short-circuit-your-ai-assistant

short-circuit-your-ai-assistant

Short Circuit is a privacy-forward AI assistant app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that provides a premium ChatGPT & GPT-4 experience with customizable personalities, Siri and Shortcuts integration, and options for subscription or a one-time lifetime unlock using your own OpenAI key.

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Best for: Personal & Entertainment

What it does

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Personal & Entertainment

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short-circuit-your-ai-assistant

Short Circuit is an AI assistant app available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac that delivers a premium ChatGPT & GPT-4 experience. The app lets users choose personas, creativity levels, and OpenAI models per conversation β€” enabling scenarios such as language guides, tutors, or domain experts. It integrates with Siri and Shortcuts for hands-free access and workflow automation, emphasizes privacy by instructing OpenAI not to use users' data to train models, and offers multiple purchasing options including subscription and a one-time lifetime unlock using the user’s own OpenAI API key.

ChatGPT app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with personalities and Siri integration.

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Key Features

Cross-device apps

Native support for iPhone, iPad, and Mac so you can use Short Circuit across Apple devices.

Customizable personalities and models

Set persona, creativity, and choose the OpenAI model for every conversation to create tailored assistants (e.g., tour guide, math tutor, SwiftUI expert).

Siri integration

Use Siri voice commands ("Ask Shorty") to ask ChatGPT questions hands-free.

Shortcuts automation

Support for Shortcuts to build complex workflows that include ChatGPT interactions.

Fact checking

Built-in fact checking to provide a second opinion when the model may be guessing.

Privacy-forward defaults

Short Circuit tells OpenAI not to use your questions and answers to train their models.

Flexible purchasing options

Available as a subscription or a one-time lifetime unlock that can use your own OpenAI token.

Pricing

Free Tier Available

Free trial available

Subscription

Not specified on page
  • Access to Short Circuit features via in-app subscription

Lifetime Unlock

One-time payment (amount not specified)
  • One-time unlock that allows use with your own OpenAI token
  • Affordable option recommended for infrequent use

Use Cases

Personalized conversational assistants

Create personas such as language tour guides or subject-matter tutors by selecting persona and model settings per conversation.

Developer or expert help

Use specialized personas like a SwiftUI expert to get domain-specific assistance.

Hands-free queries and automation

Ask Shorty via Siri and incorporate ChatGPT into Shortcuts workflows for automated or hands-free tasks.

Privacy-conscious users

Users who want an AI assistant while minimizing model-training exposure can use the app's privacy-forward settings or supply their own OpenAI key with the lifetime unlock.

Integrations

OpenAI API

Users can supply their own OpenAI secret key to use Short Circuit with their own OpenAI account.

Siri

Voice integration to ask Shorty via the "Ask Shorty" Siri command.

Shortcuts

Apple Shortcuts support to build complex automated workflows involving ChatGPT.

Benefits

Access to ChatGPT & GPT-4 on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Highly customizable conversations by persona, creativity, and model
Hands-free interaction with Siri and automation via Shortcuts
Privacy-forward handling that prevents OpenAI model-training of conversation data
Flexible payment options including subscription, lifetime unlock, and a free trial

Limitations

The app is a paid product; AI is described as an expensive technology so usage requires payment (subscription or one-time unlock).
The lifetime unlock option requires providing your OpenAI secret key for use with your own OpenAI token.

Frequently Asked Questions

No verified FAQs are available.

Getting Started

  1. 1 Download Short Circuit from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or Mac
  2. 2 Start a free trial to evaluate the app
  3. 3 If purchasing a lifetime unlock, obtain your OpenAI secret key by signing in with OpenAI and creating a new secret key
  4. 4 Copy the OpenAI secret key and paste it into Short Circuit's OpenAI API Key field
  5. 5 Begin chatting with ChatGPT in the app and configure personas or integrations like Siri/Shortcuts

Support

Mastodon

Support and contact via Mastodon (link provided on the site).

Email

Support via email (address provided on the site).

Documentation

In-app and site instructions for retrieving and setting up an OpenAI secret key are provided.

API

Available: No

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