# How to connect Podda to ChatGPT

Podda is where the apps you build with ChatGPT go to live. To use it, you connect Podda to ChatGPT once. It takes about a minute. After that you ask ChatGPT for the app you want, and it opens in your browser. Here is how, click by click.

This guide will show you how to add Podda as a custom connector from ChatGPT's settings. It takes about a minute and you only have to do it once.

ChatGPT keeps custom connectors behind developer mode, so you turn that on first.

### Step by step

1. Turn on developer mode in ChatGPT's settings.
   [Open ChatGPT settings](https://chatgpt.com/plugins#settings/Security?section=developer-mode)
   ![ChatGPT's settings with the developer mode toggle switched on](https://podda.app/guides/connect/chatgpt-developer-mode.webp)
2. Open the create-connector form.
   [Add a connector in ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/plugins#settings/Connectors?create-connector=true&redirectAfter=%2Fplugins)
   ![ChatGPT's create-connector form](https://podda.app/guides/connect/chatgpt-add-connector.webp)
3. Give it a name and Podda's address, then create it.
   Name: `Podda`
   Connection (URL): `https://api.podda.app/mcp`
4. Press Connect. Sign in to Podda in the window that opens, then choose Allow.
   ![The Podda sign-in and Allow screen shown by ChatGPT](https://podda.app/guides/connect/chatgpt-allow.webp)

## How do I know it worked?

Once it is connected, check that your assistant can actually reach Podda. Start a new chat and ask it to list your apps.

1. Say this to your assistant:
   `can you connect to podda? list my apps`
   ![An assistant replying to the request to list your Podda apps](https://podda.app/guides/connect/chatgpt-verify-list-apps.webp)
2. It will ask permission to use Podda's tools. Choose Allow.
3. Your assistant will tell you whether it reached Podda. You will not have any apps yet, and that is fine.

## How do I publish an app?

You just ask. Describe the app you want in plain words, and your assistant builds it and publishes it to Podda for you. No setup, no code.

Already have something? Point it at what you have and say to put it on Podda, and it does the rest.

- For example, say:
   Build something new: `Make me a chore chart for the house and put it on Podda.`
   Publish an existing app: `Put my budget spreadsheet on Podda.`

## What if it will not connect?

- Double-check the address. It has to be exactly https://api.podda.app/mcp, with no spaces around it.
- Make sure you finished the Allow step. Closing that window too early leaves it half-connected.
- Start a new chat before you ask. A chat you opened before connecting will not see Podda yet.
- Confirm developer mode is still on. It can switch itself off after an update.

Last updated August 2026.