Using Appilot from ChatGPT or Claude
You can work in an app from the assistant you already use. Ask ChatGPT or Claude to do something in the app, and it happens in your own browser, on the real page, in front of you. You watch each step, and you approve anything that changes data.
This works because Appilot connects your assistant to the page you are looking at. Your assistant does the thinking. Appilot supplies the hands and the app's manual.
What changes for you
Without Appilot, an assistant looking at a web app is guessing. It reads a screenshot or some markup and improvises the procedure.
With Appilot, it knows how the app is used. The steps come from what the app's own team wrote down, so they are the real procedure rather than an invention. That shows up three ways:
- Faster, because it stops exploring blindly and goes straight to the control it needs.
- More accurate, because the actions available to it are the ones the app's owner approved, and it cannot make up a shortcut of its own.
- Safer, because it never reads or fills a password, a card number or a one-time code, it leaves values in the field for you to check, and you press the button that commits anything.
Set it up once
- Install the Appilot extension, or use an app that already embeds Appilot.
- In ChatGPT or Claude, add the Appilot connector. Its address is
https://mcp.appilot.space/mcp/runtime. - Your assistant opens Appilot in a new tab and asks you to approve the connection. The page names the assistant, says what it will be able to do, and waits for you to press Connect. Nothing is approved by opening it.
- Choose how long to keep the connection: 30 days, 90 days, or until you disconnect it.
- Open the app you want to work in.
You are approving the assistant to act as you, in your own session. It can do nothing your account cannot do, and it cannot change how Appilot is configured. You do not need to be an administrator of anything to connect it.
Disconnect an assistant
Open My account, go to your profile, and find Connected assistants. Each one shows when you connected it and when it was last used. Disconnect stops it from starting anything new. An assistant already in the middle of a session loses access within a day.
Share a tab
Nothing is shared until you say so. Appilot cannot see any page until you share it, and it never watches the tabs you have not shared.
Click Share this tab in the Appilot panel. While a tab is shared you will see an indicator on it, and you can stop sharing at any moment with one click.
You share one tab at a time. Sharing another one ends the first, so there is never a question about which page your assistant is talking about. Closing the tab, navigating to a different site, or signing out all end the share on their own.
What you can ask for
Find something. "Where do I archive this?" Appilot highlights the control on the real page, so you see it rather than reading a description of it.
Understand the page. "What is this form asking me for?" The assistant reads the page's structure and any explanation the app's team wrote for those fields.
Learn a procedure. "Show me how to create a task." The assistant walks the steps on the page, one at a time, narrating each before it happens. Nothing is submitted; you are watching a demonstration.
Get it done. "Create a task called Q3 review, due Friday." The assistant fills the fields on the real page. You see the values land, correct anything that is wrong, and press the button yourself.
Bring in something from your conversation. This is the part neither tool can do alone. Paste an email into ChatGPT and say "add this person to the CRM". Your assistant works out the values, and Appilot puts them into the right fields of the real form.
How fast it goes
Three paces, and your words choose one.
| You say | What happens |
|---|---|
| "Show me how to…" or "explain…" | Each step is explained before it runs, with a long pause to read. |
| A plain request | Each step runs with a short countdown you can stop. |
| "Just do it" | The whole thing runs with a brief countdown before each step. |
Every pace has a countdown you can stop, and a plan you can cancel at any point. Hovering over the page pauses the countdown, so you never lose a step because you looked away.
The first time you ask for the fastest pace in a given app, Appilot asks you to confirm on the page before anything runs. It remembers your answer for that app.
What it will not do
- It will not touch a credential. Passwords, one-time codes, payment card fields and hidden fields are closed to it, on every path, with no exceptions.
- It will not submit an empty form. If a plan would click Save without filling anything, the submit step is dropped and the plan stops at the field so you can type the value yourself.
- It will not invent a value. Anything it types came from you or from the app. Where it has nothing to type, it stops and asks.
- It will not act on a page you have not shared.
Knowing how much to trust an answer
Every answer says where it came from, the same way it does inside the Appilot panel. An answer built from the app's documentation says so and can show you the source. An answer read off the current screen says that instead. An answer with nothing solid behind it says that too, rather than sounding confident.
If the app you are in has not been configured for Appilot, your assistant tells you. Appilot still reads the page, highlights things and walks you through what it can see, and it is honest that the guidance is inferred from the screen rather than written down by the app's team.
Privacy
Appilot records what you do with Appilot. It does not record where you browse.
While a tab is shared, the page you asked about is read to answer you. What the page says about itself travels to your assistant, because that is what lets it help: the labels, which fields are required, and the validation errors blocking a submit.
What you typed does not travel. Your assistant is told that a field is filled and how long the value is, never the value itself. It can tell you the email field is empty without ever reading the address you put in the one beside it. A password, a one-time code or a card number is not even counted, because the length of a password is worth knowing to the wrong person.
Nothing is read from a tab you did not share, and nothing is read after you stop sharing.
Your assistant's own subscription covers the thinking, so this costs you nothing beyond what you already pay for ChatGPT or Claude.
When something is not working
"Share your tab first." Your assistant lost the channel. Open the app, share the tab again, and repeat what you asked.
The page did not respond. The tab may have been closed or reloaded mid-step. Nothing was left half-done that you cannot see; the plan stops where it is and you can start it again.
A step points at something that is not there. The app's page changed. Tell the app's team, or use the Appilot panel to report missing knowledge.