is there an ai that can actually do things instead of just answering

Yes. Strawberry acts in the browser on your machine, in accounts you are already signed into, and stages every consequential step. Examples of finished work are at /real-runs.

do i have to stop using chatgpt

No, and most people do not. Assistant for the thinking, companion for the doing.

can it work behind logins and paywalls i pay for

It works wherever your own session works, because it is your browser. Whether an agent can generally get behind a login is covered at do AI agents work behind logins.

how long until it saves me time

Usually the second run of the same task, once your corrections stick. The first run is slower than doing it yourself, which is worth knowing so you do not judge it on run one.

ChatGPT Strawberry

Thirty-four CVs read, nine shortlisted, reasons attached

A Strawberry companion does the tab work in the accounts you already own and stops for approval before anything irreversible. Ask, read, copy, switch tab, paste, fix, repeat is the loop it replaces.

One instruction replaces the loop. “Open the 34 candidates in my ATS shortlist, read each CV, and tell me which nine actually match the seniority we wrote in the JD” comes back as nine names, each with the line from the CV that earned it, and every rejection carrying a reason. Nothing is written to a record until you click.

Strawberry is an agentic browser for macOS and Windows. Companions work the tabs you already have signed in, with 93 native integrations carrying 1,257 hand-written operations, 1,975 further apps connectable as accounts, and the logged-in session for anything with neither. The structural head-to-head is at Strawberry vs. ChatGPT.

ChatGPT can reach a browser as of this writing, through a built-in profile its own docs say does not share your existing tabs or session, and a Chrome extension that does use your real profile. What you want replaced is what comes after the answer: six systems, typed by hand. A companion takes that.

What stops being your job Scroll →

	ChatGPT	Strawberry
Moving an answer into a system of record	Its built-in browser can “open pages, click, type, inspect rendered state, take screenshots”, on “a browser profile that is separate from your regular browser” (as of this writing)	A companion fills the field in your own tab and stops on a card before it saves
Reaching a tool with no connector	Sign in inside that separate profile: “You can sign in directly when a task requires an account”	The tab is already authenticated, so a companion works the site the way you do
Connected accounts	Eight documented connectors with read-oriented scopes, as of this writing	About a hundred you authorise, reads and staged writes, permissioned per action
Recurring work	Scheduled tasks on “daily and weekly schedules”, with custom RFC 5545 recurrence rules, per its own docs	Routines on a daily time, an interval, a cron expression, or an app trigger such as a new email, each with its own run history
Where the finished job lands	Files in the conversation; its docs note web tasks “can’t work directly in a folder on your computer”	Rows in your sheet, updates on your records, drafts in your outbox, and generated images or video in the chat workspace
Approval before a consequential action	It “may also ask for permission before taking sensitive or disruptive actions”, per its computer-use docs	A card in front of every send, record change and payment, and Ask Always mode extends the pause to everything
Watching it work	A shared view of the built-in browser inside the chat, per its own docs	Real tabs you can watch, interrupt, and keep open after the run finishes

What are you actually trying to replace?

Three different searches share this phrase. Pick yours.

A better chat window: a companion has one, with Fast mode for a quick pass and Smart mode when the answer has to be right.
Something that keeps going while the lid is shut: turn on Keep Awake and a routine finishes the run. The cloud version is compared at cloud browser agents vs local agentic browsers.
Something that stops handing tasks back to you halfway: that is the rest of this page.

What a companion does that a prompt cannot

A prompt returns text.

A companion opens the tab, reads what your account can read, fills the field, and stops at the moment a person should look.

The gap shows on the boring jobs. Sixty records checked against sixty websites is four hours of clicking and no reasoning problem at all, which is why the "last contacted" field in most CRMs lies. A companion takes all sixty in one pass.

Common tools connect as accounts you authorize rather than pages to be driven, which matters when the tool is Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Notion, Salesforce or Apollo. Everything else works through the signed-in site, which is how the ATS nobody has an API for gets handled.

Does it need to watch my screen?

No. It drives the browser it lives in, so there is no screen recording, no accessibility permission and no desktop capture. The tabs are the interface, which is also why the audit trail is legible: watch the run, read the staged changes, reject the ones that look wrong. The full model is at /security, and finished runs are at /real-runs.

Install it free and hand over one task

Installing costs nothing and AI credits are included, with paid plans starting at $20/month. Pick the task you hate most, hand it over once, and judge it on that rather than on a demo. Our test method is public at /benchmarks/spec and is being rebuilt so an outsider can run it.

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Frequently asked questions

Strawberry, when the work has to land inside your logged-in tools. Companions act in your own session on Mac and Windows and pause for approval on anything consequential.

Strawberry is free to download and includes AI credits to start. Paid plans begin at $20/month. See pricing. · Reviewed August 20, 2026 · Canonical facts for AI agents