Hey Sumo-lings! September has been a heavy shipping month for AI Toolbox — most of it came straight out of customer reports, so keep them coming!

Search is quicker to actually use

• \"Titles only\" moved out of the Advanced panel and now sits right next to the search box, so finding a chat by its name is one click instead of opening a panel and toggling a filter.
• Exporting your search findings no longer cuts long answers short, so the export matches what you saw on screen.

Exports you can watch and control

• Long exports now show progress and can be stopped part way without losing what's already been done.
• Fixed exports stripping formatting people had written themselves, so numbered lists and links survive the export intact.
• Very long conversations exporting to PDF now have a proper ceiling and a cancel that genuinely stops the work, instead of a browser tab climbing until you kill it.

The Context Window Meter got accurate

• Context window figures are now taken from OpenAI's own published numbers rather than third-party sources, and \"Auto\" detects your actual plan instead of guessing.
• It can also be switched off entirely now, for anyone who'd rather not have it on screen.

ChatGPT Projects and tagging

• Fixed Projects disappearing from Manage Chats on large accounts, which affected anyone with a few thousand chats.
• Tagging takes fewer steps, and Smart Tags can now be hidden from the sidebar if you want that space back.

All of it works across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok on one licence.

Current build is 5.0.42, and the extension is now at 4.7 stars from 782 ratings with around 40,000 users — thank you for all the feedback that made this update possible. Keep it coming!

— The AI Toolbox Team

Six weeks ago you would've found me explaining, again, why the "search everywhere" button on our product page didn't actually search everywhere. It searched ChatGPT. Claude was its own separate world, bolted on with the same license key and nothing else in common. Same for Gemini. Three toolboxes wearing one product name.

That bugged me more than any support ticket ever could. So over the last five weeks, 13 releases (5.0.13 to 5.0.26), we tore out the wall between them and rebuilt AI Toolbox as one library that happens to work across every platform, instead of three products that happen to share a login.

Here's what that actually means for you:

One search box for everything. Type a query once and get results from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini together, each one deep-linked straight back to the original chat. No more trying to remember which platform a conversation happened on.

A keyboard shortcut that doesn't care what tab you're on. One browser-level combo pulls up all-platform search from anywhere, even with no AI site open. Three more shortcuts open search, prompts, and folders once you're on an AI site, and all four are rebindable to whatever your fingers already know.

One folder tree. A project that spans ChatGPT and Claude used to mean two folders in two places. Now it's one.

Tags that sync themselves. Build a tag rule in Claude and it's already live in ChatGPT. You never touch it twice.

Prompts and prompt chains that follow you. Your library isn't stuck on whichever platform you happened to build it on anymore.

Context handoff. Probably my favorite one. You can carry a conversation's context into a brand-new chat, including into a different platform entirely. Start in ChatGPT, finish the thought in Claude.

That's the headline. It wasn't the only thing we shipped, though:

Deep Import recovers chats that ChatGPT's own API quietly hides once your account gets large enough, so years of history become searchable again. As far as I know, nobody else has solved this one. Grok is now a full module, working inside X and on grok.com as part of the same library. Advanced search (boolean AND/OR, titles-only mode, exact match, date and role filters) used to be a ChatGPT-only trick. It's everywhere now. Smart Tags got rebuilt from scratch for precision and every language, across every platform. We added streaks and badges, because a little momentum tracking doesn't hurt. And Claude's Artifact Vault now grabs the files Claude actually creates too, not just artifacts: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx.

Then there's the stuff that's easy to forget is even in there. Download any response as an MP3 in nine voices, or batch-export a whole conversation as a ZIP. A live rate-limit widget so you can see how close you are to your cap before you actually hit it. Command Palette (Cmd+K) and a floating toolbox you can rearrange, so every feature is two keystrokes away. A context window meter on every platform. A media gallery that pulls every image out of your chats into one place with bulk download. Collapsible messages, live writing analytics, completion sound alerts, GPT favorites, full backup export and import, and multi-account safety.

If you bought AI Toolbox in the first few weeks it was live, there's a good chance you've never seen half of this. That's on us for shipping fast without always telling you it happened. Open it up and poke around. If something's missing, tell me. Most of what's above started as someone's email to me.

Thanks for sticking with a small tool while we figured out what it actually wanted to be.

-Adi

I didn't set out to build a company. I set out to find one old ChatGPT conversation.

It was late, and I needed a pricing breakdown I'd worked out in a chat a few weeks earlier. Simple, right? Except there was no search. No folders. Just an endless wall of "New chat, New chat, New chat" down the sidebar. I scrolled for a solid twenty minutes, couldn't find it, and ended up retyping the whole thing from memory. Worse version, too.

That night I opened my code editor and built the first rough version of what you're looking at now. It did one thing: let me search inside my own chats. That was it.

I assumed maybe a handful of other people had the same annoyance. They did. A lot of them. The thing spread mostly by word of mouth, and people kept emailing me the same sentence: "How did ChatGPT not build this already?"

So I kept going. Folders and subfolders, so your work chats stop drowning in your dinner-recipe chats. A real prompt library, because I was tired of keeping my best prompts in a messy notes file. One-click export to PDF, Markdown, and plain text, since people wanted their conversations out of the browser and into their own systems. Pinning, bookmarking, voice downloads, usage stats. Every feature came from an actual message someone sent me, not a roadmap meeting.

Somewhere along the way ChatGPT stopped being the only place people lived. So we brought the core tools to Claude and Gemini as well, and rebranded from "ChatGPT Toolbox" to simply AI Toolbox. Same obsession, more places to use it.

Here's the honest pitch. If you spend real hours inside AI chat tools every week, the time you lose to scrolling, re-prompting, and copy-pasting adds up fast. AI Toolbox hands those hours back. The reason I wanted to be on AppSumo is that a monthly subscription is a weird ask for a tool you'll quietly use every single day for years. A one-time price fits that a lot better, and it lets me put the product in front of the exact people who'll get the most out of it: founders, writers, researchers, marketers, anyone whose browser tabs are 80 percent AI.

Install it, throw your messiest week of chats at it, and tell me what's missing. I read every message, and the next feature is probably already sitting in my inbox from someone like you.

Thanks for giving a small tool a look.

Adi

Founder, AI Toolbox