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24 alternatives to Open-source UI components for apps that run inside ChatGPT

800M people use ChatGPT and Claude weekly. Right now they get text responses. Soon they'll get real interfaces: product cards, blog posts, booking flows, payment screens rendered directly in the conversation. We built an open-source component library for this. Install any block with one command and customize it to your brand. If you're building MCP servers or experimenting with AI-native apps, this might save you time. Are you building apps for AI assistants? Would love to hear what's missing in your workflow.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    ChatGPT▲1,643

    A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction. Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness,…

    2022 · chatgpt.com · its alternatives →

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    The official iOS app for ChatGPT

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Open AI announced ChatGPT Plugins to access real-world data

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, We have been building SecureAI Tools -- an open-source application layer for ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools. It works with locally running LLMs as well as with OpenAI-compatible APIs. For local LLMs, it supports Ollama which supports all the gguf/ggml models. Currently, it has two features: Chat-with-LLM, and Chat-with-PDFs. It is optimized for self-hosting use cases and comes with basic user management features. Here are some quick demos: * Chat with documents using OpenAI's GPT3.5 model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2D3G9O47s * Chat with documents…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Not just another ChatGPT user-interface

    2023 · chatpad.ai · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT-like customer interactions in a website widget

    2024 · openwidget.com · its alternatives →

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    Chatgot▲214

    Chat freely, got every AI assistants here for you

    2023 · chatgot.io · its alternatives →

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    OpenAI's new way to write & code with ChatGPT

    2024 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    An open-source ChatGPT app with a voice. Contribute to cogentapps/chat-with-gpt development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenAI’s latest advancements at your fingertips

    2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    WriteMage▲127

    The only AI app you need, use ChatGPT natively in any app

    2023 · writemage.com · its alternatives →

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    Find the best curated ChatGPT, chatbots, GPT4 apps & plugins

    2023 · chataiapps.com · its alternatives →

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    Create, manage, and measure your ChatGPT ad campaigns

    May 2026 · ads.openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Two weeks ago at their Dev Days, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT apps, interactive widgets that render inside ChatGPT using the Apps SDK and MCP. Building them using their template repository was surprisingly painful: every time you make a change on your React widget, you need to rerun the entire build pipeline to get fresh JS and CSS assets. The dev feedback loop was pretty terrible. That’s why I built a TypeScript starter that gets you up and running in under a minute. Clone, npm install, npm run dev, paste your ngrok URL into ChatGPT, and you're iterating on widgets with Hot Module Reload…

    Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Custom ChatGPT agents with your own data

    2023 · chaindesk.ai · its alternatives →

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    A new app for Slack that uses ChatGPT

    2023 · salesforce.com · its alternatives →

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    Let ChatGPT interact with your Mac

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    IdeaGPT▲100

    100+ new AI startups people built using GPT-4 free

    2023 · pr1ncesingh.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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    Opensource team messenger easily you can integrate chatGPT

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT in all input fields

    2023 · ai-buddy.co · its alternatives →

  21. 21OS

    https://github.com/KTruong008/aichatbestie Been working on this since last week and glad to share it here and now! There's already been a few other takes on this idea, but I figured none would fit me as well as if I had just built it myself. All messages are sent and stored locally in the browser for privacy and speed. Accounts are optional and upgrading is a one-time deal. Any questions, comments, feedback, please, I'd like to hear it all!

    2023 · aichatbestie.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source AI agent video editor with a real timeline

    Jul 2026 · openchatcut.com · its alternatives →

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    Bindly▲76

    Hi HN, I’m a product designer by background, not a traditional software engineer. Over the last year, tools like Claude and ChatGPT completely changed how I work. I started with small internal tools, and now I’m “vibe coding” multiple highly personalized apps. As I iterated between Claude Code (implementation) and ChatGPT (ideation / thinking), I kept running into the same problem. To think clearly, I had to repeatedly re-explain: - what the code currently does, - what changed recently, - and why certain decisions were made. That re-summarization step became a real bottleneck. So I…

    2016 · bind.ly · its alternatives →

  24. 24UC

    This project was born from my passion for every Apple product and the entire ecosystem, along with the power of ChatGPT. I was tired of copy-pasting and switching between apps on my Mac or iPhone, so I had this crazy idea to bring ChatGPT into every app that I use. This was possible only with the Apple Shortcuts app. Very few people know about its power and potential, so I took this chance and built COPILOT. https://meetcopilot.app But I also loved the idea of AI agents using various tools so much that I leveraged OpenAI's function-calling feature to accomplish that. Now, no matter…

    2023 · meetcopilot.app · its alternatives →

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