8 Best ChatGPT Plugins in 2026: Tools Worth Using

ChatGPT becomes more useful when it can work with the systems where your information and workflows already live. A ChatGPT plugin can give it access to the live web, company files, code repositories, team conversations, CRM data, design tools, or several applications at once. Instead of copying information into a chat manually, you can connect the relevant tool and work with that context directly.

But more plugins are not necessarily better. The useful ones solve a specific gap in your workflow. This guide covers the best ChatGPT plugins worth knowing in 2026, what each one does, where it is most useful and how to connect each plugin.

Quick look at ChatGPT plugins

What are ChatGPT plugins?

ChatGPT plugins package capabilities that extend what ChatGPT can access or do. A plugin can include apps, which connect ChatGPT to external services and data, and skills, which provide reusable instructions or workflows. Some plugins use both.

For example, a Google Drive connection gives ChatGPT access to authorized Drive files. A plugin can package that connection with instructions for completing a particular type of task.

This is the current plugin system, not the original ChatGPT Plugin Store described in many older guides. OpenAI moved app discovery into the Plugin Directory in July 2026, and plugins are now the primary way to discover these workflow capabilities across ChatGPT and Codex.

The important question is not how many plugins you can install. It is what new context or action a plugin gives ChatGPT access to.

How to install a ChatGPT plugin

You can install most plugins directly from ChatGPT:

1. Open Plugins in ChatGPT.
2. Search for the plugin you want to use.
3. Open its listing and review the included apps and capabilities.
4. Select Install plugin if shown.
5. If the plugin requires an external account, select Connect and complete the authorization flow.
6. Review the requested permissions before approving access.

Installing a plugin and connecting an app are not always the same step. If a plugin relies on Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, or another external service, that account still needs to be authorized separately.

Once installed, you can invoke supported plugins with an “@“ mention or through the + menu when those controls are available. Availability depends on the plugin, plan, workspace, role, region, and underlying app requirements. Your existing permissions still apply. Connecting ChatGPT to a service does not give it access to information that your account could not already access in that service.

8 Best ChatGPT plugins in 2026

The best ChatGPT plugins are useful for different reasons. Some give ChatGPT access to the live web, while others connect it to apps, code, files, or team knowledge. The six ChatGPT plugins below cover distinct workflows, so you can choose based on what you actually need ChatGPT to do.

1. TinyFish: Live web research and browser tasks

Best for: Research and workflows where ChatGPT needs to interact with the live web, not just return search results.

Web research becomes harder when the answer is not sitting in a static page. You may need to open several sites, navigate an interface, follow links, check what changes after clicking something, work inside a web application, or fill a form.

TinyFish gives ChatGPT a live browser for those workflows. The TinyFish plugin can search the web, read specific pages, and run browser sessions for tasks that require navigation, clicking, form filling, checking page state, or interacting with web apps.

That makes it useful when the website itself is part of the work.

How to connect TinyFish to ChatGPT

1. Open Plugins in ChatGPT and search for TinyFish.
2. Open the TinyFish plugin and select Install plugin.
3. Review the plugin details and permissions shown during installation.
4. Start a new chat and ask ChatGPT to use TinyFish for a web task.

Once installation is complete, TinyFish appears as an installed plugin and is ready to use in ChatGPT.

TinyFish does not require you to connect a separate website account for ordinary public-web tasks. If a particular workflow requires additional access, ChatGPT will prompt you as needed.

Example use case

Say you’re planning a trip to Kyoto and want to find smaller hotels, ryokans, or guesthouses that take direct bookings. Instead of opening each hotel site and checking dates manually, you can ask TinyFish to find suitable properties and work through their booking flows for you.

Prompt: Find five independent hotels, ryokans, or guesthouses in Kyoto with their own direct booking websites. Check availability for one adult from November 12–15, 2026.

TinyFish first finds suitable properties with official booking sites, then opens each booking flow and works through the date selectors and room availability to check whether the requested stay can be booked.

This same pattern applies beyond hotel booking: TinyFish is useful whenever a task requires ChatGPT to navigate live websites, interact with page elements, and retrieve information that is not available from a simple search result.

Where TinyFish is useful

TinyFish fits workflows such as:

• competitive and market research across live websites;
• checking pricing, availability, policies, or other changing information;
• navigating interactive or JavaScript-heavy pages;
• testing public website journeys;
• completing browser-based forms with supplied information; and
• working with websites that do not have a dedicated ChatGPT integration.

The ChatGPT plugin is one way to use TinyFish, but developers can also bring the same web capabilities into their own agents and applications. Try the TinyFish playground to explore Search, Fetch, Browser, and Web Agent directly.

2. Composio: Workflows across multiple apps

Best for: Work that starts in one SaaS application and needs to continue in another.

Many business workflows span several applications, even when the task itself feels like one process. A customer request might begin in Gmail, become a Linear issue, and require a follow-up in Slack, while sales and operations workflows can move between a CRM, calendar, email, and internal documentation.

Composio provides an integration layer for these multi-app workflows, handling application connections, authentication, tool discovery, and execution across supported services. Instead of treating each integration as an isolated step, it can identify the tools needed for a request and coordinate the actions required to complete it

How to connect Composio to ChatGPT

1. Open Plugins in ChatGPT and search for Composio.
2. Select Install plugin.
3. Once installed, open Composio and sign in to your Composio account.
4. Review and authorize the requested access.
5. When a workflow needs another app, such as Gmail, Slack, or Linear, connect that app when prompted.

Where Composio is useful

Composio makes the most sense when a workflow regularly crosses systems:

• Gmail → project management → Slack;
• CRM → email → calendar;
• support tickets → engineering tracker;
• research → documentation → team communication; or
• workflows involving apps that are not otherwise part of your ChatGPT setup.

3. Google Drive: Documents and internal files

Best for: Work that depends on existing Docs, Slides, PDFs, reports, and other files.

The slowest part of many ChatGPT workflows is finding the source material before you can ask a useful question about it.

The Google Drive plugin removes much of that step. ChatGPT can search authorized Drive content, summarize individual files, synthesize information across several documents, compare material, and use existing files as context for new drafts.

How to connect Google Drive to ChatGPT

1. Open Plugins or Apps in ChatGPT and select Google Drive.
2. Select Install plugin.
3. Sign in with the Google account that has access to the files you want to use.
4. Review the requested Google permissions and complete the authorization flow.
5. Return to ChatGPT and ask it to find or work with files in your Drive.

If you use more than one Google account, make sure you connect the one that contains the relevant work files. Workspace administrators may also restrict which Google accounts or actions can be connected.

4. GitHub: Code and repository context

Best for: Understanding codebases, reviewing changes, and working across repository context.

Engineering questions often depend on more context than a single code snippet can provide. Understanding an authentication flow, reviewing a pull request, tracing a bug, or explaining an unfamiliar system may require information spread across source files, documentation, issues, and commit history.

The GitHub plugin gives ChatGPT access to authorized repository context so it can reason across those sources together. It can explore code and documentation, summarize pull requests, identify potentially risky changes, and help explain how different parts of a codebase connect.

How to connect GitHub to ChatGPT

1. Open Plugins or Apps in ChatGPT and find GitHub.
2. Select Install plugin.
3. Sign in to GitHub and complete the authorization flow.
4. Grant access to the repositories you want ChatGPT to work with.
5. Return to ChatGPT and ask a question about an authorized repository.

ChatGPT can only retrieve repository content the connected GitHub account is permitted to access. GitHub availability can also differ between standard chat, deep research, and agent workflows depending on your ChatGPT plan.

5. Slack: Team conversations and decision context

Best for: Catching up on projects and finding the discussion behind a decision.

Slack often contains context that never makes it into a project tracker or formal document, including why a decision changed, what objections were raised, who owns the next step, and which issues remain unresolved.

The Slack plugin lets ChatGPT work with authorized messages and channel discussions to retrieve that context without requiring users to manually find and paste individual threads. It can summarize project activity, surface decisions and blockers, reconstruct the background behind a discussion, and use recent conversations to prepare meeting notes or responses.

How to connect Slack to ChatGPT

1. Find Slack under Apps or Plugins in ChatGPT.
2. Select Install plugin.
3. Sign in to the Slack workspace you want to use and complete the authorization flow.
4. Review the requested Slack permissions.
5. Return to ChatGPT and ask it to search or work with messages and channels you already have access to.

ChatGPT currently connects to one Slack workspace at a time. If your organization restricts third-party apps, a Slack or ChatGPT workspace administrator may need to approve the connection first.

6. Canva: Creating editable visual content

Best for: Turning conversation context into presentations, social assets, and marketing designs.

ChatGPT can help develop the copy, structure, and creative direction for a visual asset, but that output normally still needs to be rebuilt in a design tool before it can be used. The Canva plugin brings that next step into the same workflow.

It can use the context of a ChatGPT conversation to create or edit presentations, social posts, marketing materials, and other supported designs. The resulting asset remains editable in Canva, so users can continue refining the layout, brand treatment, and visual details rather than starting again from a text-only draft.

How to connect Canva to ChatGPT

1. Open Plugins in ChatGPT and search for Canva.
2. Select Install plugin.
3. Sign in to the Canva account you want to use if prompted.
4. Review and authorize the requested access.
5. Return to ChatGPT and ask Canva to create or edit a supported design.

You can confirm the connection by returning to Plugins and checking that Canva appears as connected or enabled. Canva says the ChatGPT plugin is available across Canva accounts, although some capabilities, such as working with certain brand features, require an eligible paid plan.

7. HubSpot: CRM and sales workflows

Best for: Questions and actions that depend on customer, deal, ticket, or pipeline context.

CRM data becomes harder to work with when the question spans multiple contacts, deals, tickets, activities, or stages rather than a single record. HubSpot’s ChatGPT plugin provides conversational access to authorized CRM information so users can analyze that context without manually assembling reports or moving data into ChatGPT.

It can answer questions about customers and deals, surface patterns across records, support pipeline and account analysis, and complete supported CRM actions based on the connected user’s permissions. This makes it useful for sales, RevOps, customer success, and other workflows where the answer depends on structured customer data.

How to connect HubSpot to ChatGPT

1. Open Plugins in ChatGPT and search for HubSpot.
2. Select Install plugin.
3. Choose Continue to HubSpot, then sign in with your HubSpot account.
4. Select the HubSpot account you want to use.
5. Review the permissions you want to grant, then select Connect App.
6. Back in ChatGPT, select HubSpot from the + menu or mention HubSpot in your prompt to use the connection.

HubSpot notes that a Super Admin may need to approve the connector first and control which permissions users can grant. Your existing HubSpot permissions still apply.

8. Consensus: Academic and evidence-based research

Best for: Questions that should be answered from research literature rather than ordinary web results.

Academic research requires a different source set from general web search, particularly when the goal is to compare findings, understand the strength of available evidence, or trace a claim back to published research.

Consensus connects ChatGPT to a large research corpus that includes peer-reviewed papers and sources from PubMed, Semantic Scholar, and arXiv. It can support literature reviews, evidence tables, bibliographies, research-gap analysis, and comparisons between conflicting findings, making it useful when the quality of the answer depends on academic evidence rather than general web content.

How to connect Consensus to ChatGPT

1. Open Plugins in ChatGPT and search for Consensus.
2. Select Install plugin.
3. Select Connect.
4. Sign in to your Consensus account when prompted.
5. Once connected, type @Consensus in a conversation or select Consensus from the + menu.

Consensus says its ChatGPT integration works across ChatGPT plans and can be used with the free Consensus tier, although usage limits still depend on your Consensus plan.

Start with the workflow, not the plugin

ChatGPT plugins are most useful when they remove a real handoff in your workflow. That might mean using TinyFish to work through a live website, Composio to coordinate actions across several apps, or a native plugin to bring files, code, conversations, or customer data directly into the chat.

The goal is not to connect everything. Start with the workflows you already repeat, then add the plugins that give ChatGPT the context or actions it is currently missing.