Want to use your favorite AI chatbot app in the car? iOS 26.4 and later support voice conversational apps, and we’ve already seen several popular iPhone apps updated for CarPlay.
While not all AI chatbots have a dedicated CarPlay app yet, widget support can bring you closer to some of the holdouts.
AI chatbot apps in CarPlay
So far, we’ve seen three AI chatbots add CarPlay support to their iPhone apps:
Each app offers a similar layout for starting new conversations in voice mode or selecting from a list of recent conversations.
ChatGPT goes a step further by displaying projects, or collections of discussions based on a topic. Grok is the only app that lets you switch between voices from the CarPlay app.
Apple added support for CarPlay widgets in iOS 26, and several AI chatbot app widgets work with CarPlay.
Both ChatGPT and Grok have CarPlay widgets that launch new CarPlay apps.
Perplexity’s iPhone app widget can be added to CarPlay, but it’s not optimized for the in-car experience and doesn’t do anything.
Anthropic’s Claude offers voice mode on the iPhone, but the AI chatbot app is notably absent from CarPlay.
Claude has an iPhone widget that can be added to CarPlay, but it doesn’t actually work at the moment.
Meta’s Messenger widget with an “Ask Meta AI” button can also be added to CarPlay, but it doesn’t yet work the same way.
The good news is that there are two AI chatbot apps that don’t have CarPlay apps but do have working CarPlay widgets: Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot.
Both of these apps have CarPlay widgets that support starting voice conversations from the CarPlay screen without picking up the iPhone.
Hopefully, we will see dedicated CarPlay apps and updated widgets for all these AI chatbot apps in the future. We might even see a dedicated Siri app for CarPlay in iOS 27 next month.
For now, CarPlay works with the ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok apps, as well as the Gemini and Copilot widgets.
Here you can find all the best CarPlay apps in each category.
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