The final days of the year have become a season of digital reflection. First, it was our music, neatly packaged by Spotify. Then, our workouts, our travel, our screen time. Now, the app that has become a companion for our curiosities, our drafts, and our half-baked ideas is joining the retrospective fray. OpenAI is rolling out "Your Year with ChatGPT," a feature that aims to summarize your 2025 in prompts and pixels.

For users in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, a new, optional experience is popping up in the ChatGPT app. It’s not a forced look back, but an invitation. If you’ve had your memory and chat history features enabled and have been an active user, you can tap in to see your year reinterpreted not through songs, but through the unique lens of your conversations with an AI.

The inspiration is unmistakably Spotify Wrapped, complete with catchy graphics and personalized "awards." Did you relentlessly workshop story ideas? You might be dubbed a "Creative Debugger." Did you use it as a tireless tutor for complex topics? A "Concept Coach" badge could be waiting. The feature goes beyond labels, generating a custom poem and even an AI-generated image that attempts to visualize your year's dominant themes.

It’s a clever, and perhaps inevitable, evolution. For millions, ChatGPT has been less a search engine and more a collaborator—a silent partner in projects, a brainstorming buddy, a translator of jargon. This feature asks: what was the shape of that collaboration? What were we collectively trying to build, understand, or articulate?

There are intentional limits, of course. The feature is not available for Team, Enterprise, or Education accounts, focusing squarely on individual consumers. OpenAI emphasizes the experience is designed to be "lightweight, privacy-forward, and user-controlled." It’s an opt-in glance back, not a mandated audit.

Accessing it is simple: eligible users may see it promoted on their app's home screen, or they can literally ask for it. Typing "show me my year with ChatGPT" into a new chat is enough to trigger the recap.

This move underscores a subtle shift in how we perceive our leading AI tools. They are transitioning from being seen as mere utilities to becoming platforms that hold a narrative—a fragmented, text-based diary of our year's intellectual pursuits. It’s a fun, shareable gimmick today. But it also quietly reinforces the depth of the relationship users are building with a technology that is increasingly woven into the fabric of daily thought and work. As we close out 2025, it seems our annual review is no longer just about what we listened to, but also about what we asked, and what we learned in return.