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lencx/ChatGPT
🔮 ChatGPT Desktop Application (Mac, Windows and Linux)
A Tauri-based desktop wrapper around the ChatGPT web interface — it's a WebView with a native shell, not an API client. Primarily interesting as an early Tauri v2 real-world app. With OpenAI shipping official desktop apps, the main reason to use this is gone.
Decent reference for Tauri v2 app structure with React/TypeScript frontend and Rust backend split cleanly across src/ and src-tauri/. Custom window chrome on Windows (WinTitlebar.tsx) shows how to handle native title bar replacement in Tauri. Lightweight — no Electron bloat, ships a small binary. Sustained 54k stars suggests it was genuinely useful at the time it mattered.
Last commit was August 2024 and the README itself admits OpenAI's official app makes this redundant — the author is searching for 'differentiating features' for v2, which is not a confidence-inspiring state. It's a WebView wrapper, so everything you're getting is just a browser tab with a frame; any ChatGPT UI change can break it silently. No API integration at all — you can't use your own key or do anything the web UI can't do. The author's own note points users to a successor project (Noi), which is a signal this is being abandoned.