The power of ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is undeniable. This tool has opened the door to new possibilities in terms of communication with machines thanks to an artificial intelligence capable of understanding, learning and conversing in an incredibly human way. But what makes ChatGPT Even more appealing is its compatibility with a variety of plugins, designed to enhance, customize, and deepen its use. Today, we will explore the 15 best plugins for ChatGPT that can help you maximize your experience.
How to benefit from plugins in ChatGPT
ChatGPT plugins are reserved for ChatGPT Plus subscribers.
This premium version of the tool costs $20 per month (around €18.5) and also offers access to the GPT-4 language model, which is more powerful than the GPT-3 version available for free.
How to activate ChatGPT plugins
To be able to use plugins with your ChatGPT Plus account, open the ChatGPT settings window. You can find it by clicking on the three dots (“…”) to the right of your name, at the bottom left of the screen, and selecting “Settings”. Then click on “Beta Features” to access the beta features panel and enable either web browsing, plugins, or both.
Now, start a new chat with ChatGPT using the “New chat” button. Before writing anything, click on GPT-4 as your preferred model, then click on the drop-down arrow and choose between default, browsing or plugins modes.
To use specific plugins, you need to enable them in plugin mode. Once you have selected the GPT-4 version with plugins, you can select which plugins to enable.
To upload new plugins select “Plugins store” to access the plugin store. Choose the plugins you want to use and click “Install” to install them on your ChatGPT account.
Top 15 ChatGPT Plugins
Before you begin, please note that for each of the plugins ChatGPT, you can ask ChatGPT how to use it and in most cases you will get pretty clear instructions.
ChatWithPDF
Want ChatGPT to analyze a PDF for you? The ChatWithPDF plugin is perfect for that. It can analyze the PDF document, suggest edits, extract relevant information, and summarize it – everything you need. You can even use it to search through a long PDF document to find what you’re looking for, which can be a real time saver.
Video Insights
The Video Insights plugin is a video interface tool that allows you to extract information from videos hosted on platforms like YouTube and Daily Motion. You can use the tool to create summaries of a video, ask specific questions about the topics covered in the video, get a full transcript of the video, or extract metadata like the number of likes, views, or comments on a video.
Prompt Perfect
Want to get something from ChatGPT, but not sure which prompt to use? The Prompt Perfect plugin creates the perfect prompt to help you get the answer you're looking for.
This is a really cool plugin that will expand your question and optimize it without you having to do anything.
You can write something simple like "Describe the semiconductor industry to me, use Prompt Perfect". Prompt Perfect will rewrite your message to be longer and more detailed to help ChatGPT find informative and specific answers to your question.
Stories
Stories is a pretty amazing ChatGPT plugin because it allows you to generate stories. Give it a theme and ChatGPT will use the plugin to create a children's book complete with images generated by artificial intelligence as well.
Once the process is complete, you will get a link to a book generated on the StroyBird website. You can browse it by clicking on the edge of the pages! Ideal for giving a bit of novelty to the stories you read to your children!
Here is a link to the great book I was able to generate in a few seconds: The Magical Discovery.
Show Me
Show Me is a plugin to create and edit diagrams directly in the ChatGPT chat.
If you need to explain how something works or diagram the knowledge structure, you can use Show me to do that. If you want to know how an engine works, for example, you can ask it "Show me how an engine works".
MixerBox OnePlayer
MixerBox is an all-in-one music compiler that can collect songs and create playlists based on requests.
You just have to indicate your musical tastes, and the plugin ChatGPT gets to work. Once the work is done, MixerBox also provides direct links to the songs and playlists so you can listen to them. The good thing is that you can listen to these songs for free since they link to YouTube videos.
World News
This ChatGPT plugin allows users to request the latest news from various sources around the world and get a summary of news headlines.
With ChatGPT's World News plugin, it's very easy to do a press review and stay up to date with the latest news from around the world without having to manually search for news articles on different websites.
tungsten
Of all the ChatGPT plugins, Wolfram is a standout option. It greatly expands ChatGPT’s capabilities by giving it access to real-time data, enhancing its mathematical capabilities, and providing it with a large, carefully curated and extensively verified dataset. If you’re using ChatGPT to produce content that requires calculations or needs to be as factual as possible, Wolfram is a very useful tool.
Speak
ChatGPT with the Speak plugin allows ChatGPT to coach you in a range of languages, helping you better understand sentence structure, grammar, verb usage, conjunctions, and more, all within a ChatGPT prompt window.
There's an AI For That
This plugin is quite original since it will help you find artificial intelligence tools for all your needs.
This AI draws on a vast database of tools that one may need in their professional and personal lives. This includes simple tools like image editors, PDF converters, and much more…
Image editor
While there are many image editing tools online, it's fun to see that there's a plugin that can do this with ChatGPT.
Image Editor can perform various image editing tasks for you: resizing, cropping, blurring, or even rotating the image. You need to provide the image URL to the tool so that it can download it. Once that's done, you can ask it to edit your. For example, I asked it to resize the image and it worked great. Its features are a bit limited but it can still be useful.
Chess
As the name suggests, Chess will allow you to play chess against ChatGPT.
Start by choosing your color and a difficulty level (between 1000 for beginner and 3000 for grandmaster) and the game begins! Be careful, the AI is really not bad!
meme generator
This meme generator generates a variety of memes on any topic you provide. The ChatGPT plugin uses its built-in meme directory to find the images and add appropriate captions to them.
You can also specify which captions to add.
GameSight
This plugin is more for the gamers among you. GameSight is a ChatGPT plugin that helps you discover games, game-related content, announcements, and even compare games to each other. So, you can ask GameSight to quickly give you game reviews, a list of popular games, but also to suggest only indie games.
Zapier
The Zapier ChatGPT plugin allows users to connect to over 5 apps (like Google Sheets, Gmail, or Slack) and interact with them directly within the ChatGPT interface.
It allows you to automate tasks directly in the ChatGPT interface, saving you time and avoiding context switching.
So you can ask ChatGPT to perform tasks in other apps, like finding contacts in a CRM, updating them directly, or adding rows to a spreadsheet and sending them as a Slack message…
