ChatGPT is coming to Android next week, but you can sign up today

Picture credits: Open AI

Two months after its launch for iOS, ChatGPT is available for “pre-order” for Android users who want to take the ubiquitous chatbot on the go. If it’s as popular as the iPhone version, expect to see big numbers over the next few weeks.

Of course, any mobile user can access ChatGPT or other OpenAI tools through the web interface, but the superior experience of a dedicated app proved extremely compelling, to put it lightly. iPhone users downloaded it half a million times in the first week, impressing everyone until Threads came along and blew it out of the water.

The ChatGPT app on Android seems to be more or less the same as iOS in terms of functionality, which means it gets most if not all of the features of the web version. You should also be able to sync your conversations and preferences across devices. So, if you use an iPhone at home and an Android at work, don’t worry.

Of course, it won’t be completely identical, as the two mobile operating systems differ in many ways. For example, June’s additions of Siri and Shortcuts to the app on iOS clearly won’t make the transition, but Android users are likely to get something similar.

On Twitter, OpenAI said the Android app would be “rolling out to users next week”, presumably in the US first. No plans were mentioned for other countries, but it is likely that they will follow after a few weeks or months. It was in a dozen countries a week after its original release.

You can sign up to be notified when the app goes live by clicking “pre-register” on the Play Store.