The ChatGPT browser is the one part of ChatGPT Work I use without thinking about it any more. It's a browser built into the ChatGPT desktop app, so ChatGPT can open websites, click, fill in forms and pull information out of pages while I watch, or while I get on with something else. These are the eight ChatGPT browser use cases that save me the most time each week, from turning any website into a spreadsheet to auditing a competitor's entire funnel, with the setup for each.

Watch: every use case running live, in 8 Insane ChatGPT Browser Use Cases (automate anything).

If you’re new to it, our guide to what the ChatGPT browser is covers the basics. The short version: Open a Work chat in the desktop app, press Cmd+Shift+B on a Mac or Ctrl+Shift+B on Windows, or type @Browser in your message, and ChatGPT gets a browser of its own. OpenAI’s help article has the full setup.

1. Make ChatGPT your assistant in every tab

This one sounds too obvious, and it’s the one I’d start with: Use the ChatGPT browser as your everyday browser instead of Chrome or Safari. You’re still working in Google Docs, Figma and Notion. The difference is that when a repetitive job comes up, you don’t copy everything into a chat and explain what you’re looking at. ChatGPT is already looking at it.

I had a workshop plan open in Google Docs with a pile of comments from the team. Instead of switching windows, I asked ChatGPT to edit the doc, work through every comment and create the new version. In under two minutes it had updated the document and marked each comment as resolved.

The same trick works with other AI tools. I’ve had ChatGPT open Claude in the browser and argue with it, round after round, until the two of them agreed on a list. That’s how I researched the use cases for this video. Two models challenging each other produce a better answer than either one on its own.

2. Turn any website into a spreadsheet

You’ve found exactly the information you need on a website, and there’s no way to download it. Now you don’t have to copy it row by row.

I wanted every restaurant near me in Berlin that takes table bookings online. In Google Maps, that’s an afternoon of clicking. So I gave ChatGPT the starting link, a screenshot of what I meant, and criteria that would take me ages to check by hand: at least 4.5 stars with more than 50 reviews, or more than four stars with over 1,000 reviews. I asked for the name, rating and a direct booking link for each.

It worked through Google Maps for a little over six minutes and came back with 32 restaurants in a table, including address, star rating, review count and booking link, then saved the lot to a spreadsheet. The more specific your filters, the more time this saves, because the agent applies them on every single listing.

3. Write how-to guides with annotated screenshots

If you onboard customers, train internal teams or write documentation, this one is for you. ChatGPT can walk through a process in the browser and document every step as it goes, screenshots included.

One of our most-watched videos is a short tutorial on creating an OpenAI API key, and I wanted a matching article. I asked ChatGPT to start on the OpenAI dashboard, create a key, capture the meaningful screenshots, annotate them so a beginner knows exactly where to click, and save the finished article to Notion for me to review. Three minutes later I had a step-by-step guide with more detail than I’d have written myself.

Two tips. Open the browser full screen first, because that’s what the screenshots will capture. And because dashboards keep changing, put the job on a schedule, say once a quarter, so your guides always show the current interface.

4. Record a browser job once and turn it into a skill

When you catch yourself doing the same browser task every week, stop explaining it to ChatGPT each time. Record it once and save it as a skill.

My example is pure admin: downloading my phone bill each month so it can go in the books as a business expense. In a Work chat, under the plus menu, there’s Record a skill. ChatGPT asks for permission to record your actions on your Mac, then watches while you do the job. The limit it showed me was 30 minutes, which is far more than you need. I signed in to my mobile provider, went to invoices, downloaded the latest one and told it I was done.

About a minute later it had created a skill called “Download Premium SIM invoice”. Type a forward slash and the skill’s name, and it runs. Because it’s a skill, I can also put it on a schedule: The first of every month, grab last month’s invoice. OpenAI’s Record & Replay docs cover the details. It’s Mac only for now.

One more thing I use here: The ChatGPT browser supports extensions, so your password manager can sign you in to sites in one click.

5. Edit your own website by annotating it

Everything so far is ChatGPT working on other people’s websites. It’s just as useful on your own.

We build the 9x website in Framer, which connects to ChatGPT. I asked ChatGPT to create a new branch and open the preview link in its browser. Then I used Annotate, also under the plus menu: Click any element on the page and write what you want changed. Our hero had two equally loud buttons, so I asked for the community one to become a white secondary button, like the one in the navigation. You can send each comment as you go or batch several and send them together, which is what I do.

The preview reloads with every change applied. The old way meant comments for a designer, who passed them to a developer. Now anyone who can describe a change can make it in minutes, ready to publish. If you don’t use Framer, check whether your website builder connects to ChatGPT, or build the whole site in ChatGPT Sites.

6. Audit a competitor’s funnel

Knowing what’s working in a competitor’s marketing is valuable and slow to find out. You’d have to click every ad, open every landing page, sign up to every lead magnet and piece it all together.

Meta and LinkedIn both publish the ads every advertiser is running, so I start in the Meta Ad Library with a competitor’s page open. I’ve built a skill for the rest. It asks which email address to sign up with, opens each landing page, signs up, and because my inbox is connected to ChatGPT Work, it gets through email verification on its own. On one funnel it even clicked through a six-question onboarding quiz.

After about ten minutes I had a report: the strategy in one line, the messaging in the ads, every landing page with a screenshot of its hero section, the full flow after someone signs up, and ideas we could use in our own marketing.

7. Monitor any page for changes

AI moves fast, so we watch a lot of pages. Anthropic, for example, updates its release notes whenever something new ships.

Our Claude release monitoring skill opens that page, checks it against a log in a Google Sheet so it knows what it saw last time, and sends us a Slack message when something’s new. It runs on a schedule several times a day. The last time it fired, it caught a new Claude model, logged the date, name, description and links, and pinged the team.

The pattern works for any page that changes: a competitor’s pricing page once a week, a supplier’s stock levels, a job board. Scheduled tasks need the computer on and the app running when they use local files, so plan the timing around when your machine’s awake.

8. Find a free table at your favourite restaurants

Remember the restaurant spreadsheet from use case 2? Finding restaurants is one thing; getting a table for five at short notice is another.

I built a reservation skill from my favourites on that list. I give it a time and a party size, say 7pm tonight for five, and it opens every booking link in its own tab, checks availability and comes back with the ones that have space. I book with one click instead of trying eight sites one after another.

It’s a small job, and that’s the point. Most of the time the browser saves comes from tasks too small to automate any other way.

Which ChatGPT browser to use for which job

There are three ways ChatGPT can use a browser, and picking the right one avoids most early frustrations:

• The built-in browser runs in the desktop app with its own profile, separate from your normal browser. You can watch, annotate and step in. It’s what every use case above runs on.

• The cloud browser runs on OpenAI’s servers, so a delegated task can keep going in the background.

• The Chrome extension lets ChatGPT work in tabs you’re already signed in to in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera or Vivaldi. Type @Chrome to use it.

My rule: If the task needs your existing logins and extensions, use Chrome. If you want to watch or annotate, use the built-in browser. If it should run while you’re elsewhere, use the cloud. We use the same split with Claude in Chrome, and it carries over almost exactly.

Where to start

The common thread through all eight: Find a job you keep doing in your browser, and give ChatGPT the job instead. Don’t start with all eight. Start with the one you’d be happiest never to do again, run it once with the agent, then save it as a skill so next time it’s one line.

Every prompt and skill from the video is free in the 9x community. Grab them and add them to your own ChatGPT today.

Common questions

What is the ChatGPT browser? A browser built into the ChatGPT desktop app, available in Work and Codex chats. ChatGPT can open websites, click, type and download files in it, while you watch or work on something else.

How do I open the browser in ChatGPT? Open a Work chat in the desktop app, then use the browser button in the toolbar, press Cmd+Shift+B (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+B (Windows), or type @Browser in your message.

Can ChatGPT use my Chrome logins? Not in the built-in browser, which keeps its own profile. To work with sites you’re already signed in to, use the ChatGPT Chrome extension and type @Chrome.

Is it safe to let ChatGPT browse for me? ChatGPT asks before visiting a new site and before sensitive actions like submitting forms or purchases. Sign in on the website itself, never by typing passwords into the chat, and stop the task if the wrong account or page appears.

Can the ChatGPT browser run tasks on a schedule? Yes. Turn the job into a skill, then ask ChatGPT to create a scheduled task for it. Tasks that use local files need your computer on and the app running.