Back in March 2025, I started using Grok and wanted to add it to what I use AI for, and liked ChatGPT's Desktop app. I had used GPT from the website for a long time and then downloaded the app on my phone to simplify usage, and decided to do the same on my laptop but when it came to Grok, I couldn't find a desktop app. I had learned in class at MTECH that you could set up websites as apps on your computer in their own GUI as if they had their own desktop app. So I decided this was an opportunity to do a project and tried to do it. I have no idea why it didn't work, I worked on it for a while having never done it before and I think the instructions I was following were dubious. But that is when I accidentally found the PWA approach and did that, with the instant desired results.
I had been using Grok as a web app ever since. I knew the way I got it to act as a desktop app on my computer was different than installing a desktop app but I couldn't remember how I did it. So I went through the whole process again now that I am also utilizing ChatLLM Abacus AI. I was using the ChatLLM Abacus AI desktop app, there is a desktop app already in existence, but ever time I wanted to switch to the desktop app, I got an indicator saying that there are fewer features in the desktop app. I don't remember what those features were or if it even said what they were, but when I'm alt-tabbing between applications, it gets tedious when I just want to switch to the chat and whatever else I am using and I keep remembering the hard way that it's a chrome tab in one window. Plus, I found lately that every time I replied to a comment from Abacus, the desktop window would freeze. I saw that my RAM usage was high, I rebooted, but also learned that the desktop app was doing a lot of stuff locally. When I inquired, I found that if I dimply used the website, a lot of that work would be offloaded back onto the servers. So I decided to try the same method as I did with Grok. And incase it matters to you, my research did not find any meaningful extra usage of the allotted tokens your prescription offers when using the website rather than the desktop app.
To fill you in on what this is, a PWA is a Progressive Web App. The whole point is that your browser offers the option to access this webpage regularly as if it's an application on your windows computer, on any webpage, the limits of which I don't know because I just want a few versus and not the whole Bible, without actually installing an app that runs separately from your browser. If you open your browser, this will not open, if you open this and not your browser, just this will open. But if you end task for that application, such as Chrome, it will kill both tasks.
Basically, is that in Chrome Browser, you go to the 3-dot menu on a webpage in Chrome Browser, or Hamburger menu if it's still called that, and go CAST, SAVE, AND SHARE in the lower part of the menu just below zoom settings > INSTALL PAGE AS APP...
After this point another window appears and you name it whatever you want the web app to be called. And this can be pinned to the taskbar in Windows as well as the start menu.
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