The feature, called “Your Year with ChatGPT,” is now available in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. 

It is open to users on Free, Plus and Pro plans, but not to those on Team, Enterprise or Education accounts.

Rather than a long archive of chats, the recap focuses on patterns. It pulls out broad themes from conversations, basic usage numbers, and light-hearted labels that show how people interacted with the chatbot during the year. 

Some users are assigned named archetypes and awards based on whether they leaned more towards research, problem-solving, or creative work. The experience also includes short poems and images tied to recurring topics.

This looks like OpenAI borrowing a familiar playbook. The format resembles Spotify’s annual Wrapped feature, which turns user data into a shareable and playful summary. In this case, the aim appears to be making ChatGPT feel less like a tool and more like a personal product people return to often.

Access is not automatic. Users must have memory and chat history switched on and must have met a minimum activity level during the year. Those with limited use will only see basic statistics, not the full experience. 

OpenAI says the recap is optional and designed to be privacy-forward, with users able to turn off the underlying settings at any time.

The feature is being promoted inside the ChatGPT app but does not open by itself. Users can view it on the web version or on the iOS and Android apps, or trigger it by directly asking for their year-end summary.

Personalised recaps have become a proven way to boost engagement, and competing platforms are experimenting with similar ideas.

OpenAI is focusing more on habit-building and productivity, keeping ChatGPT present in everyday digital life, even after the work is done.

The update arrives with a set of tools that show what people listened to, how, when, and in some cases, with whom.

Wrapped Party is the main addition in Spotify Wrapped 2025. It lets up to nine people compare their habits in real time, and it produces shared results that change each time a group joins.

Seeing how the feature assigns playful labels, from “most obsessed fan” to the friend who goes heavy on news podcasts, all were generated from the group’s combined listening footprints.

Unlike the usual screenshots people share every December, this feature turns the comparison into a live session rather than a social media moment.

Spotify has also added visible play counts to the Top Songs Playlist, giving listeners a clearer sense of how often they returned to their favourite tracks. There’s an interactive Top Song Quiz, which reveals your most-played song only after you make a guess.

Wrapped Clubs is another new feature, sorting users into six listening styles. The roles inside each club vary; some people end up as leaders, others as scouts who tend to chase new releases, and some as archivists whose listening skews toward older records.

Listening Age goes a step further by framing each listener’s habits against their age group. It measures the release period of your most-played tracks and marks the five-year window where your choices sit.

Depending on your taste, it can make you seem older or younger than you are, which will likely spark its own conversations online.

The familiar sections remain, top songs, top artists, genres, and now top albums. Those who spent time on audiobooks or podcasts will get dedicated summaries too. The usual video messages from artists return, and the company is extending the idea to authors as well.

At a press briefing, Spotify’s Senior Director of Global Marketing, Matt Luhks, acknowledged the complaint levelled at last year’s edition, which leaned heavily on experimental tools. 

“We take all of that in. We use that as information, insights, [and] inspiration for how we approached Wrapped this year,” he said. 

He also added: “What our users tell us about Wrapped means a lot to us, so it was really informative in how we approached Wrapped this year. And what we tried to build was the most creative, most innovative, most engaging Wrapped ever.” 

And later, he noted, “We’re the original and, we believe, still the best.”

Spotify says the overall experience this year wasn’t created with automated systems, though it does use a large model to help explain data in more natural summaries across parts of the recap.

The company is under pressure as competing platforms try to build year-end summaries too. Apple Replay, Amazon Delivered, and YouTube’s Recap all went out earlier, but Spotify still positions Wrapped as the benchmark for these features.

Luhks agreed with that view, saying: “Everyone seems to have their own version of Wrapped. Now, there’s a lot of reviews and replays and rewinds out there, but we believe that Wrapped still sets the bar for these year-end recaps.”

Alongside the consumer version, Spotify has confirmed the top global names for the year. Bad Bunny claimed both the top song and album, “The Joe Rogan Experience” led the podcast category, and Rebeca Yarros topped the audiobook charts.