Tracking the ChatGPT wrapper industrial complex
Because ChatGPT spawned a thousand side projects, and someone had to sort them.
What it does
Sindre Sorhus maintains a sprawling curated list of everything built around OpenAI’s chatbot. The repo links out to third-party apps, browser extensions, web UIs, CLI tools, and integrations, each with a one-line description and sometimes a price tag or tech-stack note. It is essentially a phone book for the ChatGPT ecosystem.
The interesting bit
The list reveals just how quickly a single API can sprout an entire software taxonomy—native menu-bar apps, voice assistants, AR experiences, and even a honeypot framework. The entries are manually curated, so you get a terse descriptor rather than a raw URL dump.
Key highlights
- Covers native apps for macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, and watchOS, plus cross-platform Electron wrappers.
- Catalogs hosted and self-hosted web apps, from minimal UIs to experimental autonomous agents.
- Includes browser extensions that add widescreen modes, voice control, prompt sharing, and search integration.
- Sections for CLI tools, bots, integrations, and packages mean it is not just front-end wrappers.
- Articles, community resources, and related awesome-lists round out the back half.
Verdict
Worth bookmarking if you are building with or around LLMs and want to see what has already been tried. Skip it if you are looking for source code or a framework—this is pure curation.
Frequently asked
- What is sindresorhus/awesome-chatgpt?
- Because ChatGPT spawned a thousand side projects, and someone had to sort them.
- Is awesome-chatgpt open source?
- Yes — sindresorhus/awesome-chatgpt is open source, released under the CC0-1.0 license.
- How popular is awesome-chatgpt?
- sindresorhus/awesome-chatgpt has 6.3k stars on GitHub.
- Where can I find awesome-chatgpt?
- sindresorhus/awesome-chatgpt is on GitHub at https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-chatgpt.