Short Circuit is a ChatGPT app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It provides a ChatGPT and GPT-4 experience across devices and supports invoking ChatGPT through Siri, Shortcuts, and other system features.
Main capabilities: Users can adjust the personality, level of creativity, and OpenAI model for each conversation, for example chatting with any role such as a French tour guide, math tutor, SwiftUI expert, and more. The app integrates Siri, so you can ask ChatGPT a question just by saying "Ask Shorty"; it also supports Shortcuts, allowing complex workflows to be built. In addition, the app has built-in fact-checking for getting a second opinion. Regarding privacy, Short Circuit states that it asks OpenAI not to use users' questions and answers to train its models, while other ChatGPT apps (including OpenAI's official app and website) may use user data to train models.
How to use: Short Circuit is offered as a subscription on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps, and also offers a one-time lifetime unlock option. After choosing the lifetime unlock, you need to provide your own OpenAI API key. The setup method is: in Short Circuit, press the "Sign In With OpenAI" button and log in to your OpenAI account (you can also obtain a key through the specified link); click the "Create new secret key" button; copy the key provided by OpenAI; paste the key into the "OpenAI API Key" field; then you can start chatting with ChatGPT. The app also provides step-by-step instructions on how to obtain a key.
Use cases: Suitable for users who need to use advanced ChatGPT capabilities anytime and anywhere on Apple devices, including those who want to customize conversation personalities and models, integrate ChatGPT into system workflows through Siri or Shortcuts, and value privacy and want to avoid their data being used for training. The lifetime unlock option provides a relatively economical choice for infrequent users.
Limitations: Using the lifetime unlock requires users to provide their own OpenAI API key and may incur OpenAI usage fees. The app itself is paid (subscription or one-time lifetime unlock), and pricing information is not currently provided. AI technology costs are relatively high, and the developer says they will try to keep prices reasonable. Other feature details, platform requirements, or specific pricing, etc., are temporarilyNot provided.