Tutorials · Never used the app
The desktop app for Mac and Windows, which does things the browser tab cannot. Numbered, in order, and tested on a real install rather than written from the release notes.
The app is 154MB and needs macOS 14. Almost all of its value is one keyboard shortcut, and there are two of them, not the one everybody writes about.
5 minTwelve permission prompts, not three. And we checked the signature: the app is not sandboxed, which means those prompts are not the boundary they look like.
5 minScreenshots send pixels. Work with Apps sends the actual text out of your terminal or editor. The difference matters most exactly when you need it most.
4 minTwo voice features that look the same. One is metered against a rolling five hour allowance and one is free. Most people run out using the wrong one.
5 min512MB per file, 2 million tokens per document, and 3 uploads a day on the free plan. The limit that actually bites is not the one you would guess.
5 minFive separate mechanisms get confused as one. The important split: Custom Instructions are what you told it. Memory is what it inferred, and you approved none of it.
4 minThe names change every few months. The two shapes behind them do not, and telling a live search from a confident recollection is the more useful skill.
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