ChatGPT Connectors: The Complete List of App Integrations (2026)
A ChatGPT connector links one of your accounts to ChatGPT so it can search, read, and — increasingly — write in that app during a conversation. They’re what replaced plugins, and since December 17, 2025 OpenAI officially calls them apps. Below is the running list of apps ChatGPT reaches today, grouped by what they do, plus which plans unlock what, what they can genuinely write as of July 2026, and the limits that survive even now that scheduled tasks can reach your connected accounts.
If you searched “ChatGPT plugins” or “ChatGPT connectors,” you’re using vocabulary for something that got killed and something that got renamed. Both land you in the same place, so here’s the map.
Plugins to connectors to apps: the actual lineage
- March 2023 — Plugins launch in beta. The store grows past 1,000 entries.
- November 2023 — Custom GPTs with Actions arrive, doing everything plugins did with more control.
- March 19, 2024 — Plugins can no longer start new conversations.
- April 9, 2024 — Plugins are shut down entirely. Existing plugin chats stop working. Nothing you find labeled “plugin” today is the 2023 feature.
- October 2025 — At DevDay, OpenAI adopts the Model Context Protocol — the same open standard Claude, Cursor, and others already used — instead of building another proprietary format. Connectors are built on it.
- December 17, 2025 — OpenAI renames connectors to apps, folding two things under one word: apps with interactive in-chat UI, and connectors that let ChatGPT search and reference your data. No functionality was removed; anything already enabled kept working.
So “apps” is the current official term and “connectors” is the legacy one — still used constantly in practice, still the label inside plenty of settings screens and vendor docs, and still what most people type. This page uses both, because the thing hasn’t changed even though the name has. If you came here for a plugin, what you want is an app.
Custom GPT Actions are the third survivor: still functional, but text-only and ChatGPT-specific, and a single Custom GPT can’t use both Actions and Apps. Apps are where OpenAI is investing — the directory, the partner integrations, and the platform work all point there.
Which plans get which connectors
Connector access is gated three different ways, which is the main source of confusion:
- Built-in connectors (Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Outlook, SharePoint, Dropbox, Box, Teams, and the rest of the standard set) are available on paid consumer plans and on Business, Enterprise, and Edu, where admins control which ones are on.
- Write actions are off by default and require a workspace admin to enable them. Google and Microsoft write scopes rolled out around June 15, 2026.
- Custom MCP connectors via developer mode are in beta on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu on the web — but fully write-capable custom connectors are restricted to Business, Enterprise, and Edu workspaces. Plus and Pro individuals get read/fetch-only, even with developer mode on. Our ChatGPT MCP guide walks that setup.
Data handling also splits by plan: on Business, Enterprise, and Edu, connector data isn’t used for training. On Free, Plus, Go, and Pro it may be, if “Improve the model for everyone” is left on.
What connectors can actually write
Two things people repeat about ChatGPT connectors are now out of date:
- Gmail can send. As of around June 8, 2026, ChatGPT on paid plans can send an email after you approve it. The limits are real though: one email per prompt, each requiring explicit confirmation, and no batch sends.
- Google Calendar is no longer strictly read-only — but only on workspace plans. During 2026 the Google and Microsoft apps gained write actions, so ChatGPT can set up meetings rather than just report your availability. The catch is the part most write-ups skip: write actions are off until a workspace admin turns them on under Workspace settings → Apps → Manage actions, and the default is still to ask before acting. On Plus or Pro, with no admin to enable anything, the calendar connector behaves the way it always did — it reads. Google Docs and Sheets picked up create/write scopes alongside it.
The pattern across every write-capable app is the same: ChatGPT proposes, you approve, one action at a time. That’s a deliberate safety design, not an oversight — but it shapes what you can build on top of it.
Where the read/write line actually falls matters, because it’s easy to get wrong in both directions. Apps in a normal chat can write, subject to admin enablement and per-action confirmation. But company knowledge — the Business/Enterprise/Edu mode that searches across your connected work apps at once — is strictly read-only. To be eligible for company knowledge an app must expose search and fetch, and write mode is not supported there at all. So the same Gmail connection that can send a single approved email in an ordinary chat cannot write anything when ChatGPT is operating in company-knowledge mode. Read across many apps, or write to one — not both at once.
The complete ChatGPT connector list, by category
Every link goes to a full breakdown of that app with ChatGPT — what connects, what it can read and write, how to set it up, and where it stops.
CRM & Sales Salesforce · HubSpot · Pipedrive · Close · Attio · Folk · Capsule CRM · NetHunt CRM · Nutshell · Salesflare · Salesmate · Keap · GoHighLevel · Agiled · Apollo · Streak · Wealthbox · DealCloud · Dynamics 365 · Zoho · Gong · Hunter
Email & Inbox Gmail · Outlook · Front · Missive · Mixmax · Postmark · Resend · SendGrid · MailerSend
Marketing & Email Campaigns Mailchimp · Klaviyo · ActiveCampaign · Customer.io · Brevo · Kit · MailerLite · EmailOctopus · Moosend · Omnisend · Loops · Instantly · Lemlist · beehiiv · Google Ads · Meta Ads · Semrush · Ahrefs
Productivity & Docs Notion · Airtable · Coda · Google Sheets · Google Docs · Google Slides · Excel · Word · PowerPoint · Smartsheet · Confluence · Outline · Slite · Mem
Files & Storage Google Drive · OneDrive · SharePoint · Dropbox · Box · Google Photos
Project Management Asana · Monday · ClickUp · Trello · Jira · Linear · Basecamp · Wrike · Shortcut · Productboard · Canny
Task Management Todoist · TickTick · Google Tasks
Communication & Messaging Slack · Microsoft Teams · Discord · Telegram · WhatsApp · Dialpad
Meetings & Transcription Zoom · Google Meet · Webex · Google Calendar · Fathom · Fireflies · tl;dv · Recall.ai
Customer Support Zendesk · Freshdesk · Freshservice · Intercom · Gorgias · Help Scout · Zoho Desk · PagerDuty
Accounting & Finance QuickBooks · Xero · FreshBooks · FreeAgent · Zoho Books · YNAB · Expensify · Ramp · Brex · Mercury · Bill.com
Payments & E-commerce Stripe · Square · Shopify · Amazon · Etsy · eBay · Gumroad · Lemon Squeezy · Wix · Webflow
Developer Tools GitHub · GitLab · Bitbucket · CircleCI · Docker · Sentry · Vercel · Cloudflare · Supabase · Neon · Google Maps
Analytics & Data Google Analytics · Amplitude · Mixpanel · Segment · Datadog · Databricks · Apify
AI & ML Hugging Face · ElevenLabs
HR & Recruiting BambooHR · Gusto · Rippling · Deel · Ashby · Lever · Greenhouse · Workable · Recruitee · Bullhorn
Design & Whiteboards Canva · Figma · Adobe · Miro · Mural
Social & Content LinkedIn · Facebook · Instagram · Reddit · Pinterest · TikTok · YouTube · Twitch · Typefully
Forms & Surveys Typeform · Jotform · Tally · SurveyMonkey
Documents & E-signature PandaDoc · BoldSign · DocuSeal · Dropbox Sign
Time Tracking Clockify · Toggl · Harvest · Everhour
Legal & Field Service Clio · MyCase · ServiceTitan · JobNimbus
Property & Events Guesty · Follow Up Boss · Eventbrite
Courses, No-Code & Automation Kajabi · Google Classroom · Bubble · Softr · Make
ChatGPT for Work — enterprise data connectors Google Workspace · SharePoint · Box · Salesforce · ServiceNow · Workday · SAP · Snowflake · Tableau · Power BI
Don’t see your app? Anything with a public API can be reached through a custom MCP connector — see how to use MCP servers in ChatGPT and the wider MCP server list.
What connectors still can’t do, after the June 2026 update
The old criticism of connectors — that they only work inside a chat window you have open — is no longer accurate, and it’s worth being precise about what changed. ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks was rebuilt on June 17, 2026 with a dedicated Scheduled page, and those tasks can now reach your connected apps. ChatGPT can genuinely check Gmail on a timer without you opening anything.
What hasn’t changed is the shape of it:
- Time-based only, never event-based. A task fires because the clock said so. Nothing in ChatGPT fires because a deal closed, an invoice went overdue, or a specific client emailed. There’s no “when this happens, do that.”
- Roughly once an hour is the floor. Polling, not reacting. Something that lands at 9:05 might get looked at at 10:00.
- A hard ceiling on active tasks, and it’s tiered: 3 on Go, 5 on Plus, 15 on Pro, Business, and Enterprise. That’s how much you can have on autopilot at once.
- Tasks auto-pause when ignored. Unattended tasks stop themselves after a stretch of inactivity — sensible for a consumer feature, awkward for anything you’re relying on.
- Write actions want confirmation. One email per prompt, approved by you. Which means a task that’s meant to run unattended largely ends up notifying rather than finishing.
- No voice, file uploads, or Custom GPTs inside a task. Plain-text prompts only.
Add those up and the honest summary is: connectors turned ChatGPT into a very good place to ask questions about your apps and make careful one-off edits, with a timer bolted on. They didn’t turn it into an execution engine.
Where triggered, multi-app work lives instead
That gap — reacting to an event rather than a clock, and finishing the job rather than reporting on it — is what Carly is built for. Carly connects natively to ~260 apps, including most of the list above, and to anything else with a public API through your own key, pasted on your integrations dashboard.
The architectural difference, stated plainly:
- Triggers, not just timers. When a specific client emails, when a deal is marked won, when an invoice goes overdue — the event itself starts the work, in real time, not on the next hourly poll.
- Many apps in one motion. A new closed-won deal creates the onboarding doc, posts to the right Slack channel, updates the CRM, and books the kickoff — one workflow, not four confirmations.
- It sends, files, and books without asking each time. You approve the workflow once when you build it, rather than approving each email as it goes out.
- It reaches you over email and text. No app to open, no window to keep engaged so a task doesn’t pause itself.
Carly is free for unlimited Zapier-style workflows, with AI agents from $35/month — so the plumbing between your apps isn’t the expensive part.
Both approaches earn their keep. ChatGPT connectors are the right call when you want to interrogate your apps in natural language and make deliberate, reviewed changes. Carly is the right call when the work should already be done by the time you look.
FAQ
What are ChatGPT connectors? Connectors link your accounts to ChatGPT so it can search, read, and in many cases write in them during a conversation. They’re built on the Model Context Protocol, the open standard OpenAI adopted at DevDay in October 2025. Note the naming: OpenAI renamed connectors to apps on December 17, 2025, so “app” is the current official term while “connector” remains in wide everyday use for the same thing.
Is there a difference between ChatGPT apps and connectors? Not functionally — “apps” is the newer umbrella term. Since December 2025 it covers both integrations with interactive in-chat UI and the older-style connectors that let ChatGPT search and reference your data. Nothing was removed in the rename, and connections enabled before it kept working.
What happened to ChatGPT plugins? They were sunset. Plugins stopped working in new conversations on March 19, 2024 and were shut down completely on April 9, 2024. Custom GPTs with Actions replaced them first; MCP-based connectors and apps are where OpenAI has invested since late 2025.
Can ChatGPT send email through the Gmail connector? Yes, on paid plans, as of around June 8, 2026 — but one email per prompt, each requiring your explicit approval, with no batch sending. It’s assisted sending, not automated sending.
Can ChatGPT connectors write to Google Calendar? Yes. Calendar write actions rolled out in the June 2026 wave alongside Docs and Sheets, so ChatGPT can create events as well as check availability. Write scopes are off until a workspace admin enables them, and each action asks for confirmation.
Are ChatGPT connectors read-only? It depends on the mode. In a normal chat, write-capable apps can create and send things once an admin enables write scopes and you confirm each action. In company knowledge mode — the Business/Enterprise/Edu feature that searches across all your connected work apps — apps are read-only by design, eligible only if they expose search and fetch, with write mode unsupported.
Can ChatGPT connectors run on a schedule? Yes, since the June 17, 2026 Scheduled Tasks rebuild — tasks can reach connected apps on a timer. But they’re time-based only, capped at roughly once an hour, limited to 3 active tasks on Go, 5 on Plus, and 15 on Pro, Business, and Enterprise, and they auto-pause if ignored. Nothing fires in response to an event in an app.
Which ChatGPT plans include connectors? Built-in connectors work on paid consumer plans and on Business, Enterprise, and Edu, where admins choose what’s enabled. Custom MCP connectors via developer mode are in beta on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu — but write-capable custom connectors are limited to Business, Enterprise, and Edu. Plus and Pro individuals get read-only ones.
What if my app isn’t on the connector list? Anything with a public API can be reached through a custom MCP connector, subject to the plan limits above. Carly takes the other route: ~260 native integrations plus bring-your-own-key for everything else, with no server to host.
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