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Use Claude on your Mac from ChatGPT or Claude

Anthropic's official Claude AI desktop app. With BCD, ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps can open Claude on your Mac, read its window and press buttons or type, from your phone or another computer.

Works on

About Claude

Version
5.1231.2,26912242b6649f3e503e012d9b7b936
Installs (last 365 days)
226,739 · #7 among Homebrew apps
Needs
macOS 13 or later
Updates
Updates itself
Homepage
claude.com/download
Install
brew install --cask claude

Try asking

“Open Claude and tell me what is on its screen”
“Install Claude with Homebrew”
“Quit Claude and update it to the latest version”

Questions

Can ChatGPT control Claude?
On a Mac with BCD, yes, through the app's window: ChatGPT can open Claude, read the buttons and text it shows, press buttons, type and pick menu items. How far that goes depends on how much of its window Claude exposes to macOS accessibility.

Does this work on Windows?
No. BCD controls app windows only on a Mac. On Windows and Linux it works with files and commands.

Is it safe?
A new computer starts read-only. Controlling the screen and apps is turned on per computer, and macOS asks once before BCD may control apps.

Try it on your computer

BCD connects ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps to your own Mac, Windows or Linux computer. One computer is free, with 20,000 tool calls a month and no card.

Program data from Homebrew, updated 2026-11-11. Installs are Homebrew's installs on request over the last 365 days.