OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like feature, to Free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
a Spotify Wrapped-style recap that analyzes your most intrusive thoughts and chat habits from 2025 OpenAI : ChatGPT — Release Notes Emma Roth / The Verge : ChatGPT's yearly recap sums up your conversations with the chatbot Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie : OpenAI Shares Your Year With ChatGPT Recap Imad Khan / CNET : ChatGPT Gets Spotify Wrapped-Style Year-End Review Isaiah Richard / International Business Times : OpenAI Launches ‘Your Year with ChatGPT’ Review, Similar to Spotify Wrapped Mykhailo Tarchynets / AIN : ChatGPT launches year-end summary for users, similar to Spotify Wrapped Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : Experts say ChatGPT Wrapped is a privacy nightmare The Economic Times : OpenAI rolls out Year in Review feature for select users, mirroring Spotify's Wrapped and YouTube's Recap The Indian Express : OpenAI launches a personalised year-end review inside ChatGPT Amanda Yeo / Mashable : ChatGPT recapped your personal AI habits in 2025. Here's how to see yours. Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : OpenAI Launches ‘Your Year with ChatGPT’ 2025 Recap, Gamifying Retention Like ‘Spotify Wrapped’ Pranob Mehrotra / Digital Trends : ChatGPT's year-end recap offers a snapshot of how you used it in 2025 Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin : OpenAI launches a ‘Spotify Wrapped’ style experience for ChatGPT Ayushi Jain / Digit : ChatGPT gets Spotify Wrapped-like annual recap, but there's a catch Sarthak Singh / Moneycontrol : ChatGPT gets its own Spotify Wrapped-style year-in-review feature Blockchain.News : OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Your Year with ChatGPT’ to 5 Countries: Rollout Scope, Eligibility, and App Update Details AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo : OpenAI's ChatGPT ‘Wrapped’ Is a Good Reminder to Check Your Privacy Settings Juli Clover / MacRumors : ChatGPT Now Has a 2025 Year-End Summary Feature Like Spotify Wrapped Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac : OpenAI rolls out a fun ‘Your Year with ChatGPT’ feature in select countries Karandeep Singh Oberoi / Android Police : OpenAI is rolling out a Spotify Wrapped-style recap for ChatGPT users Andrew Grush / Android Authority : Not going to lie, ChatGPT's new year end recap made me feel a bit ashamed Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : Don't see your ChatGPT yearly recap? Try this trick to trigger it manually Henry Chandonnet / Business Insider : ChatGPT's year-end recap is here — and it tells you how many em-dashes you exchanged Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada : ChatGPT Rolls Out ‘Your Year’ Recap in Canada Laurent Giret / Thurrott : OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Your Year With ChatGPT’ X: @openai : Your Year with ChatGPT! Now rolling out to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia who have reference saved memory and reference chat history turned on. Just make sure your app is updated. [image] @openai : If you're in one of the countries above, check back throughout the day to see if “Your Year with ChatGPT” has rolled out to you. You can also try adding the “Your Year with ChatGPT” app by tapping the + sign and asking Chat, “show me my year with ChatGPT.” [image] Peter Yang / @petergyang : This is a great feature from ChatGPT. fwiw I'm pretty sure I DID NOT send ChatGPT that last message but it cracked me up so I'm sharing just to be vulnerable with you all. [image] Sheel Mohnot / @pitdesi : I don't feel like a top 1% user of ChatGPT. Usage distribution is insanely skewed and I'd guess 90% of users barely use it. X mutuals, what's your message count? [image] Wyatt Walls / @lefthanddraft : Not sure OpenAI should be emphasising its ability to do analytics on all of our chats. I know my activities are being monitored and they are building behavioral profiles for advertisers. But do they need to rub our noses in it? Thin line between cute and creepy [image] Shaun Ralston / @shaunralston : Love this @ChatGPTapp . . . such a great way to look back on a year of big ideas and breakthroughs. Huge props to the incredible DEV support team (especially @romainhuet) at @OpenAI for keeping the inspiration flowing! 🚀✨ [image] Mikhail Parakhin / @mparakhin : And now we know how OpenAI rounds up the users: I likely was literally in the first 5, if not the very first external user, not in 0.1% :-) [image] Dan Shipper / @danshipper : TIL I am in the top 1% of @ChatGPTapp users by messages sent [image] Fidji Simo / @fidjissimo : ChatGPT has me nailed. [image] Olivia Moore / @omooretweets : Year in Review shows what a “first class” app experience could look like inside ChatGPT It's sophisticated and interactive UI that utilizes the Memory layer...feels reminiscent of WeChat Mini apps I hope third party developers can eventually build like this on the platform! [video] Parker Ortolani / @parkerortolani : imagine going back in time five years and telling yourself you would actually talk to robots this much [image] Anusha Bala / @anushabalak : Your Year with ChatGPT is here! 🎁 working on this launch has genuinely been one of the most surreal experiences. peak OAI in the best way and the whole team is insanely cracked. hope you have as much fun with it as we did building it!!! [image] Jessie Frazelle / @jessfraz : The ChatGPT wrapped is super cute actually. And all my suspicions that they lose money on me are confirmed. Thanks for letting me use the GPUs! [image] LinkedIn: Clifford Tan : GPT-5.2 just came out. — It's still early, but it does feel a little calmer in how it responds. — Less rushing. Less back-and-forth when things get long or unclear. …
Context & Ripple Effects
This recap builds on ChatGPT becoming more personalized: OpenAI previously introduced memory that references past chats and later tested preset personalities for tailoring interactions. The new feature turns those accumulated interactions into a consumer-facing annual product.
Its availability to free as well as paid users makes the recap a broad engagement feature, while its dependence on memory and chat-history settings puts data controls at the center of the experience.
First-order effects
- Eligible ChatGPT users in the five launch markets can receive a year-end summary of their chat habits, provided their app and relevant memory or history settings qualify.
- OpenAI gains a prominent in-product reason for users to revisit prior conversations; privacy scrutiny is immediate because the feature surfaces patterns drawn from personal chat records.
Second-order effects
- The rollout raises the value of persistent chat history as a product feature, increasing pressure on rival assistants to pair personalization with clear controls over retained conversations.
- User trust may hinge more directly on whether people can understand and manage the settings that enable summaries, rather than on the recap experience alone.
Third-order effects
- If annual recaps become a standard assistant feature, consumer AI products may compete not only on answers and tools but on how usefully—and transparently—they turn long-term interaction data into personal insights.
- The pattern strengthens the case for AI-companion governance: personalization features that reinterpret historical conversations will face sustained expectations for meaningful consent and data controls.
The trend: Consumer AI assistants are evolving from one-off chat tools into persistent, personalized services that package users’ interaction histories into recurring experiences.