ChatGPT Apps vs Plugins: What’s Changed in 2025
Short answer: Apps are the evolved, user-facing experience inside ChatGPT—discoverable, permissioned, and UI-rich. Plugins were primarily “tool calls” surfaced through chat. Apps inherit the power of tools but add consistent UI, scoped consent, directory discovery, commerce, and analytics—making them better for ongoing, product-like usage. Snapshot comparison Dimension ChatGPT Apps Plugins (legacy concept) UX surface Inline…