Browser AI can work with files you upload, but it cannot automatically reach the folders and apps on your computer. Here’s what that changes — and the fix.
When you use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini in a browser, the AI is sealed inside a web page. For safety and by design, a web page can't reach into your computer — it can't read the folder of client documents on your desktop, update the real spreadsheet you work in, or save a file where you need it. So you become the courier: you upload a file, copy the answer out, paste it into the real document, fix the formatting, and do it all again tomorrow.
A browser chat may keep conversation history or provider memory, but it does not automatically carry the working context of your local folders and projects into every new session. You still have to choose and upload the material it needs.
Glassis a desktop app that connects the AI you already use to your actual machine. It's the same intelligence you've been chatting with — except now it can open the folders you point it at, work directly in your real files, and use your apps. Not answering questions about the work. Doing the work.
And it remembers. Glass keeps the context of your projects across sessions, so you pick up where you left off instead of re-briefing it every morning. Browser AI has no hands and no memory; Glass gives that same AI both.
You, in Glass
“Turn the receipts in this folder into an expense spreadsheet, then draft the follow-up email to each client from the invoices.”
Working on your real files is powerful, so control is the point. Glass works with only the folders you choose. It does not store those working files on Glass servers; when you ask the AI to work, the needed context goes to your selected AI provider. You can approve each step or delegate a whole job. See the FAQ for details, or read who Glass is for.
Not from a browser tab — a web page is sandboxed away from your computer for security. Glass connects the same AI to your machine so it can actually open your folders and work in your files.
Glass works with only the folders you choose and does not store those files on Glass servers. Context needed for an AI request goes to the provider you selected under that provider’s terms.
No. Glass runs on the ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok plan you already pay for. It's $19.95/month for the part that lets that AI work on your computer.
Try it on your own pile.
Glass works with the AI you already use — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok — and your first messages are free, no card needed.