and ends there. Trip Planner is more like talking to a travel agent. Ask ChatGPT to plan a trip to Chicago for you and it spits out a seven-day plan without any further input. Trip Planner, by contrast, asks what type of trip you're looking for (cultural, food-focused, adventure, relaxation, etc.), how many days your stay is, if you're interested in any specific attractions or neighborhoods, what kind of accommodation you're looking for, and dietary preferences so that it can make restaurant recommendations.
Meal Planner
Whether you're trying to work with spare ingredients in your fridge or you want to figure out a week's worth of meals, Meal Planner is ready to take on your culinary requests. You can use it to figure out how to handle dietary restrictions, keep to a calorie count, plan a dinner party, and more. This GPT asks you lots of questions to create a menu that's most suited to your tastes, requirements, and what ingredients you may or may not have on hand. You can ask it for the accompanying recipes, which are handily placed within the meal plan itself. Don't forget to ask for grocery lists (which it organizes into categories) to leave as little as possible on your plate.
Playlist AI
Streaming services have put more music than we could consume in a lifetime at our fingertips, yet with so much diversity, many of us still get trapped in the algorithm and listen to the same songs on repeat. Break out of your rut by letting Playlist AI take over as DJ. You can tell it what activities you want musical accompaniment for, let it know that you're looking for new genres, or let it add tunes to your current playlists. You can even connect your Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, or Spotify accounts to it.
