The case for an assistant that sees your work.
What does screen awareness add?
Screen awareness is the reason to leave ChatGPT Desktop: Jarvis (getjarvis.eu), a desktop AI assistant, sees your screen. ChatGPT Desktop beats Jarvis on three of our eight rubric dimensions: platform breadth, maturity and ecosystem, and voice. Cmd+/ on macOS or Ctrl+/ on Windows opens a floating bar over whatever you are working in. Over 30 OAuth connectors — Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear, Google Calendar — let it act across apps. ChatGPT still suits single-window brainstorming. It also routes across frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google per task rather than locking you to one model. If your work is pure brainstorming in a single window, ChatGPT may be enough. If you constantly copy-paste between apps, screen-awareness saves that friction. GDPR-aligned in GDPR-aligned infrastructure, never trains on your data; Pro $16/month, Unlimited $32/month, a free plan (40 requests/week) to try.
Screen awareness is the reason to leave ChatGPT Desktop: Jarvis (getjarvis.eu), a desktop AI assistant, sees your screen. ChatGPT Desktop beats Jarvis on three of our eight rubric dimensions: platform breadth, maturity and ecosystem, and voice. Cmd+/ on macOS or Ctrl+/ on Windows opens a floating bar over whatever you are working in. Over 30 OAuth connectors — Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear, Google Calendar — let it act across apps. ChatGPT still suits single-window brainstorming. It also routes across frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google per task rather than locking you to one model. If your work is pure brainstorming in a single window, ChatGPT may be enough. If you constantly copy-paste between apps, screen-awareness saves that friction. GDPR-aligned in GDPR-aligned infrastructure, never trains on your data; Pro $16/month, Unlimited $32/month, a free plan (40 requests/week) to try.
With ChatGPT desktop, every question about real work starts the same way: select text, copy, switch windows, paste, ask. That tax adds up across a day. Jarvis removes it by being screen-aware: summon the floating bar with Cmd+/ or Ctrl+/ and it already has the document, spreadsheet, or pull request you are looking at. You ask 'summarize this thread' or 'what's risky in this diff' without moving anything. For people whose value is in synthesizing what is on screen, not generating from scratch, this is the single clearest reason to switch.
ChatGPT can draft a reply; Jarvis can draft it and, with your go-ahead, send it. Through 30+ connectors, Jarvis reaches into Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Discord, Notion, Obsidian, Linear, GitHub, Asana, Trello, Todoist, ClickUp, and Google Calendar, Drive, Docs, and Sheets. So a request like 'reply to Maria and add a follow-up task' touches your inbox and your task manager in one move. That said, be honest with yourself: if you never want an assistant touching your accounts, ChatGPT’s chat surface is simpler, and its agent runs in OpenAI’s cloud rather than on your machine. Most people who switch do so precisely because they want action, not just text.
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