OpenAI joins the year-end summary craze with “Your Year with ChatGPT”, a Spotify Wrapped-style experience that shows you how you've used AI throughout the year. This feature is already rolling out to users in select markets and promises to become one of those perfect pieces of content for sharing and commenting on social media.

What is “Your Year with ChatGPT”?

OpenAI describes “Your Year with ChatGPT” as a personalized year-end summary that compiles your interactions with the chatbot and turns them into a visual and narrative experience, much like what Spotify does with Wrapped. Just like with music, you're the star here, but instead of songs and artists, what's celebrated are your chats, your questions, and your experiments with the AI.

The feature is starting to reach eligible users in markets such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, at least in this first phase. It's not a global feature or available to everyone yet, but it does aim to become a key part of the ChatGPT ecosystem if the launch goes well and generates buzz.

Interestingly, OpenAI insists that this experience is designed to be "lightweight, privacy-respecting, and user-controlled"—in other words, it's not a cold, technical report, but something more playful, while still addressing the usual concerns about data and control.

Who can access it and how do I activate it?

"Your Year with ChatGPT" isn't limited to paying users: it will be available to users of the free, Plus, and Pro plans, provided they meet some very specific conditions. To access this feature, you need to have reached a minimum level of conversational activity with the chatbot throughout the year, which makes sense if the goal is to generate a summary with some substance. Additionally, you must have the “reference saved memories” and “reference chat history” options enabled, as this is precisely where ChatGPT extracts the context to create your wrap-up. Without this history and these saved memories, AI wouldn't have enough material to build your "story of the year."

Instead,Team, Enterprise, and Education accounts are excluded from this first version of the annual summary. This is an important detail: for now, the experience is clearly geared towards the end user, personal consumption, and perhaps a more playful tone, not corporate or educational use where data management tends to be stricter.

Viewing your summary is easy:

The feature is available both on the web version and in the ChatGPT mobile apps for iOS and Android, so you can check it from wherever you normally chat with the AI.

What you'll find in your ChatGPT annual summary

Here's where it gets fun. "Your Year with ChatGPT" doesn't just tell you how many messages you sent; it builds a kind of narrative about your year with the AI. The approach is clearly visual, lightweight, and very shareable, designed so you can show it to your friends or on social media without much explanation. One of the key features is the personalized "awards" assigned to you based on how you used ChatGPT throughout the year. For example, if you used it a lot to refine ideas, polish concepts, or find solutions to problems, you might receive a "Creative Debugger" badge, which recognizes that more creativity and problem-solving use. From there, it's easy to imagine other patterns: Another interesting element is that the app generates a poem and an image about your year, focusing on the topics that interest you most during your conversations. In other words, it's not just a list of statistics, but also a kind of creative mini-history of your relationship with AI, packaged in a poetic and visual format.

From a user experience perspective, this opens the door to several "shareable" moments:

In short, what you'll find is a mix of data, narrative, and creativity, designed to help you better understand how you relied on ChatGPT throughout the year and, incidentally, to strengthen your emotional connection with the tool.

Why this move matters for consumer AI

ChatGPT having its own "Spotify Wrapped" isn't just a curiosity: it's a clear sign that generative AI is fully entering the realm of mass-market consumer products. A gamified yearly summary turns something as abstract as “using a chatbot” into a personal story, complete with highlights, tags, and visuals to show off. It's also a clever way to remind yourself of the value you're already getting from the tool: when you see in black and white how much you've used AI to study, work, create, or simply kill time, You're more likely to keep using it… or upgrade to a paid plan if you're still on the free one.

On the other hand, by tagging usage patterns, OpenAI helps you recognize yourself in certain roles: creative, problem solver, lifelong learner, etc.This reinforces the feeling that ChatGPT isn't just a generic chatbot, but a kind of digital companion that has been present in your daily life throughout the year.

With “Your Year with ChatGPT”, OpenAI not only copies the Spotify Wrapped format, but adapts it to the language of conversational AI, mixing data, awards, poetry, and personalized images to turn your chats into a year-end narrative ready to discover and share.