# Entertainment ChatGPT Plugins

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*See also: [ChatGPT Plugins](/wiki/chatgpt_plugins), [ChatGPT Plugin Categories](/wiki/chatgpt_plugin_categories) and [AI in entertainment](/wiki/entertainment)*

**Entertainment ChatGPT Plugins** were a now-deprecated category of third-party plugins that connected [ChatGPT](/wiki/chatgpt) to streaming catalogs, recommendation engines, trivia banks, and audio playback services during the plugin beta that [OpenAI](/wiki/openai) ran between March 2023 and April 2024. They are historical: OpenAI stopped new plugin conversations on March 19, 2024 and shut down all existing plugin conversations on April 9, 2024, replacing the entire framework with [GPTs](/wiki/custom_gpts) and the [GPT Store](/wiki/gpt_store) (and later with built-in connectors, Actions, and the [Model Context Protocol](/wiki/model_context_protocol)) [1][16]. The category covered tools that helped users find movies, television shows, music, podcasts, video games, and casual diversions such as chess and trivia. Plugins in this group used a manifest file and an OpenAPI specification to expose their service to the chatbot, letting [GPT-4](/wiki/gpt-4) call live APIs and surface real-time entertainment information inside a conversation [1].

At its peak in late 2023 the entertainment slice of the plugin store offered dozens of options ranging from cross-format recommenders such as Likewise to single-purpose toys such as the Chess plugin. Several of these tools were among the earliest external integrations approved for ChatGPT, and the category was frequently cited in launch coverage as a showcase for how a [large language model](/wiki/large_language_model) could route natural language queries to specialized data sources. Many of the same vendors later rebuilt their plugins as actions inside Custom GPTs. Because OpenAI took the plugin store offline alongside the broader deprecation, this article is a historical reference rather than a guide to active services.

## Are ChatGPT entertainment plugins still available?

No. ChatGPT plugins, including every entertainment plugin, are discontinued. OpenAI's own wind-down notice stated that "ChatGPT plugins beta is being discontinued due to the success of the new GPTs" and set two hard cutoffs: "On March 19, 2024, you will no longer be able to install new plugins or create new conversations with existing plugins," and "You will be able to continue existing conversations until April 9, 2024" [16]. After April 9, 2024 the plugin store and the runtime were removed, so the original manifests and OpenAPI documents survive only in community archives [16]. Users who want comparable entertainment helpers today use [Custom GPTs](/wiki/custom_gpts) in the [GPT Store](/wiki/gpt_store), or connectors and apps built on the [Model Context Protocol](/wiki/model_context_protocol), which OpenAI adopted across ChatGPT in March 2025 [15][17].

## When were ChatGPT plugins launched?

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Plugins on March 23, 2023, describing them as "tools designed specifically for language models with safety as a core principle" that "help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services" [1]. The initial alpha shipped with a small slate of partner integrations, with the first plugins built by Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, OpenTable, and Zapier, plus two first-party plugins for code interpretation and web browsing [1][2]. Entertainment was not represented in the launch list, so the first wave of media and audio plugins arrived as part of the broader May 2023 rollout. On May 12, 2023 OpenAI said web browsing and plugins would reach all ChatGPT Plus subscribers the following week, and on roughly May 19, 2023 the plugin store opened more widely. The flood of new plugins approved across that month included most of the entertainment options that defined the category for the rest of its run.

Likewise, a Bellevue, Washington-based discovery platform backed by the private office of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and reporting more than 6 million registered users, announced its plugin on May 16, 2023 and described it as the first entertainment plugin on ChatGPT [4][5]. MixerBox, a Taiwanese super-app developer, brought its OnePlayer plugin into the store in May 2023 and went on to become one of the largest single contributors to the plugin catalog, with thirteen approved plugins by July of that year [6][7]. Open Trivia, a small developer plugin built on the Open Trivia Database, was approved on May 28, 2023 [10]. PlaylistAI, a mobile playlist generator that had launched as an app in August 2022 and added GPT-3 features in early 2023, released a ChatGPT plugin during the same May rollout window. Movie-focused plugins followed across the summer and early autumn, with Chat TMDB first listed on July 7, 2023 and FilmFindr's Movie Night plugin first listed on September 1, 2023 [8][9].

## When were entertainment plugins shut down?

The category began to wind down in late 2023 once OpenAI announced [Custom GPTs](/wiki/custom_gpts) and the [GPT Store](/wiki/gpt_store) at the company's first DevDay on November 6, 2023 [14]. The GPT Store opened to all ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users on January 10, 2024, by which point users had already created "over 3 million custom versions of ChatGPT" [15]. On March 19, 2024 OpenAI stopped allowing new conversations to be initiated with plugins, and on April 9, 2024 every existing plugin conversation was retired [16]. Many of the entertainment plugins listed below resurfaced as Custom GPTs with similar names.

| Date | Milestone |
| --- | --- |
| March 23, 2023 | OpenAI announces ChatGPT Plugins (alpha) [1] |
| May 16, 2023 | Likewise launches the first entertainment plugin [4][5] |
| May 19, 2023 | Plugin store opens to ChatGPT Plus more widely |
| November 6, 2023 | GPTs announced at DevDay [14] |
| January 10, 2024 | GPT Store launches to Plus, Team, and Enterprise [15] |
| March 19, 2024 | New plugin conversations disabled [16] |
| April 9, 2024 | Existing plugin conversations retired; plugins shut down [16] |

## What did the entertainment category cover?

Entertainment was one of more than sixty topical groupings used to organize the plugin store. The category overlapped at the edges with several adjacent groupings, and a single plugin was often cross-listed in two or three categories during its time in the store. The most common overlaps were with the [Gaming ChatGPT Plugins](/wiki/gaming_chatgpt_plugins) and [Music ChatGPT Plugins](/wiki/music_chatgpt_plugins) categories, both of which contained items that some directories also surfaced under entertainment. Lifestyle, social, and shopping plugins occasionally appeared in entertainment listings as well when their primary use case was leisure rather than productivity.

| Adjacent category | Typical overlap with entertainment |
| --- | --- |
| Gaming | Trivia banks, chess, casual game discovery |
| Music | Playlist creation, streaming, mood-based audio |
| Lifestyle | Event finders, party planners, hobby tools |
| Travel | Local entertainment listings, ticket lookups |
| Shopping | Tickets, merchandise, themed gift discovery |

Directories such as plugin.surf, gptstore.ai, whatplugin.ai, and findplugin.ai each maintained their own taxonomy and did not always agree on how individual plugins were grouped. The entertainment label was therefore best understood as a loose user-facing description rather than a formal classification fixed by OpenAI.

## What were the notable entertainment plugins?

The table below collects a representative sample of plugins that were classified as entertainment during the 2023 to 2024 plugin era. Each row includes the developer or platform, the primary function, and a verifiable date marker drawn from launch coverage or the public store listings preserved by archival directories. Many additional plugins existed in this space; only those with multiple independent sources are listed here.

| Plugin | Developer or platform | Primary function | Date marker |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Likewise | Likewise (Bellevue, Washington) | Cross-format recommendations for TV, film, books, and podcasts | Announced May 16, 2023 [4][5] |
| MixerBox OnePlayer | MixerBox (Taiwan) | Music, podcast, and video playback inside ChatGPT | Listed May 2023 [6] |
| PlaylistAI | PlaylistAI | Generate Spotify playlists from natural language prompts | Plugin released during May 2023 rollout |
| Open Trivia | drengskapur (independent developer) | Trivia questions sourced from the Open Trivia Database | Approved May 28, 2023 [10] |
| Chat TMDB | independent developer | Live data from The Movie Database for films, shows, and people | First listed July 7, 2023 [8] |
| Movie Night (FilmFindr) | FilmFindr AI | Movie and television suggestions tied to Amazon Video lookups | First listed September 1, 2023 [9] |
| Speechki | Speechki | Convert ChatGPT output into spoken audio for podcasts and audiobooks | Approved May 2023 [13] |
| Show Me | bra1nDump | Generate diagrams, mind maps, and storyboards inside chats | First listed June 20, 2023 [11] |

The Chess plugin, often listed under both gaming and entertainment, allowed users to play full games against ChatGPT with selectable difficulty levels, with the chatbot tracking the board state and rendering moves in algebraic notation. The Wolfram plugin, while primarily a computation and knowledge tool, was sometimes filed under entertainment in directory taxonomies because of its sports statistics, music theory, and trivia-style outputs. Show Me appears in entertainment lists in some directories thanks to its support for storyboards and visual story planning, although its core use was technical diagramming.

## What were entertainment plugins used for?

During its active period the entertainment category was used in three broad ways. The first was as a personal recommender that turned a free-form description of a mood, evening plan, or social context into a shortlist of titles. Likewise was the standout example, designed to answer prompts of the form "my husband and I are looking for a thriller with a strong female lead on either Netflix or Hulu" by combining ChatGPT's natural language handling with Likewise's catalog of user-generated datapoints. FilmFindr's Movie Night plugin took a similar approach but narrowed the search to titles available on Amazon's video service.

The second use case was structured catalog lookup. Chat TMDB exposed the public application programming interface of The Movie Database, letting users ask for cast lists, release dates, alternative titles, images, videos, popularity rankings, and credits. Because the underlying TMDB data was already widely used in third-party movie tools, the plugin acted as a polite wrapper over an existing endpoint, with [prompt engineering](/wiki/prompt_engineering) limited to translating English questions into TMDB query parameters. Likewise also leaned on structured data, although its catalog mixed films with books, podcasts, and television.

The third use case was direct media playback or generation. MixerBox OnePlayer let users request a playlist by genre or mood (including pop, electronic dance, hip hop, K-pop, and jazz, with mood tags such as workout, chill, romance, focus, and party) and then opened a streaming session inside the MixerBox web player. PlaylistAI built playlists on Spotify accounts that the user had connected, returning a hyperlink so the suggested tracks could be saved with a single click. Speechki targeted the audio side of the same problem by turning generated text into ready-to-use podcast or audiobook clips with multilingual lifelike voices.

A fourth, smaller pattern involved games and toys. The Chess plugin gave ChatGPT a structured way to play out a board game move by move, while Open Trivia turned the chatbot into a host for ad hoc quizzes by category and difficulty.

## How did entertainment plugins work technically?

Like all [ChatGPT Plugins](/wiki/chatgpt_plugins), entertainment plugins were defined by a small JSON manifest known as ai-plugin.json that lived at a well-known URL on the developer's domain, paired with an OpenAPI document that described the available endpoints [1]. The chatbot read the manifest to learn the plugin's display name, description, authentication method, and contact information, then consulted the OpenAPI document to decide which routes to call. Authentication was usually unauthenticated for media catalogs (Chat TMDB, Open Trivia) and OAuth-based for plugins that touched a user account (PlaylistAI for Spotify, MixerBox for personal playback, Likewise for saved lists). Output was returned as JSON, which ChatGPT then summarized in natural language for the user.

Because the plugin sandbox could only see the response payload of an API call, latency-sensitive features such as live streaming were handled by passing back a hyperlink that the user opened in a browser. This explains why most music plugins ended their interaction with a clickable Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube URL rather than playing audio inside ChatGPT itself. Diagrams and storyboards from Show Me followed a similar model, with the plugin returning a link to a hosted image rendered from a Mermaid or PlantUML source.

Developers had to keep their plugin specifications under a fixed token budget so the manifest and the OpenAPI summary fit inside the context window allotted to plugin descriptions. This constraint encouraged tight, single-purpose plugins, and it is part of the reason the entertainment category fragmented into many small offerings rather than consolidating around a few cross-domain super-apps. MixerBox was a partial exception because it shipped a family of related plugins (OnePlayer for media, plus separate plugins for podcasts, news, and other utilities) rather than a single combined manifest.

## How were entertainment plugins received?

Launch coverage of the plugin store frequently highlighted entertainment plugins as approachable demonstrations of how ChatGPT could move beyond text completion. The Likewise launch, in particular, drew attention because of the company's connection to Bill Gates's office and because entertainment recommendation was widely seen as a natural fit for natural language. Coverage by trade outlets including GeekWire and Business Wire described the plugin as the entertainment industry's first ChatGPT plugin, a framing that the company itself used in its press materials [4][5].

MixerBox was repeatedly singled out as the largest single plugin developer during the May 2023 rollout. Trade press in Taiwan reported in July 2023 that the company had become the most prolific external contributor to the catalog, with thirteen approved plugins covering music, podcasts, news, photo enhancement, and other utilities [7]. The company's willingness to ship a family of related entertainment plugins gave it a presence in several adjacent categories at once and made it a recurring example in OpenAI ecosystem coverage.

The category also surfaced criticisms that applied to the wider plugin store. Average ChatGPT Plus subscribers often found it difficult to discover the right entertainment plugin, since each plugin had to be manually selected before a session and the recommender plugins did not federate across one another. Coverage of the April 2024 deprecation cited fragmented usage and discovery friction as a major reason OpenAI moved to Custom GPTs, where a single GPT could blend several actions and a custom prompt without forcing the user to juggle plugin toggles [16].

## How do GPTs and MCP replace entertainment plugins?

When OpenAI announced Custom GPTs at DevDay on November 6, 2023, the company described the feature as a way to package instructions, knowledge, and external API actions into a single shareable assistant [14]. The [GPT Store](/wiki/gpt_store) launched two months later on January 10, 2024, with category browsing that loosely mirrored the plugin store and with "over 3 million custom versions of ChatGPT" already built [15]. Several of the most visible entertainment plugins reappeared as GPTs in the new store, often with the same brand and similar API endpoints exposed through the actions feature. PlaylistAI, FilmFindr, and several MixerBox tools each published successor GPTs during the first quarter of 2024.

The successor stack kept evolving after the GPT Store. OpenAI added GPT Actions for OpenAPI-based tool calls, then OpenAI-maintained connectors for services such as Google Workspace and Dropbox, and in March 2025 it adopted the [Model Context Protocol](/wiki/model_context_protocol), an open standard introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 for connecting models to external tools [17]. By late 2025 OpenAI extended full MCP support inside ChatGPT and rebranded connectors as apps, so the role once played by an entertainment plugin (a single-purpose wrapper over a media API) is now filled by a Custom GPT, an OpenAPI action, or an MCP server [17].

The migration off plugins was not lossless. Plugin manifests had supported patterns that did not map cleanly onto actions, including chained tool calls that depended on session-level identifiers. Some entertainment plugins simplified their behavior in the move, while others (notably plugins built on free trivia or movie databases) were not rebuilt and have left only archived store pages as evidence of their existence. The plugin store itself was taken offline alongside the broader deprecation, so the original ai-plugin.json files and OpenAPI documents are now available only through community archives and snapshots taken in 2023 [16].

## See also

- [ChatGPT Plugins](/wiki/chatgpt_plugins)
- [ChatGPT Plugin Categories](/wiki/chatgpt_plugin_categories)
- [Gaming ChatGPT Plugins](/wiki/gaming_chatgpt_plugins)
- [Music ChatGPT Plugins](/wiki/music_chatgpt_plugins)
- [Custom GPTs](/wiki/custom_gpts)
- [GPT Store](/wiki/gpt_store)
- [Model Context Protocol](/wiki/model_context_protocol)
- [ChatGPT](/wiki/chatgpt)
- [OpenAI](/wiki/openai)

## References

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2. TechCrunch. "OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet." March 23, 2023. https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/23/openai-connects-chatgpt-to-the-internet/
3. VentureBeat. "OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a platform overnight with addition of plugins." March 23, 2023. https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-turns-chatgpt-into-a-platform-overnight-with-addition-of-plugins
4. GeekWire. "Likewise launches ChatGPT plugin to use AI to recommend TV shows, movies, books and more." May 16, 2023. https://www.geekwire.com/2023/likewise-launches-chatgpt-plugin-to-use-ai-to-recommend-tv-shows-movies-books-and-more/
5. Business Wire. "Likewise Launches ChatGPT Plugin: A Revolutionary Tool for Personalized Entertainment Recommendations." May 16, 2023. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230516005868/en/Likewise-Launches-ChatGPT-Plugin-A-Revolutionary-Tool-for-Personalized-Entertainment-Recommendations
6. MixerBox. "Introducing MixerBox OnePlayer Plugin for ChatGPT." Company blog, May 2023.
7. Common Wealth Magazine (Taiwan). "Meet MixerBox, ChatGPT's largest plugin developer." July 10, 2023.
8. plugin.surf. "Chat TMDB plugin information, latest updates, and reviews." First listed July 7, 2023.
9. plugin.surf. "Movie Night plugin information." First listed September 1, 2023.
10. plugin.surf. "Open Trivia plugin information." Approved May 28, 2023.
11. plugin.surf. "Show Me Diagrams plugin information." First listed June 20, 2023.
12. PixelTail Games forums. "Open Trivia DB Available on ChatGPT." 2023.
13. OpenAI Developer Community. "Speechki ChatGPT Plugin has been approved and is now available in the store." 2023.
14. OpenAI. "Introducing GPTs." Announcement, November 6, 2023. https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpts/
15. OpenAI. "Introducing the GPT Store." Announcement, January 10, 2024. https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-gpt-store/
16. OpenAI Help Center. "Winding down the ChatGPT plugins beta." 2024. Notice that "ChatGPT plugins beta is being discontinued due to the success of the new GPTs," that new plugin conversations stopped on March 19, 2024, and that existing plugin conversations ended on April 9, 2024.
17. OpenAI. "MCP and connectors / Apps in ChatGPT." Developer documentation and Help Center, 2025. OpenAI adopted the Model Context Protocol across its products in March 2025. https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/tools-connectors-mcp