ChatGPT is jumping on the year-in-review trend — and yes, it looks a lot like Spotify Wrapped. OpenAI has begun rolling out a new feature called “Your Year with ChatGPT”, giving users a personalized snapshot of how they used the chatbot over the past year, complete with playful visuals, awards, and creative summaries.
The feature is designed to feel fun and reflective rather than technical, offering users a chance to look back on how ChatGPT fit into their daily thinking, problem-solving, and creative work.
A familiar idea, adapted for AI conversations
If Spotify Wrapped shows your music taste, “Your Year with ChatGPT” highlights your conversational habits. The feature analyzes how you’ve interacted with ChatGPT — the topics you explored, how you used it, and the kinds of prompts you returned to most often.
OpenAI says the experience is intentionally lightweight and user-controlled, with privacy settings playing a central role in who gets access and how the review works.
Who can access “Your Year with ChatGPT”
The rollout currently applies to eligible users in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. It’s available to users on the Free, Plus, and Pro plans, as long as certain conditions are met.
To unlock the feature, users must have both “reference saved memories” and “reference chat history” enabled in their settings. OpenAI also requires users to meet a minimum activity threshold, meaning you need enough conversations throughout the year for the review to generate meaningful insights.
Team, Enterprise, and Education accounts won’t see the feature. These plans follow different data and privacy rules, which exclude them from this consumer-focused experience.
What the year-in-review actually shows you
Like Spotify Wrapped, the ChatGPT version leans heavily into visuals and personalization. Users receive playful “awards” that reflect how they used the chatbot during the year.
One example is the “Creative Debugger” award, given to users who frequently used ChatGPT to work through problems, refine ideas, or explore solutions. Other awards adapt to individual usage patterns, making each summary feel unique rather than generic.
Beyond awards, the experience also generates a short custom poem summarizing the user’s main interests and conversation themes. That poem is paired with an AI-generated image designed to visually represent those same topics — a creative twist that fits ChatGPT’s identity.
Privacy-first, optional, and not forced
OpenAI has been clear that “Your Year with ChatGPT” is opt-in by design. The review appears as a promotion on the ChatGPT home screen, but it doesn’t open automatically or interrupt usage.
Users can choose to explore it when they want — or ignore it entirely. For those who prefer direct control, typing “Your Year with ChatGPT” into the chat will launch the experience immediately.
The feature is available across the ChatGPT web app as well as iOS and Android mobile apps.
Why OpenAI is doing this now
Beyond the novelty, the launch reflects a broader shift in how AI products are positioning themselves. ChatGPT is no longer just a tool — it’s becoming a daily companion for writing, learning, coding, planning, and creative thinking.
By offering a year-in-review experience, OpenAI is reinforcing that relationship, encouraging users to see their interactions with AI as something personal and reflective, not purely transactional.
It also mirrors a growing trend across tech platforms: turning usage data into moments of delight rather than dashboards and metrics.
The takeaway: as AI becomes more embedded in everyday life, features like “Your Year with ChatGPT” hint at a future where our digital tools don’t just help us work — they help us reflect. Would you want to see how you used AI this year?
