BetterChatGPT

Why we included this project

BetterChatGPT is a polished open-source front end for talking to OpenAI's models, runnable in the browser or installed as a desktop app on Windows, macOS, or Linux. It layers conveniences on the ChatGPT API that the official interface lacks: a prompt library, color-coded chat folders, message filtering, token counting with cost estimates, and the ability to edit, reorder, or insert individual turns as user, assistant, or system messages. Conversations save locally and can be exported or synced to Google Drive, while ShareGPT integration and model parameters like presence_penalty give you more say over how the model responds. Hosting your own instance on Vercel, GitHub Pages, or Docker keeps API keys and data under your control, and the codebase is a useful reference for anyone building a custom ChatGPT-style chat UI, showing how to handle streaming output, markdown, math formatting, and cross-platform packaging in one project.