How to use ChatGPT in Google Docs

ChatGPT’s Google Drive app connects your Drive to ChatGPT. Google Docs actions are part of it, so there is no separate Docs app.

1. In ChatGPT, open Plugins or Apps, depending on which your version shows.
2. Find Google Drive and connect it.
3. Sign in with Google and approve the permissions it asks for.
4. In a conversation, name the document you want, for example “Find my Google Doc called Q3 planning notes.” Check that ChatGPT found the right file.
5. Ask for a specific change, such as “Add a section at the end of that document listing the action items from this meeting,” and confirm the action if ChatGPT asks.
6. Open the Doc and check the change. File, Version history shows what changed.

Where supported and authorized, ChatGPT updates the file directly. You work in ChatGPT, not in Docs, and OpenAI says some Google Drive editing and collaboration features aren’t available in ChatGPT yet. It does not document whether edits appear as Docs suggestions.

OpenAI says the Drive app’s availability depends on your ChatGPT plan, location, workspace settings, and Google Workspace policies. The documentation we checked does not give a complete plan-by-plan list of its actions. In a managed workspace, the ChatGPT admin may need to enable the app or its actions, and the Google Workspace admin separately approves the Google permissions. OpenAI says it does not train its models on data it gets directly from connected Google apps. Its data controls page lists exceptions, including Google content you copy, paste, or upload yourself.

If you want the AI in a sidebar inside Docs, third-party add-ons from the Google Workspace Marketplace do that. They are separate products from ChatGPT, with their own pricing and usage limits, so a ChatGPT subscription doesn’t pay for them. You give an add-on access to your documents when you install it. Two examples:

GPT for Sheets and Docs

GPT for Sheets and Docs (Talarian) prompts with the selected text or the whole document as context and inserts the result into the document. It starts with a free trial and needs no API key. Its pricing page describes plans for Sheets and Excel and does not say how Docs use is billed.

1. Install it from the Google Workspace Marketplace.
2. Authorize it for your Google account.
3. In a document, open Extensions, GPT for Sheets and Docs, Launch.
4. Select the text to use as context, enter a prompt, and insert the result with the insert at cursor or below selection option.

The result appears below your selected text, or at the cursor if nothing is selected. It does not replace the original passage, so you delete or edit that yourself.

GPT Workspace

GPT Workspace (Qualtir) rephrases, expands, summarizes, translates, and changes the style of text in Docs, and also works in Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Drive. Its listing says it needs no sign-up and no API key and has a free tier. Paid plans start at $14 a month, or $9 a month billed yearly.

The simplest way is to copy text from your Google Doc into ChatGPT, or download the document with File, Download, Microsoft Word (.docx) and upload it. ChatGPT does not accept Google’s own .gdoc files, so OpenAI recommends exporting to .docx or PDF. Free users can upload three files a day, and OpenAI may lower upload limits during busy hours. You copy the result back into Docs yourself, so the original document changes only when you paste.

Revise is a browser document editor with a built-in AI agent. You paste a Google Doc or import it as a .docx, and the agent proposes text and formatting edits as suggestions you accept or reject. The built-in agent uses your Revise plan. The Free plan runs GPT-6 Luna with a daily AI limit, and paid plans add other GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok models. Pending suggestions export as Word tracked changes in a .docx, or you copy the text back to Google Docs.

You can also connect ChatGPT to Revise through Revise’s MCP server. This needs a Revise account, and Revise does not charge for it, but Revise’s hourly rate limits and your ChatGPT plan’s limits apply, and availability depends on your ChatGPT account. ChatGPT’s edits arrive as suggestions by default. Revise is a separate editor, so you bring the document back to Google Docs when you are done.

Gemini is Google’s own AI in Docs. Access depends on the feature and on having an eligible Google AI or Workspace plan. Our guide to Gemini in Google Docs covers the plans and limits.

The Google Drive app lets you ask ChatGPT for supported changes to a Google Doc without leaving ChatGPT. A third-party add-on lets you generate text and insert it from a sidebar inside Docs, as a separate product with its own pricing. On the Free plan, pasting or uploading a .docx works within ChatGPT’s upload limits, and you bring the text back yourself.